LEWIS COUNTY, WA — Week 5 arrived with another collection of blowouts, shutouts and scores that suggest several defensive coordinators spent the weekend reconsidering their career choices.

MORTON, WA — After residents raised concerns about bee poop around town, the City of Morton has reportedly taken decisive action by installing several tiny portable toilets in the trees at Jubilee Park.

LEWIS COUNTY — Strong winds swept through Lewis County Friday, knocking down trees, disrupting power and creating cleanup work across the region.

CENTRALIA — A man carrying a large cross through Centralia on Friday managed to overcome two formidable obstacles at once: a powerful windstorm and Centralia itself.

LEWIS COUNTY, WA — Week 4 arrived Friday night, bringing another collection of blowouts, heartbreak and scoreboard abuse.

NAPAVINE — Local dad achieves the impossible by plugging in an HDMI cable on the first try, then celebrates accordingly with a Busch Light.

CENTRALIA — While Americans across the country spent Labor Day quietly wondering whether the decades-old rule about wearing white still applies, one local teenager reportedly entered September completely unaffected.

LEWIS COUNTY — Lewis County offers free tire disposal, giving Winlock and Vader residents a legal alternative to leaving them at the end of a dead-end road.

LEWIS COUNTY — Lewis County PUD has begun the public process of considering electric rates for 2027 and 2028, prompting residents across the county to begin aggressively switching off lights in rooms nobody is currently occupying.

LEWIS COUNTY — The Country Chicks Fall Market is headed to the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds, officially marking the point in the calendar when ordinary pieces of wood become $38 home decorations because someone painted the word “HARVEST” on them.

LEWIS COUNTY — County officials are beginning work on the 2027 budget, initiating the annual process of determining how to pay for roads, employees, public safety, buildings and approximately 400 things residents assumed were funded by “the state or something.”

CHEHALIS — Fall excursions are returning to the Chehalis-Centralia Railroad as families prepare for the annual tradition of boarding a historic train to observe trees doing exactly what trees outside their homes are also doing.