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A school funding bill sponsored by state Rep. Joel McEntire, R-Cathlamet, was passed unanimously by the House Capital Budget Committee last Monday ahead of a key committee deadline.
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3/1/23
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CENTRALIA POLICE DEPARTMENT
Theft
• Just before 8:15 a.m. on Feb. 27, sunglasses were reported stolen from a victim’s mail in the 800 block of Swanson Drive.
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3/1/23
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During a Tuesday morning meeting, the Lewis County commissioners voted unanimously to approve an interlocal agreement between the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office and the Confederated Tribes of …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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3/1/23
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The City of Tenino’s Creative District is holding a public art design contest for new metal banners to be displayed on 23 street light poles in downtown Tenino, according to a news release from …
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3/1/23
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As people approach the end of their lives, special arrangements must be made as far as medical care, a will and funeral plans.
But what happens to a person’s pet during this period …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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3/1/23
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Editor’s Note: These figures and the notes that accompany them are derived from inspections conducted by the Lewis County Public Health Department’s Food Safety Program.
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A bill sponsored by state Sen. Jeff Wilson, R-Longview, aiming to prevent electric vehicle (EV) charger destruction was passed out of the Senate by a vote of 48-0 last Tuesday.
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3/1/23
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Gretchen Staebler moved back to Centralia in 2012 to take care of her 96-year-old mother, intending to stay for one year until she and her two sisters could move their mother into assisted living and …
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By Hallie Ralls / For The Chronicle
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3/1/23
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Right turns on red lights will continue for at least another year in Washington state, while anti-jaywalking laws could maybe become a thing of the past as lawmakers in Olympia settle into the second …
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David Kroman The Seattle Times (TNS)
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3/1/23
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A 31-year-old Thurston County man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his parents in 2021.
Josiah Sweeney received his sentence during a Monday hearing in Thurston County Superior …
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Martín Bilbao / The Olympian
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3/1/23
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The Washington state House passed a bill nearly unanimously Monday that would require wind farms to turn off the blinking red lights on turbines if no airplane is nearby.
The vote in favor of …
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Annette Cary / Tri-City Herald
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3/1/23
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Police took Bryan Kohberger's DNA along with a series of black clothing items from his family's Pennsylvania home, court documents released Tuesday show.
Kohberger is charged with killing four …
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Emma Epperly / The Spokesman-Review
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3/1/23
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A Vancouver woman is accused of causing her year-old son to suffer cardiac arrest after exposing him to fentanyl in a car. The incident occurred last spring, and a social worker said the mother has …
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Becca Robbins / The Columbian
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3/1/23
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In a three-hour online auction, Washington on Tuesday quietly began a new regulatory era, putting a price on some of the greenhouse gases released from the burning of fossil fuels in this state.
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Hal Bernton / The Seattle Times
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3/1/23
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A man was fatally shot inside a tent at a Tacoma homeless encampment Tuesday, according to Tacoma police. A dog, which was also shot, later died at a veterinarian's office.
A call reporting the …
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Craig Sailor / The News Tribune (TNS)
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3/1/23
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SEATTLE — Blue and orange flames flicker and whir within five massive natural gas-fired boilers, visible only through hatches where coal used to be shoveled.
They burn up to 90,000 therms …
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Isabella Breda / The Seattle Times / (TNS)
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3/1/23
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A Bellingham-based real estate brokerage faces accusations that it knew two of its male agents drugged and sexually assaulted female co-workers during work events.
In a civil lawsuit filed in …
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Heidi Groover / The Seattle Times
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3/1/23
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OLYMPIA — A panel scrutinizing carve-outs to Washington's government transparency laws saw one of its members resign Tuesday, frustrated that the Legislature disregards …
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Claire Withycombe / The Seattle Times
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3/1/23
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On the 132nd episode of The Chronicle News Dump, you can hang out with all the boys as Associate Editor Aaron VanTuyl and Editor-in-Chief Eric Schwartz get back to their roots and argue about Jim …
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3/1/23
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For the second week in a row the omnibus agreement for Jordan Bowers, the biological mother and prime suspect in the disappearance of 6-year-old Oakley Carlson, has been postponed.
Bowers, who is …
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2/28/23
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