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The North Mason High School girls basketball team blew past Renton 44-30 in the opening round of the 2A state tournament Friday at Mount Tahoma High School in Tacoma. The win sent the No. 12 seeded Bulldogs, who are making their first state tournament appearance since 1989, to the Sun Dome in Yakima. They faced No. 4 seed W.F. West on Wednesday night, after the Journal's press time....
Two housing developments are underway in the City of Shelton. Olympic Heights will feature 199 single-family dwelling units on 40 acres at the east end of Alpine Way east of Olympic College Shelton, south of Manke’s Alpine View subdivision and north of the Terrace Heights subdivision. The land is part of 400 acres recently annexed into the city. The developer is CES Northwest Inc. The Olympic Heights development has entered the permitting process, City Manager Mark Ziegler told the Journal. The residential lots will range from 4,500 square f...
Not a single book was on the shelves when Candy Ranney became the library media specialist at Mountain View Elementary School in 2006. The books had been packed away for a renovation that didn't happen when funding fell through. Without books until the second semester, Ranney turned to her lifelong passion for science and engaged the kids in identifying animal skulls and examining owl feces for fur and bones. In the ensuing years, she founded a Reading Buddies program for first grade students...
Walkers in Belfair's Union Estuary can now find out what bird or animal they've spotted, identify trees and plants and learn more about the landscape without leaving the trails. Starting on Friday, AmeriCorps environmental educators will be on the Mary E. Theler Wetlands Nature Preserve and adjacent area paths to engage with visitors. Look for the blaze orange vests. The docent program, started by the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group, hopes to have educators on the trails several days a...
The Shelton City Council on Tuesday gave preliminary approval to a development company's request to annex 2.5 acres on Capitol Hill into the city limits. The council can make the move official with a final vote at its meeting at 6 p.m. March 18 in the Shelton Civic Center. The wooded area is bordered by Chestnut Street on the south, Fogarty Street on the west and Walnut Street on the north. The report from the city's community development department states that last month, the city received a...
I was at the new McMenamins in Tacoma when I asked the waiter where she lived. “Milton,” she said. “Actually, it’s kind of Puyallup, too, because the border runs through my apartment building.” She said some people in the complex technically live in Puyallup and some technically live in Milton. I’d never heard of such a thing, so I had more questions, most based on what locale she had the most affinity for. She was going back and forth on which town she liked best, so I said, “OK, OK. If a civi...
Kitten Rescue needs new garage sale site Editor, the Journal, Kitten Rescue has lost our access to parking for our garage sales due to new ownership of the property next to the rescue. Our garage sales fund approximately one-quarter of our yearly budget. We have reached out to the state Department of Transportation to help in planning new property access off of state Route 3. We are also seeking other solutions and asking for the community’s help. We have permission to use the parking lot for the March 8 sale only. If anyone has any ideas for o...
The framers of our nation deemed that education was important, so to that end, they granted every section 16 and 36 for the purpose of funding schools when a territory became a state. A section of land is a square mile, and there are 36 sections in a township. The state uses school trust lands to help pay for new school construction. DNR also manages county trust lands, which make up the majority of DNR-managed trust land for our county. These county trust lands came into being when timber companies, with the exception of a couple in the early...
Damion Giacchino Sr. had just finished a polar plunge at the Shelton Yacht Club on Jan. 26 when he noticed some litter on the hillside across the street. He went to pick it up and discovered more than just a few discarded bottles and cans. "As I got closer to the top of the hill I was blown away with the huge amounts of trash that was scattered for hundreds of feet and looked to be 5-plus feet deep in places," he told the Journal. Giacchino filled the one bag he brought and went home, planning...
Kitten Rescue garage sale Saturday in Shelton The nonprofit Kitten Rescue of Mason County hosts its quarterly garage sale from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday at 420 SE state Route 3 in Shelton. Sale items include clothing, kitchen items, toys, tools, gardening equipment, craft supplies, books, puzzles, dishes, purses, art, sporting equipment, health and beauty items, outdoor gear and holiday decorations. The garage sales continue July 12, Sept. 13 and Nov. 1. The nonprofit accepts credit cards, cash and checks. The proceeds from the garage sales pro...
Scholarships from Pioneer Community Kiwanis Club The Pioneer Community Kiwanis Club offers scholarships to students who attended Pioneer Schools or live in the Pioneer School District and will graduate or earn a GED by July 1. The scholarships are for college, technical schools or trade schools. Applications are available in the counseling offices at all three high schools in the Shelton School District – Cedar, CHOICE and Shelton – and at North Mason High School. For more information, contact Lee Strohm at leeswoods51@gmail.com. Sch...
Former Mountain View Elementary School teacher Dann Gagnon reads aloud "The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors" by Drew Daywalt and Adam Rex on Friday at the school as part of the program Read Across America. At the annual event, community members read to students in kindergarten through the third grade. The readers included Shelton School District Superintendent Wyeth Jessee and School Board member James Dale....
