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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Residents of Columbia County will soon have several safe and secure places to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. Blue Mountain Counseling, working with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, is preparing to install prescription drug drop boxes in three locations in Dayton. According to Laura Tolman, who is prevention coordinator at Blue Mountain Counseling in Dayton, the county has received a grant of $16,000 to help reduce substance abuse in the county. The money is bein...
DAYTON - On the morning of February 19, 1945, Owen Agenbroad was one of the Marines in the fifth wave of landing craft that hit the beaches on the island of Iwo Jima in the South Pacific. He was 21. The battle of Iwo Jima lasted 36 days and was one of the deadliest of World War II. More than 10,000 American and Japanese servicemen died and hundreds of thousands were wounded. This week, Agenbroad, now 90 and a long-time Dayton resident, is returning to Iwo Jima for the first time since the battle...
WALLA WALLA - Walla Walla County Sheriff John Turner announced last week that he will seek a second term as Sherrif this year. Two candidates - Barry Blackman and Tom Cooper - have already announced they will challenge Turner in this fall's election. In a press release issued March 5, Turner said, "I feel blessed every day as the elected Sheriff of Walla Walla County and I appreciate our community's on- going support for strong and consistent law enforcement." Turner is a Southern California...
On the front page of Last week's Times we ran a story about a crime that was particularly awful. A man in Dayton is alleged to have repeatedly raped his stepdaughter over a period of years. (That story ran next to an unrelated story about another awful crime: Another man in Dayton is accused of severely injuring an 11-month-old baby.) We got a lot of reaction from the rape story. Some people told us we were wrong to make the story so prominent and include as much detail as we did. They were g...
DAYTON - Columbia County Fire District 3 and Columbia REA announced last week that REA has sold its shop, warehouse and property at 115 Patit Road to the district. The deal closed on February 7. According to the Columbia County Assessor's Office, the building and just over four acres sold for $850,000. In a press release, District 3 Fire Chief Rick Turner said, "The REA building is better designed to meet the current and future needs of our Fire Department and its responsibilities." The release...
DAYTON - During a special meeting Wednesday, the Dayton School Board approved placing a $19.955 million bond before voters in April. The vote was 4-0, with one board member absent. Voting on the measure will conclude on April 22. A yes vote above 60% will be required to approve the measure. Bond funds would go toward a major renovation of school district facilities. The total estimated project is cost $24.25 million. The remaining funds (approximately $4.3 million) would be provided by Washing...
DAYTON - Walter C. Hartwell, 38, of Dayton, was arrested here Friday and charged with two counts of first degree rape of a child. He is being held in the Columbia County Jail, subject to $100,000 bond. He is scheduled for arraignment on March 6. Hartwell is accused of initiating sexual contact with his 11-year-old stepdaughter. Reports indicate that the contact may have been occurring for several years. According to a report released by the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, the Sheriff's Office received paperwork from the Washington St...
DAYTON - Dayton High's Future Business Leaders of America club sent 26 students to the Southeast Regional Winter Business Conference in Kennewick on February 12. They were one of the two largest groups at the conference, and all 26 qualified to move on to the state competition in Seattle in April. The Kennewick conference included schools of all sizes from Southeast Washington, and it included competition in a wide variety of business-related categories. More than 100 competitive even...
Lind-Ritzville-Sprague 78, WP 32 WAITSBURG - The Lind- Ritzville- Sprague Broncos galloped into WP's home gym in the first round of the District 7/9 playoffs and trampled the cardinals into dust. The 78-32 loss put WP into a Monday loser-out game, which they survived. LRS had a 14-8 lead after one and then lit up the gym in the second, outscoring the Cardinals in that frame, 26-6, to take a 40-14 lead into the locker room. Corey Brownlee led WP scoring with 11 points. WP 69, WWVA 65 SPOKANE -...
Dayton 39, Davenport 30 DAYTON - Dayton's Lady Bulldog basketball team outlasted a tough Davenport team to take a win in the first round of the Southeast Washington District 7/9 playoffs 38-30 Saturday in front of an enthusiastic home crowd. Dayton jumped to an early 14-2 lead at the end of the first quarter, only to see it disappear in the second. The Lady 'Dogs led the Lady Gorillas by a point at the half before hitting a dry spell in the third quarter to fall behind 19-16. A quick co...
