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Grays Harbor County weighing administrator position

Administrator could improve operations, but costs a concern

Aberdeen police are seeking information on the whereabouts of 15-year-old Auriaunna A. Fernandez, last seen in East Aberdeen on Tuesday afternoon. (Courtesy photo / Aberdeen Police Department)

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Aberdeen police seeking missing girl

She may be headed towards Spokane, police say

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World Volunteers help place a panel of a traveling replica of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial hosted at the Quinault Beach Resort and Casino on June 14.

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Traveling Vietnam Memorial comes to Ocean Shores

It also names the fallen from more contemporary conflicts

The Aberdeen Fire Department demonstrated spraying down a target at Badges and Brews, hosted at Starbucks on Sept. 22, 2022. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World File)

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Fire and police to hold summer Badges and Brews event

The event will focus on summer safety

Ocean Shores Fire Chief Brian Ritter, confirmed during a city council meeting Monday night, poses with Mike Mandella, who came on as the assistant chief. (Courtesy photo / OSFD)

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Ocean Shores welcomes old department hand to fire chief position

They also welcomed a new assistant chief

One man is dead and two injured following a car crash north of Raymond early Saturday morning. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World File)

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One dead, two injured in fatal crash north of Raymond

The crash occured early Saturday morning

A suspected intoxicated driver was arrested near Montesano by Washington State Patrol troopers following an eight-mile pursuit on Friday morning. (Courtesy photo / WSP)

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State Patrol arrest suspected intoxicated driver after pursuit

The pursuit started west of Elma and ended west of Montesano after two spike strips

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Drug court eyes rental house

10-bed house in Hoquiam would improve stability of drug court housing model

Courtesy photo / Ocean Shores Fire Department A visitor to Ocean Shores drove through a shed Monday morning after losing consciousness.

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Driver loses consciousness, plows into shed in Ocean Shores

Ocean Shores emergency services responded to a single-vehicle crash Monday morning after a driver put his vehicle through…

Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World From left to right, Hoquiam Fire Chief Matt Miller, Aberdeen Fire Chief Dave Golding and Cosmopolis Fire Chief Nick Falley are the chiefs of three departments involved in a failed vote to create a regional fire authority in Central Grays Harbor in April.

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Where now? Fire departments examine path forward

Departments mull deferred purchases, rising operating costs

Flyers for a Texas-based neo-Nazi group were left outside of Grays Harbor homes and businesses late Monday or early Tuesday. (Michael S. Lockett / The Daily World)

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Neo-Nazi flyers appear in central Grays Harbor

The group identified on the flyer is a Texas-based white supremacist group

Photos by Clayton Franke / The Daily World Jeff Owen, co-founder of Canal Brothers of Ocean Shores, which provides free canal tours to the public, captains his 16-foot pontoon on Friday, June 2, accompanied by friends Dale Vacknitz, Pete Nonan and Frank Elduen in the bow.

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Canals and comraderie: With renovated boat, Ocean Shores family continues to offer free tours of freshwaterways

Like many whose lawns abut the 23-mile freshwater canal system in Ocean Shores, Jeff Owen considers the water…

Courtesy photo / Hoquiam Police Department Members of the county’s drug task force and police from Aberdeen and Hoquiam worked together to arrest a pair of Hoquiam men following a two-month investigation.

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Two arrested in Hoquiam drug bust

The arrests went without incident, said police