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So, you want to serve on the Shelton City Council? May 15 to 19 is the time to file for one of the three council positions open on the November election ballot. On April 25, about two dozen potential candidates attended a "City Government 101" presentation at the Shelton Civic Center to get a better understanding about the position, and how the city departments function. Seven city officials gave presentations on their duties. Interim City Manager Mark Ziegler began by outlining some basics...
Free trash disposal for city residents City of Shelton residents can dispose of household garbage and trash for free between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. May 13 and 20 at the intersection of First and Grove streets, the former Mell’s lot in downtown Shelton. Dumpers must show identification with home address or a utility bill to prove they live in the city limits. Prohibited items include construction materials, mattresses, box springs, tires, medication, hazardous waste, and such bulky appliances as refrigerators, air conditioners, washers and driers. Ci...
Deadline Friday for Pioneer scholarships The Pioneer Kiwanis Club will award $10,000 in scholarships to students who live in the Pioneer School District or attended Pioneer schools. Eligible are students who are graduating this year from high school or completed a GED and have been accepted to college or trade school. Friday is the deadline to apply, and application forms are available at the counseling offices at Shelton, CHOICE, North Mason and Cedar high schools. Information: Lee Strohm at 206-755-4652 or Pamela Harrell at 360-490-0954....
Truss Show and Plant Sale May 13-14 The Shelton Rhododendron Society hosts its annual Truss Show and Plant Sale May 13 and 14 at Outdoors by Design, 221 state Route 3, Shelton. Information: [email protected]. Grant School hosts plant, art, bake sale The Pickering Community Club hosts its annual Plant, Art & Bake Sale from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 13 at the Grant School, 151 E. Community Club Road. Annuals, perennials, vegetable starts, succulents, ornamentals and native plants are on sale....
The Matlock Old-Timers Historical Fair is hosted from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at Mary M. Knight School. Engine enthusiasts can marvel at the Steam Donley and antique tractors. Inside the gym, patrons can find bargains at the swap meet tables, listen to live music and create crafts. Thrill-seekers can plummet down the giant pink slider. Admission is free. The school is at 2987 Matlock-Brady Road. The displays include World War II vehicles, some of them still...
After members of the Shelton High School Drama Club considered possible plays to stage this spring, they whittled their choices to "Beetlejuice" or "The Addams Family Musical." This illustrates their current mood for black comedy, said Wendy Burr, adviser to the group and an arts and CTE instructor at the school. Burr directs the school's production of "The Addams Family Musical" at 6:30 p.m. Friday, and 2:30 and 6:30 p.m. Saturday in the school's Performing Arts Center. Tickets are $10 for...
Initial results of Tuesday's special election show voters approving the merger of Mason County Fire Protection District 11 based at Island Lake with Central Mason Fire & EMS based in downtown Shelton. The proposal to renew of a property tax levy for Mason County Fire Protection District 3 in Grapeview is also passing. The merger was passing with 283 "yes" votes for 65.66%, with 148 "no" votes for 34.34%. Grapeview's renewal levy had 573 "yes" votes for 73.56%, and 206 "no" votes for 26.44%. Both...
A 95-year-old decorated World War II veteran who later tutored Pioneer Schools students was recently honored by the state House of Representatives. State Rep. Travis Couture, R-Allyn, introduced House Resolution 4639, which honors Burton Stoltz, who lives in the Agate area. The House unanimously passed the resolution April 7. In a news release, Couture said it was "an honor and a pleasure" to present the resolution to Stoltz on his 95th birthday. "Burt is a WWII Navy veteran and treasured in...
Pioneer students, alumni eligible for scholarships The Pioneer Kiwanis Club will award $10,000 in scholarships to students who live in the Pioneer School District or attended Pioneer schools. Eligible are students who are graduating this year from high school or completed a GED, and have been accepted to college or trade school. May 5 is the deadline to apply, and application forms are available at the counseling offices at Shelton, CHOICE, North Mason and Cedar high schools. Information: Lee Strohm at 206-755-4652 or Pamela Harrell at 360-490-...
Pioneer students, alumni eligible for scholarships The Pioneer Kiwanis Club will award $10,000 in scholarships to students who live in the Pioneer School District or attended Pioneer schools. Eligible are students who are graduating this year from high school or completed a GED, and have been accepted to college or trade school. May 5 is the deadline to apply, and application forms are available at the counseling offices at Shelton, CHOICE, North Mason and Cedar high schools. Information: Lee Strohm at 206-755-4652 or Pamela Harrell at 360-490-...
Mount St. Helens geology talk tonight Steve Cox, retired from the U.S. Geological Survey, presents a free seminar on the dynamics of Mount St. Helens and the geology connected with it at 7 tonight at Shelton Christian Church, 115 W. Arcadia Ave. The Shelton Rock and Mineral Society presents the event at its regular monthly meeting. Hood Canal Improvement Club hosts speaker Hollie Stark from the Washington Emergency Management Division will talk about "Preparing for the First 72 Hours of an Emerg...
Ginny Swarts and Betty Olson were born in 1921 and 1922, when Warren G. Harding was president, radio was new, and the movies were silent except for live musical accompaniment. This month, the two best friends at Alpine Way Continuing Care Community in Shelton celebrated their 101st and 102nd birthdays. They also celebrated a friendship born over a mutual love of music, bingo and bus trips. "We do everything together," said Swarts. She added, "We really fit like two peas in a pod." Swarts was...
