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Growing up in the mountains of East Tennessee with a father who couldn’t read or write, Dolly Parton’s most valuable possession was the “coat of many colors” her mother sewed …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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8/16/23
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The sound of bagpipes will be coming to Centralia on Saturday for the Historic Borst Home Museum’s open house. The Olympia Highlanders Bagpipes & Drum Corps perform music from as early as …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/16/23
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Join your neighbors to enjoy live music from five groups at the Seminary Hill Natural Area on Saturday morning, Aug. 26, during the sixth Music on the Hill event.
Music will be provided by:
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/16/23
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Erle and Virginia (Donaldson) Cooper are celebrating their 75th wedding anniversary on Aug. 21.
They were married in 1948 in Anchorage, Alaska, where Erle was in the Army. They later …
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8/16/23
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Visitors to the Southwest Washington Fair this week may see some panting livestock, or may be panting themselves with the region seeing an “excessive heat warning” from the National …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/16/23
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“Amazing” was the word that came to Clara Hansen’s mind after the shock of being named this year’s Little Miss Friendly, the living logo of the Southwest Washington …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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8/15/23
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A total of 115 vehicles were entered to compete at the second annual Onalaska Volunteer Firefighters Association car show, according to volunteer firefighter Oliver Jackson, who emceed the event …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/15/23
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Members of the Centralia community came together Saturday to honor and celebrate Centralia’s founders, George and Mary Jane Washington, as part of the city's inaugural Founder’s Day.
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By Sean-Patrick McNeal / For The Chronicle
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8/14/23
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Four Lewis County veterans took to the skies in a 1942 Boeing PT-17 Stearman biplane at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport on Monday courtesy of Dream Flights, a nonprofit organization out of Nevada that …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/14/23
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Last week’s cold spell burned off just in time for the “Grandaddy of All Logging Shows” to heat up in Morton for the 80th year in a row.
After lawnmower races on Friday …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/14/23
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Last weekend, 72 vehicles and around 300 people participated in the Run Gifford Run Poker Run Gambler 500 throughout East Lewis County. Racers set out from the Lewis County Fire District 14 fire …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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8/11/23
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Staff at Northwest Trek Wildlife Park in Eatonville have raised over 300 endangered northern leopard frogs from the egg to froglet stage and are set to release them in Eastern Washington at the end …
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By Jacob Dimond / For The Chronicle
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8/11/23
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Chronicle Assistant Editor Isabel Vander Stoep and Photo Editor Jared Wenzelburger were in East Lewis County Thursday for a pair of assignments. They captured these photos along the way. To submit …
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8/11/23
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Editor's note: Pick up a copy of Thursday's edition of The Chronicle for a full guide to the Southwest Washington Fair. The fair runs Aug. 15-20. Visit …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/10/23
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Editor’s Note: This brief history of the fair was first published in 2006. Pick up a copy of Thursday's edition of The Chronicle for a full guide to the Southwest Washington Fair. The …
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8/10/23
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Editor's note: Pick up a copy of Thursday's edition of The Chronicle for a full guide to the Southwest Washington Fair. The fair runs Aug. 15-20. Visit …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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8/10/23
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Editor's note: Pick up a copy of Thursday's edition of The Chronicle for a full guide to the Southwest Washington Fair. The fair runs Aug. 15-20.
Last year, for the first time, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/10/23
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