Contests: my worst enemy

So the Society of Professional Journalists is collecting submissions again for its annual contest. We’re all supposed to pick out a couple stories from 2008 to send in for the paper.
And I suck at picking stories for contests.
I end up liking stories for very different reasons than everybody else, so my judgment is less than [...]

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New gear and duties

So things are changing rapidly on the Harbor with plenty of big ideas, small budgets and bad news. The Daily World is having to make some changes too.
The paper recently lost one reporter to one of our weeklies and soon legendary Harbor photog Kathy Quigg will be retiring.
We will only replace one. So my job [...]

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“The end of an era”

JACOB JONES | THE DAILY WORLD
John Minkler, a 22-year veteran of Weyerhaeuser’s Aberdeen sawmill, gives 35-year vet Charlie Mudgett a hug as he enters the Northwest Passage tavern in South Aberdeeen on Monday.
Weyerhaeuser Co. closed two Aberdeen mills, the sawmill and the Pacific Veneer plant, on Monday afternoon and laid off more than 220 [...]

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Special edition

Special edition, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.

Our double-sided inauguration issue.

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Good morning, Grays Harbor

Good morning, Grays Harbor, originally uploaded by jonesdaily.
Sunrise today.

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Grays Harbor gets some Seattle press

For anyone who has ever wanted to see my name in The Seattle Times, you might pick up a copy today.
My car shipment story and photos got picked up on the wire and ran in the Business section. Not a huge deal, but a little fun.
Here’s the link.

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Court quotes XII

The day started out a little slow. Everybody kept quiet and acted professional.
Then I spotted an attorney wildly waving his arms at his side from the defense table while he made faces and stuck his tongue out at a client locked into the chain gang. So that was odd.
Here’s this week’s crop of quotes:
“He was [...]

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Some new rigging in historical theatre

Volunteer Lane Youmans stands among new stage rigging cables at the 7th Street Theatre in Hoquiam on Wednesday as workers install new stage equipment and volunteers re-attach new seats.
This is a shot I kind of liked that didn’t get to run. The story did not get loaded online correctly. Sorry.

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A historic auto load hits the Harbor

Amid the confusion and hustle of last week, I also got a tour of a 13-story cargo transport ship loaded with almost 3,200 new Kia vehicles to be store at the Port of Grays Harbor. Here’s the story.
We got to go inside the massive M/V Morning Menad to see longshore workers unload the thousands of [...]

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As the waters recede

So I wanted to file some of the last flooding images from late last week before we get a bit back to normal around Grays Harbor.
Above is a video of the widening Chehalis River overtaking a home on Highway 12 east near Porter. We couldn’t find anyone around, but that wasn’t [...]

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