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Plants prized for foliage may surprise with late-season flowers
I’ve been taking Miguel, my 12-year-old Havanese, for 3,500-step walks around the neighborhood lately (and telling myself he’s the only one who can’t handle longer strolls). And now that the weather is cooling, I’m noticing that some of the plants we encounter along the way look nothing like their mid-summer selves. |
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4A/3A volleyball: Camas takes care of business to clinch state tournament berth
UNIVERSITY PLACE — After winning a pair of tough, scrappy sets against Mount Rainier, the Camas volleyball team was ready to finish off the Rams in the third set. |
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4A football: Top-seed Camas advances to quarterfinals after 41-6 win over Curtis
CAMAS — To the casual observer, the 41-6 final score in Camas’ victory over Curtis in Friday’s Class 4A football first-round state playoff win doesn’t reflect what it took to get there. |
NYT Politics
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Under the Chandelier at Mar-a-Lago, Trump Makes Picks at Breakneck Speed
President-elect Donald J. Trump is more contemptuous than ever of Washington expertise and determined to hire people based on loyalty.
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Democrats Draw Up an Entirely New Anti-Trump Battle Plan
The party’s early preparations to oppose the next Trump administration are heavily focused on legal fights and consolidating state power, rather than marching in the streets.
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Musk Wants to Slash $2 Trillion in Federal Spending. Is That Possible?
President-elect Donald J. Trump has tasked Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy with identifying ways to cut the budget. The hard part comes next.
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The Chronicle - Centralia
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Prep football: Onalaska seniors go out with final home victory
ONALASKA — There are parallels developing between the 2019 and 2024 versions of the Onalaska High School football team. About the only difference is the group five years ago went perfect en route to the Class 2B state title. Yet the athletes’ skillset, the coaching staff and peaking at the right time all are similar. So too is the attitude in the locker room. “At the core of this team is love, these guys love each other,” Loggers head coach Mazen Saade said. “When you say the word love, people get super mushy. They like being around each other. They enjoy practice, they enjoy team dinners, they enjoy road trips.” The senior group that has been through plenty of highs experienced one final one on Friday night, playing their final home game at Memorial Field in the first round of the 2B playoffs and dismantling 13th-seeded Newport 60-8. Seeded fourth in the bracket, Onalaska (11-1) will face either No. 5 Freeman or No. 12 Goldendale next week in the quarterfinals. The victors of 10 straight were the standalone classification game on a chilly November evening. The Loggers made sure to soak it all in. Roughly 30 minutes after the final horn, there were still a handful of players on the grass talking with one another. “We wanted to make a memory we’d be happy to look back on when we’re older,” senior tailback Rodrigo Rodriguez said. “I’m just glad to be a part of it with my guys.” About the only fireworks in the game that had a running clock the entire second half was one of the Newport coaches calling Saade a scumbag during the postgame handshake line. As well as some in-game chirping, including one of Onalaska’s players having their helmet yanked off. Despite the extra curriculars, the Loggers never lost their composure. Primarily because from the opening quarter, they were in complete control. Onalaska allowed just three total yards in the first half and 10 for the night. The defense didn’t allow a point for the fifth consecutive game, but Newport did avoid the shutout with an 80 yard kickoff return in the first quarter. It was the first time a 2B school scored against the Loggers since Week 3. On the very next drive, Rodriguez darted 65 yards to put them back up by two scores. “You gotta respond,” Rodriguez said. “We’re knocking the bad stuff out and replacing it with good.” Since allowing 1A state qualifier Nooksack Valley to score 42 points in the season opener, Onalaska has given up a grand total of 38 combined since Week 2. “Your biggest growth is from Week 1 to Week 2,” Saade said. “Really impressed with how our defense played. Very proud of them.” Sam Pannkuk got the Loggers going with a 32-yard scamper to put them up 8-0. They racked up over 500 yards of total offense, 452 on the ground. Rodriguez had TD runs of 65, 24 and 61 yards plus caught a 7-yard pass from Lane Gordon. Gordon finished with four completions for 91 yards. Pannkuk also snared a first half interception. “We’ve proved we deserve to be here,” Rodriguez said. “Just working hard everyday to reach the ultimate goal.” The Loggers will find out who they play between Goldendale and Freeman tomorrow afternoon in a quarterfinal to be played on turf. “They’re excited to play whoever,” Saade said. |
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Tumwater wins first round matchup, but falls in quarterfinals
