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Toledo, according to the local Lions Club’s 2023 Cheese Days magazine, is a town with many historic names: Plomondon’s Landing in the 1840s, Warbassport in the 1850s, Cowlitz Landing …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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7/3/23
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Rene Remund grew up in the Boistfort Valley.
The unincorporated, West Lewis County community of a few hundred people is nearly all farmland. There is a river, grange hall, store, fire …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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7/3/23
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As the sun shined down late Saturday morning, Chevron manager and Lewis County Drug Court graduate Leah Rader hosted a barbecue with her family, friends and coworkers to kick off their Fourth of July …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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7/1/23
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As Independence Day approaches, communities throughout Lewis and South Thurston counties are preparing patriotic parades, celebrations and fireworks shows. Here’s when and where upcoming events …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/30/23
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The Friendship Fence in Chehalis was one of four LGBTQ+ advocate sites vandalized early in the morning on June 24. Volunteers and supporters came together on Friday morning to repaint the fence and …
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6/30/23
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A fire in an abandoned house in the 1100 block of Eckerson Road in Centralia on Friday morning is under investigation by the Centralia Police Department.
Firefighters and police officers got the …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/30/23
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Having an observatory right in the path of Mount St. Helens’ 1980 eruption is a double-edged sword.
At Johnston Ridge — the very end of state Route 504, the “Spirit Lake …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/29/23
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A massage therapist practicing in Chehalis is facing six felony sexual assault charges in Lewis County Superior Court for allegedly inappropriately touching six separate female massage clients …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/28/23
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Following the City of Centralia’s move earlier this year to test 20 Flock License Plate Recognition System cameras to aid its police department with tracking suspect vehicles, the City of …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/28/23
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Having just finished her 21st year as an educator, Parkside Elementary School Special Education Teacher Holly Johnson was recognized Monday as Capital Region Education Service District (ESD) …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/27/23
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For most parents, losing their children is among the worst things they could imagine happening.
It certainly was for Natalya Kinder, whose children were taken by Child Protective Services …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/26/23
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Sara Smiley and husband Jason Sawyer own a woodworking shop in downtown Morton where they sell topographic maps and niche furniture.
Smiley is a board member on the Lewis County Dignity …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/26/23
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When Morris “Merc” and Nina Boyer purchased a tree farm on Kiona Road in Randle in 2014 that sat derelict for eight years after being logged, they knew it would be a challenge to restore …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/23/23
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Documents from the state Criminal Justice Training Commission (CJTC) recently received by The Chronicle shed light on former Morton Police Chief Roger Morningstar’s reasons for resigning from …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/23/23
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The 31-year-old man charged for burning down a vacant restaurant building on Harrison Avenue in Centralia last March was sentenced Wednesday to three to six months in a court-imposed residential drug …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/22/23
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Chehalis’ outdoor community pool — the Gail and Carolyn Shaw Aquatics Center — officially reopened for the summer over the weekend, first with open swimming on June 17 followed by …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/21/23
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On Saturday, June 8, during a Pride Month celebration in Centralia, a self-proclaimed white supremacist group that calls itself the “Evergreen Active Club” showed up to protest and share …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/21/23
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Not too far from W.F. West High School in Chehalis, there’s a valley that, if you ran through, you’d see Harold Borovec’s house on Magnolia Drive. There, Harold, who had a …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/21/23
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The 18-year-old Rainier man accused of causing a two-vehicle crash in the 13800 block of Rainier Road Southwest in March that killed 17-year-old Rainier High School senior Jessie Uch has been …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/20/23
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In a city founded by the son of a former slave, at a park that bears his name, more than 100 people gathered in downtown Centralia Saturday to acknowledge and celebrate the nation’s newest …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/19/23
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