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Dedicated to the citizens of Mason County, Washington since 1886
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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...
Since nature abhors a vacuum, I replace whatever I can with something discharging a similar function. On my property that means subbing out a lot of red alder. These pioneer trees are enriching cleared soil for western cedar, Douglas fir, western hemlock and bigleaf maple. Red alders fix nitrogen from the atmosphere so that adequate resources for forest succession will exist when they fall over or rot away from multiple alder borer wounds. All this rotting and falling can be dangerous, but the...
