Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – It was homecoming night for both Dayton and Waitsburg high schools Friday, and the DW football team gave students from both schools something to cheer about. The home team easily overpowered Mabton and cruised to a 55-30 victory that wasn't as close as the score indicated. DW remained tied at the top of the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference standings with Kittitas, who beat DeSales Friday, 38-20. Each team is 4-0 in league play. DW is 5-1 overall, while Kittitas is 5-0. DW c...
RICHLAND – At the Richland Invite cross-country meet on Friday, Waitsburg's Emily Adams had a strong race, finishing 3rd out of 108 runners in the Division II varsity heat. "Emily finished very strong and solid," said Waitsburg coach Ann Adams. "She got boxed in a bit at the start but handled the pressure, working her way up to the front of the pack where she just continued to pick up her pace." Adams' time of 19:06.75 was a season record for three miles. She beat her time on the Richland course...
LYLE, Wash. – The Dayton-Waitsburg football team took a four-hour-plus bus ride down the Columbia River gorge on Friday and came away with a 52-0 win over Lyle-Wishram. The win puts DW in a tie for first place with Kittitas in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference. Each team has a 3-0 league record. DW is 4-1 overall. "It was nice to have a great game on the road," said DW Coach Troy Larsen. "They have a very young team; a lot of freshmen and sophomores," he said of L-W. "Our defense got g...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Volleyball team hosted Pomeroy on Sept. 27, and lost the match in three sets, 11-25, 20-25, 9-25. On Thursday, Sept. 29, the Waitsburg girls traveled to Oakesdale and again were swept, 11-25, 19-25, 7-25. "Last week was pretty tough playing against the top two teams in the state in our classification," said Waitsburg coach Angie Potts. "There were things I thought we did very well and there were definitely areas where we struggled. "The girls played well together, t...
YAKIMA - The Waitsburg cross country team attended the 43rd Sunfair Invite in Yakima on Saturday. Emily Adams and Landon Callas started the combined Varsity Heat Race #4 together. Adams was 2nd out of 20 runners in the heat, with a season record of 19:21.94. Callas finished 13th out of 26 runners with a personal record of 17:22.84. Of Callas, Waitsburg coach Ann Adams said, “Landon ran an excellent race, he looked good, relaxed and strong. Landon used the hills both up and down to his a...
PASCO – Nothing went right for Dayton-Waitsburg in the first half of the game here against Tri-Cities Prep, save for Travis Crockett's 150 yards rushing. But the DW team came out after the half with a new offensive backfield lineup, and romped in the second half to pull out a 35-20 victory. Crockett again led the offense, scoring three touchdowns and accounting for 373 yards total offense. After only three games played, Crockett has scored 11 TDs and is 27 yards shy of 1,000 total yards in o...
WAITSBURG – For the second week in a row, the Dayton-Waitsburg football team gave up an opening drive touchdown and fell behind early in the first quarter. But this time, in their home game here Friday night against DeSales, DW dominated the Irish in the second half and won their second home game in as many weeks, 40-18. Also, for the second week in a row, DW running back Travis Crockett scored four touchdowns, and again proved to be an offensive weapon that his team's opponent had no answer f...
PRESCOTT – The Prescott volleyball team hosted Waitsburg in a 1B league match on Sept. 15, but the visitors came away with a four-set win, 25-16, 25-18, 20-25, 25-20. We played well and maintained our focus in the first two sets and were able to play at the tempo we wanted to play," said Waitsburg coach Angie Potts. Potts said that in the fourth set, she changed up her lineup, "to give us a look at other options just in case we ever need to do something different. In the 4th set, I went back t...
PALOUSE – The Dayton volleyball team traveled to Palouse for a match on Sept. 15 and swept the Garfield-Palouse girls 25-15, 25-17, 25-17. “The girls played well,” said Dayton coach Shannon Turner. “There was so much chemistry and energy on the court. We passed the ball well, which is key to run your offense. We also had a lot fewer unforced errors than our previous two matches.” Dayton stats: Jenna Phillips -11/12 Serving, 2 Aces, 12 Kills, 15 Digs, 1 Block Mia Becker - 10,10 Serving,...
DAYTON – The defense allowed a touchdown on each of its opponent's first three drives. The defense also gave up a total of 489 yards in the game. And the defense allowed its opponent to score 41 points in just over the first three-quarters of the game. But in the end, it was their defense that won the game for the Dayton-Waitsburg football team here Friday night against Columbia-Burbank, in a non-league matchup against a larger 1A division school. Clutching a slim 45-41 lead over the final t...
DAYTON – When renovation of Dayton General Hospital is complete next year, the main entrance to the facility will be on the north side of the building, near the former emergency room entrance. That side of the building is a construction zone now, but one can begin to visualize the circular driveway entrance that will soon be in place. During a tour of the construction late last month, hospital officials described the work underway in Phase 1 of the renovation project, which includes constructing...
