Naselle News

A consultant recommends that the state close its Maple Lane prison for youth criminal offenders near Grand Mound to save the state money, a move that would eliminate 111 jobs once workers and residents were transferred to other facilities.

Klickitat Elementary and High School was one of four schools statewide to be named one of this year's No Child Left Behind-Blue Ribbon Schools.

The city of Washougal has plenty of transportation projects underfoot. Having recently finished a $6.5 million downtown revitalization with $14 million in private improvements, the city this month awarded the bid for a $3.2 million pedestrian and bike tunnel to Oregon City-based Coffman Excavation.

Former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic is running for clerk of Wahkiakum County, to protest the state's method of letting candidates pick their own party affiliation.

Wahkiakum's Jasmine Bingham and Sarah Doumit and Naselle's Tylor Nortrup won events at last week's Southwestern Washington Class 2B District Track and Field meet.

A followup, now, to a pair of stories we brought you earlier this year about budget cuts in Washington state.

The Green Hill juvenile detention facility in Chehalis got a temporary reprieve when the state House and Senate released its compromised budget, but it's not out of the woods yet.

Guidance from Gov. Chris Gregoire's Office of Financial Management has given new hope to local officials scrambling to stop the potential closing of the Green Hill School juvenile detention facility in Chehalis.

YAKIMA, Wash. -- This from Adam Wilson's April 2 blog in The Olympian. Speaker of the House Frank Chopp said he wants to visit any state park or institution before making a decision to close it.