Trumpeter swans new to Lacey lake

05/28/11 Two 1-year-old trumpeter swans were released there this month as part of a long-range experiment that could lead to more sightings of North America's largest native bird in South Sound in the years ahead.

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Titus-Will Tacoma Olympia Half Yearly Sale Runs through Memorial Day Weekend

05/26/11 Titus-Will's Half Yearly Sale is up and running now through Memorial Day Weekend. New and used car prices have been reduced at Titus-Will locations in Tacoma, Olympia, and Chehalis for this special event. See our Funny TV commercial here: http://youtu.be/Y2X2kZtamXs

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Local News

05/23/11 BY STEVEN FRIEDERICH The Daily World Years ago when the Grays Harbor National Wildlife Refuge was first created by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, there was a promise that with the refuge would come an interpretive center. Funding difficulties combined with a shift of priorities left that...

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Cost of Eastsound fireworks show triples

05/21/11 The price of a sparkling, gleaming July 4 send-off does not come cheap. Chehalis-based business Eagle Fireworks, the same company that has been putting on the annual shows for 25 years both in Eastsound and Deer Harbor, is set to launch pyrotechnics off a landing craft in Fishing Bay.

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Local News

05/21/11 BY JILLIAN BEAUDRY The Daily World WESTPORT -- It's surf's up this weekend in Westport as spectators and more than 100 registered surfers ride into town for the 10th annual Clean Water Classic surf competition. The contest benefits the Surfrider Foundation that funds local chapters in Washington,...

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:04

05/19/11 The Associated Press VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- Ryan Suter tied the game with 67 seconds left and Matt Halischuk won it 14:51 into double overtime as the Nashville Predators beat the Vancouver Canucks, 2-1, on Saturday night and tied the Western Conference semifinal series 1-1. After Pekka...

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:04

05/13/11 LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Even after the Los Angeles Lakers blew a 16-point lead in the second half, Kobe Bryant had two chances in the final seconds to erase the Dallas Mavericks' big comeback with yet another game-winning shot. Bryant and Pau Gasol fumbled away the Lakers' first opportunity before...

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Tuesday, May 3, 2011 - 11:04

05/04/11 SEATTLE (AP) -- Brad Evans scored twice in the second half and set up Alvaro Fernandez's first-half goal in the Seattle Sounders' 3-0 victory over Toronto FC on Saturday night. Seattle won consecutive games for the first time this season and is 3-0-3 in its last six games and 3-2-3 overall.

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M. June (Bryden) Van Brunt

04/25/11 Our Mother, June Van Brunt, passed away the evening of April 12, 2011, at age 95. June was born in Biggar, Saskatchewan, to Art and Kate Bryden on June 1, 1915. She had two brothers, Arthur and Clifford, and two sisters, Margaret and Dorothy. All the children were born in Biggar. After three years of drought and losing their homestead on the prairie, the Bryden family began their migration West ...

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Tuesday, April 12, 2011 - 11:05

04/21/11 BY RICK ANDERSON The Daily World Long before two marathon matches concluded, Aberdeen had assured continued possession of the Ehrhart Trophy. Sweeping the singles, the Bobcats downed Hoquiam, 5-1, in a non-league girls tennis match Monday at the Sam Benn Courts. The Bobcats (2-3) captured the...

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Tuesday, April 5, 2011 - 11:05

04/21/11 TODAY Baseball 4 p.m., Minnesota Twins at New York Yankees, MLB. 5 p.m., Seattle Mariners at Texas Rangers, Root Sports (Formerly FSN) and KXRO (1320). Women's college basketball 5:30 p.m., NCAA title game: Notre Dame vs. Texas A&M, ESPN. Soccer 11:30 a.m., UEFA Champions League: Schalke at...

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Local News

04/21/11 BY NIKOLAS KOEHLER The Daily World When Carol McQueen bought a $50 ticket to the Grays Harbor College Foundation's Mystery Weekend Getaway drawing, she thought that the most she would win was the satisfaction of helping local students attend college.

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Saturday, April 16, 2011 - 01:05

04/21/11 BY RICK ANDERSON The Daily World A second-half explosion ended with Aberdeen possessing the upper hand in the Evergreen 2A Conference boys soccer race. Doing all their scoring in the final 31 minutes, the Bobcats knocked off previously unbeaten Centralia, 3-0, Friday night at Stewart Field....

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Sunday, April 3, 2011 - 00:06

04/21/11 ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) -- Boston's David Ortiz has set the major league record for RBIs by a designated hitter. Ortiz drove in a run with a groundout in the fourth inning Saturday night against Texas. That gave him 1,004 career RBIs as a DH and broke the mark that had been held by former Seattle...

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Tacoma-based company buys Port Orchard's Bay Ford

04/19/11 The dealership, owned by the Quisenberry brothers for 25 years, is now Bruce Titus Port Orchard Ford.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 12:02

04/13/11 State Babe Ruth opens Wednesday Two Grays Harbor entries will open against each other in the Southern Washington State 15-year-old Babe Ruth Baseball Tournament that begins Wednesday at Chehalis' Stan Hedwall Park.

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Bertha O. Richert

03/15/11 Bertha O. Richert passed away peacefully on March 12, 2011, and will be greatly missed by her family and many friends. Bertha was born to John and Karen (Halsebo) Strand on June 1, 1915, at Sharon, ND. She was the sixth child in a family of seven sisters and one brother. Her parents were young immigrants from Norway when they met and settled on the farm where Bertha grew up.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 12:01

11/05/10 SEATTLE (AP) -- Georgios Samaras' penalty and Patrick McCourt's second-half goal gave Celtic FC a 2-1 exhibition win over the Seattle Sounders on Sunday. Samaras came in on a counter in the 30th minute and goalkeeper Terry Boss tried to cut down the angle.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 12:01

11/02/10 ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) -- Louis Oosthuizen never let the silver claret jug out of his sight as he celebrated into the morning hours at the Jigger Inn across from the 17th fairway at St. Andrews. If his seven-shot victory in the British Open felt like a dream, reality arrived when he awoke...

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010 - 12:01

10/30/10 SEDRO-WOOLLEY (AP) -- Two men were seriously injured in an explosion at a shop that builds and services race cars in Sedro-Woolley. Travis Rilat, the 2009 Fred Brownfield Memorial winner from Forley, Texas, and his Australian crew member, Tyson Perez, were identified as the two injured in the...

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