The police were extra busy this Christmas week: 48 people were booked into jail, and Longview had multiple calls, including a food delivery driver chased around 3:30 AM on Christmas Eve. Woodland had a suspicious abduction; witnesses reported a woman being pushed into a car near exit 21. We had a fugitive detained in downtown Kalama, and Yacolt even chimed in with a non-injury airplane crash too.
Krist Novoselić, co-founder of the band Nirvana, also had a decades-long career in political advocacy. The big question for his new political party, the Cascade Party of Washington, is: Can they attract enough Blue Dog Democrats to make a difference, or will they attract just enough to split the vote and advance the extremist candidates?
Mayor Helenberg spoke about Mr. Vorse and his 44 year career. “There’s not a thing in this town that Dave hasn’t touched”, said Mayor Helenberg, “he’s brought more to this town than anyone”.
With less than a year until Southwest Washington votes on who will represent the region in the U.S. House of Representatives, two fundraising frontrunners have appeared, and two others show they’ve been busy themselves, raising thousands to fund lesser-known campaigns.
The world has been held hostage by the Iranian regime’s doomsday ambitions and hostile actions. From the 1979 hostage taking, to masterminding the October Seventh Massacre, Tehran and its leaders have made it abundantly clear that its rouge regime operates outside all the rules of civility. Operation Epic Fury represents a pivotal moment in world history. This is a chance to correct years of miscalculations and indecision and deliver a decisive blow to one of the world’s most repressive regimes.
In Loving Memory – Cowlitz County Obituaries 1/31/2026
Check out this week’s Police Blotter. Highest bail $40,000, forgery, money laundering, organized retail theft, one guy even drove 500 feet down the BNSF tracks, 49 arrests, plus a whole lot more.
The term, “eminent domain,” infers a sense of nobility, honorability, and indicates an exercise for the public’s common good. Sadly, more often than not, it’s used as a bludgeoning tool to lawfully take property from legal landowners, under the guise of the “greater public good,” or in the “public’s best interest.”
