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Bigfoot appeared at Schafer State Park Saturday, in historical and contemporary accounts retold by Marc Myrsell, a land surveyor who has been researching the creature for over 30 years. Myrsell spoke as part of the interpretive series sponsored by Friends of Schafer and Lake Sylvia state parks. Myrsell was born in 1966 and grew up in a "renaissance age" of the unexplained in pop culture, he said. As he got older, he realized land surveying skills could help with "research of the unexplained," he...
Community Lifeline may be closing, leaving homeless individuals scrambling to find emergency shelter, meals, showers and other services. Erin Martinache, president and board chair of Community Lifeline, told the Journal the shelter is underfunded. It accumulates around $40,000 of monthly bills and gets about $25,000 in grant and donation money a month. "That's still $15,000 underfunded," she said. In February, the Shelton City Council voted to give a $20,000 emergency grant to the organization....
Cracked, broken Olympic Highway North is a step closer to a deep $5 million makeover. The Shelton City Council is slated to award a design contract for the project at its meeting at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Shelton Civic Center. The council heard a presentation on the ambitious project by Aaron Nix, the city's assistant public works director, at its April 1 meeting. "This is one of the biggest projects that we have forthcoming, all awarded via grant money," Nix told the council. In 2022, the city...
Learn how Shelton City Council operates Anyone considering running for a spot on the Shelton City Council or wants to learn more about how the city operates can attend the event “Spotlight Shelton: City Government 101” from 6:30 to 8 p.m. April 29 at the Shelton Civic Center, 525 W. Cota St. The Shelton City Council has seven members who are responsible for policy-making for the city. Each is elected to a four-year term. Council members are elected citywide and four spots are up for grabs in the fall election. Four council members are ser...
Pioneer refinances municipal bonds The Pioneer School District on April 3 completed a public sale of $14,965,000 of unlimited tax general obligation refunding bonds, the district announced in a news release. The purpose of the sale was to refinance the callable portion of the district’s outstanding 2015 bonds. According to the district, the refinancing will save the district’s taxpayers $1,766,756 over the next 15 years. The Pioneer School Board approved the issuance of the refunding bond at its Jan. 28 meeting. The district monitored bond mar...
"I have resided in Shelton since 1976. As a native Mexican and now U.S. citizen, I have made Shelton the home for me and my five children. As an active member with the Hispanic community, I have witnessed an awesome growth in Shelton's Hispanic population. It has always been my dream to open a tortilla factory in Shelton and show members of the community, both Hispanic and non-Hispanic, that the American dream is alive and open to all who are willing to reach for it!" — Maggie Velasco-Lucero, i...
MacEwen responds Editor, the Journal, I am writing in response to Mr. Bill Pfender’s letter in the April 3 edition of the Journal. My office, as well as Rep. Griffey’s and Rep. Couture’s issued a press release announcing our town hall. As is the case with all press releases from our offices this goes out to all media in the 35th District including the Shelton-Mason County Journal. Further, a phone call went out to thousands of landlines announcing the town hall with directions on how to participate. I also posted it to my social media sites...
This story is from a history of Margaret McDonald written by her granddaughter Carmelita O'Neill Shackleford in 1966, and from the McDonald family file at the Mason County Historical Society Museum. "My maternal grandmother, Margaret LaPlant McDonald, was born in Pontiac County, Quebec, Canada, on January 7, 1849, and was married there on November 15, 1869, to Donald McDonald, one of five brothers. After spending a year in LaCrosse, Wisconsin, they set out for the West. They traveled by train...
Easter egg hunt for kids in Union The New Community Church of Union hosts a community Easter egg hunt starting at 1 p.m. April 19 at 951 E. Dalby Road in Union. Kids ages one through 12 can participate. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, call the church at 360-898-7855. Ride the rails on Easter Bunny Special The Peninsular Railway and Lumbermen’s Museum hosts its annual Easter Bunny Special event from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Simpson’s former Stillwater yard 10 miles west of Shelton. Tic...
Shelton Kiwanis Foundation The Shelton Kiwanis Foundation offers scholarships to graduating seniors from Shelton, CHOICE and Cedar high schools; homeschooled students in Shelton; and/or the Running Start program. Scholarships are available in education, general academics, science, nursing, and career and technical education. Application forms and details are available at the Shelton Kiwanis Club website at www.sheltonkiwanis.weebly.com/scholarships.html. Tuesday is the deadline to apply. For more information, email sheltonki...
Spring greetings! For many of us, celebrating Easter is just around the corner (April 20th). It is a time of family and friends gathering, Easter egg hunts and rich worship traditions being celebrated. Easter lilies (Lilium longiflorum) are often central to the festivities, appearing at home and in churches. Easter lilies, while uniquely beautiful, can also pose a serious hazard to our cats. All parts of the plant are toxic (including pollen and vase water). Less than one or two petals or...
About 20 authors will read from their works and autograph copies of their books from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday at St. Germain Church, 600 N. Lake Cushman Road, Hoodsport. Rebecca Holbrook is a singer/songwriter, author and poet whose first novel, "Omie's Well," won the Nancy Pearl Award for Literary Fiction in 2024. She moved from Tennessee to the Pacific Northwest with her husband Gary and their dog Liza Jane in 2017. Her second novel "The Deer Stone," a sequel to "Omie's Well," will be...
