Bucoda News

With the addition of 50,000 new residents between the 2000 and 2010 Census, Thurston County commissions have the responsibility to redraw the boundaries for their districts and the districts of the three port commissioners.

Olympia City Council member Stephen Buxbaum made the capital city's mayoral race a formal three-way contest Tuesday.

Bucoda and Yelm will benefit from the Port of Olympia Economic Development Corp.'s pilot program that invests seed money in Thurston County's small cities and towns for economic development projects.The Port EDC will invest $8,700 in the restoration of Odd Fellows Hall in Bucoda.

Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority members who had been excluded from a newly created basin cooperative berated Thurston and Grays Harbor County officials Thursday during the group’s monthly meeting, calling the move “blatant backdoor politics.” “I’ve never seen anything like this, something this arrogant,” said Ron ...

MARQISE ALLEN; The Chronicle Published April 04, 2011 Chehalis River Basin Flood Authority members are attempting to overcome internal strife as the group tries to figure out where and how to move forward.