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NEWS
Unemployment
claims balloon
in Mason County.
Claims for unemployment in Ma-
son County increased seven-fold last
week compared With the previous
week, according to data released last
week by the state Employment Secu-
rities Department.
The state had 865 applications for
unemployment insurance in Mason
County between March 15 and March
' 21, up from 124 the previous week.
Claims in Washington increased
from 14,154 from March 8 through
March 14 to 133,464 last week.
“All areas are going through the
same situation,” said labor economist
Jim Vleming of the Employment Se-
curities Department. “It’s pretty much
a statewide thing at this point.”
Vleming said those numbers will
probably increase in next week’s
claims. Nationally, about 3.3 million
people filed for unemployment claims
in the week ending March 21.
Woman injured
after vehicle hits
tree and shed
A 28-year-old Shelton woman
was injured after reportedly driving
off the road and hitting a tree and
a small shed Sunday morning near
state Route 3 and Arcadia Avenue in
Shelton.
The driver, Leticia M. Silva, faces
DUI and driving with a suspended
‘license charges after a 1997 Ford
Expedition came to rest about 20 feet
off the roadway, according to a Wash-
ington State Patrol memo. She was
transported to Mason General Hospi-
tal in Shelton.
The woman was wearing a seat-
belt.
According to the memo, the driver
was speeding in the northbound lane
of state Route 3. The Ford left the
road at milepost 1.
PUD 1 delays rate
increases
Mason PUD 1 will put off sched-
uled rate electricity increases for cus—
tomers for three months.
The PUD 1 Board of Commis-
SGHODL BRIEFS
Local students
excelling at UW
Sixteen students from Mason ,
County were named to the dean’s list
for the autumn quarter at the Univer-
sity of Washington.
To qualify, a student must have
completed at least 12 graded credits
and have a GPA of at least 3.5 out of 4.
The local students are sophomore
Paige Marie Van Dijk of Allyn, senior
Delaney R. Womack of Belfair, senior
sioners voted Tuesday to delay the
increase, which was scheduled to go
into effect Wednesday.
The rates are slated to begin July
1, said Kristin Masteller, general
manager of PUD 1.
The delay will allow time for PUD
staff to evaluate the financial effects
of loss of revenue for 90 days and to
provide relief to customers who have i
found themselves out of work due to ,
the COVID-19 crisis, Masteller said.
The current residential electricity
rates are $35.15 for the basic monthly V
charge, and $0.081 per kilowatt hour.
The scheduled increase would go up
$2.85 per month to $38 for a basic
charge, and $0.08301 per kilowatt
hour.
TempOrary
changes coming
on Shelton ’
Matlock Road .
Drivers will see temporary changes
as they drive on Shelton Matlock
Road near U.S. Highway 101 as crews
remove a fish barrier.
Starting as soon as Thursday,
crews will open a temporary two-lane
bypass road fofidrivers to get around
a work zone in the area. Drivers can
expect up to 15—minute traffic stops
between 6 a.m. to 8 p.m. as workers
build a new stream channel and in-
stall a 96-f00t-long culvert to eventu-
ally connect a realigned Coffee Creek “
under Shelton Matlock Road, accord-
ing to the Washington State Depart-
ment of Transportation.
The channel will link to a repli— '
cated natural streambed, which was
previously built between Shelton
Matlock Road and the area approach-
ing Goldsborough Creek, according to
WSDOT.
Work will be weather dependent.
For more information, go to www.
wsdot.wa.gov/Projects/US101/coffee-
crkrmvfishbarrier/home.
City cancels
regular meeting
The City of Shelton has canceled
its April 7 city council meeting.
For more information, call 360-432-
5103.
- I Compiled by editor in chief Adam
Rudnick
Steffen Tyler Riener of Grapeview,
Theodore Thaddeus Richert of Hood-
sport, and from Shelton, senior Mayra
A. Arellano, freshman Josephine Lori
Beaudoin, senior Amanda Marie Da-
vis, senior Izabel Rosalia Del Bosque,
senior Megan L. Jacobsen, junior
Maya Ledoux, senior Madison Ross
Mullins, sophomore Taylor Owens,
freshman Christopher Richert, senior
Ariela Maya Sanchez, senior Laura
Whitten, and junior Ziming Ye.
I Compiled by reporter Gordon Weeks
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