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  • How Richard DeBolt’s partial retirement could reshape Centralia-area economic priorities

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  • Thursday: Rain; breezy in the morning, with a high of 53 and low of 36 degrees.
  • Friday: Partly sunny, showers around, temps: high: 46, low: 36.
  • Saturday: Afternoon showers, with a high of 46 and low of 39 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Richard DeBolt enters partial retirement (chronline.com) — Centralia-area readers will see a familiar name stepping back as longtime local leader and former state representative Richard DeBolt partially retires and leaves Lewis County for Texas. He’s handing the Economic Alliance of Lewis County’s top job to insider Todd Chaput, while planning periodic return visits and highlighting work with the Centralia-Chehalis Chamber and TransAlta’s Centralia operations.
   

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