A Community Trying to Breathe!!! The first few weeks of 2020 have been an interesting time in Mason County. We've had promises of rain that, once again, did not materialize. We've had bipolar weather all around, with one day being 75, the next 29. In the hills around the county and in surrounding counties, cedar trees have been releasing pollen like great voluminous clouds, drifting on the wind and finding its way into every nostril and bronchial. As if that didn't already create enough w ...