Lewis County

His dad had taken on the role of calling the sheriff's departments in these different counties.

And, you know, Lewis County and, uh, Yakima County and, uh, King- and, um, Kittitas, and just all the counties that we didn't even know, and they were passing him around, and they were saying, you know, "No, we don't know anything.

You should call this," and, "No." So they were ...

And s- "We'll get back to you, and we'll get back to you." Nobody did.

[upbeat music] Welcome to the 296th episode of News Dump, where we run through the hottest topics in the Lewis County news scene and discuss.

I'm local man Aaron Van Tyle, joined as always by someone who has just signed a deal to import printing diesel from Russia.

It's Chronicle editor Eric Schwartz.

Mitch- Mitchell Merrill and Mitch Townsend.

Right.

Mitch Townsend is highly critical of the Lewis County Auditor's Office, which you know how I feel about the Lewis County Auditor's Office.

I'm gonna set that to the side for sake of this conversation.

Um- Uh, he sa- he alleged the county was not doing enough to make observation accessible, referring to, quote, "Just the computer screen in the lobby of the Auditor's office." Yeah, that's the...

They'd be like, "Oh, we gotta stay non-partial.

We're gonna get investigated by the Lewis County Sheriff's Department."

Yeah.

And for a while, it was John Snaza and his brother.

There was two brothers that were the Thurston County and the Lewis County sheriffs, were fucking brothers.

Right.

You know?

Sorry about the confusion.

This is a podcast where we run through the hottest topics in the Lewis County news scene and discuss.

I'm local man Aaron Vantile, joined as always by Chronicle editor Eric Schwartz.

Who is shooting a contingent northward into Thurston County?

Thank you,

Walmart.

Rubes, as a sports guy who's often doing rankings, where does the Yelm Walmart rank in terms of Walmarts in the greater Lewis County area?

Yelm is Thurston County.

Who he is is a trapper.

Every winter, he runs trap lines through the woods near the Nisqually River, up and down the basin, across Pierce County and Lewis County's both.

He knows those woods the way that you would know your own kitchen in the dark.

His girlfriend, Diana Robertson, is 21.

Her hands are tied.

And around her neck is a white athletic tube sock.

Detective David Neeser, out of the Lewis County Sheriff's Office, looks at that sock and remembers what Pierce County had described to him about a case months earlier.

He calls them.

Welcome to the 295th episode of News Dump, where we run through the hottest topics in the Lewis County news scene and discuss.

I'm local man Aaron Vantile with a man who has just applied as the evening news producer for Trump TV.

It's Chronicle editor Eric Schwartz.

But you can still go to Hash in Olympia and probably get much of the same fare.

Yeah, pretty much.

Next item, Lewis County Public Health Building to be modernized with state money.

The 19,000-square-foot building was completed in 1953, and it's well on its way to having a full heating, ventilation, and air conditioning system for the first time ever.

I hope they called AmeriCool Heating and Air Conditioning Lewis County Facilities Administrator Matt Batana led a small tour through the building on Wednesday afternoon, accompanied by Peter Abarno, State Representative, the Minority Caucus Chair, and Assistant Ranking Minority Member of the House Capital Budget Committee, who tore the funding from this project out of the bloated state budget with his bare hands.

Join us.

Mount Rainier National Park is located in the U.S. state of Washington, in southeast Pierce County and northeast Lewis County, with Tacoma being its nearest city.

Mount Rainier National Park was first established on March 2nd, 1899, as the fifth national park in the U.S., preserving more than 236,000 acres of land, including all of Mount Rainier, which is a stratovolcano.

Stratovolcanoes are characterized by a steep profile with a summit crater and periodic intervals of explosive eruptions.