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One person was killed and two adults were displaced after a structure fire in the 100 block of Yetter Lane in a rural area east of Napavine at approximately 11 a.m. Sunday.
Lewis County Fire …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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Three Tenino High School alumni will be inducted into the 2025 Tenino Athletics Hall of Fame class during halftime of the boys basketball game on Friday, Jan. 23.
Jessica Brathovd, Matt Whitmire …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Arrests
• Austen O. Petty, 29, of Centralia, was arrested in the 1200 block of Lum Road at 11:55 a.m. on Jan. 2 and was booked into the Lewis County Jail on a …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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• ANTHONY “TONY” LEE RODRIGUEZ, 82, Toledo, died Dec. 27 at Providence Centralia Hospital. Service details are being planned at this time. Arrangements are under the care of Newell-Hoerling’s …
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1/5/26
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It’s another year, and the warm glow of the holidays is fading once again.
Surrounded by my grown children, I kept reflecting on how I’ve morphed into one of those people I often met in …
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Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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1/5/26
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Former Centralia resident and Southwest Washington congressional candidate David B. Castillo has found his way to a position in the nation's capital.
In October, the U.S. Senate, in a mass …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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1/5/26
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Fertile Ground has announced the 2026 Grow Your Own Produce Workshop Series, a seasonal educational online program designed for gardeners of all skill levels who want to grow abundant food in their …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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Chehalis Outfitters will host a free pressure canning seminar on Saturday, Jan. 17, offering community members a hands-on opportunity to learn how to safely make and preserve homemade stock.
The …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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The City of Vader passed its recent Office of the Washington State Auditor’s accountability audit, Vader Mayor Joe Schey announced during the final Vader City Council meeting of 2025 on Dec. 17.
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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1/5/26
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Starting late last month, Canadian power company TransAlta started the first steps of addressing any needed environmental cleanup at the company's Centralia plant.
The public will have the next …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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1/5/26
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A missing juvenile was located on top of a train trestle in Rainier over state Route 507 and guided down by police Monday morning.
The Rainier School District school resource office, employed …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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Rural Lewis County Indivisibles is once again coming to town with a sign-waving protest event to be held near the Centralia Safeway.
The group announced last week that it would hold a peaceful …
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By The Chronicle staff
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1/5/26
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On Saturday, Jan. 3, wood carving and chainsaw artist Jacob Lucas was joined by his brother, Morton Loggers Jubilee Committee members and other local volunteers to move the new Big Ole lumberjack …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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1/5/26
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In this installment of A Look Back in Time, the Thursday, Jan. 3, 1946, edition of The Chronicle featured a story about Chehalis resident August Kepper being injured after he accidentally walked into …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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1/5/26
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On a snowy evening 50 years ago, Jan.10, 1976, Neil and Susan (Wark) Amondson began a life together in Morton.
Raised in the eastern Lewis County logging communities of Kosmos and Morton, their …
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1/5/26
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Ahead of the November 1932 election, organizers in Washington gathered enough signatures to place an initiative on the ballot asking whether the state should adopt a graduated tax on personal and …
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By Mitchell Roland / The Spokesman-Review
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1/5/26
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TULALIP — The grand prize of the Coin Combo slot games at the Tulalip Resort Casino ticked upward from $10,600 before a trio of women perched in their seats, each hopeful that she would be the one …
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By Megan Ulu-Lani Boyanton / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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1/5/26
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A local trial date has been scheduled for a Longview man accused of assaulting a 46-year-old federal immigration officer during the arrest of another man earlier this month in a parking lot of The …
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Matt Esnayra / The Daily News
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1/5/26
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For over a year, Kalama football coach Mike Phelps has been contemplating his future in the Pacific Northwest.
His plans recently came to fruition when he officially stepped down as the …
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Dan Rosenfield / The Daily News
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1/5/26
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