Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Mead is wine made from honey instead of grapes. A new winery featuring the buzzing bee's nectar in its wine is opening on Main Street in Dayton soon, almost a year after it was first announced. The grand opening for Mace Meadworks is set for Friday and Saturday, August 19 -20th. Lots of live music will be featured at the opening . D aergan Guy, Quincy Harper, DJ Sailsworth and Table of Contents are all scheduled to perform. The full lineup of events is posted at www.macemeadworks.com.... Full story
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg "One-of-A- Kind" Auto Show & Swap Meet is quickly approaching, scheduled for Friday night, Aug.5 and Sat., Aug. 6.. The Friday night cruise from Preston Park to Prescott and back is from 7-to-8 p.m. An ice cream social follows at 8 p.m. On Saturday, the car shop and swap meet run from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. with live music and entertainment for part of this time. Food vendors will be set up in park. Coffee is available from the newly opened Coppei Coffee Co. on Main Street....
STARBUCK - The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) is losing money and looking for ways to save. It recently announced that it may close about 3,700 of its 32,000 offices around the country, including the one in Starbuck - which has offered service since 1883. Starbuck, population 130, is one of 39 retail outlets in Washington state are on the list for possible closure, along with Wallula in this area. Under the proposed plan, which will take several months to implement and be subject to a community...
WAITSBURG - The Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office is considering bringing a program to Waitsburg that would dispose of residents' prescription and illegal drugs to keep them out of sewer systems and landfills, but an inability to fund and staff the program could prevent its fruition. The possibility of a oncea year pickup of prescription and illegal drugs was discussed at the Waitsburg City Council's meeting last Wednesday. The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), run by the sheriff's office, runs these projects around the country. The drug pickup...
WAITSBURG - With prices on the high side, now is a good time to be a wheat or dry pea farmer in the Touchet Valley. And while unseasonably cool, wet weather is causing a few problems for wheat farmers, that isn't the case for those with fields planted with peas. Recent cool weather has slowed down the wheat maturation process, pushing back the start of harvest by 10 days to two weeks, McGregor agronomist Matt Weber said. "It has caused some of the wheat to dry slower and to fall down in some... Full story
STARBUCK- Homemade flower petal jellies and screen-printed Starbuck T-shirts resembling the coffee logo were just two of the unique items for sale in Starbuck's annual communitywide yard sale last Saturday. Motorcycles, old arcadestyle upright console video games, new boots, framed pictures, puzzles, household items, cookies and lemonade were also among the goodies for sale. The first yard sale greeting out-of-town visitors, located just off Highway 216, was at Zonia Dedloff's 40-year-old...
DAYTON - Touchet Valley residents showed up in big numbers for the rare chance to see the circus and get acquainted with some of the world's most exotic animals in Dayton on Thursday. Local promoters said more than 3,000 visitors took in one of two Carson & Barnes circus shows that ran the gamut from spectacular trapeze and trampoline acts to elephant rides and skateboard gymnastics. "Many people after the circus told us that they couldn't believe such a good circus stopped in Dayton," local...
DAYTON- An assortment of antique and classic cars ranging from a 1902 Oldsmobile to a 1970 Dodge Super Bee muscle car were just a few of the eye-catching autos on display at the All Wheels Car Show last weekend . Two other cars highlighting the show were Klova Beck's light yellow 1951 Lincoln Convertible Cosmopolitan and Donald Keen's 1955 sage green Chevy pickup. Beck and Keen, two Walla Walla residents, remember the "good old days" when gas was only 35 cents a gallon and when fuel was...
WAITSBURG - Four flood reduction risk measures on Coppei Creek ranging in cost from $725,000 to about $4 million were up for discussion at a public interest meeting hosted by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Monday night at the fairgrounds. About 10 area residents, including Waitsburg City Clerk Randy Hinchliffe, turned out for the meeting, which was co-hosted by the City Council. The Corps of Engineers is offering to pay 65 percent of the project. That would leave the city on the hook for about two million dollars if the decision is made to... Full story
WALLA WALLA - Babe Ruth baseball is back and for the first time, Waitsburg and Prescott athletes have a dedicated team in the developmental summer league. Walla Walla Transmission is the sponsor and name for the team. The kids from Waitsburg and Prescott, aged 13-16, are playing in a league of eight teams from Walla Walla, Milton-Freewater, Weston- McEwen and the Touchet Valley. The program has started up again in Waitsburg and Prescott for two reasons, team coach Dustin Snedigar said. "There... Full story
DAYTON - Walla Walla's Dave Piper visits at least a dozen car shows a year with his 1934 Made-in-America Dodge D-T, but to him one of the best is the closest to home: Dayton's All Wheels. He likes the Father's Day event that will once again shut down Main Street for a sea of chrome this weekend because the community supports it so well and puts on all kinds of activities to go with the show. "You don't feel like you're intruding in the town at all," Piper said. "You feel like you're joining in...
