Julie Mcdonald

For the first 10 years of his life, a 3-foot chain kept poor Penn hooked to a post, his world confined to a small circle, his life monotonous and so, so sad. But then in November rescuers gave …

Max Diamond holds tight to his heaviest catfish prize-winner at the 2025 Fish Derby. (Courtesy photo) The 29th Annual Fish Derby, the major fundraiser for

I’ve been heartsick all week and praying for all the people who lost loved ones after a chemical rupture at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Co. in Longview last Tuesday.

For three decades, Geary Lockard has owned and operated Tilikum Books & Bindery, first in Olympia and for more than two dozen years on Tower Avenue in Centralia, but June 30 marks the end of an …

Heading to the McMenamins Olympic Club History Pub last week, I looked forward to learning more about the legendary “smiling bandit” and “last American train robber” who was captured in …

The 250th celebration of our nation’s birth provided a wonderful time to reflect on the formation of the United States and the foresight of our founders in establishing a republic to withstand the …

Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle Coincidences always leave me wondering, and last month was no exception.

I appreciated Robert McInnis of Centralia thinking of me when disposing of a history book about his late wife's family called “Our People: A Story of the Fry Family,” written by Edwin Van Syckle and published in 1949 with a revised edition released in 1978.

Commentary by Julie McDonald / For The Chronicle After last week's column on the pioneer Fry family, I enjoyed hearing from Jay Myhre, a descendant of Jason Fry who was born in Aberdeen and lives in the Adna area.

With regard to the past, I've always believed we might as well take our skeletons out of the closet and dance with them. But for Centralia's Shawn Murphy, the bones could yank apart in the whirling dervish doing a pounding polka on steroids.