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DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD From left: The Daily World Police Officer of the Year Joe Strong, from the Hoquiam Police Department and Grays Harbor County Drug Task Force; Citizen of the Year Margaret Carthum, a longtime special educator and current Ocosta principal; and Firefighter of the Year Steve Davis, a longtime volunteer with the Cosmopolis Fire Department.

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Spirit of community service permeates 2018 Citizen of the Year banquet

More than 120 honor The Daily World citizen, firefighter and police officer of the year

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD Work has already begun sprucing up the Hoquiam Library. In the foreground is the computer lab, which will be expanded to allow more room for indivuals to work and feature more electrical outlets. In the background in the red shirt is library manager Mary Thornton, rearranging the DVD section. On the left in the background is the reading fort in the juvenile nonfiction section, which is also being updated.

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Hoquiam library to get a major makeover

$1 million project paid for by grants, state money, local donors

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YMCA summer parks program returns to Hoquiam

Fun activities for kids, plus a meal and snack provided during summer vacation

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Investigators search area of Kittitas County where Lindsey Baum’s remains were discovered last fall

Search combined dozens of investigators from 10 different agencies

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD Aberdeen Police Lt. Kevin Darst addresses the public at an Aberdeen Police Department meet and greet featuring both candidates for the vacant chief of police job.

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Aberdeen police chief candidates meet the public

Both candidates are locals with decades of experience in police work

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD Rose and Craig Gallington took the keys to Montesano’s Bee Hive Restaurant on Friday afternoon.

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Local owners buy Bee Hive, will be closed for interior work starting Sunday at 8 p.m.

Focus will be on affordability, customer service, quality menu

DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD James Donald Walker was sentenced to the maximum of just over 7 1/2 years for second degree manslaughter for the death of James “Jimmy” Smith-Kramer on a gravel bar off Donkey Creek Road just under a year ago. Walker had pled guilty to the charge and four others associated with Smith-Kramer’s death and injuries caused to Henry Phillip Anderson during the same incident.

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Quinault Nation president, victim’s uncle speak at Walker sentencing hearing

Walker pleaded guilty of manslaughter for the death of Jimmy Smith-Kramer

This age-progression photo comparison was prepared by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2013, showing what Lindsey Baum looked like when she disappeared from McCleary in 2009 and what she may look like at age 15.

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Remains of Lindsey Baum found

The remains of Lindsey Baum, the McCleary school girl missing since the summer of 2009, have been found…

Photos by DAN HAMMOCK | THE DAILY WORLD A lucky angler pulls a rainbow trout out of the Cabela’s trout pond at the Gateway to the Olympics Expo over the weekend.

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Nearly 3,000 attend first-ever Gateway to the Olympics Expo

Free activities, giveaways and nearly 50 vendors draw crowds

Lawmakers weigh in on fixes for local economy

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Lawmakers weigh in on fixes for local economy

Four members of the Coastal Caucus talked about that and more at The Daily World office Monday

DAN HAMMOCK | TWIN HARBORS NEWSPAPER GROUP Englund Marine store manager Paul Foster rings up a purchase at the store’s expanded location in Westport.

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Englund Marine settling in to larger new digs

New showroom is four times larger than the old

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Walker pleads guilty to manslaughter in Donkey Creek death

Facing more than seven years when sentenced May 11

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Family: Brandon Brown’s survival alone in woods for 11 days a ‘miracle’

Aunt stunned to hear him on the phone asking for a ride home