Four of the five seats on the Shelton School Board are on the fall ballot. The terms of board members Keri Davidson, Sandy Tarzwell, Karla Knudsen-Johnston and Lauren Gilmore all expire at the end of the year. Matt Welander’s term representing director District 3 doesn’t expire until the end of 2025. Davidson, the board’s chair, has been on the board since 2016. In an email to the Journal, she said she plans to run for another term as the at-large position No. 2. “I first ran for the school board when my daughters were in kindergarten and fir...
City sells land to hospital district The Shelton City Council on Tuesday voted to sell two surplus properties on North 13th Street for $800,000 to Public Hospital District No. 1 of Mason County. According to the city report, the parcels "are an important opportunity for the district's long-range planning to provide critical health care facilities for the community." The parcels total 1.83 acres of steeply sloped land adjacent to Mason General Hospital. The $800,000 will go into the city's Water...
On April 12, more than 100 people molded clay to create about 260 pieces of art - mostly bowls - to benefit patrons of the Saints' Pantry Food Bank in downtown Shelton at the first of the three-night Empty Bowls fundraiser in the Shelton Civic Center. Some participants returned Wednesday to glaze the bowls. The fundraiser culminates with the purchase of soup and bread with a bowl for $10 from 5 to 7 p.m. April 26. The participating restaurants are Wilde Irish Pub, Olympic Bakery & Deli,...
Scholarships for Harstine residents The Harstine Island Women’s Club and the Judy and Charles Chase Scholarship Fund Management Committee are offering scholarships to full-time residents of Harstine Island who are entering or continuing their post high school education. Applicants must have obtained a diploma with an accredited high school program or earned a GED. Applications will be accepted through May 15. Winners will be announced by May 31. The number and amount of the scholarships will be determined at the time the scholarship r...
Celebrate Earth Day Saturday by helping remove trash from a Tahuya forest or plant trees and shrubs at the new site of the Shelton Farmers Market. Volunteers can help plant native plants, fruit trees and shrubs from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday next to the Shelton Civic Center, 425 W. Cota St. The Mason Conservation District, the Shelton Skookum Rotary Club, Shelton Youth Connection, the Shelton Farmers Market and the City of Shelton are sponsoring the event. In collaboration with the state...
Belfair Elementary School student Isabelle Hill was paying attention last June when the North Mason Regional Fire Authority hosted its annual Safety Days at her school. Now in the fifth grade, Hill recently was awakened by her grandfather, who said her grandmother was on the bathroom floor and wasn't breathing. Did she know how to perform CPR, he asked. The answer was "yes," thanks to the instruction Hill received in June. She applied her new skill, but was unable to bring her grandmother back...
Train cabooses and lighthouses, a saying goes, are two things everyone likes. So it seems extra special when a caboose, even in a battered and weathered state, returns after four decades away to the site where it was instrumental in moving the area's greatest economical resource, trees. That was the case Thursday when two trucks delivered Caboose 1201 to its former home at the Simpson Lumber Co. former sorting yard in Dayton, 10 miles west of downtown Shelton. The nonprofit Peninsular Railway &...
For the first time in seven years, the Friends of the Shelton Library will host a book sale. It's from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday on the lower level of the library at 710 W. Alder St. Hundreds of books will be on sale for $1 for paperbacks, $2 for hardbacks. Only cash will be accepted. Customers are encouraged to bring their own boxes and bags. Friends of the Shelton Library will use the sale proceeds to support library programs and events. The donated books have been kept in an off-site...
Celebrate Huff’n’Puff Trail at event Saturday The Shelton Rotary Club invites walkers and joggers of all ages to enjoy the City of Shelton’s Huff’n’Puff Trail at a special event from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday at the trail across the street from Shelton High School on Shelton Springs Road. Shelton Rotary members will be performing general maintenance, providing trail maps and details of the trail’s history, and collecting comments on the best times and dates for “community use windows,” where participants walk together with law enforcement and cit...
Shepard excelling at St. Louis University Kaitlin Shepard of Shelton earned a spot on the dean’s list for the fall semester at Washington University in St. Louis. To qualify, a student must earn a semester GPA of 3.6 or better and be enrolled in at least 14 graded units. Shepard is enrolled in the university’s College of Arts & Sciences. Making the grade at Oregon State Four students from Mason County earned spots on the scholastic honor roll for winter quarter at Oregon State University. To qualify, a student must earn a GPA of 3.5 or bet...
The heating, ventilating and air conditioning systems are failing at Oakland Bay Junior School, and windows, flooring, toilet partitions, countertops, wall coverings and lighting need to be replaced. Robert Herron, the Shelton School District's director of facilities and maintenance, presented that assessment March 28 to the Shelton School Board. A $4 million capital investment could return the school back to near-new condition, he said. "Oakland Bay is 33 years old and OSPI (the state Office of...
Stan Gabelein created stunningly realistic wildlife oil paintings for decades before he began writing at age 78. In less than two years, the Mason County resident wrote and published an autobiography and a novel. He penned the autobiography, "The Outdoorsman: Stories of a Hunting and Fishing Life," in three months. After all, he said, "I had all the information I needed." "A lot of people say they're going to write their stories, but never do," Gabelein said in an interview with the Journal at...
The City of Shelton stores a couple million gallons of water in five tanks, but needs more to meet growth. "We don't have adequate storage in our reservoir system," Jay Harris, the city's public works director, told the Shelton City Council at its March 21 meeting. "We're having a problem with new development and new connections." At that meeting, the council voted unanimously to award a $79,985 contract to the firm of BHC Consultants of Tacoma to study the city's water reservoir system and prop...
