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Associates remember 'visionary'.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Diane Huber Oct. 10--The day South Sound Center opened, Bob Blume was there on a tractor, spreading bark chips. The scene described by Lacey's city attorney, Ken Ahlf, illustrates Blume's dedication to the city where he raised two sons and developed a ...

BRIEF: Sketch created based on remains found in March.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--Investigators on Tuesday released an artist's sketch based on anthropological findings surrounding the identity of a human skeleton found in March on a logging trail in the Cedar Flats area, west of Olympia. A forensic anthropologist with the King County Medical ...

BRIEF: Members of the Olympia Fi.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--Members of the Olympia Film Society will vote at noon Saturday at the Capitol Theater, 206 Fifth Ave. S.E., on whether to change bylaws to allow for direct board elections rather than a self-appointed board. If the bylaws are changed, film society members then will vote on whether ...

Supreme Court hears sewer project dispute.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Brad Shannon Oct. 10--Costly legal disputes left over from the $12 million sewer- installation project in downtown Olympia six years ago went before the state Supreme Court on Tuesday. The legal issue is whether the city of Olympia and the LOTT ...

Today's tribute part of special brigade coverage: Behind the headlines.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Vickie Kilgore Executive Editor Oct. 10--Today's front page is a dramatic departure for The Olympian. A Stryker brigade based at Fort Lewis, the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, has returned home from a 15-month deployment in Iraq. The 48 brigade members ...

'They live forever in our heart': Memorial to honor brigade's soldiers.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Christian Hill Oct. 10--FORT LEWIS -- A memorial honoring the fallen soldiers from the Fort Lewis-based Stryker brigade that just returned from Iraq will be unveiled today. Fort Lewis and 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) ...

BRIEF: Brigade by the numbers.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--2 Number of Iraq deployments completed by the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division (Stryker Brigade Combat Team) 15 Months the brigade served in Iraq this deployment 300-plus Number of eightwheeled Stryker vehicles used by the brigade 3,600-plus ...

South Sound briefs - Oct. 10.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--Olympia County deputy prosecutor to resign Dec. 5 Thurston County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney David Soukup will resign effective Dec. 5, Thurston County Prosecuting Attorney Ed Holm said. In August, a Snohomish County district judge deferred ...

Turf wins customers' praise: Country Green installs for sports franchises.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Jim Szymanski Oct. 10--Some of Country Green Turf Farms' higher-profile customers have helped the company become better-known in recent years. The turf at Safeco Field, for example, grew at the Thurston County farm just outside Olympia. Company leaders would ...

Private land popular during deer season.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Chester Allen Oct. 10--Western Washington has hundreds of thousands of acres of public land, but some of the best deer hunting is on private timberland. Private timberlands, such as Green Diamond's extensive holdings in Mason County and the Weyerhaeuser ...

Black Hills sweeps struggling Bearcats.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: Meg Wochnick Oct. 10--TUMWATER -- If there was a match to work on different player combinations, Black Hills coach Kara Peterson picked the right time to do it. Going up against a short-handed and injury-plagued Chehalis team that's lost three straight ...

Fort Lewis becomes new home for gray squirrels.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Byline: John Dodge Oct. 10--FORT LEWIS -- It was moving day Tuesday for seven western gray squirrels released at Fort Lewis in a bid to prevent the species from going extinct in Western Washington. About 50 of the native squirrels live amidst the prairies, oak ...

BRIEF: Soldier spent time with brigade.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--Capt. Corry P. Tyler went to war with the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, but died in Iraq after transferring to another Fort Lewis-based unit. "We're counting him as ours," said Maj. Jack Vantress, the brigade's operations officer. Tyler, 29, of ...

BRIEF: South Sound connections.

Oct 10, 2007 ... Oct. 10--An update on college athletes from South Sound: Name College Sport High school (grad. year) Andrew Eisentrout Pacific Lutheran Football Olympia (2003) Leads the conference in sacks with 8.5 and tackles for loss with 10.5, 17th in NCAA Division III ....

Answers to readers' recycling questions.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Lisa Pemberton Oct. 2--Readers of The Olympian often have questions about useful ways to get rid of things they have on hand. Here are some of the questions posed to Where Do I Take My during the past few months, along with answers. Question: I have chunks of ...

Competing visions for Olympia offered at debate.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Matt Batcheldor Oct. 2--Five of the six City Council candidates shared their visions for downtown and answered questions on several other issues Monday at an Olympia Rotary meeting at the Red Lion Hotel. The Rotarians invited members of three council races: ...

Licenses returned to DUI suspects: State Patrol toxicology lab under fire over alcohol tests.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Oct. 2--State examiners have reinstated 28 drivers' licenses -- including two in Thurston County -- in the past two weeks because they are convinced the Washington State Patrol's Toxicology Laboratory has lost some credibility in drunken driving cases. The laboratory has been ...

Former area high school stars offer baseball camp.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Gail Wood Oct. 2--Josh Fulton and Tabor Lee will combine their professional baseball experience to put on a baseball school in Lacey from October to February. "It's more than a baseball camp because of the length of it," said Lee, a 1999 Capital High School ...

Olympia teachers convene on new middle school math book.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Heather Woodward Oct. 2--OLYMPIA -- Olympia School District teachers in the fifth through eighth grades have started meeting monthly to discuss how well a new, controversial middle school math curriculum is working. And so far, district officials haven't heard ...

BRIEF: Timberline basketball coach resigns.

Oct 02, 2007 ... Byline: Gail Wood Oct. 2--Chris Spivey has resigned as boys basketball at Timberline High School, the school where he was an all-league player in the early 1990s. Spivey coached the last three seasons at Timberline. "It wasn't a decision he took lightly," ...