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TOLEDO — By the time practice began in earnest on August 19, it was the first time Mike Christensen felt the page-turning feeling.
The 2025 state championship game run happened. It gave the …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/22/26
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PACIFIC COUNTY — One of Washington state’s largest timberland transactions of the year was finalized Aug. 6 when Rayonier Forest Resources swapped 56 square miles of timberland in Pacific County …
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By Jeff Clemens / The Chinook Observer
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8/21/26
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Behind a pair of first half goals in game one and a second half shutout in game two, the Trailblazers secured regular season wins by beating Chemekta 3-1 on Tuesday and triumphing past Walla Walla …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/21/26
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ROCHESTER — When AJ Easley had a positional breakdown drill of his 50-plus guys on the roster, well over half of them went to running back. Now for a program that hammers the ball down the pipe …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/21/26
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The three guarantees in life are death, taxes and W.F. West High School’s football team running an efficient practice.
It’s been that way ever since Dan Hill’s first practice when he took …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/21/26
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The Nyastrong Warriors Academy will be hosting free athletic agility camps every Sunday through Sept. 13.
Camps will be held in Tenino every Sunday from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m.
All public, …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/20/26
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There was a clear mood shift over the final hour of the first practice for the Centralia High School football team.
For the first two hours on a warm Wednesday afternoon, head coach Tyler Gedney …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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It served as a constant reminder. It was always within eyesight. It was simple, yet monumental.
Hallie Bergford had a note taped above her bed while she was at Seattle University with the …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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ADNA — It took not once, not twice, but three times for the Adna High School football team to jog into their giant circle for jumping jacks.
And Aaron Cochran was not jovial after the first …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/19/26
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PACIFIC OCEAN — An Oregon man on a tuna charter trip off the Washington coast landed the catch of a lifetime over the weekend.
Tim Durheim, of Prineville, was fishing aboard the F/V Four …
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By Luke Whittaker / The Chinook Observer
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8/18/26
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A Prineville, Oregon, man got the thrill of a lifetime Saturday, Aug. 15, out in the deep blue sea about 40 miles west of Ilwaco when he pulled in a 151-pound striped marlin.
Tim Durheim was …
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By Luke Whittaker / The Chinook Observer
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8/17/26
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It’s been a steady climb up the mountain of improvement for Centralia College head volleyball coach Ceanna Michalek.
Year one laid the foundation. Year two saw a 16-win jump. Year three …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/16/26
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Every opening game of a season will bring plenty of firsts. The first kickoff, the first foul call, and if things go well, the first goal.
All of those came for first-year Centralia College …
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By Dylan Wilhelm / dylan@chronline.com
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8/15/26
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When the clock struck 6 a.m., we were off from Packwood en route to the fourth oldest U.S. National Park.
A month prior, my girlfriend, Piper, had mentioned her family was planning a camping …
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By Cade Barker / The Reflector
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8/14/26
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Fall sports are just around the corner, with football practices five days away and all other sports beginning practice in 10 days. Regular season action is less than four weeks away.
The 2025 …
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By Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/14/26
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It took one unofficial campus visit to Houston Christian University for it all to sink in for Sarah Stevens.
Conversations with the coaching staff preached a family environment. In talking with …
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By Zach Martin / zach@chronline.com
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8/13/26
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The grind of Minor League baseball through the summer and into the fall has gotten the best of Brandon White, Dakota Hawkins and Tyson Guerrero in the early stage of August.
Guerrero has …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/13/26
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Experience Olympia & Beyond and the Olympia & Beyond Sports Commission will welcome the American Junior Golf Association (AJGA) to Thurston County this month as 78 of the nation’s top …
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By Thurston Chronicle staff
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8/13/26
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Photos by Dylan Reubenking / dylan@thurstonchronicle.com
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8/13/26
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Deer and elk hunters who bought a Washington multi-season application this year will have a chance to buy one of 3,137 remaining multi-season deer tags and 187 remaining multi-season elk tags in …
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By The Chronicle staff
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8/12/26
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