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Central Mason Fire and EMS received an "all call" dispatch May 3 after a commercial structure fire broke out at All West Coast Auto Wrecking north of Shelton on state Route 3. According to a news release from CMFE, crews arrived within minutes to a 60-by-150 foot automotive warehouse with heavy fire and black smoke. The fire burned about 40 vehicles and several hundred tires, and was fueled by 3,500 gallons of waste fuel including gas, diesel and oil. "I've been in the business for 36 years....
Shelton High School was put into lockdown on Thursday due to a swatting call. According to a City of Shelton Facebook post, Shelton Police along with the Mason County Sheriff’s Office, Squaxin Island Police and Skokomish Police responded to an apparent swatting call Thursday morning at the high school. The original call that was received was a student in the parking lot had an AR-15. After a search of the campus by authorities, there was nothing found and no signs of a shooting. There were s...
Hurricane Ridge Lodge fire Hurricane Ridge Day Lodge went up in flames Sunday afternoon. According to a National Park Service news release, nobody was in the structure at the time of the fire and no injuries were reported. Clallam County Fire District 2 and Port Angeles Fire Department responded to the fire. The lodge was being renovated since March 27 and was closed to visitors. The 17-mile mountain road leading up to the building was closed since construction began. Park officials say the structure appears to be a complete loss. The building...
A public hearing is scheduled for 1 p.m. May 24 by the Mason County Hearing Examiner for Taylor Shellfish’s application for a permit to grow Pacific oysters and install a floating oyster bag array in Oakland Bay. According to a notice of application and public hearing document from Mason County Community Development, the permit would allow Taylor Shellfish to use an estimated 9.1 acres of surface water. The 9.1 acres would be part of 50 acres of land on two underwater parcels in Oakland Bay. T...
Mason County Auditor Steve Duenkel made some changes after taking office in January, including moving the Auditor's offices upstairs in Building 1 of the county downtown campus. "Everybody has their workstation and office upstairs, allowed us to reorganize and redesign the ballot processing center to really make things more efficient and to accommodate more election observers," Duenkel told the Journal. "(Upstairs), we just wanted to get everyone more integrated with an eye toward better...
State Reps. Dan Griffey and Travis Couture, Republicans from Allyn, and Sen. Drew MacEwen, R-Shelton, wrapped up the regular legislative session April 23. On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Inslee said he intends to call a special session on May 16 to address the state’s drug possession law. Child malnutrition Couture’s bill, House Bill 1274, to help prevent child malnutrition was signed into law by Inslee on April 13. The bill is the first from Couture, in his first year as a representative, to pass bot...
Central Mason has training exercise Central Mason Fire and EMS participated in a training burn Saturday at 920 Dearborn Ave. in Shelton. According to a news release, the burn occurred at an old building that belonged to Harvest Foursquare Church. It was an opportunity for CMFE staff and volunteers to train on a live fire and learn how unpredictable fire in a building can be. To have a training burn, guidelines set by the state include permitting through the City of Shelton and the Olympic...
Grants rejected for two area ballfields Mason County commissioners approved withdrawing from two Washington Wildlife and Recreation Program grant requests for Union and Sandhill Park multipurpose field and to not accept the Youth Athletic Facilities program grant request at the April 25 meeting. According to the information packet, county parks and trails applied for a Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office grant May 1, 2022, to assist with adding a synthetic ball field to Sandhill...
The Highclimbers host the state powerlifting championships at 8 a.m. Saturday at the Mini-Dome. The Shelton girls powerlifting team finished second and the boys placed third at a competition April 15 at Snohomish High School. According to Shelton High School's Betsy Haskins, Nevaeh Haskins and Amanda Cruz-Santos won their weight classes. Judy Gaze, Raquel Ruiz and Aurora Marcy finished second and Ali Cheatham placed third. Shelton boys Johnny Morales, Scott Jordan and Noah Wilbur each placed sec...
Shelton baseball The Highclimber baseball team wrapped up the regular season with four Evergreen Conference games last week. Shelton opened the week April 25 with a 2-1 win at home against Black Hills before going to Tumwater to face the Wolves on April 26 and lost 7-4. The Highclimbers hosted Tumwater on Thursday for senior day, losing 14-4 and wrapped up the regular season with a 16-12 loss on the road Friday against Rochester. Shelton (10-10) is in third in the EvCo and waits to find out who...
The Shelton-Mason County Chamber of Commerce hosted its annual awards gala on Friday at Little Creek Casino Resort. Winners of each category were announced, including Bradley Air Co. winning Business of the Year. Boss of the Year went to Gina Finley of Turning Pointe Survivor Advocacy Center and Citizen of the Year was awarded to Justin Baze and Rookie of the Year went to O'Connell Archery. Nonprofit of the Year was awarded to Shelton Family YMCA and Volunteer of the Year went to John Lester of...
Olympic College Shelton hosted a resource fair for current and potential students April 19 throughout the campus. Booths were spread out between the main building, library and outside, with many community groups in attendance. "I was pleasantly surprised at the number of attendants that we had at the Resource Fair," OC Shelton Director Allison Smith wrote in an email to the Journal. "I saw numerous community members who were unfamiliar to me on campus that day and that is one of the objectives o...
Geist appointed to parks board Mason County commissioners appointed Kathleen Geist to the Parks Advisory Board at the April 11 meeting. According to the information packet, the Parks & Trails Advisory Board consists of seven members serving four-year terms with one alternate appointed by county commissioners, with an effort to fill the board with two members from each of the three commissioner districts and one "at-large" member. The purpose of the board is to provide guidance, direction and...
