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After working for Mason County for a decade, Frank Pinter has decided it is time to spend more time with his friends and family. Pinter started working for the county in October 2011. He started as finance manager for the Mason County Sheriff’s Office before moving to budget manager for the county. He then became the Support Services Director before taking over as interim County Administrator prior to his retirement. He joined the county because he wanted to work close to home and work for t...
Agencies receive tourism tax money The Shelton City Council on Tuesday followed the recommendation of its Lodging Tax Advisory Committee and awarded $65,758 to agencies that help bring tourists to town. The money comes from the collection of lodging taxes from hotels and motels in the city. The council gave preliminary approval at its Oct. 5 meeting. In the committee’s recommendation, “Borders,” a celebration of Mason County’s arts legacy, received $5,010. The Kristmas Town Kiwanis received $7,000 for its annual Bluegrass from the Forest...
The Shelton City Council on Oct. 19 declared seven city properties surplus and make them available for purchase. The council gave preliminary approval at its Oct. 5 meeting. The council is required to hold a public hearing on the surplus of any property originally acquired for pubic utility purposes. No one spoke during the public hearing in the proposal. The properties include four adjoining 0.21-acre lots of West Harvard Avenue, with estimated values between $32,380 and $33,035. Two other...
No one spoke during a public hearing Oct. 19 on the City of Shelton’s proposed $41.1 million budget for 2022. The Shelton City Council will host a second public hearing on the proposed budget at its meeting at 6 p.m. Nov. 16. The budget must be adopted before the end of the year. The $41,146,160 in proposed expenditures includes $15,097,780 for the general fund, $1,872,280 for the street fund, $2,986,620 for the capital resources fund, $62.900 for the tourism fund, $177,300 for the bond fund, $2,883,800 for the capital improvement fund, $...
Sheriff’s Office gets approval for interview room video recording system The Mason County commissioners approved the purchase of a new interview room video recording system for the Mason County Sheriff’s Office at Tuesday’s meeting. According to the information packet, House Bill 1223 was passed during the 2021 legislative session and takes effect. Jan. 1, which requires recordings to be made for most interviews. The current equipment at the Sheriff’s Office was purchased in 2013 and needed to be replaced. The office recently purchased body an...
County commissioners approved Primitive Road designations at the Oct. 12 meeting. According to the information packet, the designation provides lower liability for warning signing on low volume unpaved access roads. Roads with 100 vehicles or fewer per day are eligible. Public works staff reviewed the current list to update the list. The list of primitive roads includes Ford Loop Road, Kelly Hall Road, Beerbower Road, White Road, Rock Creek Road, Waldrip Road, Ellis Road, Cove Drive, Squaxin Drive, Maples Road, Cemetery Road, Yates Road, Four...
Seven bridges had designation changes at the Oct. 12 commissioners meeting after Mason County Public Works inspections. According to the information, Stretch Island and Rossmaier bridges each had maximum load limits established. Hliboki, Gosnell Creek, Eich Road, Eich and Carlson bridges each were established as one-lane travel bridges....
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced businesses to learn how to adapt, and almost 18 months later, those pandemic changes keep coming and businesses are getting used to having to adjust at a moment’s notice. As of Sept. 28, the state has an indoor mask mandate regardless of vaccination status, unless you are eating or drinking at certain businesses. President Joe Biden announced in mid-September a vaccine requirement for all businesses with more than 100 employees. The Economic Development C...
Mason County recorded 124 in the past week, a decrease of 11 cases from the previous week. The county recorded two more deaths, bringing the total in Mason County to 55. As of Tuesday, there are six people hospitalized in Mason County and one hospitalized outside of Mason County. Director of Community Services Dave Windom said at Tuesday’s Mason County Board of Health meeting that the hospital has more available beds now then they have had in the past couple of weeks. The county has had 259 c...
Former Washington Department of Fish Wildlife employees have released a paper, arguing for the halting of current levels of harvesting Chinook salmon populations in the Pacific Ocean. The paper is co-authored by Ed Wickersham and Jack Tipping. Wickersham has a BS in Biology from Western Washington University and worked more than 30 years in Fish and Wildlife Law Enforcement. He also spent four years with NOAA monitoring foreign fishing fleets in the north Pacific and Bering Sea. Tipping has a BS in Fisheries from the University of Washington...
Research ecologist Chad Hanson, author of “Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate,” addressed the Mason County League of Women Voters about his book during its Sept. 21 membership meeting. Hanson hiked the Pacific Crest Trail from Mexico to Canada with his older brother in 1989, and witnessed the logging of public lands. He said the attendant “loss and devastation of wild places” made a lasting impression on his political outlook. Hanson illustrated how peo...
Mason County commissioners amended a contract with Kennedy-Jenks for two projects extending sewer service to the Puget Sound Industrial Center at the Sept. 14 meeting. According to the information packet, the two projects are the sewer system pre-design report and general sewer plan amendment and the sewer system design. The contract had four previous amendments. The fifth amendment adds a construction inspection for the southern half of the Belfair sewer extension mainline. It also adds an inspection from the railroad crossing to the existing...
Mason County commissioners approved the purchase of two electronic reader boards. According to the information packet, Public Works authorized the purchase of two trailer-mounted electronic message reader boards in 2009. Both reader boards are no longer operable or repairable due to vandalism and Public Works asked to replace the two reader boards with new reader boards. The county will purchase the reader boards through a state contract for $35,630.51 for two reader boards. The money will come from the road fund budget....
Mason County Public Works has been authorized by the county commissioners to purchase a handheld sign retro-reflectometer with an extension pole. According to the information packet, the retro-reflectometer is designed to measure the retro-reflection of road signs and other material. The county’s road sign reflectively is measured visually at night and this purchase will allow technicians to achieve a more accurate reading to ensure the county’s signs are following the manual on traffic uniform control devices minimum requirements. The cos...
The Mason County commissioners approved the purchase of a 16.2-acre parcel of property from Mason PUD 3. According to the information packet, the property is on West Dayton Airport Road between the Washington Corrections Center and Shelton Auto Parts. The purpose of purchasing the property is for sorting county archive documents, possible facilities substation, possible evidence storage and a future location for a county jail. The parcel will be purchased through REET 1 money for $320,000....
Mason County commissioners approved a sole source agreement to purchase a keying system for the Mason County Jail from Morse Watchman. According to the information packet, the current system for tracking keys at the jail is a manual system that requires several hours of time, considering regular duties of the understaffed jail are time consuming. Research for an automatic keying system for the jail concluded there was one system that fulfilled the needs for the jail, which is the same system used in Kitsap County. The system would allow the...
County commissioners approved a sale of property to the Skokomish Tribe for $1,664. According to the information packet, the property is on U.S. Highway 101....
Devyn Anunta of Tahuya and Desolee Bang of Shelton earned spots on the President’s List for the summer quarter at Southern New Hampshire University. To be eligible, a full-time student must earn a GPA of 3.7 or better....
Marty Best was sworn in as the newest member of the Shelton School Board at its Sept. 14 meeting. “Congratulations Marty, we’re pleased to have you on the board,” said School Board President Sally Karr. Best, a Shelton resident who works as the administrative services manager for Grays Harbor Transit, will represent district Position 2 on the five-member board. He replaces Lynn Eaton, who resigned in June after moving out of her director district. Best is the only name on the ballot for the position in the Nov. 2 general elect...
