Air Force Staff Sgt. Timothy P. Davis, who grew up in Montesano, has been killed in the Oruzgan province of Afghanistan as the result of injuries received from an improvised explosive device. The Daily World of Aberdeen reports that Davis' mother, Sally Sheldon of Aberdeen, was notified of her son's death on Friday. Davis' father, Mike Davis, lives in Ocean Shores. Davis had just turned 28 and would have been married for five years next month. He met his wife, Meagan, while training at Fairchild Air Force Base near Spokane. They have a 1-year-old son. Davis was assigned to Florida's Hurlburt Field. He was with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron

Montesano Mayor Ron Shillinger met with a couple hundred friends of Lake Sylvia last night, to discuss options for the State park that the State no longer wants to run. One of the reasons the state is giving for the possible closure of the park is that the park is not consistent with the state parks department's "Centennial Vision 2013" a vision that doesn't see eye to eye with even the White House on some park designations. Several options were vented at last nights meeting if the city were to take ownership of the park, Schillinger said everything from a volunteer staff and on-site manager; to logging and forestry, even the idea of selling off parts of the park and allowing a resort-type of destination be built on the lake.