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The Aberdeen City Council approved a five-year contract for eight Big Belly trash cans to be installed throughout downtown Aberdeen. The trash cans are fully-enclosed, have technology that lets users know when they’re full, and look clean. This one shown is at the Aberdeen Transit Center and shows what sort of cans the city will soon receive.

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Aberdeen City Council approves five-year contract for “smart” garbage cans

The city of Aberdeen agreed to a contract where the service attached will help make its downtown a…

Police raided a home as they executed a warrant in Aberdeen on Thursday morning. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World)

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Police raid “nuisance” house in Aberdeen

Police made multiple arrest and seized suspected illegal drugs

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Denise Siers takes an oath after her appointment Tuesday evening to Position 1 on the Ocean Shores City Council.

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Lifetime librarian selected to Ocean Shores city council

After one councilor recused from selection, majority appoints Denise Siers from field of eight

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Sheriff Darrin Wallace stands alongside the agency’s new crest in their Montesano headquarters.

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Looking forward, looking out: sheriff talks 2023, future

Proactive crime stopping and planning for new buildings are the plan

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Harbor pilot Capt. Ryan Leo of the Port of Grays Harbor eases the SLNC Severn into dock in Grays Harbor on July 27. The port is in a period of growth

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Port touts banner year for exports, development

Improvements to the railroads, port are coming

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Tanya Barham, center, CEO of Community Energy Labs, poses with Hoquiam School District maintenance lead Matt Kemph and others outside Lincoln Elementary School in Hoquiam. The company recently tested an energy saving tool at the elementary school and completed a study of how to transition Grays Harbor schools to a more energy-efficient model.

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Hoquiam schools look to improve energy use in buildings

Tests successful for new climate control tech, but HVAC upgrades needed

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Pictured during the fall of 2023, Grays Harbor’s largest homeless encampment is located near the Chehalis River bridge in Aberdeen.

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County to award cash for permanent homeless shelter purchase

City of Aberdeen will be among applicants for up to $500K

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Two “float wranglers” inspect their treasures prior to their Feb. 16 release into the dunes of the North Beach ahead of the Beachcombers and Glass Float Expo, March 1-3.

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“Float fairies” double the bubble for 2024 expo

Organizers prep for 38th annual beachcombing event set for the first weekend in March

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Cristal Ramirez Garcia, a first-generation student originally from Tierra Blanca, Oaxaca, Mexico, has been selected by the city of Aberdeen to represent the city in a statewide scholarship hunt. If Garcia wins the $3,000 scholarship, she’d be one of three in the state.

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First-generation Aberdeen student nominated for $3,000 scholarship

Cristal Ramirez Garcia is a young, talented high school student who wants to be an elementary school teacher…

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Police arrested a man in Pacific County for a number of domestic violence-related reports last week after an overnight search.

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Pacific County sheriffs arrest man after search

He was arrested for a number of domestic violence related crimes.

Police are investigating an explosion that occured on the train tracks near Brady over the weekend. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World)

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Police investigating explosion on railroad near Brady

It’s apparently not the first such incident

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Rob Horton, who runs Bee Organics Farm and Apiary in Elma, sells radishes at a past Aberdeen Sunday Market. Horton won’t sell at the market in 2024, and instead will lease some farmland to another Aberdeen market producer.

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Farmers market functioning at ‘critical mass’

Aberdeen Sunday Market organizers call for funds, helping hands ahead of murky 2024 summer

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Kimberly Stoll-French, center-right, and Cassie Lentz, center-left, cut a ribbon on Feb. 5 to signal to opening of a new 10-bed transitional housing project in Hoquiam that will host youth ages 18-24.

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Hoquiam building a new abode for homeless or at-risk young adults

Transistional house with 10-beds will support vulnerable youth ages 18-24 for maximum two-year stint