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Providence’s two Southwest Washington hospitals reported their highest single-day death toll due to COVID-19 on Friday.
Between Centralia and St. Peter hospitals, 10 individuals — all …
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A Centralia woman convicted of controlled substance homicide for delivering fake oxycodone pills to a man who later consumed them and died of an overdose in October 2020 was sentenced in Lewis County …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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9/17/21
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ToledoTel, an internet provider based in Toledo, announced Thursday during a Centralia-Chehalis Chamber of Commerce Business After Hours event that it is seeking a partnership with Lewis County to …
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On Tuesday, Lewis County Sheriff Rob Snaza published a list of policing tactics that have been limited or banned under the state’s police accountability laws, along with the department’s …
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A bright yellow bench covered in sticky notes sits in the playground of Fords Prairie Elementary School, home of the Tiny Tigers.
Notes read: “The nicest person I have ever met in my …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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9/14/21
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Winlock formalized its critique of Gov. Jay Inslee this week, passing a proclamation detailing Mayor Brandon Svenson’s “sincere belief” that the Democratic governor requires a …
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Seattle-based education nonprofit Bezos Academy has signed a 10-year lease with United Way of Lewis County to operate a preschool for students from low-income families at the United Learning Center …
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Cancer touches every life. Even people who never live with the disease see it affect the lives of those around them.
That’s why Relay for Life was started. A 24-hour event, shortened to …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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9/13/21
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For Marc McGinnis, Sept. 11, 2001, started as a normal Tuesday.
Volunteering at the Jehovah’s Witnesses headquarters in Brooklyn, the 21-year-old was doing the same janitorial work his …
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Centralia College will require its instructors, staff and all of its on-campus students to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by Monday, Oct. 18, the college recently announced.
The requirement …
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With a little more than a month left until all state and public school employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, less than 30% of employees at Chehalis and Centralia school …
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The Port of Chehalis Commission on Thursday unanimously approved a motion to allow CEO Randy Mueller to enter into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with Twin Transit to eventually construct a …
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Lewis County’s COVID-19 cases are still on the rise, with another new record for weekly positives reported Wednesday: 382. For the first time, the county’s two-week case rate breached …
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What would it take to avoid a Lewis County Public Utility District customer rate hike?
That’s the question the agency is now trying to answer.
The move comes after local mayors — …
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Lewis County Commissioner Gary Stamper’s condition is improving after being hospitalized for COVID-19 late last month.
The 67-year-old commissioner, who said this year he got …
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Riding a wave of endorsements by conservative figures — most notably former President Donald Trump — District 3 congressional candidate Joe Kent rallied Monday with Matt Gaetz, a Florida …
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Tribe Looks to Replace Interstate 5 Bridge Over Nisqually River in Effort to Prevent Freeway Closure
The Nisqually Indian Tribe is working to replace the Interstate 5 bridge over the Nisqually River and plans to place about a mile and a half of the freeway on piers, so the changing course of the river does
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The Chehalis Walmart will be closed Tuesday and Wednesday this week for deep cleaning and sanitizing as part of a company-wide initiative to give third-party contractors more time to clean in order …
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The land has seen age, sweat and hard labor.
Surrounded by nearby Gold Street and the busy BNSF rail line, infrastructure from the Agnew Mill ponds in Centralia is seeing sunlight for the first …
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Dan Swecker, a former 20th Legislative District Republican senator, Purple Heart recipient and pillar of the local Christian community, died this week. He was 74.
The Army veteran and farmer …
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