The Olympian Online -- South Sound

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01/27/12--00:26: Storm fallout keeps tree service hopping, burns other businesses (chan 1616300)

Depending on the business, the biggest snow and ice storm to hit South Sound in years was either a boon or a budget buster.</p>


01/27/12--00:30: Brigade has 1st loss of Kandahar deployment (chan 1616300)

A Joint Base Lewis-McChord lieutenant was killed Wednesday by an explosion during a foot patrol he led in Afghanistan&rsquo;s Kandahar Province.


01/27/12--00:50: Repair work will close 1 lane on Rainier Road (chan 1616300)

BNSF Railway plans to do emergency repair work on a trestle on Rainier Road, about a mile south of Yelm Highway, from about 3 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday. The work will close a lane of the road.


01/27/12--00:58: Retired parks worker to serve commission (chan 1616300)

Gov. Chris Gregoire has appointed Russ Cahill, a retired parks and recreation employee, to serve on the state Parks and Recreation Commission beginning immediately.


01/27/12--23:53: Shelter move from Olympia's core exposes response flaws (chan 1616300)

Sixty people crowded into a Red Cross shelter at First Christian Church in downtown Olympia after an ice storm had dropped trees and power lines throughout the community, driving homeless people out of the woods and onto the streets.</p>


01/27/12--23:59: Red Cross wants to honor heroes (chan 1616300)

The American Red Cross Mount Rainier Chapter is looking for people to honor during its Heroes Breakfast, set for April 27.


01/28/12--01:24: Madigan hospital psychiatric team altered soldiers' PTSD diagnoses (chan 1616300)

The Army is reviewing the actions of a Madigan Army Medical Center psychiatric team that reversed the diagnoses of more than a dozen soldiers previously found to have post-traumatic stress disorder.</p>


01/28/12--01:27: Entertainment zone at JBLM mixes sports, nightclub vibe (chan 1616300)

Pfc. Steven Sherry, 21, broke a game of nine ball Friday and glanced approvingly at the action around him.</p>


01/28/12--01:30: Storm takes toll on Wolf Haven (chan 1616300)

Wolf Haven wildlife curator Wendy Spencer could hear branches and trees collapsing under the weight of heavy snow and ice last week as a fierce winter storm ripped across the region.


01/28/12--02:17: Skills, love help Lacey woman, Vancouver man survive blizzard (chan 1616300)

As the third day of searching for a missing snowshoer began at Mount Rainier last week, a man and a woman appeared out of the inclement weather.</p>