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Rising wildfire risk and volatile timber pricing may lower forestland values by as much as 50%.

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Wildfire risk is making timberland less valuable

Longer harvest rotations are also becoming less feasible, meaning trees may have to be logged before their optimal…

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On Veterans Day, residents lined Main Street to watch the Veterans Day parade.

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A day of remembering and honoring in Elma

Beginning with a Veteran’s memorial ceremony at Edward Silas Morton Jr. Park at 11 a.m. and parade at…

Raymond Heiskell performs during the Hoquiam High School Veterans Day Concert at the 7th Street Theatre.

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Hoquiam High School Band performs annual Veterans Day Concert

Concert, jazz and choir hold afternoon and evening performances at 7th Street Theatre

Scenes from the Ocean Shores Veterans Pocket Park.

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Where heroes still serve — and occasionally lose a golf ball

Veteran celebrates Ocean Shores Veterans Pocket Park

South Beach Historical Society
Medal of Honor recipients Bob Bush (left) and Jimmy Doolittle aboard the Neddie Rose fishing vessel.

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Uncommon valor, uncommon bond

Friends Bob Bush and James Doolittle both earned the Medal of Honor

The Major General Eldon A. Bargewell bronze statue.

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Major General Eldon A. Bargewell honored in Hoquiam

This past summer, the Major General Eldon A. Bargewell Foundation held the first biennial Maj. Gen. Eldon A.…

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Veterans organizations on the Harbor

Veterans of Foreign Wars

Holly Pierce
Serving in the military runs through Holly Pierce’s family. Her sister, Julia Arnold, is a Naval Academy graduate, and her sister, Amy Norton, served in the Marines.

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Helping the greater good through the VFW

Holly Pierce, a member of McCleary VFW Post 5564, is the Jr Vice Commander with the Department of…

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When Aberdeen-resident Jason Wintersteen joined the Veterans Conservation Corps earlier this year, he was placed with Olympia-based nonprofit Ecostudies Institute.

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Continuing to serve through conservation and restoration

The Veterans Conservation Corps connects veterans to careers in environmental conservation

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Pacific County prosecutor Rothman, county sued over hostility

A lawsuit filed against Pacific County and its prosecutor alleges serious misbehavior and seeks unspecified damages.

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Grays Harbor County 2025 general election status.

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Grays Harbor County general election vote count updated

A pair of Aberdeen city council races remain too close to call

North Beach School District
The North Beach School District All-District Veterans Day Assembly concluded with a solemn and respectful Flag Folding Ceremony.

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North Beach School District hosts All-district Veterans Day Assembly

The North Beach School District came together on Monday morning for its first-ever All-District Veterans Day Assembly, a…

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Forest landowners and the wood-products are mounting a last-ditch effort to persuade the Washington Forest Practices Board to not adopt what they say would be a massive taking of private property.

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Washington forestland owners in ‘most contentious’ battle in quarter century

Pacific and Wahkiakum counties will lose the highest percentages of production followed by Lewis, Cowlitz and Grays Harbor…