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  • Hallman's Voices

    Ray North|Jan 2, 2025

    My son is a talented classical guitarist, and he recently began playing for us as we opened our Christmas Eve presents. Seeing everyone’s happiness and gratitude for their gifts filled my heart with joy. It was especially remarkable that my son could join us. He had been unwilling or unable to attend most of our family gatherings for too many years. His mother’s sudden death when he was 10 years old. Then, four years later, a life-changing frontal lobe traumatic brain injury that resulted in poor decision-making. Years later I was relieved to...

  • Hallman's Voices

    Carla Kelley|Oct 3, 2024

    In an effort to further our role as a community voice and teacher, the Shelton-Mason County Journal is partnering with Tom Hallman Jr., a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author who writes for The Oregonian in Portland, with a series of community voice stories that will occasionally appear in the Journal. Our first few stories will be from Hallman’s students, but it it’s our hope that as your read these stories, it will inspire our readers to write about their own life and submit those stories to the paper that we might print them and give...