In the past few months, three new well-illustrated books about local history have hit the shelves. One tells about Kalama, which a century ago was the Cowlitz County seat and had more residents than ...

We have a soft spot for historic trains, the cabooses and locomotives and the rhythm of the rails, punctuated by the toot-toot of — We’d better stop here, before we go all chugga-chugga-choo-choo on ...