South Sound

TEA Party draws 1,500 to Capitol

The Washington State Patrol said about 1,500 people attended Saturday’s TEA Party anti-tax rally on the Capitol Campus.

Capitol Forest fire was arson

A wildfire that started Friday in Capitol State Forest was the result of arson, a spokeswoman for the state Department of Natural Resources said Saturday.

Battalion home for Fourth of July

Chloe Bollin stood on a chair and waved an American flag Saturday, hoping to spot the person who’d make this Fourth of July special.

These fruits make labor seem not so laborious

Greetings this holiday weekend from Horsefeathers Farm in East Olympia, where the vegetable garden has played a successful game of catch-up in recent weeks.

Taller building plan hits snag

OLYMPIA - A controversial plan to build five- and seven-story mixed-use buildings on the downtown isthmus has hit a significant speed bump.
• Building heights debate past coverage

South Sound warned of ‘apostate democrats’ in 1859

The Pioneer & Democrat, in its usual fiery rhetoric 150 years ago, announced:

LEWIS COUNTY: Boater certification offered in Chehalis

Lewis County Sheriff’s deputies will offer a free boating-safety course from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at the sheriff’s office training room, on the first floor of the Law and Justice Center at 345 W. Main St. in Chehalis.

Daniel Mast: Dreams of being an announcer for the Mariners

Daniel Mast: Dreams of being an announcer for the Mariners

Elizabeth Marie Mackfay: Admires the ‘Twilight’ book series, movies

Elizabeth Marie Mackfay: Admires the ‘Twilight’ book series, movies

Sex offender registers to live east of Lacey

The Thurston County Sheriff’s Office is notifying the public that Level 3 sex offender William A. Charles Fenton has registered indicating that he will live in the 8500 block of Queets Drive Northeast, just east of Lacey.