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DAVENPORT-The Lincoln County Board of Commissioners will soon have a vacancy to fill. Commissioner Mark Stedman of District 1 announced this week that he is resigning at the end of 2022.

He and his wife, Sheryl, both 75, are moving to the Kalama area to be nearer to their four children and 10 grandchildren, most of whom live in the Portland and Olympia areas.

"There's a time in life that there's another chapter," Stedman said. "Sheryl and I are discovering that next chapter and trying to write it with our kids."

The move will take the Mohler residents out of Lincoln County, where they've...