Rainier Places Fourth at Ocosta Invitational

Rainier: Murphy 12, Askey 8, Hanson 6, Swenson 5, Blackburn 4, Beckman 3. The Rainier girls basketball team did it with defense Monday, wrapping up its regular season with a 38-22 win at Toledo. The Mountaineers put in 19 points in the first quarter, then settled in for a grind,...

Napavine: Hamilton 11, O’Neill 10, McCoy 9, Kaut 9, Gall 7, Tupuola 7, Schutz 6, Evander 2, H. Fay 2. Kalama: Johnston 22, Meyer 4, Doerty 2, Johnson 2, Given 2. The 2B No. 3 Napavine girls basketball team gunned it early and didn’t let up until the fourth quarter, racing past Kalama 63-32.

Forks: B. Johnson 2, Wood 18, Whorton 3, K. Johnson 25, Peters 2, Wallerstedt 2, Ky. Neel 2, Ka. Neel 2, Dilley 4. Onalaska: Ikola 5, Haight 7, Talley 3, K. Sandridge 1, B. Sandridge 15, Zurinskas 1, Berg 3. The Onalaska girls basketball team honored its lone senior, Brooklyn...

Pe Ell: Engel 13, Phelps 10, Zock 6, Coleman 4, Hayes 2, Carper 17, King 12, Shannon 10. Earning a dominant home win Saturday afternoon, the Pe Ell girls basketball team defeated Wishkah Valley, 74-12. The Trojans had five players score in double figures in another well-rounded offensive night, and...

W.F. West: Klatush 19, Dalan 18, Brumfield 9, Hoff 6, Jones 2, Kelley 2. Capital: Simmons 2, Landers 14, Schreck 4, Bjornsgard 9, Carlson 17, Sledge 2, Hubbard 2, Richburg 12. Falling behind 22-9 after one quarter, the W.F. West boys basketball team outscored Capital the rest of the way, but couldn’t come all the way back in a 62-56 loss on the road Saturday night in its final non-league game.

Harold Sorensen went home to be with his Lord on Sunday, Jan. 22, 2023. Harold had a very strong Christian faith where Jesus was always by his side. As he said at his 100th birthday party: “I am never alone. Jesus is with me.”. Harold was born in Ravinia,...

Naselle: Dunagan 1, Davis 4, L. Katyryniuk 23, Colombo 12, Shrives 14, A. Katyryniuk 6. Winlock: Kelly 17, Cardenas 10, Garcia 3, Peppers 9. Though the Winlock girls basketball team put up a fight through two quarters, a tough third quarter saw Naselle run away with a road win over the Cardinals on their senior night, 61-39.

Battling the Tigers Saturday afternoon, it was the Blue Devils who earned their stripes. Duke defeated No. 23 Auburn 4-0 at Winston-Salem Indoor Tennis Center to secure its first victory over a ranked opponent this season. The 19th-ranked Blue Devils entered the matchup looking for a bounceback win after its 4-2 loss to Middle Tennessee Friday. What’s more, the last time Duke squared off against a top-25 opponent, the Blue Devils were narrowly defeated despite strong student support.

Leading for three quarters and then some, the Winlock boys basketball team fell apart offensively late in a 63-57 loss to Naselle at home Saturday afternoon. Heading into the fourth quarter with a 9-point lead, the Cardinals were outscored 19-4 the rest of the way, having a hard time getting back into an offensive rhythm and dropping their final non-league home game of the season to the Comets.

TOLEDO — In a muddy field northwest of Toledo, multicolored flags marked the thousands of spots where natural color will push through this spring, signaling the return of one of the most significant plants to the Cowlitz Indian Tribe. On Friday, about 30 Cowlitz tribal members, staff and volunteers...

Rainier Eye, set to open in June, may help those with trouble seeing — but, its owners’ vision for a community-owned and operated optometry clinic is clear. The clinic, located in Chehalis, will be co-owned by Drs. Mary Ferris and Angela Loeb, who previously worked as optometrists in Olympia.

Saturday was a great morning to plunge into Mayfield Lake for a good cause for dozens of area residents. The 2023 Special Olympics Polar Plunge was again hosted by the Lewis County Icicle Brigade. State Rep. Peter Abbarno and members of the Centralia Police Department led what has become an annual January tradition. All proceeds support Special Olympians in Lewis County. There’s still time to donate: https://impact.sowa.org/fundraiser/4310402.

Chronicle staffer Sarah Burdick captured these photos of semi-rare "hair ice," also known as ice wool or frost beard, during a walk near Napavine on Sunday morning. "Fungus shapes a strangely wondrous kind of ice called hair ice that is found only on rotting logs ... To see hair ice, one’s best chance is to hike into a broadleaf forest between the latitudes of between 45° and 55° N on a cold morning. There, amid patches of snow and frost, a keen eye might spot delicate crystals extending from wood in filaments about 0.01 millimeters thick — about the diameter of a human hair. But as soon as the sun rises, the fragile sculpture will melt away," Smithsonian Magazine wrote.

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A pilot project to stave off erosion on the banks of rivers in the Chehalis Basin is showing initial signs of success. The work was part of a $1.6 million investment by the Office of the Chehalis Basin to manage erosion by purchasing property, developing a streamflow gauge plan and testing how ground and surface waters mix with a demonstration project along the banks of the Satsop River just outside of Brady, according to a newsletter from the Office of the Chehalis Basin.

Jester’s Auto Museum and Event Center was the location of the Lewis County Fire District 5 annual awards dinner on Jan. 21. The event was cosponsored by the Fire District 5 Firefighters Association and the district. Attendees were able to spend time viewing the impressive collection of automobiles prior...

Do you believe women pursuing a college education can impair their fertility? Today, such a notion sounds absurd, but that was a prevailing myth dispelled only after a small group of college graduates formed the American Association of University Women in 1881 and published a research report four years later.

Note: This content was produced by the Economic Alliance of Lewis County as part of the monthly Economic Report supplement published in The Chronicle. To learn more about the Alliance, visit https://lewiscountyalliance.org/. Lewis County Commissioner Gary Stamper, who passed away in September of 2021, loved his getaway home above Riffe...

The Southwest Washington Mycological Society will hold a meeting on Feb. 7 at the WSU Extension Office in Chehalis at 6 p.m. The office is located at 17 SW Cascade Ave. in Chehalis. There will be a presentation by Rainy Karnes from Raven’s Wind Farm who will discuss home cultivation...

A house fire near Capitol Forest that killed five members of the Cox family earlier this month spurred hundreds to attend a vigil at Tumwater High School Sunday evening. One organizer said they had brought enough food for 1,000 people, and nearly that many attended, almost filling the upper portion of the high school stadium that overlooks Sid Otton field.