Larry Ganders News Today

Riders stepping off the train onto the Amtrak Olympia-Lacey Centennial Station platform are always greeted by a friendly face welcoming them to Thurston County. While passengers might think the person is a railroad employee, in fact that greeter is one of the local volunteers who have staffed the station every day since the depot opened three decades ago.

For most of the 1920s and well into the 1930s, part of the long-forgotten Roosevelt Highway traveled through the Evergreen State.