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After district baseball tournaments finished up Saturday afternoon, the WIAA seeding committees met up to put together the brackets for the upcoming state tournament and regional round of baseball coming up this week across all classifications. Here are the Chronicle-area teams that qualified for state, and where and who they will play in the coming week.

An Australian company is eying property next to the soon-to-close coal power plant in Centralia, Washington, to build a big hydrogen fuel production facility. Fortescue Future Industries went public with its plans during a hydrogen symposium hosted by the Economic Alliance of Lewis County on Thursday. Fortescue Future Industries is...

The Centralia Police Department hired two new officers to fill a couple of the openings left vacant after the city fired four of its officers in January following their allegedly delayed response to a domestic violence call. Mitch King and Jason Roberts each read the Police Officer Code of Ethics...

The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team (JNET) based out of Centralia arrested six people after dismantling a drug trafficking organization, with assistance from the Grays Harbor Drug Task Force. In a release from JNET, they say that beginning in 2021 and ending this week, members of the team have been investigating...

• A possible physical dispute was reported in the 1400 block of Northwest Louisiana Avenue just before 11:05 a.m. on May 11. • A dispute was reported in the 200 block of Southwest 10th Street at 12:05 a.m. on May 12. • A physical dispute was reported in the 1400...

Toledo Pitching — Miller 5 IP, 0 hits, 0 ER, 3 K, BB; Highlights — Filla 2-3, run, 2 RBI, BB; Gilreath 3-3, 2 runs, RBI; Stemkoski 1-1, 2 runs, RBI, BB;. Ilwaco Pitching — Morris 2.2 IP, 7 hits, 3 ER, K, BB; Highlights — Sawa BB;

Mossyrock Pitching — Mulligan 7 IP, 2 hits, 7 K; Highlights — K. Kolb hit; Bender 2 hits; Comer hit;. For the first time in nearly a decade, the Mossyrock baseball team is headed to the regional round of state. After a 10-0 defeat to Naselle in the...

CENTRALIA, Wash. — A drug trafficking ring has been dismantled with the arrests of six people in Oregon, Washington and California. The Joint Narcotics Enforcement Team seized over 105 pounds of methamphetamine that’s believed to have been trafficked from Mexico with a street value worth about $500,000. Authorities...

It was recently added to the state’s Heritage Register and it’s one of the tallest structures of its kind in Washington, so you may have to crane your neck and tilt your head back to get a good look at a towering century of Northwest history. Onalaska is...

Liquor sales in Lewis County reached an aggregate of $801,608 in the reporting year of Oct. 1, 1950, to Sept. 30, 1951. The report came in as the 18th annual report conducted by the state’s liquor control board since the end of the U.S. prohibition of alcohol. Centralians proved...

The forced two-year hiatus of Toledo's annual gathering known simply as the “Big Meeting” did nothing to reduce residents’ enthusiasm for their community. If anything, challenges posed by the pandemic, supply chain issues and severe weather in the last two years encouraged Toledo’s movers and shakers to embrace their creativity.

The varsity baseball squads of the four Edmonds School District high schools have a chance to make history on Saturday, May 14, but it will be no easy task. By the end of the day, the Lynnwood Royals, Edmonds-Woodway Warriors, Meadowdale Mavericks and Mountlake Terrace Hawks could all have earned their way into the 2022 WIAA 3A state baseball tournament that begins next week. If that happens, it would be the first time ever the four schools made it into the state tourney at the same time.

During Thursday’s Port of Chehalis Commission meeting, a train derailment that occurred on April 27 was discussed. A train bound for Cresline Plastic Pipe Co. on the Burlington Northern and Santa Fe Railway (BNSF) came off the tracks but did not fully tip over. Port of Chehalis Executive Director...