Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – The Dayton Swim Team competed in their first home swim meet on July 18 against league rivals Pullman and Pomeroy. The meet began with the first heats at 4 p.m. and concluded with final relays around 7:30 p.m. Dayton, which has slightly less team members compared to previous seasons, did not let the drop in numbers take away from their competitiveness, placing second behind a strong Pomeroy team and ahead of the Pullman team. The first races of the day were the 12-and-under 100 meter f...
COLUMBIA/WALLA WALLA COUNTY – In the Touchet Valley, harvest is basically one of the seasons of the year. In a small agricultural community like ours, the signs of harvest beginning are like when the first autumn leaf falls and the crisp winds start to rattle the branches; trucks on the highways, combines high in the fields around town, and kids working long hours to help the largest economic trade in the region. The men and women that work on these farms, harvesting everything from wheat to p...
DAYTON – The Dayton High School Alumni Association held their 41st Annual Alumni Weekend festivities last weekend. While official events are only held on Saturday, alumni are in town reminiscing with their classmates beginning Friday and into Sunday. "Friday night, classes usually gather to put their floats together," Alumni Association President Roseann Groom said. "On Saturday, we had the parade, the annual meeting, the open house at the high school, and then in the evening the classes p...
DAYTON – This past Saturday saw Dayton's Blue Mountain Station play host to 20 vendors during its fourth annual FoodStock event. The event, which was originally held the same weekend as the famous Woodstock event, was moved after a conflict with a concert in Walla Walla two years ago. The day-long food, beverage, and craft festivities are now held on the same weekend as Dayton High School's Alumni Weekend, to give alumni and families another source for entertainment while in town, said Brad M...
DAYTON – A hillside trail being created for hiking and biking behind the Port of Columbia in Dayton is ready for walkers, and may be ready for biking before the end of the summer, says trail creator Doug Hinds. The trail was started earlier this year by Hinds, who works as the local lineman for Pacific Power, and is doing most of the work on the trail himself. Hinds wants to provide people an alternative to the Touchet River Dike and other area paths. "It's for the community and people coming i...
DAYTON – Thirty-four seniors will receive their diplomas in front of numerous loved ones and community members this Saturday in the Dayton High School Gymnasium, during Dayton's 132nd graduation ceremony. Baccalaureate will take place the night before at 7 p.m. at the United Methodist Church at 110 S. Third St. Jennifer Warren is the Class of 2017's valedictorian, while Jenna Phillips is salutatorian. Along with Warren and Phillips, Cal Martin will also have a speaking role, leading those in a...
DAYTON – The beginning of June brings the end of the school year in Dayton, Waitsburg, and Prescott. Along with the joys of students having three months off from their studies comes the opening of local swimming pools. Dayton The Dayton City Pool opens on June 14, which is also the last day of school in Dayton. The first day of operations for the pool will be free to all patrons, and the pool will hold open swim sessions from 1-5 and 6-8 p.m. The pool is scheduled to stay open until Dayton S...
DAYTON – Columbia County Public Transportation will offer ride service on Saturdays starting June 3, both in Dayton and on a round-trip route from Dayton to Walla Walla. The decision to start this program was made in spite of CCPT not receiving a grant it had applied for to fund the service, according to Interim General Manager Dwight Robanske. Many people had requested the service to be available on Saturdays, as they are busy with work during the operating hours on weekdays. This will be the first summer that CCPT is offering this service. T...
The bills, sponsored by Rep. Terry Nealey, are aimed at preventing records request abuses OLYMPIA – Washington State Representative Terry Nealey (R-Dayton) recently had two bills he helped draft signed into law by Governor Jay Inslee. The bills are the product of years of effort by Nealey to help address the issue of excessive public records requests that are meant to set local governments up for potential legal actions. A State Auditor’s report in 2016 said that local agencies received over 280,000 requests in the last few years. Nealey was...
DAYTON – Dayton's new XO Alambic distillery will be offering tours of their shop during Saturday's Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market, coinciding Mule Mania Weekend. The spirits distillery, which is expected to hold its grand opening later this summer, is located at Blue Mountain Station, west of Dayton. People taking part in the tour will be shown around the distillery and shown the various barrels, as well as the still and other equipment used in the making of the spirits. XO Alambic is run b...
DAYTON – Dayton and Waitsburg high schools held meetings at their respective auditoriums last Wednesday and Thursday to receive feedback from students, parents, and community members on the 2016-17 DW athletic combine. The meetings were both attended by a little over 10 people. Waitsburg held theirs on Wednesday, while Dayton's was the following day. Comments ranged from praising the feeling of community between the two schools, as well as the combine giving more kids the opportunity to get i...
