Editing Tenino, Washington (section)

===21st century===
While Tenino retains [[Tenino Downtown Historic District|its historic downtown]], now a [[historic district (United States)|historic district]] listed on the [[National Register of Historic Places]], the town serves largely as a "bedroom community", many of its citizens commuting by car to larger cities such as [[Olympia, Washington|Olympia]] and [[Tacoma, Washington|Tacoma]] for work.{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}

Protests were held in the city in 2023 to voice opposition to the creation of a state contracted transitional facility for sex offenders that would have been located next to Tenino's City Park. The facility operator cancelled the project after a few weeks of objections from the community. Due to the dissent, several bills were proposed in the state legislature that would add stricter requirements and better communication policies regarding sex offender housing.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Emily |title='Huge Sense of Relief': Supreme Living Backs Off Plans for Sex Offender Housing Near Tenino |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/huge-sense-of-relief-supreme-living-backs-off-plans-for-sex-offender-housing-near-tenino,314817 |access-date=June 15, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=March 1, 2023}}</ref><ref name="TPHR">{{cite news |last1=Rivera |first1=Paul |title=Tenino park holds ribbon cutting, opens next door to transitional home for sex offenders |url=https://komonews.com/news/local/tenino-park-childhood-playground-transitional-home-sex-offender-ribbon-cutting-facility-thurson-county-community-department-of-corrections-social-health-services-state-washington-cme-mayor-wayne-fournier# |access-date=June 15, 2023 |publisher=KOMO News |date=February 4, 2023}}</ref>

A sesquicentennial jubilee celebrating Tenino's 150 years as a recognized community was held in July 2023. The day-long event hosted a parade and vendor markets, with the highlight of a "birthday card" written in chalk by artists on a closed intersection in the city. The city's U.S. House of Representative at the time, [[Marie Gluesenkamp Perez]], bestowed Tenino with a [[Congressional Record]] copy of a floor speech she gave honoring the community and its achievement.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fitzgerald |first1=Emily |title=Tenino Jubilee Celebrates Stone City's 150th Birthday |url=https://www.chronline.com/stories/tenino-jubilee-celebrates-stone-citys-150th-birthday,322001 |access-date=July 13, 2023 |work=The Chronicle |date=July 10, 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gluesenkamp Perez |first1=Marie |title=Celebrating Tenino's 150th Jubilee |journal=Congressional Record |date=June 14, 2023 |volume=169 |issue=104 |page=11 |url=https://www.congress.gov/congressional-record/volume-169/issue-104/house-section/article/H2892-2?q=%7B%22search%22%3A%5B%22tenino%22%5D%7D&s=2&r=1 |access-date=July 13, 2023}}</ref> In December, a bill was introduced at the state legislature that would declare Tenino sandstone as the state rock.<ref name="RPAPL"/>