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Long Train Runnin’: Doobie Brothers Celebrate 50 Years Of Rockin’ Down The Highway

Long Train Runnin’: Doobie Brothers Celebrate 50 Years Of Rockin’ Down The Highway

Long Train Runnin’: Doobie Brothers Celebrate 50 Years Of Rockin’ Down The Highway

ON THE COVER: The Doobie Brothers open Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert , California, Dec. 15, 2022. Photo by Mark Cieslikowski

“A traveling man’s affliction makes it hard to settle down,” as the Doobie Brothers’ Patrick Simmons wrote in “Neal’s Fandango,” the song that opened the band’s 1975 record, Stampede.

The Doobie Brothers in 2023 are doing anything but settling down.

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Elleda Wilson: Tall ship totaled

Jan. 5—In sad maritime news, a movie star is gone, according to Maritime-Executive.com: The tall ship Earl of Pembroke.

Built in 1945 in Sweden, it was one of the last schooner-rigged sailing cargo vessels. In 1974, it was "discovered" ... Read more

Heart's Ann & Nancy Wilson and Nirvana to receive Lifetime A

Heart's Ann & Nancy Wilson and Nirvana to receive Lifetime Achievement Grammy Awards

The award honours 'legends' who inspire and shape the music world.'

Heart's Ann and Nancy Wilson Author: Scott Colothan Published 5th Jan 2 ... Read more

Douglas David Daniels

Douglas David Daniels passed away peacefully Dec. 25, 2022, at Harbor Regional Health Center, surrounded by family. Doug was 56, born on April 16, 1966, in Aberdeen, Washington to David and Billie Jean Daniels.

Doug was a lifelong reside ... Read more

WHEN COAL WAS KING: Kummer Bridge Sept. 1, 1932 : VOICE of the Valley

Over the next six weeks, this column will feature photos from 1932-33, when the Kummer Bridge over the Green River was built. Officially known as the Dan Evans — Green River Bridge, it’s sometimes called the Highway 169 or High Bridge that connects Black Diamond and Enumclaw. The photos were taken by Thomas Blum, a licensed surveyor who also served as bridge inspector for King County from 1924-1934.

Most old-timers still call it the Kummer Bridge or Kummer Cut-off. The area got its name from the clay mining town named for Georg ... Read more

City Center Drug to close its doors Dec. 28

Dec. 22—City Center Drug Co., is closing and it's a painful close, for customers who have been asking if the shuttering of the store was really happening, for the employees, as well as for the pharmacy's owner, Patrick O'Donnell.

The p ... Read more

Allen Walter Lavinder

Allen Walter Lavinder, a lifetime resident of South Bend and town barber for 65 years, passed away on Dec. 10, 2022, in Aberdeen, Washington. He was 93 years old.

Allen was born in South Bend on Feb. 25, 1929, the son of Walt and Julia ( ... Read more

John Gerald ‘Jerry’ Erickson

John Gerald “Jerry” Erickson, longtime owner of Levee Lumber in Hoquiam, died on Dec. 21, 2022, at Harbor Regional Hospital in Aberdeen. Mr. Erickson was born on June 2, 1937, in Aberdeen, Washington to John and Martha Lucille (Stoker) Erickson. ... Read more