Tenino News

OLYMPIA Two hundred new South Sound jobs last month weren't enough to prevent an increase in Thurston County's unemployment rate.

Trail location: Olympia/Lacey Trail length: The main trail runs 15.5 miles and the northern segment is 5.3 miles long; connects to the south with the east-west 14.5-mile Yelm-Tenino Trail.

Should the City allow the change in use for the ground floor to allow the Attorney General to move in as we've been discussing here ? Dan Putnam from Pacific Plaza outlined a scenario in which they'd be able to attract a grocer to the location should the AG change be approved.

A rash of house fires has struck in Thurston County in recent days, with fire departments responded to five in a 24-hour period three Thursday evening and two more Friday afternoon.

Food-waste composting is becoming increasingly common in Thurston County, including on the Capitol Campus.

A recent report issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture showed that 49 million people in American households - one in six - went hungry or had insufficient food at some point last year.

This week in 1859 was relatively quiet in the Olympia area. Following are details about some of the well-known figures in the area at the time.

TENINO Fiona, a Mexican gray wolf, slowly curled her long, red tongue, but the rest of her sleek body was almost motionless.

Law enforcement agencies recently received a $4,000 grant from the Washington Traffic Safety Commission to conduct additional seat-belt patrols.

A flu season that promises to be a challenging one for the public and health officials has arrived in South Sound.

Thurston County appears to have its first swine flu outbreak of the fall. More than 35 percent of students from Tenino High School either stayed home, or were sent home with flu-like symptoms this week.

TENINO About one-third of Tenino students have been out with flu-like symptoms since Monday, but the district has not had a confirmed case of the H1N1 virus, the illness commonly known as swine flu, school and health officials say.

Three men were in jail Friday after their arrests on suspicion of participating in a Sept.

A Centralia man was taken to Madigan Army Medical Center by helicopter Saturday evening after his Harley Davidson motorcycle crashed on Bucoda Highway Southeast near 174th Avenue Southeast, according to the Washington State Patrol.

TUMWATER Terry Borden, who once put off retirement to become the superintendent of the Tumwater School District, will retire from that post in June, he announced Thursday.

LACEY The North Thurston school district might ask voters in February to renew a $27.5 million maintenance and operations levy for 2011.

The Monarch Sculpture Park south of Olympia features more than 100 pieces of artwork including these statues in the Butterfly Maze on display throughout the 10-acre lower park.

Salem's Jeremy Shank placed third in the DIRTcar Northwest I-5 Late Model Tour main event Thursday at Skagit Speedway in Washington and closed his deficit in the points race in the process.

Cloudy skies and lower temperatures greeted people at Saturday's 80th annual Pet Parade, but there still was plenty of good cheer to be found among the children, pets and observers who lined the parade route from downtown's Heritage Park to Sylvester Park.

OLYMPIA A judge sentenced a 57-year-old Tenino woman to 21/2 years in prison Monday after she pleaded guilty earlier this year to vehicular homicide and driving under the influence during a Jan.