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Lewis County lost a stalwart supporter of the community Thursday afternoon when Edward Lawrence Fund passed on to his heavenly reward just a month shy of his 93rd birthday.
I met Ed nearly two …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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3/27/23
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Red alert. Red alert.
Residents of the 3rd Congressional District, we are being manipulated by our current congressional representative, Marie Gluesenkamp Perez, who is using a …
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3/27/23
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The Washington state Supreme Court has failed Washingtonians by agreeing to uphold the constitutionality of the state’s capital gains tax. This is yet another way for the government to …
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3/27/23
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This letter is in regards to the recent crash in eastern Washington that resulted in the deaths of two children after which troopers claimed state law prevented them from pursuing the …
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3/27/23
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The only justification for the levy the editorial board speaks for so earnestly is a demonstrable improvement in the quality of student capacities.
If your district is pitifully populated …
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3/27/23
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America, including the 3rd Congressional District, is being led closer and closer toward a place where the core values that founded America are non-existent. One of these core values that is being …
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3/27/23
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Some friendships span generations. In tight-knit Lewis County, we’re blessed to find these more frequently.
They are a privilege. I get to enjoy them because my grandparents, …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep
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3/24/23
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The no-new-taxes operating-budget proposal introduced in the Senate this session is a welcome turnaround.
To be clear, there is no more need for new taxes this year than there was in either 2019 …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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3/24/23
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In 2009, I was hired as an engineer in the Lewis County Public Works Department. The Great Recession was in full swing, the housing bubble had burst and communities here had, in the span of less than …
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By Erik Martin. outgoing Lewis County manager
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3/24/23
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Do you like the show “Yellowstone” or its spinoffs, “1883” and “1923?”
If you have not seen them, you should give them a try. Western TV shows and movies …
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By Richard Stride / For The Chronicle
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3/22/23
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Earlier this month, when President Joe Biden fastened the Congressional Medal of Honor around retired U.S. Army Col. Paris Davis’ neck, it was a welcome pause to the endless venomous rhetoric, …
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By Don Brunell
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3/22/23
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Last week's column was written and ready for submission to The Chronicle for printing when a newspaper with a little more "clout" did a feature on jazz in the Seattle area.
But my column …
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By Bill Moeller / For The Chronicle
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3/22/23
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Last year, Lewis County threw away 101,060 tons of garbage — the equivalent of more than 200 Boeing 747s, according to Melanie Case, the county’s solid waste recycling program coordinator …
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By Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle
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3/20/23
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I am a Lewis County resident and have been for 60-plus years. I was born in Morton and graduated from high school there. Some of my most special memories were from time spent at Mineral Lake. I am …
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3/17/23
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The Chronicle Editorial Board, consisting of diverse individuals, including fiscal conservatives, business owners and one senior, stands behind our belief that higher property taxes and …
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By The Chronicle Editorial Board
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3/17/23
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After trying for more than a dozen years to impose a carbon tax in our state, legislative Democrats succeeded in 2021. That’s the now-infamous session which also gave our state a new income …
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By Sen. John Braun, R-Centralia
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3/17/23
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When the state Legislature made the largely thoughtless and knee-jerk changes in law regarding the way we police in our state, there were many voices who said many of the new changes were poorly …
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By John McCroskey / For The Chronicle
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3/17/23
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China is one of our state's largest trading partners. In 2021, for example, it accounted for nearly 23% of the goods exported from Washington, worth approximately $12.1 billion. At the same …
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By Matt Boehnke, R-Kennewick
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3/17/23
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In the past few years, we here in Lewis County have seen the sad neglect and demise of several pioneer cemeteries. There are many underlying reasons for their difficulties. On the other hand, there …
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3/15/23
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Hi, my name is Anicee Pruitt and I live and work here in Centralia. I have a 10-year-old daughter who wants to swim in the Veterans Memorial Pearl Street Pool. As a parent and citizen of Centralia we …
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3/15/23
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