Maynard Mallonee speaks to students about soil health during a Boistfort Consolidated School field trip at Mallonee Farms in Boistfort, Lewis County, Wash. Mallonee is a third-generation farmer, and his son, Jack, is a fourth. The elder Mallonee serves as the rural town's school bus driver and is an active community member.

Students ask Jack Mallonee questions about his dairy cows during a Boistfort Consolidated School field trip at Mallonee Farms in Boistfort, Lewis County, Wash.

Isabelle Couzssens, 6, smiles for a photo while playing on a toy pony during the Spring Youth Fair at the Southwest Washington Fairgrounds in Centralia, Lewis County, Wash. The youth fair engages its attendees with an agricultural lifestyle, including animal showing and selling events.

A boy raises his American flag cowboy hat and smiles as he rides his float during the Vader May Day Parade in Vader, Lewis County, Wash. The town of Vader once had its own school and was home to a thriving manufacturing community. Now the town facilitates less than 700 residents and the children attend schools elsewhere in the county.

Sheriff Rob Snaza gestures to children during the annual Morton Loggers Jubilee Parade in Morton, Lewis County, Wash. The once-beloved sheriff is set to retire after a string of controversies, including a part-time move to Arizona, the mishandling of the case of Aron Christensen, who was shot dead by locals while hiking in Lewis County, and allowing the Sheriff's Office to lose its accreditation, among other issues.

Members of the Morton Gun Club laugh between shots as they partake in a shotgun shooting exercise at the club’s range in Morton, Lewis County, Wash. The club fears for its longevity as it struggles to recruit younger members, despite engaging with school programs. As many social clubs have disappeared throughout the county over the years, they hope to beat the trend.

Miriam Bagwell burns the interior wood at the Jaz Man Enrichment Center in Onalaska, Lewis County, Wash. The center is a project that Bagwell has worked on with her son, Jazmyn Aguilar, who lost both legs in a fire. Aguilar is an artist and creates woodwork and paintings using his remaining arm in the center's accessible workshop.

Gordon Reed poses for a photo on his property in Morton, Lewis County, Wash., where he stores the boats that he repairs and sells. Reed's wife passed a few years back, and because he is now suffering from cancer and unable to work on his boats, he's searching for a successor to take over and split profits with him.

Football players huddle around Coach Mazen Saade during practice at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Lewis County, Wash. Saade serves as the head coach but also as a leader and influence for the young men, hoping to instill toughness and values into the boys during their four years under his lead.

Mazen Saade watches his players run through a drill during practice at Onalaska High School in Onalaska, Lewis County, Wash.

Thurston County Sheriff's Office detective Mickey Hamilton, center, arrives at a vigil for Karen Bodine in Rochester, Thurston County, Wash., flanked by investigators. Hamilton is the lead detective in the cold case for Bodine, who was murdered in 2007.

An inmate at the Green Hill School detention center in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash., works on a sandblaster in one of the school's extracurricular automotive courses. Students can receive credentials to use for employment upon release.

American Legion Grant Hodge Post 17 Honor Guard members prepare to present the American flag during a Memorial Day ceremony at Claquato Cemetery in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash.

Class of 2026 graduates gesture from their bus during the annual senior walk in Centralia, Lewis County, Wash. Senior walks are a popular tradition in the county; they involve students walking around the town from which they are graduating and the elementary schools they attended in their early years.

Members of Scout Troop 317 raise the flag during the opening ceremony for Larch Mountain Little League at Hoss Field in Rochester, Thurston County, Wash.

The Reynolds family cleans up a section of grass near the Lewis County Historical Museum during the annual Earth Day Community Clean-Up in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash. Residents from around the county come together on Earth Day to clean up sections of their towns that have been neglected and left dirty due to narrowing municipal budgets.

Political commentator Brandi Kruse discusses transgender students in youth sports during the Lewis County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash. One of Kruse's main platforms has been protecting children in schools.

Children from the local Turning Point USA chapter listen as political commentator Brandi Kruse discusses transgender students in youth sports during the Lewis County Republican Party’s Lincoln Day Dinner in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash.

The tent where pilot Keith Kossuth sleeps during his stays at the Chehalis-Centralia Airport in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash. Other pilots also camp on airport grounds when visiting and set up small, short-term shanty towns where they barbecue and chat from camping chairs near the tarmac.

The lower level of an apartment at Chehalis Avenue Apartments is surrounded by flood water in Chehalis, Lewis County, Wash. The apartments have flooded countless times over the years, often displacing residents who take up beds in temporary Red Cross disaster camps throughout the county. Flooding has been a massive issue for the residents of Lewis County and is at the center of many debates and financial issues.