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For the first time since 2019, downtown Shelton hosted a full weekend of Forest Festival events, including the Paul Bunyan Grand Parade. Thousands lined downtown streets to take in the parade, logging show and carnival for the festival, which took place Thursday through Sunday. Rain drops and downpours, and the threatening black clouds in between, didn't prevent thousands of people from flocking to downtown Shelton last weekend for the return of the Mason County Forest Festival following a...
The Shelton City Council on Tuesday voted 4-3 to pass new animal ordinances that allow residents to own five hens, but no roosters, on residential lots of up to 5,999 square feet, and up to 12 hens on lots between 6,000 square feet and 1 acre. By another 4-3 vote, the council also removed a proposal to require the registration of cats. The proposal called for a $25 per year charge, or a lifetime license with the insertion of a microchip. Mayor Eric Onisko called the proposal to license cats “silly” and said he doesn’t want the city’s code of...
CHOICE High School celebrated the graduation of 37 students at a commencement ceremony June 2 in the Shelton High School Performing Arts District. CHOICE Principal Stacey Anderson pointed out the members of the Class of 2022 weathered a challenging education that included learning from home during part of the COVID pandemic and then returning, wearing face masks and social distancing, to the campus in downtown Shelton. "You'll always be a CHOICE (wild)cat, no matter where you go," she said....
The 19 new Cedar High School graduates arrived in style June 3 at their commencement ceremony at the Shelton High School Performing Arts Center. Ninety minutes before the start of the event, members of four local car clubs - the Yesteryear Car Club, Wheels of Hope, Test of Time and Kitsap Street Roadsters - pulled into the parking lot at Olympic College Shelton, the high school's home for the past year. Students in ceremonial robes and sashes picked their mode of transport. How about the sleek...
“Socks!” I couldn’t remember the woman’s name who was walking toward me last week in the hall of the gym I go to. She worked in a drive-through coffee shop I frequented before the plague started. The shop closed, and I’ve seen her just once since then. As she approached, I couldn’t remember her name, so I settled on trying to get her attention by saying the word “socks” when she was a step or two past me. She kept on. She and I had deal going before the plague. Instead of me giving her a do...
Homeless ordinance Editor, the Journal, A new homeless camping permit ordinance for the city of Shelton was discussed at the Shelton City Council meeting on May 24, 2022. There are plenty of rules and restrictions. Who will be responsible for enforcement? City Manager Jeff Niten stated that we do not have the jail space or shelter space to enforce the codes we have now, then he stated this ordinance is about giving our code enforcement officers and police officers the tools necessary to address...
Women can try welding at free workshop Olympic College Shelton hosts a free “Women in Welding” workshop from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. June 18 at the campus at 937 West Alpine Way. Attendees can try welding and create a metal rose. Students must be 18 and older to register. The workshop includes all the welding materials, instruction and lunch. For more information or to register, call 360-475-7480 or careercenter@olympicedu. You can also register at ocwomeninweldingshelton.eventbrite.com. Hospital Auxiliary awards 17 scholarships Mason General Hos...
In 1913, Ida Finch had only her youngest son to care for and was beginning to feel lonely and unneeded. For most of her life, activities in Hoodsport had rotated around Ida and her family. She had created the school, the Sunday School and the Literary Society, entertained, provided lodging to travelers heading for Lake Cushman (even managed the Antlers Hotel for one summer), helped with the births of babies, made trips to Seattle to bring back supplies for the school. Now, at age 47 and knowing...
Doris Mae Auseth was born Doris Hovind, on March 5, 1926, in Brinsmade, ND to Alice and Albert Hovind. She died May 26, 2022 in Shelton, WA. With a life spanning 96 years, she had many tales to tell. Her dad farmed a section of land where she was born and raised until drought and the Great Depression directed them to Shelton, Washington. She went to school at Irene S. Reed High School (now SHS) where she first fell in love with Victor Auseth, a good friend of her only brother Buzz Hovind. She...
Donate blood to help ease shortage People can donate blood June 15-17 at Prince of Peace Catholic Church, 1171 NE Sand Hill Road, Belfair. To make an appointment with Bloodworks Northwest, call 1-800-398-7888 or go to Schedule.BloodworksNW.org. Join others for stroll of Bayshore Preserve Capitol Land Trust and the Shelton Timberland Library host an evening stroll at 6:30 p.m. June 21 at the Bayshore Preserve at 3800 state Route 3, about 3 miles north of downtown Shelton. Participants will gather at the kiosk in the parking lot. The 1.5-mile...
