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Updated: 4 weeks 1 day ago 'We are bringing back the saltwater marsh'Bulldozers and other earth-moving machines began gouging into a beautiful green meadow near the entrance of the Nisqually National Wildlife Refuge on Tuesday.
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Olympia aims to encourage carpoolingDowntown employees who carpool would qualify for reduced parking rates under a plan the Olympia City Council preliminarily approved Tuesday night.
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Patriots Landing tenants upset over application denialWhen his wife, Geraldine, grew ill two years ago and became unsteady on her feet, Ken Ward knew it was only a matter of time before she would be transferred from their home at Patriots Landing retirement community to a more intensive medical center.
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Judge hears Tumwater Wal-Mart appealThe 4-year legal fight over Wal-Mart's plans to build a 187,000-square-foot store in Tumwater arrived at a Thurston County courtroom Tuesday.
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Leaders meet on flooding coalitionCommissioners from Thurston, Lewis and Grays Harbor counties set in motion Tuesday a process aimed at asking voters next year to approve formation of a flood-control district.
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Complaint targets initiativeInitiative 1029 critics filed a complaint with the state Supreme Court on Tuesday, asking it to require that the long-term care measure be sent to the Legislature, rather than the Nov. 4 ballot.
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State to check public beach used by TaylorThe state plans to inspect public property in Totten Inlet next week that Taylor Shellfish Co. has been using for commercial operations. The company has said it did not deliberately operate on public tideland, and presented some draft survey information to the state Department of Natural Resources on Tuesday.
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Lacey trail delayedCity officials have decided to delay completion of the second phase of the Lacey Woodland Trail until next summer to take advantage of federal money that could be available.
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United Way sets grants for Thurston CountyNOTE: The version of this story that appeared in Tuesday's Olympian contained data from 2007.
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Lacey family mourns loss of Fort Lewis soldierThe widow of Staff Sgt. David Textor, a Fort Lewis soldier killed this week in Iraq, said he will be remembered as a devoted father of five and a dedicated soldier.
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Soccer's lucrative side for local economySouth Sound's signature youth soccer tournament has become a force in the region's economy, contributing nearly $1 million this year, a corporate sponsor and former tournament director said Thursday.
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Union upset over investmentsThe Service Employees International Union filed a citizen initiative to the Legislature on Thursday that could limit the state's investment in major private equity companies, specifically those getting questionable tax breaks or with poor records of treating workers and the environment.
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Lakefair queen 2008: Kimberly ForgaardOlympia, meet your new Capital Lakefair queen.
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State plans to protect turf at Heritage ParkThe state would like the carnival rides to get off its lawn someday.
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E-waste recycler on track for August operationThe company that staged a heavily attended electronic waste recycling event in Olympia last weekend could have an electronic waste recycling plant operating by August, city officials said Thursday.
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Olympia City Council approves spending for work on former landfillForty years after the city closed its old landfill on prime property at Cooper Point Drive and Black Lake Boulevard, it still is trying to sell the undeveloped, environmentally contaminated land.
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One of Habitat for Humanity's four new houses gets occupantsJessalynn and Steven Willis and their two children lived in a relative's basement.
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Potential buyers vie for Olympia brewery propertySeven potential buyers have expressed interest in the old Olympia brewery, a little more than a week before the property is put up for sale officially, a commercial real estate broker said Wednesday.
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