Thursday, October 1, 2026
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As the Nov. 3 General Election quickly approaches, Thurston County residents have several opportunities to register to vote ...
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I am a new old man. Although I’ve been working in the aging and end of life field for going on 10 years, I turned 65 this ...
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Earlier this year, I had the opportunity to review Timberline High School’s production of “Something Rotten.” Among the ...
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By Rachel Benton
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9/4/26
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School buses are back on the roads, and summer vacations and local bird breeding seasons are over. Still, there’s lots of avian action ...
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By George Walter
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9/3/26
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Throughout this summer, I have attended several events hosted by Rebecca and Alexander ...
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A few days ago, I was meandering around our beloved downtown, chatting with various shopkeepers. Some of our conversations ...
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By Rachel Benton
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9/2/26
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Happy 60th birthday, Lacey! Of the tri-cities in Thurston County, Lacey, officially incorporated in 1966, is the baby, roughly 100 ...
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By Shirley Stirling
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8/31/26
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There are several little-known, unique, and sometimes dark facts about our region. In this column, I write about several; for a more ...
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When I think of what makes Thurston County and Western Washington a great place to live, for me, it comes down ...
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Earlier this year, during the Arts & Pride Month conversation series, I had the honor of chatting with ...
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By Rachel Benton
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8/28/26
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Earlier this summer, I wrote two columns about female birds’ vocalization and, more generally, about bird ...
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On the southeast corner of 8th Avenue and Jefferson Street is a small blue-roofed building that was built in ...
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After a brief hiatus, Theater Artists Olympia’s (TAO) “An Improbable Peck of Plays” has returned to the ...
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Raise your hand if you have ever seen Robert Redford and Jane Fonda’s iconic film adaptation of Neil Simon’s “Barefoot in ...
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By Rachel Benton
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8/25/26
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Throughout our nation's history, people and communities have faced discrimination, prejudice, racism and exclusion either because of ...
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August 21 is National Senior Citizens Day, created in 1988 when then-President Ronald Reagan signed the official proclamation to ...
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Now and then, it is fun to share a fact about me that readers may not know. Here is one that ties into today’s ...
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Once upon a time, long before I had this column, I worked for the state in a job that was not compatible with who ...
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By Rachel Benton
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8/19/26
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Last week, I had the opportunity to interview Stephanie Cholmondeley of Rebecca and Alexander Howard (RAH) ...
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“It has become extremely plausible that this trip between the maternity ward and the crematorium is what there is ...
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