Thomas John Wittenberg passed from this life on Saturday, May 21, 2022, at the age of 62. Tom grew up in Shelton and settled nearby, where he could pursue his love of the outdoors and enjoyed hiking, skiing, shell-fishing and boating. He was a 1977 graduate of Shelton High School and attended Olympic College, Clover Park Technical and South Puget Sound College. He started his career in Laboratory Medicine and had recently retired from his 2nd career as an IT Server Specialist for WSDOT. A man...
East Agate Loop Road closure starts June 27 Mason County commissioners approved a county road closure of East Agate Loop Road to replace the upper Uncle Johns Creek culvert on East Agate Loop Road. According to the information packet, the culvert will be replaced in July by Redside Construction and the road will be closed at 7 a.m. June 27 and reopen at 4 p.m. July 25 from milepost 1.0120 to 1.140. The road will be closed so in-water work can begin the first day of the “fish-window” July 1. Closure information will be posted on the Mason Cou...
Marcia Wills, 78, a resident of Seattle, passed away May 28, 2022, at home. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory. Don Edward Nelson, 88, a resident of Allyn, passed away May 28, 2022, at Mason General Hospital. Arrangements are by Forest Funeral Home and Crematory. Susan Dunn, 67, a resident of Belfair, passed away June 2, 2022, at home. Arrangements are by McComb & Wagner Family Funeral Home and Crematory. Linda Swope, 74, a resident of Olympia, passed away June 2, 2022, in Olympia. Arrangements are by McComb...
U.S. 101 bridge repairs scheduled for June 17-20 U.S. Highway 101 over Shelton-Matlock Road will be repaired June 17 to 20 in both directions. According to a state Department of Transportation news release, the repairs will begin at 8 p.m. June 17 and last until 6 a.m. June 20. Both directions of 101 will detour to the city center and Matlock exits and drivers will return to the highway via exit ramps. Flaggers will keep drivers moving and it will add travel time to people traveling the Olympic Peninsula. From 7 p.m. June 20 to 6 a.m. June 21,...
After four seasons on Netflix, and six years at the forefront of pop culture consciousness, I'm suddenly hearing a lot of people ask what "Stranger Things" is all about, even though its focus has hardly shifted. "Stranger Things" is set almost entirely during the 1980s, and mostly in the American Midwest, and revolves around a loosely affiliated group of teens and tweens, plus their occasionally present parents. The group members have overcome their adolescent relationship drama to band...
Anyone who swings by the Skyline Drive-In Theater in Shelton tonight (June 9) can catch a two-hour-long screening of 22 short student films from The Evergreen State College Mediaworks department, all for free. Gates to the theater open for “Stars at the Skyline” at 8 p.m., with the screening set to commence around 9 p.m., depending on when it turns sufficiently dark. Mediaworks faculty members Suree Towfighnia and Julia Zay said they’re excited to share the work of their students, inclu...
North Mason School Board members marked the deaths of two people before recognizing the civil service of two others during their May 19 meeting. District 4 Director John Campbell moved to amend the meeting’s agenda to discuss sending the board’s condolences to the family of Shelton-Mason County Journal columnist Mark Woytowich, who died May 6. Campbell described Woytowich as an environmentalist, activist and “very good friend” of the North Mason School District who helped make the communi...
More Chapter meetings, gardening, cleaning house, ironing, daily swimming in the canal and guess what? President Truman drove through Belfair. I bet that was exciting. Starting to get warmer too. Friday, June 4, 1948 Arose early and caught the 8:30 boat and visited with Eleanor Orcutt on the way over. Then to meeting and it was very interesting. We had over 30 girls out. Then I did a little shopping and went up to see the doctor. He said I was OK so I caught the 4:30 boat. Eleanor Orcutt was on...
Erik Youngberg, the new director of District 1 on the North Mason School District Board of Directors, assumed another role during the board’s May 19 when District 3 Director Laura Boad nominated him to be the board’s Washington Interscholastic Activities Association representative for the 2022-23 school year. Youngberg accepted the position. District 5 Director Arla Shephard Bull said the WIAA is “the organization governing athletics, interscholastic activity and competitions in Washi...
