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Twilight fishing '
Mark Hougen and his son, Brayden, fish Monday in Oakland Bay near the
Bayshore Peninsula while
the fading sunset illuminates the trees across the water. Journalphoto Matt
Baide
By'Matt Baide
mati@masoncountyoofn
Siblings Christopher Floe, 40, and Caroline Harris,
’ 34, were arrested in connection with the Oct. 7 shoot-
ing in the 500 block of North 4th Street in Shelton.
Floe, who was allegedly shot by Harris, was booked
into Mason Connty Jail for first-degree assault, first-
degree criminal conspiracy assault, false reporting
and criminal conspiracy to commit a drive-by shoot-
ing. Harris was arrested for first-degree assault, first-
degree criminal conspiracy assault, and criminal con-
spiracy to commit a drive-by shooting. Arraignment
hearings for Floe and'Harris set for 9 a.m. on Oct. 25.
According to the probable-cause affidavit, Floe was
interviewed about the incident and inconsistencies
began to show in his statement. Security footage
from the jail showed a vehicle blacked out leaving the
scene at the same time as the shot was heard on mul-
tiple cameras.
During an interview Oct. 14, Floe admitted, ac-
cording to court documents, to talking his sister, Har-
ris, into shooting him. Harris was contacted later that
day and confirmed that Floe had asked her to shoot
him, and Floe provided her a firearm Oct. 6. Harris
said Floe asked her several times to shoot him and
the requests started five to seven days before the inci-
dent. Harris initially refused, but Floe kept asking so
she agreed to shoot him. .
Harris said she went to Floe’s oflice Oct. 7 be—
cause Floe, a Community Corrections Officer with
the state Department of Corrections; said there were.
Camping
ban nears
approval .
By Gordon weeks V
gordon@masoncounty.com
The City of Shelton is one step away from
. outlawing camping on city right of ways, a
measure designed to persuade homeless peo—
ple to either accept official shelter and other
services or move along.
The Shelton City Council on Tuesday gave
preliminary approval to the ordinance, which
would make it a misdemeanor to stay over-
night in a tent, hut, lean-to or other temporary
shelter or structure on city land “which is re-
served for any public purpose, including city-
owned rights of way, parks, public facilities,
easements, critical areas and buffers.” ' The
council can make the law official at its Nov. 2
meeting. I
The crime would be a misdemeanor,
punishable by up to 90 days in jail and a
$1,000 fine. ' '
Under the proposed ordinance, personal
property associated with the camping on
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no cameras, and no one would know it was her. She '
couldn’t do it at first, but then parked with her pas-
senger door next to his driver’s door.
Floe turned‘around and pointed to where, Harris
should shoot him. Harris was seated in the driver’s
seat and used a two-handed shooting grip to fire one
round, striking Floe in the right forearm, through the
right side of his lower back and exiting out of his ab-
domen, with the bullet lodging in_ his vehicle.
Harris left the scene and went home and put the
spent shell in a small cardboard box in her bedroom
and left the pistol in her vehicle. A search warrant
was granted for the residence, with the firearm and
shell casing where Harris said it would be.
r No motive was provided as to why Floe asked Har-
ris to shoot him. ‘
North_Mason schools levy on Nov..2 ballot-
ByflMatt Baide
matt@masoncounty. com
The North Mason School Board
hopes the third time is a charm for pass-
ing a levy that’s on the Nov. 2 ballot.
North Mason tried to pass levies in
February and April 2020, but was un-
successful, which prompted the forma:
tion of a levy committee to allow for
community input to produce the best
levy for the community. '
“Our levy committee is an outstand-
ing group of individuals that represent
all different facets of our community,”
North Mason School District Super-
intendent Dana Rosenbach told the
Shelton-‘Mason County Journal. “We
were very deliberate in growing that
committee once it got started to en-
sure we had people represented who
had had really strong negative feel-
ings about the levy last year. We asked
them to be a part of the committee and
those voices, and those ideas are. what
helped us really hone down- our request
and make it the smallest that we could
make it but still meet the needs of kids.
We really appreciated having those
folks on‘ the committee because they
asked really hard questions and we
worked together to build a levy request
that makes sense for our community
and our district, but that they felt that
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Humane Sbciety of Mason
, County helps, needs help
they could strongly support.”
The projected tax rate per $1,000 as-
sessed property value is estimated to be
$1.32 in 2022, meaning a home worth
$300,000 would pay $396 in levy costs
in the first year. The tax rate is project-
ed to decrease ovfir the time of the levy
due to more houses and buildings being
built with more taxpayers to support
the levy.
The levy amount is $3,831,125 each
year from 2022 to 2025.
“Historically, this district has al-
ways kept the levy fiat for the life of
the levy,” Rosenbach said. “The failed
firstlevy in 2020 was the first time we
tried to adjust it year per year like most
districts do and our community didn’t
like that. That was often cited as the
reason that tblks were not in support of
that levy.”
The projected tax rate is cheaper
than the levy in 2020, which was $1.87
per $1,000 of assessed property value.
Levies pay for a lot for schools, in-
cluding athletics, clubs, music, theater,
smaller class sizes, school supplies,
technology, transportation and staff,
according to North Mason School Dis-
trict website. The state does not fully
fund all programs, just services that
fall under basic education for schools.
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