THIS 1993 TOYOTA exhibits evidence of the severity of a fatal collision Wednesday morning at the northbound entrance onto Highway 101 from State Route 3 that claimed the life of 14-year-old Brandon A. Kaufman of Shelton, an eighth-grader at Shelton Middle School.

A PAIR of pedestrians stroll past a campaign sign urging voters to approve a maintenance-and-operation levy in the Shelton School District. Voters there and in several local districts approved levies, but turned down a pair of bond issue measures in two districts.

POSTAL VEHICLES sit securely behind a new chain-link fence topped with three strands of barbed wire that was erected recently around the back and sides of the Shelton Post Office. The fence will help to thwart vandals and keep the rear loading dock secure when postal workers use it for distributing parcels.

COUGAR PRIDE evident in their eyes, Washington State University alums Annette McGee and Bill Valley display the WSU Alumni Association Achievement Award presented recently to Valley.

WHILE A WASHINGTON State Patrol SWAT team raids a suspected methamphetamine lab in the residence on the right, Lieutenant Kevin Zeller, head of the team, talks to a TV reporter.

FRIDAY NIGHT ACTION in the Climbers' home victory over North Kitsap finds the hosts' Bill Richardson swatting (top) and Jeff Kieburtz soaring. The two seniors combined for 28 points as the Climbers avenged a first-round setback and put themselves in the driver's seat for a postseason home opener.

Taxing his patience

Jack Bartz had to greet potential customers on the street last week when a fire in a nearby beauty parlor closed shops on Olympic Highway North to public traffic. He said his tax consultancy business was fully operational on Monday after the Shelton Fire Department let business people remove the tape warning people to stay clear of shops in the front of the building. He said the shops in back were still blocked with tape as of Wednesday morning.

NORTH MASON School Board member Ken VanBuskirk works his way through part of the mathematics portion of the seventh-grade WASL test during a recent parents' meeting at Hawkins Middle School.