Members of the Shelton Yacht Club have entered 10 boats in the annual Tacoma Daffodil Marina Parade along the Tacoma waterfront that begins at 11:30 a.m. Sunday at the Tacoma Yacht Club. The decorated boats will continue east along the Commencement Bay shoreline from Dune Peninsula at Point Defiance Park to the Thea Foss Waterway and return at 2 p.m. The Shelton Yacht Club's bridge boat will be Boundary Point, owned by club members George and Debbie Daly. Shelton Yacht Club Commodore Randy...
Val Kilmer died too young at the age of 65 on April Fools' Day, which I suspect would have amused him more than anyone. Kilmer possessed an undeniable quicksilver talent, but it's also a matter of record that he could be deeply difficult to work with, which hindered his career even before throat cancer had all but robbed him of his voice by 2017. Still, Kilmer remained a working actor to the last, even paying tribute to a few of his more notable roles, satirically as "Bluntman" (a nod to his...
Shelton Baseball The Shelton High School baseball team picked up a 5-4 win over Centralia on Friday night at Cheney Stadium, home of the Tacoma Rainiers. The win sent Shelton into spring break having won two of three games last week to sit at 2-2 in Evergreen Conference action. Shelton beat Aberdeen 11-1 on April 1 at Aberdeen, but then fell 4-3 to the Bobcats on April 2 at Shelton. The Highclimbers are 3-6 overall and return to post-break action Tuesday at home against Centralia. Shelton Softball The Highclimbers dropped their final two pre-br...
HUB needs Easter donations and volunteers The HUB Center for Seniors is accepting candy and small toy donations to stuff in 50,000 eggs for its Easter event, The Hoppening, on April 19. Volunteers are also needed to fill the eggs. To volunteer, visit the HUB 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday at 111 Northeast Old Belfair Highway in Belfair. Firefighters pancake breakfast in Tahuya The North Mason Regional Fire Authority will host a pancake breakfast from 6 to 11 a.m. April 26 at Station 81, 14880 NE North Shore Road, Tahuya. Breakfast...
Port of Allyn commissioners voted at an April 3 special meeting to let WestSound Engineering complete a topographical basemap, using a drone, to map south of the Tacoma City Power lines, east of the Lakeland Water Co. service area, north of Lakeland Drive and west of the Case Inlet. Data will be shared with the port and Jeff Carey, who is selling the Allyn Carey water system to the port. The money for the project is reimbursable under the port’s drinking water fund loan, according to Executive Director Travis Merrill. As long as the port f...
She was born February 8, 1928, at the family home on Bloomfield Rd. in Mason County, WA. She was a descendent of two early Mason County pioneer families, the Bloomfields and Gingrich of the Kamilche area. Dolly graduated from Irene Reed High School in 1946. She married Bill O'Malley in 1950 they enjoyed 64 years of wedded bliss. She enjoyed gardening, sewing, quilting, ocean trips, jigsaw puzzles, and most of all her family. Dolly was preceded in death by her husband Bill, her infant son...
Janet M. Owens was born on March 25, 1938 in Wenatchee, WA. Jan passed away on March 31, 2025 at 87 years of age, after a long illness. Jan married Don Devaney in 1956. They had three sons, Leigh, Denny and Devin. Jan was a homemaker whose time was spent wrangling her three active sons. She enjoyed watching them as they grew up and started their own families. She was an avid reader of James Patterson and accomplished at crochet, needlepoint and loved solving her daily crossword puzzle. After...
The family of Eric Linn Fagergren is saddened to announce his death at Fir Lane Care nursing home where he had resided since January 9, 2025. He died at 8:15 on the morning of March 29, 2025. He was 80. His younger brother Duane was at his side. Eric was born in Shelton, August 18, 1944 to Aaron Henry Fagergren and Evelyn Victoria Stenback Fagergren. He was the second of four boys. His older brother Gary Ferguson, who died in 2014, lived in New York and married Meredith. They have two sons,...
Heaven has a new angel. Vic got her wings on March 12, 2025, peacefully passing away at her home in Auburn at age 64. She was strong in her long fight with cancer. She was born in Shelton, WA where she graduated from Shelton HS in 1979. After graduation she moved to Kent, WA where she was hired by the Boeing Co. and worked there for 30 years and retired in 2019. During her time at Boeing, she furthered her education and received an associate degree. While working there, she met Roger Jutte who w...
Bernice Pauline (Emsley) Likes, 85, passed away peacefully at home in Vancouver, WA, on November 6, 2024. Born on January 1, 1939, in Shelton, WA, Bernice was a beloved daughter of Carl and Pauline (Legall) Emsley. She spent over six decades in Shelton where she raised her daughter, Laura and enjoyed a 30-year career at Safeway, where she formed lasting relationships with her coworkers and customers. Known for her warmth and friendliness, Bernice delighted in hosting holidays, dancing, playing...
Arthur Edwin Krause, 88, a resident of Union, passed away, February 12, 2025, at Shelton Health and Rehab. Arrangements are by Funeral Home out of town. Patricia Mayberry, 85, a resident of Belfair, passed away March 19, 2025, at home. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory. Kenneth Lee Jackson, 85, a resident of Shelton, (U.S. Navy Veteran) passed away March 26, 2025, at home. Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Home and Crematory. Virginia Fischer, 81, a resident of Lilliwaup, passed away March 26, 2025, at...
