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Last week, I attended the Voetberg Family Concert, and I left feeling like I had just stepped out of a little revival meeting disguised as a music show.
If anyone ever doubts that God pours out …
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12/15/25
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Making progress is prioritizing policies that inherently benefit most of us and are shared issues of people of all ages.
Older Americans who had children needed child care and may see their own …
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12/15/25
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Letter writer Marty Ainsley’s narrative relies heavily on speculation and assumptions that are simply not supported by how the military justice system actually operates.
His claims about …
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12/15/25
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Some people carry the past with them in a way that feels like an unexpected blessing — an open doorway into a world shaped by hard work, faithfulness and the kind of grit that doesn’t …
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By Richard Stride
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12/15/25
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Many in our state are probably too busy dealing with the effects of the latest “atmospheric river” to think about how winter will soon bring its own weather challenges.
State …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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12/12/25
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I don’t even know where to begin, because there really aren’t words big enough to fully capture what we saw unfold in Lewis County over these past days.
What I do know is this: …
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By Sean Swope / Lewis County commissioner
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12/12/25
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Every December, something important happens in democracies that we rarely pause to appreciate.
Across the country, leaders step down. Seats change hands. New voices arrive as experienced ones …
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By Wayne Fournier
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12/10/25
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Every January, when most of Lewis County is bundled up indoors with hot coffee and good intentions, a different kind of warmth rises from the icy waters of Mayfield Lake — community spirit.
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12/10/25
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Across the country, raising the minimum wage continues to be a topic of conversation. Some claim that raising the minimum wage to $20 would help both low-income employees as well as employers. Though …
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By Sam Cardwell / Mountain States Policy Center
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12/10/25
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I read with interest the announcement from the Port of Chehalis on Wednesday that Amazon wants to buy land to build an operations center that would employ between 500 and 1,000 workers.
Although …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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12/8/25
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Editor’s note: Last month, Winlock area resident Spencer Hoven shared her story with The Chronicle’s Facebook followers about a beloved rocking horse that had been mistakenly donated to a …
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12/8/25
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All across our state, every day, employers make big, positive differences in their communities. We see that in the people they employ, the products and services they produce, and in more impressive …
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By Kris Johnson / Association of Washington Business
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12/8/25
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As the Christmas season amps up, a beloved holiday celebration will fill up the Mint City this Saturday morning.
The 75th anniversary of the Chehalis Santa Parade is one of my favorite …
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12/5/25
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On the surface, a pair of murders in our state nearly two months ago don’t have anything in common except for each occurring in mid-October and resulting in the arrest of a young man.
One …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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12/5/25
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I recently read Thurston County Commissioner Wayne Fournier’s post-mortem on the defeat of Proposition 1 in Olympia, in which he framed the loss as a rejection of poorly drafted policy.
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By Rob Richards
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12/5/25
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As a former Port of Centralia commissioner, I know exactly why Kyle Heaton’s severance protections were created.
When I voted for that provision years ago, Heaton’s salary was nearly …
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12/5/25
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One uniform, flag or insignia against another.
In recent years, that distinction has faded away. Today, we are not allowed to distinguish between the bully and the brave. The word …
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12/5/25
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This letter is partially in response to State Sen. John Braun’s commentary written in The Chronicle Nov. 26 titled “A state income tax is illegal, but don’t expect this to stop …
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12/5/25
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In his letter of Nov. 25, writer Ray Anderson criticizes Democratic officials for reminding military personnel that they have a sworn duty to disobey unlawful orders.
The duty to not carry out …
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12/5/25
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Few things are as confounding to me as vandalism.
Don’t get me wrong — I don’t think stealing is a good idea either, but at least the thief has something after the deed. …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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12/5/25
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