The Chronicle

06/10/2023

Tigers take punch, grind Loggers down:
Onalaska made Napavine bleed.
Napavine made Onalaska pay.
The Loggers threw the best punch that the Tigers have seen in a regular-season game in quite some time, but all it did was delay things, as a slow avalanche of big plays buried them in a 58-14 Napavine win in hostile territory.
“It’s always good beating Ony,” Napavine quarterback Ashton Demarest said. “It’s Ony. I love beating them.”
After falling behind 8-0 early and hitting rough patches on offense, the Tigers (2-0) ground their way to a lead by the end of the first quarter, on a pair of Demarest runs. By halftime, it was 30-14, capped off by a Demarest touchdown pass to Colin Shields in the final 10 seconds of the second quarter.
Still, the Logger faithful had plenty of buzz, down just two possessions at the break. So after only managing 37 rushing yards in the first half, the Tigers went to work crafting a haymaker.
“We had to stay the course and regroup,” Napavine coach Josh Fay said. “It took longer than I’d hoped it would, but I thought we responded at halftime, and were pretty focused coming out.”
Full story and more photos here: https://tinyurl.com/ykyr32jf
Photos and story by Chronicle Sports Editor Josh Kerhsenbaum.

03/10/2023

Winlock elementary welcomes retired reserve sergeant as school resource officer:
Retired Toledo reserve officer Randy Pennington was getting ready to return his patrol car after his last shift with the police department in July 2022 when he got a call from Winlock Police Chief Stephen Valentine.
“He said, ‘instead of turning it in, you should just change colors,’” Pennington said, recalling how Valentine asked him to come work in Winlock.
“I said, ‘’Now, Steve, I’m not chasing no more bad guys.’ And he said, ‘Well that’s what’s really cool: is you don’t have to chase bad guys.’”
Valentine had wanted to assign Pennington to Winlock Elementary School as a school resource officer: a law enforcement officer who is responsible for safety and crime prevention within a school.
“I said, ‘No more chasing bad guys?’ ‘Not unless they’re at school.’ ‘Hey, that sounds like something I can do,’” Pennington said, recalling the conversation with Valentine.
Full story: https://tinyurl.com/yrs4b4yc

03/10/2023

SPOTTED AT 2 A.M. IN NAPAVINE: The musician Jelly Roll passed through Lewis County overnight. He’s pictured here with Evie of Adna and Sadie of Chehalis.

28/09/2023

Get your co****le partner ready as players and spectators alike are invited to Dick’s Brewing Company’s Co****le and Sausage Fest this Saturday, Sept. 9.
Read more here https://tinyurl.com/2s3ubckh

27/09/2023

FROM THE ARCHIVES: October 24, 1964.

The Ocean Beaches do not lap Lewis County, but today the county has 1 1/2 acre salt water lake at Mary's Corner. The 15 foot deep lake is man made and contains 100,000 gallons of salt water that has been removed from the underground natural gas storage area.

26/09/2023

IN FOCUS: A black-tailed fawn looks on from a yard west of Chehalis on Thursday morning.
Photo by Jared Wenzelburger

25/09/2023

The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET) on Thursday announced an ongoing investigation at Green Hill School in Chehalis after tips alleging a staff member was providing narcotics to a student inmate and that overdoses were being handled internally rather than being reported to law enforcement.
Read more here https://tinyurl.com/3surkjb5

23/09/2023

HUNTING HIGHLIGHT: "Tanner Tobin, 14, of Chehalis, poses with the 7x7 bull she harvested with her youth elk tag that she drew through a Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife drawing. The hunt location was near the former Centralia mine. Hunted this bull for four days until she had the perfect 230-yard shot and dropped him in his tracks."
To submit your own hunting highlight, or maybe even just a photo from another kind of outdoor adventure, email [email protected].

21/09/2023

BREAKING from the Centralia Police Department: JNET is investigating the Green Hill School after contraband and controlled substances dating back to 2017 were found in a staff storage locker.
The discovery comes after the state Attorney General declined to investigate the facility following an overdose and arrests for possession.
Read the full news release here:

18/09/2023

Emergency crews responded to the scene of a collision involving multiple vehicles in downtown Centralia at the intersection of Pearl and Locust streets just after 4 p.m.
Medics were tending to at least one patient at about 5 p.m. More information will be posted when available at chronline.com.
Photos by Chronicle Photo Editor Jared Wenzelburger.

16/09/2023

“My life was spared,” he said. “If I’d been driving one second faster, the tree would’ve hit me in the head, and I’d be dead.”
He thinks about that often, and the sequence of events that followed that kept him alive.
“There must be something worth keeping me around for,” he continued. “If it’s just to be a husband, dad and cop, that’s good enough for me.”
But there is more, he believes.
“There may eventually be someone who sees me and grows up to be a cop when they didn’t think it was something they could do,” he said.
That means doing the job every day, just like any other cop.

Drew Kennison walked out of his house that February morning and felt snowflakes on his cheeks. He knew his wife and their three children would be thrilled by this unexpected late-in-the season …

16/09/2023

Freshman Callie Mickelseon bagged a first-half hat trick, scoring goals in the fifth, 15th, and 34 minutes off of assists from Maria Summers, Kyla Watson, and Kyra Dirks.
“Callie Mickleson up front was fantastic today,” Tenino coach Dave Montgomery said. “Not only did she have that hat trick, but she did a good job of distributing the ball to other people.”

The Tenino girls soccer team made a long journey worth it Saturday, blowing out Chelan 7-0 in a non-league contest to open the fall. Freshman Callie Mickelseon bagged a first-half hat trick, …