The Tumwater volleyball team went 1-1 on its first day at the 2A State Tournament in Yakima, sweeping No. 10 Chief Sealth in the Round of 16 before being swept by No. 2 Burlington-Edison in the quarterfinals. The first game was almost all Tumwater, as the T-Birds took the first two sets 25-18 and 25-12 before holding off a late Chief Sealth rally to win the third 25-20. “The girls did a really good job taking care of their own jobs and not doing too much,” Tumwater coach Molly Cichosz said. Things didn’t go as smoothly in the quarterfinal, as the T-Birds scored just 10, 12, and 14 points in the three sets. “We didn’t do a good job adjusting to their strong suits,” Cichosz said. “And we didn’t do what we do well. It was kind of a double whammy for us.” While the hunt for a state title is over, the T-Birds are still in contention for fifth or sixth place. To get to the fifth-sixth game, they’ll have to beat No. 6 Ridgefield, which lost its quarterfinal to No. 3 Columbia River. That matchup will start at 10:45 a.m. Saturday morning. Ridgefield and Tumwater met just last week in a district semifinal, a match that the Spudders won in four. “I’m really grateful we’ve seen them before,” Cichosz said. “I hope that we’ll be able to use that to our advantage tomorrow morning and capitalize.” A win would ensure that the Thunderbirds would leave Yakima with a trophy for the first time since winning it all in 2016. “We need to bring a lot of energy and grit,” Cichosz said. “No one is just gonna give up at this stage … It’s gonna be tough, but I think we can do it.” |
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T-Birds roll past Red Wolves, into state quarterfinals
TUMWATER — Six minutes into the first quarter, the Tumwater offense left the field in an unfamiliar position. Two drives in, the T-Birds had not put any points on the board. “We were not good the first two series,” Tumwater coach William Garrow said. “We didn’t do what we were supposed to do.” While the defense went to work on getting the ball back, the offensive coaching staff preached making the “simple fixes” on the sideline. The T-Birds made those fixes and never looked back, running away with a 44-0 win over Cedarcrest in the first round of the 2B State Tournament. “The kids did a nice job responding after the fact,” Garrow said. Cash Short got the offense going on the third drive of the game, taking the second play of that drive 35 yards to the house to open the scoring. After a Cedarcrest three-and-out, Short took the first play of the following drive 58 yards for another touchdown. Two drives later, Jaylin Nixon took the second play of a drive for a 41-yard score. Tumwater’s first three scoring drives combined to take just over a minute off the clock. While the Tumwater offense had to overcome a slow start, the defense was at its best from the first drive of the game. Cedarcrest got a first down on its second play of the day, but after that, the Tumwater defense forced four straight three-and-outs before the end of the first half. The defensive line had its way throughout, as the T-Birds sacked Cedarcrest’s Connor Altmyer four times and held their lead back Luke Thompson to -2 yards on eight carries. Between sacks, bad snaps, and tackles for loss, the Red Wolves finished with -53 rushing yards on the night. It’s the fifth time in the last six weeks that the T-Birds have held a team scoreless, the lone exception being a late fourth-quarter touchdown from Renton last week. “They were incredible all night,” Garrow said. “(DC Tony Prentice) has got the kids playing incredibly well right now … The kids are flying around on defense, it’s awesome to see.” Tumwater also dominated the third phase of the game. Up 28-0 in the third quarter, Mehki Richardson blocked a punt. It bounced into the end zone, but nobody could corral it before it bounced out of the back for a safety. That was initially frustrating for Garrow and his assistant coaches, but they were all smiles seconds later when David Malroy returned the free kick for a touchdown to make it 37-0. “It’s great for our kids to have some success with that,” Garrow said. “We work on those returns after safeties … It’s a lot of fun to watch them go score.” Short finished with 134 yards and three touchdowns, while Nixon added 56 yards and his score. Tyler Briscoe also scored a touchdown early in the fourth quarter. Up next for the top-seeded Thunderbirds (11-0) is a state quarterfinal against either No. 8 Othello or No. 9 Sehome. That game will most likely be next Saturday, Nov. 23 at Tumwater District Stadium. “Two different challenges,” Garrow said. “We’ll see who shows up.” |
Washington State News
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Top 25 roundup: No. 13 Purdue takes down No. 2 Alabama
(Photo credit: Alex Martin/Journal and Courier / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images)
Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a career-best 26 points and collected eight rebounds to lead No. 13 Purdue to an 87-78 triumph over No. 2 Alabama in a Friday night nonconference showdown at West Lafayette, Ind.
Braden Smith produced 17 points, 10 assists and six rebounds and Fletcher Loyer also scored 17 points for the Boilermakers (4-0). C.J.
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