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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...
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...
Shelton High School’s talent show on Friday showcased 17 acts by students, and teacher Aimee DeVaughn singing “Landslide,” before an enthusiastic audience in the school’s Performing Arts Center. Students Hunter Middleton and Joshua Lockhart organized the show....
Compared with 2023, the number of arrests and police citations increased last year in the City of Shelton, while reported burglaries and sexual assaults decreased. Homicides decreased from three in 2023 to zero in 2024. Those are among the numbers Shelton Police Chief Chris Kostad presented in his department’s annual report for 2024 at a Shelton City Council study session March 25 in the Shelton Civic Center. The department in 2024 has 17 commissioned officers and two civilian employees. Three of the officers are new. During the year, officers...
The City of Shelton's Transportation Benefit District tax, passed by voters in 2015, is set to expire and the Shelton City Council on Tuesday night gave preliminary approval to put a proposed extension of the tax before voters on the Aug. 25 primary election ballot. The council can make the move official with a second vote at the meeting at 6 p.m. April 15 in the Shelton Civic Center. In May 2015, the then-Shelton City Commission established the Shelton Transportation Benefit District to...
Residents of Hama Hama Fire District 17 will vote on a proposed levy lid lift on the April 22 ballot, and if that passes, on a proposed merger into Hoodsport Fire and EMS District 18 on the Aug. 5 ballot. On the April 22 ballot, residents will be asked to increase their tax rate from $0.724 to $0.890 per $1,000 of assessed property value so their tax rate matches Hoodsport Fire's tax rate. If that measure is approved, voters in District 17 will be asked to approve a merger on the August ballot....
Wallace Kneeland crosswalk will be improved The Shelton City Council on Tuesday gave final approval to pay SCJ Alliance $40,000 to improve the safety design for the midblock pedestrian crossing next to Oakland Bay Junior High School on Wallace Kneeland Boulevard. The council gave preliminary approval at its March 18 meeting. The city budgeted money in the 2025 budget to cover the expenses for the design work. According to the city report by the Public Works Department, money will be budgeted...
Winfried Danke, chief operating officer at Mason Health in Shelton, has been selected to participate in the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program this year. Danke is one of 17 people who are set to begin a yearlong leadership development experience in the program this month, Mason Health announced in a news release. The competitively selected fellows will gain one-on-one access to Baldrige Award recipients, recognized as role-model organizations across all sectors of the U.S. economy. Danke has extensive senior leadership experience in...
Mason County Board of Health voted to keep Happy Garden Chinese Restaurant closed at a permit revocation appeal hearing March 25. Health inspectors revoked the restaurant’s food establishment permit Feb. 27 after the Shelton business at 124 N 1st St. failed multiple inspections. “The department has closed Happy Garden Chinese Restaurant three times in the past six months due to significant food safety code violations. The condition of the facility and its operation pose a significant public health threat. As a result, the department chose to...
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 1 through 12 can participate. Everyone is welcome to attend. For more information, call the church at 360-898-7855. Local authors in Hoodsport About 20 local authors will read from their works and autograph copies of their books from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 12 at St. Germain Church, 600 Lake Cushman Road, Hoodsport. The authors include Rebecca Holbrook, Darlene Ramirez, Paul S...
Open enrollment underway The Shelton School District is conducting open enrollment for students who live within the district’s boundaries, including students entering kindergarten. The enrollment also includes intra-district transfers. Students who live in the district who want to transfer from one elementary school to another must complete an intra-district request each year. Choice transfer requests must be completed by district students who want to attend school in another district, or students who live outside of the Shelton School D...
The Ace Hardware Store in Hoodsport last month moved from 24151 N. U.S. Highway, where it was attached to Hood Canal Grocery, to 150 N. Lake Cushman Road, next to the Hoodsport Visitor Information Center. The offerings inside the building include chain saws, leaf blowers, lawn mowers, paint, barbecues, tiki torches and food for animals. "The community has expressed with great feeling that we're building a bigger store, and offering lumber, and offering rentals next year," said General Manager...
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 sheltonkiwanis.weebly.com/scholarships.html. April 15 is the deadline to apply. For more information, email sheltonkiwani...
The Belfair library and the Hood Canal Salmon Enhancement Group will release aquarium fry at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Theler Wetlands Trail, 22641 state Route 3, in Belfair, by the Theler Exhibit Center. The fry hatched from eggs in a library aquarium. "Each year, we set up the aquarium in December in anticipation of receiving about 250 chum eggs from the McKernan Hatchery in January. This tank can be viewed by anyone during the library's open hours. The tank also has been accompanied by a...
A permanent speed reduction from 45 mph to 40 mph is coming to state Route 300 between milepost 0.35, near Belfair State Park, and milepost 2.84, near Union River, according to the state Department of Transportation. Travelers could notice new speed signs as soon as Tuesday. WSDOT made the change after reviewing speed studies, according to a news release. The new speed limit is enforceable as soon as signs are installed. State Route 302 speed limit in Victor now permanent State Route 302 in...
New president at North Mason Chamber North Mason Chamber of Commerce President Stephanie Rowland announced she is stepping down and Kerry London Myers will be the new chamber president, according to a statement from Board Chair Mendy Harlow. “After guiding us through a pivotal time of change over the past year, Stephanie Rowland has made the decision to step down as Chamber president. We are incredibly grateful to Stephanie for coming out of retirement and stepping up when the Chamber needed her most. Her steady leadership and deep c...
The City of Shelton once again employs a Designated Crisis Responder, one of the recommendations by the city’s now-dissolved homelessness task force. At its March 18 meeting, the Shelton City Council, as part of its consent agenda, contracted with Olympic Health and Recovery Services for a DCR who helps people who are experiencing a mental health crisis. During the summer and early fall of 2022, the city convened a homelessness task force to address concerns in the community and determine consensus recommendations to be considered by the C...
A Shelton man who acted as controller for a Shelton manufacturing company has been sentenced to a year in prison for embezzling more than $665,000 in company funds. Jesse Arden Sherman, 63, of Elma, was the controller and chief financial officer for Sims Vibration Laboratory doing business as LimbSaver, an outdoor equipment company manufacturing archery and firearms accessories, among other items, in Shelton. Sherman “manually created payroll checks to himself” for more than his approved salary, signed the checks on behalf of SVL, then recorded...
The Squaxin Island Tribe has recently disenrolled numerous members and plans to remove more, according to several people who spoke with the Journal about their experience. The former members said they were given 30 days to provide documentation to the Tribal Council. “We feel it’s a very unfair process,” said Jack Selvidge, who was recently disenrolled. Selvidge is working on getting documents about his grandmother’s land holdings from Washington, D.C., something that takes longer than 30 days, he said. “A lot of these records are no longer in...
8th District Reps. Travis Couture and Dan Griffey, both Republicans from Allyn, and state Sen. Drew MacEwen, R-Shelton, took questions from constituents via a town hall phone call Tuesday. Participants could listen, ask questions or leave a recorded message for the legislators. Questions were limited to Washington state, not “the other Washington,” as the moderator said. Several callers asked about new taxes and wanted to know the legislators’ positions. One caller said his property taxes had risen more than 30% over last year’s bill but his...
A renovated cafeteria, expanded space for eye care and new conference room spaces are among the improvements underway at Mason General. Mason Health is undergoing a series of construction projects this spring that align with the district's campus master plan. According to a news release from Mason General, these projects "will further Mason Health's mission of united community, empowered people, exceptional health by expanding services for patients, ensuring the District can continue to provide...