CMFE extinguishes residential fire Central Mason Fire and EMS extinguished a residential structure fire off of Anthony Road in Shelton early Sunday morning. According to a news release, crews arrived on scene to find a double-wide mobile home engulfed. After an interior search and fire attack, crews were able to confine the fire and stop flames from spreading. The fire caused flame and smoke damage throughout the structure and no injuries were reported. The cause of the fire is under...
The Hood Canal girls and boys basketball teams showed improvement throughout the 2022-23 season. According to Hood Canal School Assistant Principal Steven Torres, the girls team finished 8-3 after starting out 1-2. "The girls were competitive and fought hard regardless of the competition," Torres wrote in an email. "The girls were led by eighth-graders Autumn Wily, Rosa Leclair-Hernandez, Maliyah Sandoval and numerous other key contributors. This season the girls team showed its ability to play...
North Mason baseball The Bulldogs dropped four games last week in Olympic League baseball. North Mason lost a doubleheader in Port Angeles 10-0 and 11-3 on April 18. The Bulldogs lost 16-0 to North Kitsap in Poulsbo on April 19. The Bulldogs went back up the Olympic Peninsula on Monday to face Sequim and lost 6-5. North Mason (1-11, 1-10) hosted Sequim on Wednesday and faces Bainbridge on Friday in Belfair on senior day. The Bulldogs wrap up the regular season on the road in Bainbridge on Monday. North Mason boys soccer North Mason boys soccer...
One person is dead and four others injured, including one critically, in a series of weekend shootings across Mason County. On Saturday, Shelton Police responded to three shootings within four hours, according to a Shelton PD news release. The first occurred at 7:38 p.m. near East Fir and Otter streets in Shelton’s Capitol Hill neighborhood and was determined to be a homicide. Officers arrived to find two victims, one dead and another critically injured with multiple gunshot wounds. The i...
Community members met at the Matlock Grange last Saturday as recall petitions for Mason County Fire District 12 commissioners began collecting signatures. According to minutes from the meeting written by Trina Young and provided to the Journal, recall backers have two weeks to gather signatures. Once the petition signatures have been validated by early May, the community will know whether the special election can proceed and be on the ballot in August. If Fire District 12 commissioners Albert...
Assessor’s Office renewal applications The Mason County’s Assessor’s Office mailed renewal applications this week to exempt recipients on the Senior Citizens and Disabled Persons Exemption from Real Property Taxes program. According to a news release, the intended recipients live in Union, Hoodsport, Lake Cushman, Colony Surf, Lilliwaup, Harstine Island, Pickering, Spencer Lake, Phillips Lake, Timberlake, Agate, Shorecrest and surrounding areas. Applications need to be submitted by June 30. For more information, contact the Assessor’s Office...
Old Belfair Highway project Mason County commissioners approved an update to the project limits of the Old Belfair Highway county road project at the April 11 meeting. According to the information packet, commissioners approved a resolution May 21, 2019, for Old Belfair Highway to widen and realign a portion of the road. The project includes an extension of an existing structural plate aluminum arch culvert as well as improving the road geometrics to a 50 mph design standard. Public Works received Rural Arterial Trust Account money from the Cou...
Shelton's Mason Goos, Bradley Eleton and Blaze Andrews all signed to play college football at a signing ceremony at the Student Union Building at Shelton High School on Monday. Goos signed to play at Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon. Goos was a three-year starting quarterback for the Highclimbers and is the all-time Shelton leader in career passing yards. "It's been crazy. I didn't think I was going to play football in high school and then sophomore year, Andy Conklin reached out to...
Shelton won both the boys and girls team titles in an Evergreen Conference dual meet at Highclimber Stadium last Thursday. In girls action, Kennadi Ward won the 100-meter dash in 14.14 seconds and Maddie Allred won the 200-meter dash in 30.48 seconds. Magdalena Vondrousova won the 800-meter dash in 2 minutes, 40 seconds and Lily Bennett won the 1,600-meter race in 5:45.44. Maryjane Hageman won the 100-meter hurdles in 18.11 seconds and the 300-meter hurdles in 58.30 seconds. The 4x100 relay team...
North Mason girls golf The North Mason girls golf team lost to Bainbridge 250-179 in an Olympic League match April 12 at Wing Point Country Club on Bainbridge Island. The Bulldogs hosted Olympic at LakeLand Village on Tuesday and host Sequim today at LakeLand Village in a league match. North Mason boys golf North Mason boys golf lost to Bainbridge 253-169 in an Olympic League match April 12 at Wing Point Country Club on Bainbridge Island. The Bulldogs host Sequim today in a league match at LakeLand Village. North Mason boys soccer The Bulldogs...
The Shelton High School baseball team earned a walk-off nonleague win against Bremerton in extra innings after dropping two Evergreen Conference games against W.F. West last week. The Highclimbers lost 10-0 and 9-8 in an EvCo doubleheader April 12 in Shelton. Shelton hosted Bremerton on Friday and won on a walk-off in the eighth inning 5-4. Mason Goos scored the winning run. Shelton (8-6, 4-4) hosted Rochester in an EvCo doubleheader Wednesday. The Highclimbers host Tumwater on Friday in an...
Girls golf Shelton dropped two Evergreen Conference matches last week to Centralia and Black Hills. The Highclimbers lost to Centralia 73-40 on April 12 at Alderbrook Golf Course. Gabby Stevens led Shelton with 13 points, Alena Hall added 11 points and Gwen Smith tallied eight points. Ali Sorley and Bri Sanders each recorded four points and Morgen Shrum rounded out the Highclimbers with one point. Shelton traveled to Tumwater Valley Golf Course on Monday and lost 73-22 to Black Hills. Hall led the Highclimbers with 13 points and Shrum totaled...
