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Park Street in Shelton will be closed from Sept. 21 until Oct. 1 as Granite Construction Co. of Olympia overlays asphalt from South Seventh Street to South First Street. For decades, Park Street was a popular path to deliver logs to the Shelton waterfront, first for the Simpson Lumber Co. and now Sierra Pacific Industries. Now that route is closed to logging trucks. The Shelton City Council on July 20 gave final approval to awarding a $263,000 contract to Granite Construction to overlay asphalt...
What a difference a year makes for Cedar High School. The Shelton School District's newest school debuted last September with all 70 students in grades nine through 12 learning at home due to the pandemic, and all seven teachers are offering instruction, alone in classrooms, at CHOICE High School in downtown Shelton or from home. On Sept. 1, Cedar High School started its second year with 100 students on the 27-acre Olympic College Shelton campus. Olympic College President Marty Cavalluzzi and...
Washington state Rep. Jim Walsh (R-Aberdeen) and anti-tax activist and former gubernatorial candidate Tim Eyman are the keynote speakers at the Mason County Republicans' Reagan Day reception at 6 p.m. Sept. 25 at the Beginning Christian Church at 123 W. C St. in Shelton. Admission is $30. The fundraiser will feature beer, wine and hors d'ouevres. For more information, call Alice Wells at 360-463-9382. Walsh represents the 19th District, which includes parts of Grays Harbor, Lewis, Cowlitz,...
The Shelton City Council on Sept. 7 gave final approval to surplussing three police patrol cars. The council gave preliminary approval at its Aug. 17 meeting. All three vehicles are Crown Victorias, one model from 2004, the others from 2006 and 2008. Shelton Police Chief Carole Beason told the council on Aug. 17 that all three vehicles have “well exceeded” their lives as patrol vehicles. All three models are no longer made, and the vehicles have become too costly to maintain and are no longer safe, she said. The 2004 car was involved in an acc...
Shelton Centennial Lions selling apples The Shelton Centennial Lions are selling 40-pound boxes of fresh Fuji apples for $40 each, with the proceeds going to public projects as health screenings for Shelton students and the Shelton YMCA. The apples can be ordered by calling Bill Scholl at 360-520-6802 or email [email protected]. Orders can also be placed on the group's Facebook page. Oct. 8 is the deadline to order the apples, which will be picked in eastern Washington. Last year, the...
In the past five years, 75 people have died from drug overdoses in Mason County. Their lives were noted with 75 purple pinwheels, photos of loved ones and signs of hope as about 80 people marched Tuesday in the fifth annual Overdose Awareness Walk from Shelton’s Kneeland Park to downtown’s West Railroad Avenue and back. The event was part of an international Overdose Awareness Day. Mason County Community Services hosted the walk in Shelton, and the third annual walk Wednesday evening in Belfair. Abe Gardner, the program coordinator at Mason Cou...
City council, school board candidates advance By Gordon Weeks [email protected] With the results of Tuesday’s primary election, George W. Blush and Miguel Gutierrez will compete for a Shelton City Council seat in the Nov. 3 general election, and Stephanie Schlitz and Robert B. Clark will face off for a spot on the Pioneer School Board. Those were the only two contests on the ballot, with only 19.12% of the registered voters casting ballots, according to the Mason County Auditor’s Off...
