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The Lewis County Board of Commissioners announced Friday, May 2, the upcoming release of new floodplain maps for the Packwood area.
The new 100-year floodplain maps studying the Cowlitz River in …
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By Jacob Moore / jacob@chronline.com
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5/2/25
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The Lewis County Board of Commissioners is seeking a volunteer to serve on the Lewis County Public Facilities District Board of Directors, the commissioners stated in a news release.
The Public …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/2/25
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The Community Farmers Market of Chehalis will hold its annual plant sale and market preview from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on May 6 in Downtown Chehalis.
Plant starts, cut flowers, perennials, trees, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/2/25
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The Washington State Patrol (WSP) and the Washington Traffic Safety Commission (WTSC) are reminding drivers to make safe and responsible choices behind the wheel this Cinco de Mayo, a news release …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/2/25
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The Vader May Day celebration will be held Saturday, May 3.
This year’s theme is “Peace, Love and Tye-Dye,” the City of Vader stated in a news release.
Vendors will be …
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By The Chronicle staff
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5/2/25
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Northwest Battle Buddies celebrated veterans and their service dogs Saturday, April 26, at the Royal Oaks Country Club in Vancouver with an event called An Evening of Honor, showcasing the impact …
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By Norman Helgason / For The Chronicle
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5/2/25
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Many area residents got a start on spring gardening season during the Home and Garden Show at W.F. West High School on Thursday, May 1, and Friday, May 2. The show lasted through Friday. It was …
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5/2/25
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A Centralia staple originally founded in 1927 as Pioneer Feed and Seed, Pioneer West Garden and Pet Center recently relocated from its old location on North Tower Avenue in downtown Centralia to the …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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5/2/25
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The gold envelopes were stuffed with wads of cash and couriered via UPS. Inside, each $520 to $530 bundle of bills was paper-clipped to a sticky note bearing the birthdate of a student seeking a …
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Ted Sickinger / oregonlive.com (TNS)
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5/2/25
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Depending on your social-media feed, shipping lanes and port traffic are a hot topic, with varying opinions on whether ports are ghost towns or still buzzing hubs of transport.
Los Angeles Port …
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Debbie Cockrell / The Peninsula Gateway (TNS)
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5/2/25
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A mother punched a man in the face after cops say he took a stroller with her toddler seated inside, Oregon police say.
The woman told police that as she gathered her things inside her home on …
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Daniella Segura / The Bellingham Herald (TNS)
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5/2/25
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Some 2,000 gallons of radioactive and hazardous chemical waste that had been stored in underground tanks has been shipped off the Hanford nuclear site in Eastern Washington for disposal after it is …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/2/25
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The cost of housing has gone up in recent years. In Washington state, the average home price overall has been steadily increasing, according to data from Zillow. Aside from a dip lasting from …
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Karlee Van De Venter / Tri-City Herald (TNS)
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5/2/25
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In a display of solidarity, more than 200 local attorneys raised their right hands Thursday at the King County Courthouse in downtown Seattle and repeated in unison the oath they took years …
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Sara Jean Green / The Seattle Times (TNS)
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5/2/25
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On the 232nd episode of The Chronicle News Dump, hosts Aaron VanTuyl and Eric Schwartz discuss heckling your elected officials, the latest Morton updates, and the Centralia Downtown Association with …
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5/2/25
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As youth homelessness has reached record highs in Washington in recent years, a local advocacy group says one pandemic-era program could be the most cost-effective way to mitigate the issue.
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Cameron Sheppard / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/2/25
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In one sense, the effects of current U.S. tariff policy uncertainty are comparable to how the COVID-19 pandemic spread in early 2020: The first U.S. impacts were seen on the West Coast and then …
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Debbie Cockrell / The Olympian (TNS)
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5/2/25
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Voters in Washington will be asked this fall to let the state make stock market investments with payroll taxes collected for its long-term care program.
The Legislature has put a measure on the …
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By Jerry Cornfield / The Washington State Standard
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5/2/25
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As public school officials file civil rights complaints against the state over its gender identity policies, some districts are mobilizing after the U.S. government announced a …
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Tim Clouser / The Center Square
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5/1/25
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Services for people with dementia at assisted living facilities will have to meet new state standards across Washington under a law Gov. Bob Ferguson signed on Wednesday.
Senate Bill 5337 …
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By Jacquelyn Jimenez Romero / The Washington State Standard
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5/1/25
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