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The Estrellas’ Cheese Creamery located near Montesano, WA. in the Wynoochee River valley has been shut down by federal agents.  The full story as reported by KIRO can be found below. Unlike the Estrellas, my own strategy has been to … Continue reading →

Adage and Simpson may not have resorted to murder just yet, but the similarities in all other respects to the following story are striking: ZHAIQIAO, China — Qian Yunhui would not be silenced. A local leader in a community of … Continue reading →

The Comment period available to citizens concerned about the destruction of our community, environment, health, and quality of life is ending soon for ORCAA, SEPA, and Washington’s EPA overseeing the official tongue clucking (but no action/remedy) regarding Shelton Harbor Dioxin contamination … Continue reading →

While Mason County residents pause in anticipation of the next downward spiral toward becoming an industrial slum, consider…these signs used to be everywhere: Hoquiam and Forks, Port Angeles and Montesano. The plywood placards were hand made and haphazardly stenciled. Sometimes … Continue reading →

Given Mason County’s Oakland Bay has become Puget Sound’s worst hotbed of Dioxin contamination (175 – 902 ppt) in Shelton Harbor sediments, the lack of local food chain testing for Dioxin in light of the current German contamination news is … Continue reading →

Mrs. Lester lost control of her Toyota Tacoma pickup truck after hitting a patch of black ice on the Skokomish Valley’s frigid roads returning home from Church while approaching the Swift Creek bridge Sunday Morning (1-2-11). She was taken to … Continue reading →

It’d be great if Mason County Commissioners resolved to do the following: 1)  Commit to preserving residents’ environment, air quality, quality of life, children, and refrain from behaving like a 3rd world county sucking up to rapacious corporations intent on … Continue reading →

Tim Sheldon once disparaged local environmental activists as ‘kooks’, misinformed, or worse.  Today, it would appear, there well may be some ‘kooks’ in the ranks.  Some (like the infamous Arthur West of Olympia) are contentious, litigious, require medication, and attempt … Continue reading →

US Senator Jon Tester (D) of Montana has sponsored a bill, written in secrecy in conjunction with timber industry lawyers and lobbyists, but supported by President Obama and US Secretary of Agriculture, Thomas Vilsack, that will decimate the last surviving … Continue reading →

When clean air Advocates become the ‘enemy’: All grass roots movements have a tendency to fracture along the lines of personalities and personal agendas–that’s to be expected as part of human nature.  But when partisans begin destroying property and killing … Continue reading →