A group of people turned out Saturday in Hoodsport to protest cuts to federally owned public lands in the United States. Thousands of employees of the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service have reportedly been fired or resigned in recent weeks. The Hoodsport demonstration, held at Ingvald J. Gronvold Park near the intersection of U.S. Highway 101 and state Route 119 which serves Olympic National Park's Staircase entrance station and Olympic National Forest, was part of Step Up for...
Pianist Jason Lyle Black promises to perform "100 Hits of Stage and Screen" during his concert from 7 to 9 p.m. March 14 at the Shelton School District Performing Arts Center at Shelton High School. How is that even possible? "I've just always heard connections between songs," he wrote in an email in response to questions from the Journal. "That was something I did even as a piano student, I would just jump seamlessly from one song to another." The Mason County Concert Association presents the...
Sequim author Sally Bays, an artist in residence at Hypatia-in-the-Woods in Shelton, conducts a historical character workshop from 2 to 4 p.m. Saturday at the Marmo Gallery, 217 W. Cota St., downtown Shelton. Admission is free. Everyone is welcome. In an email response to questions from the Journal, Bays said participants will learn how to pick historical figures or historical archetypes and "create them into literary characters." "This will include ideas about what goes into the research...
The third streaming season of "Reacher" is well underway on Amazon Prime Video, and what's made it increasingly refreshing is how much it's heeded the advice of Optimus Prime. In "The Transformers" franchise, voice actor Peter Cullen has played heroic Autobot leader Optimus Prime from the 1980s cartoons on through the 21st century Michael Bay movies. Peter Cullen's brother, Larry Cullen, was a decorated U.S. Marine who'd served in Vietnam, so when Peter told Larry he was auditioning for the...
The Shelton High School Special Olympics Club sent two squads to compete at the Special Olympics Winter Games last weekend in Wenatchee. The Shelton Highclimbers team won all three of its games Saturday and were bumped up to a higher division Sunday, losing both and placing fourth. The Mason County Alleycats won two of three games Saturday and both games Sunday to win the gold medal. The participants enjoyed the opening ceremonies Friday night, and a dance Saturday night. Scotti Crump coached...
The Bulldogs are headed to the Dome. The North Mason High School girls basketball team shrugged off a tough shooting first half and rolled past District 2 champion Renton 44-30 in the opening round of the 2A state girls basketball tournament Friday night at Mount Tahoma High School. With that win, the Bulldogs moved on to face District IV champion W.F. West, which lost 53-41 to Archbishop Murphy on Saturday in Chehalis, Wednesday night (after the Journal's press time) in the Round of 12 at the...
Grocery Outlet will open a Belfair location in the former Rite Aid, 23960 NE state Route 3, according to permits filed with Mason County. Rite Aid closed in January 2024 and the 17,455-square-foot building has since been vacant. On Feb. 13, a change in tenant permit was submitted to the county describing the project as "new Grocery Outlet, previously Rite Aid." This will be the third grocery chain in Belfair, along with Safeway and QFC. No opening date has been announced. A demolition permit fil...
Chamber winners announced at gala The North Mason Chamber of Commerce celebrated its "Western Glam" gala at Alderbrook Resort & Spa in Union on Saturday with a silent auction, music, dancing and awards. Bent Bine Brew Co. took business of the year award, Hood Canalé was named new business of the year, nonprofit of the year went to Humane Society of Mason County, Darren Eisele of Hood Canal Communications was awarded member of the year, Stephanie Shumaker won citizen of the year and chairman's...
Ronald "Ron" York passed away on Sunday, January 26, 2025 at Alpine Way in Shelton, WA and is now in the loving arms of his Lord and Savior. He was born March 1, 1946 in Flint, Michigan to Mr. and Mrs. Jack and Ellen York. When he was twelve years old his family moved to Santa Cruz, CA. Ron joined the U.S. Navy Reserve in April of 1963 as a junior then after graduating from Santa Cruz High School in 1964 he was called to active duty in August. He was deployed in early 1965 to serve in the...
Marvin Andrew Voskuhl passed away on February 1, 2025. He was born in Minster, Ohio on August 13, 1946, to Aloysius and Irma (Hickey) Voskuhl. Marvin attended Bowling Green State University in Ohio where he met his wife, Claire. On graduation, he was commissioned in the U.S. Air Force and spent 28 years on active duty. His first assignment was to Griffiss AFB, NY, as a B-52 navigator, flying over 3,000 hours. Among his other assignments, he served as a Bomb Nav Instructor at Mather AFB, CA,...
Join us for an open house Celebration of Life for Sue on Saturday, March 15, 2025 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. at the Allyn Historic Church, 18510 State Route 3, Allyn, WA 98524. The church is small and upstairs will be memorabilia and downstairs will have food. Parking is available across the side street at the park (Port of Allyn). I hope that you can come upstairs at your convenience to see me, Ted Alstrom....
Ronald Ray Smith, 64, a resident of Shelton, passed away February 23, 2025, at St. Michael Medical Center in Silverdale, WA. Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Home and Crematory. Elwood Mellis, 86, a resident of Grapeview, passed away February 23, 2025, at Mason General Hospital in Shelton, WA. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory. John Stephens, 78, a resident of Shelton, passed away February 24, 2025, at Mason General Hospital in Shelton, WA. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and...
