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Calling Jaime Herrera Beutler, R-Battle Ground, who has served in the U.S. House of Representatives for over a decade, one might expect the background droll of congressional staff or the muttering of …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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The former administrator and the estate of the former director of the Centralia Kiwanis Vocational Home, which was reportedly fraught with abuse, negligence and fraud between 1971 and its closure in …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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The holiday season is notorious for excess traffic and excess celebration, which prompted the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to publish in December bleak traffic fatality numbers: a 20-year …
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By The Wenatchee World (TNS)
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12/30/22
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Lewis County is accepting applications to fill a volunteer position on its Lodging Tax Advisory Committee (LTAC).
Applicants must represent an entity that would be eligible to receive lodging tax …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/30/22
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The eccentric and regionally known artist known as RichArt, real name Richard Tracy, died Dec. 22 at Providence St. Peter Hospital in Olympia at the age of 89.
Locally, Tracy was known for …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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It’s been nearly a month since Angie Krause, formerly known as Angie Humphrey, gave her final radio signoff as an officer with the Centralia Police Department, but settling into retirement is a …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Malicious Mischief
• Just before 8:05 a.m. on Dec. 28, there was a report of graffiti that was spray painted on a building in the 300 block of …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/30/22
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It’s official: the Washington State Department of Revenue plans to collect the new capital gains income tax that was ruled unconstitutional earlier this year by a lower court …
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By Brett Davis / The Center Square
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12/30/22
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Attacks by owls on humans are extremely rare but may be increasing in frequency in Washington according to one expert on the winged creatures.
Jonathan C. Slaught, a biologist specializing on …
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By Lawrence Wilson / The Center Square
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12/30/22
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Through fires, floods and everyday life in the greater Lewis County area, Chronicle Photo Editor Jared Wenzelburger was there to capture big moments and compelling images in 2022. Here are photos he …
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12/30/22
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Starbucks broke the law by refusing to negotiate with newly unionized workers at 21 stores across the Pacific Northwest, according to a complaint filed Tuesday by National Labor Relations Board …
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By Renata Geraldo / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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Lewis County elected officials took their oaths of office at the Lewis County Courthouse on Wednesday morning, according to a news release from the county.
Superior Court Judge Andrew Toynbee …
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By The Chronicle staff
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12/30/22
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A 53-year-old Sunnyside woman accused of smuggling drugs into the Yakima County jail will spend two weeks there.
Michele Kristin Aguirre pleaded guilty Thursday to a reduced charge of …
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By Donald W. Meyers / The Yakima Herald-Republic
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12/30/22
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Washington greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 reached their highest levels in over a decade, according to the state’s latest analysis released Wednesday.
Emissions in 2019 penciled out to …
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By Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times
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12/30/22
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A 50-year-old Thurston County man was arrested Thursday night and booked into the county jail on suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after an eviction escalated into a 12-hour standoff with …
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By Ty Vinson / The Olympian
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12/30/22
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There is a great egret — a tall, white bird — that frequents Hayes Lake beside the Centralia outlet mall, the Skookumchuck River and Interstate 5.
This week, for the first time in a …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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On the front cover of its Dec. 31, 1962, edition, The Chronicle listed the top five news stories for 1962
The Chronicle declared the Oct. 12 “hurricane-like” storm to be the number one …
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Compiled by Matthew Zylstra / matthew@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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BOISE, Idaho — A 28-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the homicides of four University of Idaho students.
Law enforcement officials confirmed to McClatchy’s …
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Alex Brizee / Idaho Statesman (TNS)
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12/30/22
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A man who reportedly fled from Centralia police officers attempting to arrest him Thursday evening was still at large as of Friday morning, according to the Centralia Police …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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12/30/22
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