Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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PRESCOTT - When Prescott School District Superintendent Dr. Carolyn Marsh announced in June that she wanted to retire in the hopes of being rehired, she knew she was taking a risk. After all, there is no guarantee she'll get her old job back by the time school starts again. Her goal was to resume receiving her pension benefits, which she forfeited after taking the superintendent's job in Prescott three years ago, then be rehired as superintendent and receive the position's salary as well. Such "retire-rehire" scenarios are not unco...
DAYTON - Construction of Puget Sound Energy's Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project in Garfield County started about four months after the company obtained approval for its conditional use permit this year. Don't expect the same for the Columbia County portion of the wind turbine project, a company official said earlier this week. The weak economy in the utility company's Washington state market appears to have taken the wind out of the project's blades. "PSE has no firm plans for the start of construction at this time" said Anne Walsh,...
WALLA WALLA - Willow, one of Walla Walla's premier downtown art galleries, is beginning an ambitious three-month show "Mixing Media 7 by 13" on Aug. 6. The show, featuring 13 artists representing various media, will run through Oct. 13. The show's opening night reception from 5 - 8 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 6, will feature talks by Daymon Bruck and Glen Greenwalt, two of the artists in the exhibition. A demonstration by Margie McDonald will start at about 6 p.m. The opening will be followed by a...
WAITSBURG - When the Whetstone Public House reopens after its annual maintenance possibly later this week, patrons will notice something different about the place. The bar will look the same after its spring cleaning, plumbing repairs, general maintenance and inventory audit. Even the hours will remain. But you won't find the same menu nor the same offering of hard liquor. "This year, our maintenance period will also coincide with some fundamental shifts in the business model for the Whetstone...
WALLA WALLA - After Lucy's passing early last week, we were keen on getting another dog but decided to look into adopting one instead of going to a breeder. That was after we had briefly considered the idea of getting a Lakeland Terrier (a cross between Lucy's breed, an Airdale, and our other dog, Snowy, a Fox Terrier) and found out the closest Lakeland Terrier breeder is well past Boise and charges $1,200 for a puppy. $1,200!?! You gotta be kidding me! Hey, we thought, there are far too many un...
PASCO - Three WP athletes qualified for the Pasco Invite on Saturday and each did well in competition, setting new personal records and earning a place on the podium. The meet included only the top athletes from 4A schools on down. Out of more than 60 teams competing from throughout the northwest, only nine were from "B" schools. "I was really happy with our results and the kids should be proud of themselves," WP track and field coach Jeff Bartlow said. Sprinter James Thompkins competed in the 100 meter dash and ran it in 11.49 seco...
PRESCOTT - It was more than a decade ago, but James Thompkins remembers the night like it was yesterday. He was only six, the youngest of six siblings. They lived with their mother in a crammed high-rise apartment on the west side of Chicago. He woke up in the small hours that day when she opened the door for his uncle, who stumbled in with a fresh gunshot wound in his leg. From that moment on, he remembers how trauma and drama were a constant part of his life. The Thompkins were always...
WAITSBURG - Tickets are on sale for a hometown dance concert by a hometown band. The members of the popular Frog Hollow Band have agreed to perform Saturday evening, May 18, during the Waitsburg Celebration mark- ing the 100th anniversary of the Days of Real Sport racing weekend. The concert is a collaboration of the Waitsburg PEO chapter, the Waitsburg Lions Club and the band, whose members live in Waitsburg, Prescott and Walla Walla. It's a fundraiser for PEO, which promotes education for women. "When we learned noth- ing was scheduled for...
The WP Tigers' rollercoaster playoff ride ended with a loser-out loss against number one DeSales, but the loss did nothing to bring down the high note on which the team ended a very successful season. "We came away from this season exceeding our goals and creating new goals for next year," head coach Angie Potts said. "This group of girls was an absolute dream to coach." The Tigers were nervous during their first state appearance, dropping flyballs and showing the jitters until a Sarah Wilson...
WAITSBURG - Jana Moser embraced her grandson once more. The four-year-old Daniel came up to nuzzle and kiss her again. It seems like he can't get enough of her affection and she can't get enough of his. It wasn't just because Moser and her husband, John, live in Ellensburg and it had been a while since they have visited their son, the Rev. Bret Moser, his wife Bethany, and their five children in Waitsburg. Rather, it's almost as though grandmother and grandson never had the experience of close...
DAYTON - The director of nursing services for the Columbia County Public Hospital District has resigned following months of controversy over staff management and low morale at Dayton General and the Booker Rest Home. The resignation this weekend of Virginia Romine, whose last day will be June 10, came just days after a meeting of the district's board of directors on Thursday in which former and current medical employees and members of the public pleaded for changes in nursing personnel treatment and management practices. In an interview on...
When longtime Waitsburg resident Bert Aylward and his wife Linda were getting ready for his family reunion at Fort Walla Walla last summer, they rummaged through a trunk full of old photographs. The couple had stored the keepsakes after his parents passed away but had not gone through all the old pictures yet. Every one of the 88 Witt descendants coming from across the country to Walla Walla was supposed to present or recite an item of family history. As Aylward went through the photos, it...