WAITSBURG – The Pulpit Committee at Waitsburg Christian has announced that the church has extended an offer to Waitsburg native Matthew Wyatt to be its next pastor, and he has accepted. The offer is contingent upon approval by the full congregation. Wyatt, along with his wife, Krystal, and daughter, Mikaila, will be in Waitsburg this weekend, and will present the message to the church during Sunday's 11 a.m. service. Fellowship time will follow. Wyatt is a 1998 graduate of Waitsburg High School....
MILTON-FREEWATER – Dayton-Waitsburg went on the road in the first game for its new combined football program, but fell to a Mac-Hi team that hadn't won a game in more than a year. Four turnovers and 16 penalties marred an otherwise strong performance, in which many players are learning a new system. D-W was also missing some veteran players who will likely return later this year, including running back Travis Crockett and receiver Ben Kleck. D-W jumped out to an early lead with a f...
DAYTON – The Dayton HS Volleyball Team returns this year with nearly the same lineup that finished 11-5 last season. So hopes are high for an even better result for coach Shannon Turner's team, which will return seven varsity players from last year. But last year's lone senior, Madison Mings, leaves big shoes to fill. "Her competitiveness will definitely be missed on the court this season," Turner said of Mings. "She was an all-around key player." Turner will have three seniors returning to t...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg varsity volleyball team should be significantly improved from last year, featuring a veteran team of seven seniors and juniors. The lineup includes six-foot-two-inch senior Analisea Araya and six-foot sophomore Devon Harshman. "We're ahead of where we were at last year in terms of what we're able to do offensively and our defense is working hard to be disciplined enough to be in position so that they can read and react to the other team," said Waitsburg coach Angie P...
When I was in high school in the outskirts of Vancouver, Wash., our football team sucked. Actually, most of our sports teams did. And I always thought it would be a lot more fun to be at a school that won the state championship. Waitsburg got to experience a state championship five years ago, when coach Jeff Bartlow led the Waitsburg-Prescott Cardinals to victory in the Tacoma Dome in 2011. In the 2B state championship game that year, the Cardinals crushed Morton/White Pass 33-7, to cap an...
DAYTON – A wildfire that started Saturday afternoon about seven miles south of Dayton on North Touchet Road was mostly contained by Monday morning. The fire burned about two miles along the hillside west of the road, from the Wolf Fork Road turnoff to milepost eight, near Running T Ranch. It was reported that the fire started when a mower hit a rock near milepost seven and started a small grass fire. The fire got away from residents attempting to put it out, due to high winds. According to P...
I don’t live in Waitsburg, but I own a business here, and I definitely have a stake in its economic future. So it’s been puzzling to me to see the reaction of many Waitsburg residents to the news that Nestle Waters is considering purchasing water from the city and building a bottling plant here. This has the potential to provide new revenue for the city, create some good new jobs and increase the tax base. The outrage started as soon as word got out that there might be rumors that Nestle mig...
POSITION 1 Mary Ruth Edwards, Republican Mary Ruth Edwards, 55, teaches first grade in the Prosser School District. She also serves on the Prosser City Council. She has a bachelor’s degree in business and a master’s in education. Edwards says she grew up an “army brat,” and later lived in the Marysville/Everett area before moving to Prosser in 2005. Edwards’ campaign motto is, “Lower taxes, less government, more freedom!” “If we don’t raise taxes, or impose new ones, the good people of the 16t...
DAYTON – When Justin Wendt was a junior at Dayton High School, he spent a few months working an hour a day at Skyline Parts, on Dayton's Main Street, as part of the school's junior internship program. A little more than a decade later, he owns the store. "This is a real testament to Rob Moore and Steve McClean and the internship program they started," said departing store owner Dave Schreck, referring to the two former DHS teachers. Schreck said he was hesitant at first to get involved in the i...
DAYTON – The Dayton Historic Preservation Commission last week met for the first time since property owners in the city’s two residential historic districts voted overwhelmingly to disband those districts. Despite those results, two of the four members present at the June 29 meeting voted against a measure that would have supported the vote results and recommended dissolution of the Southside and Washington Street Historic Districts to the Dayton City Council. With a 2-2 vote, the com...
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are e...
During the first half of this month I got to take my first real vacation from being publisher of The Times. I traveled to Virginia to attend a reunion of my mother’s extended family (and sit on the beach for five days). On my way, I stopped in Washington D.C. to spend three days as a tourist. It’s something all Americans should do, and it seemed like a large proportion of them were there the same time I was. I did all of my sightseeing in and around the National Mall, which is a two...
DAYTON – The students laugh and squirm and look generally unnatural as they stand in large groups in front of a slowly panning movie camera. Business owners also look stiff as they pose for a short moving picture shot, some of them smoking cigarettes. These are all citizens of Dayton in 1938, shown in a short 15-minute movie created to promote patronizing local merchants. Also shown in the video are many scenes showing business fronts on Dayton's Main Street and surrounding areas. Several of t...
Community Council is seeking input to identify important “community treasures” DAYTON – The Community Council, a nonprofit organization that works throughout the Walla Walla Valley, is beginning a project to “identify community treasures that represent shared values and regional assets.” According to the group’s executive director, Mary Campbell, the new project will begin with a community survey, and two “community conversations” to be held in Dayton, Walla Walla and Milton-Freewate...
