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(Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group) A group performs prayer songs prior to a federal court hearing in Tacoma regarding the City of Aberdeen’s restrictions to the riverfront homeless encampments.                                (Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group)                                From left, Charles Valdez, Dominic Petoud, Apryl Boling, Israel Serrano and Jean Ramos perform prayer songs outside the U.S. District Court in Tacoma on Wednesday. Soon after inside, a court hearing took place for a federal lawsuit against the City of Aberdeen, asking that the city allow supporters to visit the city’s riverfront camp.

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Judge tells Aberdeen to revise its homeless camp policies

Three people who sued the City of Aberdeen in federal court were given access to the city’s riverfront…

(Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group)                                An employee for Restoration Management Company uses a scraper to clean the Old Tiger fire cart from the Aberdeen Museum of History.

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Museum artifacts receive final cleaning in Kent

It’s a sunny day at the Restoration Management Company in Kent and in a parking lot next to…

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Aberdeen adds regular rental inspections for all landlords

Starting after the new year, the City of Aberdeen will implement a new inspection system for rental units…

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Criteria for Aberdeen’s new rental inspections

Aberdeen will start regularly inspecting all rental units in the city in 2019. Along with that, the city…

(Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group)                                Julie and Nathan Kennedy stand in North Pacific Utopian Wares at its new location in downtown Aberdeen.

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Utopian Wares moves its organic oils and lotions to downtown Aberdeen

If you heard that a new shop called North Pacific Utopian Wares had opened in downtown Aberdeen, what…

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Aberdeens city administrator hiring pushed back in proposed budget

With Aberdeen’s 2019 budget almost finalized, it appears the city will go at least four more months without…

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Fentanyl overdose deaths increase statewide in 2018

In the first half of 2018, according to preliminary data, there were 81 deaths linked to fentanyl

Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group                                An excavator from Rognlins Inc. takes down the Pourhouse building in Aberdeen.

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Pourhouse leveled to make room for Gateway Center

The Pourhouse Tavern, one of Aberdeen’s oldest buildings, was torn down Monday morning to make way for the…

(Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group)                                The City of Aberdeen is considering an ordinance that would more heavily enforce abandoned shopping carts as a public nuisance.

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Aberdeen looks to crack down on abandoned shopping carts with ordinance

A new ordinance in Aberdeen would single out abandoned shopping carts as a public nuisance, and put more…

Gingerbread competition and other Saturday events

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Gingerbread competition and other Saturday events

Aberdeen, Winterfest

(City of Aberdeen website) The column in orange shows the final LTAC fund recommendations that were accepted.

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Aberdeen approves revised lodging tax awards

The Aberdeen City Council approved the awards list for projects funded by money collected through lodging tax funds…

Stockings for soldiers

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Stockings for soldiers

The Hoquiam VFW will send 520 Christmas stockings with supplies to troops overseas this holiday season.

Louis Krauss | Grays Harbor News Group                                Lonnie Wild (left), CCAP Senior Nutrition Coordinator Vicky Johnson, Jason Hoseney from CCAP and Mike Simonds from the Aberdeen Eagles Club pose next to a cake welcoming CCAP after they purchased the old Eagles building.

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CCAP takes ownership of new Senior Center building

Aberdeen’s Senior Center, which lost its longtime home when the Armory building burned last June, held a ribbon-cutting…