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Shooting: Incident took
place at Mason Lake house
continued from page A-1
Wednesday. The investigation was
turned over to the Region III Critical
Incident Team, which includes the
Washington State Patrol and the sher-
iffs offices of Thurston, Lewis, Grays
Harbor, Pacific and Mason counties.
Thurston County Sheriffs Office is
leading the investigation, the Mason
County Sheriffs Office stated in a
news release. .
The Mason County coroner’s office
identified the woman as Kathryn R.
Hale. .
In an interview with the Shelton-
Mason County Journal, Thurston
County Sheriffs Office Lt. Ray Brady',
the CIT commander for the shooting
said Mason County Sheriffs deputies
arrived about p.m. Tuesday at a
house off Mason Lake to arrest Hale
on several felony warrants. Hale did
not live in that house, but was a Ma—
son County resident, he said.
A news release from the Mason
County Sheriffs Office states the dep-
uty was on foot when Hale appears to
have tried to run over the deputy with
a car.
The deputy was hit by the vehicle
and “at some point” fired his weapon
at the suspect, the release said. The
deputies pursued the woman for a few
miles.
The deputies aided Hale before
EMS workers arrived, but the woman
died en route to Mason General Hos-
pital. The deputy suffered minor inju-
ries, Brady said.
Life: Local residents make
due With big changes
'co'ntinued from page A-1
Scott Real Estate, and like many, she’s
working from home.
“My priority has been to make
sure that my clients know I am here
to help with anything I can, even if it
means dropping off groceries on their
doorstep,” she said. “As a Southside
School board member, I am commit-
ted to ensuring that Our district is tak-
ing proper measures to take care of
its needs during this rapidly changing
landscape.”
_ Renee Murphy, a Matlock native
Mb-‘liveSat-Lake Limerick, was await-
ing results on her test for coronavirus
. — she had shared drinks with a friend
who works in an assisted living home
with 140 seniors and who Went home
for a.14-day quarantine.
Murphy’s friend tested negative
for the coronavirus, but Murphy’s em-
ployer in Chehalis won’t let her return
to the office until she receives her re-
sults. Her 10-year-old daughter, Bri,
is home, as is Murphy’s husband, Ian,
and another relative.
“I’m home with four people, not
working, child home six weeks, no
school online paperwork or criteria to
follow on the website,” she said. “Mak-
ing food with what you have in cabi-
nets and the freezer. No friends com-
ing over.”
In the meantime, she’s losing wag-
es. v
“I’m worrying about paying bills
and our landlord is a disbarred attor-
ney and will make sure we still have to
pay our rent,” Murphy said.
Murphy said she bought Bri a cell-
phone “because of the time of change
and the virus and being home from
school, who would have ever thought
she would have one this young? Times
sure have changed.”
Paul Nakhla directs the choirs at
Oakland Bay Junior High School and
Shelton High School, which have been
closed since March ‘13.
“Our home has received two of our
university students back from Spo-
kane, so we are a crowded house of
seven trying to figure out how to best
deal with the, isolation from our broad-
er communities,” he said. “We hope to
be useful around the community with-
out coming in contact with others, in
order to neither inadvertently spread
or receive this virus. We want to be
part of the solution and not the prob-
lem.”
N akhla added, “Otherwise, with the
beautiful sunshine outside and nice
weather, it feels a bit like an early
summer break, with all the kids home
and limited schooling happening.”
Sewer; County will pay
0.79% interest on loan
- continued from page A—1
The BOCC originally had an agen-
da item that proposed increasing the
sewer rate for 2020, but that item was
removed —- as were other financial
stipulations — from the agenda on
Monday.
Mason County received ,the.loan"
offer from the state’s Public Works
Board in August. On Feb. 11, staff
presented a sewer extension predesign
report and a sewer system financial
analysis to the county commissioners.
The county will pay a 0.79% inter-
est rate on the 20-year loan, according
to county documents. That rate could
shrink — or the county could get more
time to repay it -— if the county meets
performance incentives. For example,
if the county submits a certified project
completion report Within 48 months of
the contract, it could get 24 additional
months to pay off the loan, or reduce
the interest rate by 0.25%, according
to the county.
Bremerton has also committed $1
million to the sewer extension to the
Puget Sound Industrial Center. The
City of Bremerton and the Port of
Bremerton met Feb. 28 to review a
predesign report.
The waste sewer system began
servicing Belfair in 2012. State au-
dits have concluded that the system’s
funding puts it at risk of being unable
to meet financial obligations because
it doesn’t generate enough revenue to
cover its expenses.
The county has used money from its
real estate excise tax to subsidize the
Belfair sewer system.
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