All of Lewis County just isn’t as important as the part that I-5 runs through. Sorry. The Chehalis Chronicle is outraged by this news, and argues that a better flood mitigation plan would treat the site of an old surplus store equally with the primary interstate economic driver that is our only major north-south freeway.
Governor Chris Gregoire is expected to sign two bills providing $50 million for long-term flood mitigation projects in the areas hardest hit by last year's winter storms - Lewis, Thurston and Gray's Harbor counties. read more »