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9 Things To Do This Weekend 05/25

This Just In

Weather service expecting wet Memorial Day weekend 05/26

The Politics Blog

22nd LD: Incumbent Dems enjoying the free ride 05/27

South Sound Sports Blog

Story links, photo galleries from Saturday's final day of 2011-12 high school sports season 05/27

The Business Blog

This week marks final chance to buy state-run booze 05/27

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Local Photo Galleries

Tumwater Hill book nook remembers a special little girl

Supporting wild spaces will lift peninsula area

posted 07:25 AM 04/03

The Cascade Land Conservancy, a Seattle-based heavy hitter in the world of Western Washington land trusts, has quietly expanded its scope of interest from central Puget Sound to the Olympic Peninsula, with an eye directed at a more sustainable future around the U.S. Highway 101 loop from Aberdeen to Shelton.

Ecology steward gives a little more

posted 06:25 AM 03/27

As a young boy, Rollie Geppert went to grade school in a one-room schoolhouse built on his parents' rural Minnesota farm. He followed his father's simply stated advice: "Make your living with your head, not your back."

Our area no place for nuclear plants

posted 06:54 AM 03/20

Dead but not forgotten, the Satsop twin nuclear plants atop Fuller Hill near Elma have been back in the news this week in a six degrees of separation sort of way.

Fallout shelter under I-5 a reminder of darker times

posted 06:23 AM 03/06

Here's a little-known fact that brings back some scary memories: An Interstate 5 overpass in north Seattle is home to a one-of-a-kind fallout shelter designed for survivors if the Soviet Union had unleashed a thermonuclear attack in the 1960s.

Land trust grows with region's generosity

posted 07:38 AM 02/20

If it keeps growing like this, what space in South Sound will be big enough to host next year's Capitol Land Trust Conservation Breakfast, the annual fundraising event for the nonprofit group dedicated to preserving essential natural areas and working lands in Southwest Washington?

City's first businesswoman truly a pioneer

posted 07:14 AM 02/13

Few outside a small circle of South Sound historians know that the first woman in charge of a business in the pioneer town of Olympia was an African American.

New test for heart arrives at the farm

posted 07:18 AM 02/06

We have a new occupant at Horsefeathers Farm. His name is Butch, and he's a real sadist.

State's history may be lost in cuts

posted 06:36 AM 01/23

The former Lord Mansion in Olympia's South Capitol neighborhood will celebrate its 70th anniversary next year as the State Capital Museum. Chances are, it won't be much of a celebration. The museum is targeted for closure in Gov. Chris Gregoire's 2011-13 budget, as are the other Washington State Historical Society museums, in Tacoma and Spokane.