My family moved to Lewis County the summer of 1965, so I am not a true native Washingtonian, but close to it — I do feel like one. Other than four years away at college (two years in Pullman …
I am writing this as an addendum to the chair’s report from Luke Moerke in the recent Economic Report in The Chronicle. It is great to see the Economic Alliance taking an interest in …
With inflation, a brain drain of local kids leaving family farms, taxes on simple repairs for farming equipment, Chehalis River flooding and an increasingly-consolidated market, Lewis County’s crop and livestock
On the Lewis County Farm Bureau’s six-farm tour on Monday, barn swallows were easy to spot. At the Styger family’s dairy farm on Tune Road in Chehalis, the swallows are as …
What makes Lewis County farmers so special? As many of them said during a six-farm tour with state, federal and county lawmakers on Monday hosted by the Lewis County Farm Bureau, the work takes …
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LOWVILLE â It was 201 years in the making but the 200th edition of the Lewis County Fair opened Tuesday.
Just before the annual parade was about to begin at 7 p.m. Tuesday, heavy rain began pouring down, canceling the event. Lewis County Fair board members confirmed it would not be rescheduled.
But the rain didnât dampen spirits roughly 1,000 people gathered at the fairgrounds for the fairâs opening day.
Kaitlyn Ward Lee played the bagpipes as a crowd of about 100 gather at the fairgrounds gate off Bostwick Street. Lewis County Agricultural Society Board of Directors President Douglas P. Hanno in his opening remarks noted it was a great accomplishment to reach the bicentennial of the fair.
LOWVILLE — Winner of Farm Bureau scholarships on the county, regional and state levels, and the newly elected state secretary for the Future Farmers of America, Anna Western wasn’t born
WATERTOWN â Last week, a panel charged by the state Legislature with presenting recommendations on potentially lowering the overtime threshold for farm workers below 60 hours decided to postpone making any policy decision until later in 2021, giving beleaguered farmers a reprieve, at least for now.
Farmers, labor groups and justice advocates had been watching the proceedings of the three-member Farm Wage Board since it was formed and began hearings in the beginning of 2021 as charged by the 2019 Farm Laborers Fair Practices Act passed by the Legislature. Despite being temporarily derailed by the pandemic, the panel proceeded with multiple hearings to gather public input on whether the state should lower the threshold after which farm workers are required to be paid overtime from its current point of 60 hours per week as set by the 2019 law.