DAYTON - The Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market hosted its third weekly Indoor Market on Saturday and attracted an enthusiastic group of shoppers. The market is held in the center community section of the Port of Columbia's new artisan food center. When a Times reporter visited, camera in hand, several vendors were eager to show off their wares, and musician Heather Stearns was playing her guitar and singing. Soup was being provided by Little Dipper Dairy, a tenant at BMS. Gypsy Girl G... Full story
DAYTON - The 2014 edition of the Columbia County Fair will offer attendees many new activities and events, according to plans being put together by the fair board. The theme of the fair will be "Blue Jeans and Country Dreams." This year's fair will be held September 5, 6 and 7. Columbia County Fair Board Co-President Candy Jones said that the board is eager to try new things this year. "It's important that we get more local people involved," she said. "We're still looking for more ideas." J...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg boys' basketball team won their fifth straight game on Feb. 5, defeating DeSales in the District 9 Tournament play-in game 73-47. The defeat sent DeSales home for the season, and put WP in the weekend tournament, which was delayed due to weather. The Irish jumped out to an early 9-2 lead, but WP came roaring back with an 18-4 run to lead after the first quarter 20-13. They never looked back. The Cardinals led 43- 21 at the half and 63-30 after three quarters. Owen L... Full story
DAYTON - In a special Monday meeting this week, the Columbia County Board of Commissioners approved a measure to allow emergency repairs to the ceiling and carpet in the courtroom of the Columbia County Courthouse, after accidental damage caused by a contractor. The measure allows courthouse Maintenance Supervisor Dave Finney to hire a local contractor for the repairs without going through the normal bidding process. In January, a worker with Pringles Power Vac of Walla Walla was cleaning d... Full story
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council on Monday voted to reject a proposed ordinance to establish a special events permit for Dayton. The 6-1 decision came after the council heard several public comments in opposition to the measure and after considerable debate among council members. Councilman Dain Nysoe cast the lone dissenting vote on the motion to reject the ordinance. The ordinance was proposed by the council's Public Safety Committee, of which Nysoe is chair. It was a scaled-back version...
DAYTON - Columbia County Emergency Management Director Lisa Caldwell announced last week that her office is implementing a new emergency notification program this month. The system, called CodeRED, will allow Columbia County officials to quickly send emergency notifications to targeted neighborhoods or the entire county, using phone calls, text messages and emails. According to a press release issued by Caldwell's office, the county will test the CodeRED system on Tuesday, February 18, b...
DAYTON - As a young man living near San Francisco in the 1960s, Bill Freeman worked as a machinist and trained horses on the side. In 1965, he got a job helping build Little Goose Dam. He lived in Dayton for a year and continued to train horses on the side - this time, at the Columbia County Fairgrounds. Nearly 50 years later, Freeman has returned to Dayton, along with his son Dan, and their families. Bill and Dan run Bill Feeman Bits, which they've relocated from Rainier, Wash., so... Full story
DAYTON - The Columbia County Health System has recently added two new physicians at its Columbia Family Clinic in Dayton. According to interim CEO Jon Smiley, the local healthcare provider is now fully staffed with doctors for the foreseeable future. Kim Abernathy, DO, comes to Dayton from Pueblo, Colo., where she practiced for more than a decade. She is a 1999 graduate of Nova Southeastern University School of Osteopathic Medicine in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Prior to starting her medi...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg-Prescott boys’ basketball team nailed down two big wins over the weekend and brought their league record to .500, with one game left to go in the regular season. On Friday the Cardinals traveled to Tri- Cities Prep and took a close game from the Jaguars, 44-41. The game was close throughout, as WP took a one-point lead into the half and then led by three after three. Corey Brownlee had a big game for the Cardinals, scoring 14 points and pulling down 16 rebounds. Chr... Full story
DAYTON - Jill Andrews' clients range from modest Dayton families to investors from Seattle and as far away as Missouri. But they share one thing - a love of Arabian horses. Andrews is a Dayton horse trainer who helps bring the best out of her clients' horses at regional and national shows. In February, Andrews and her husband, Dan, along with a group of her local clients, will travel to Scottsdale, Ariz. for the Scottsdale Arabian Horse Show. "They expect about 2,400 horses there," she said....
DAYTON - The Dayton School Board recently approved a resolution allowing Dayton's football team to play 8-man football in the fall of 2014. The team will play members of the Southeast Washington 1B 8-man league. According to Superintendent Doug Johnson, the move was made because of low turnout in recent years. "We've ended the last couple of seasons with only 13 or 14 players," Johnson said. "It's pretty hard to field an 11-man team with those numbers." Johnson said the school got pe...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs jumped to an early 8-0 lead and led most of the first three quarters before succumbing to a tenacious DeSales team in the fourth quarter here Saturday. The score was tied 36- 36 after three and then again 41-41 with just over five minutes remaining, but the Irish pulled away in the final frame to win 54-48. Logan Hays led the scoring for Dayton with 15 points. He added nine rebounds. Zach Waggoner chipped in 11 points and Ben Kleck had nine. The Bulldogs had a hot...
DAYTON - The folks who work in the healthcare field in Columbia County know that having a well-run hospital and clinic here is an important part of keeping our community healthy. But access to health professionals is only part of what's needed to improve the health of residents of our community. "Wellness and prevention are equally important," says Cheryl Skiffington, who is clinic manager for the Columbia County Health System. It's her job to make sure the Columbia Family clinic in Dayton a...
WAITSBURG - In what coach Tavis Crittenden described as a "brutal" schedule, the Waitsburg-Prescott boys basketball team played four games in five days between Saturday and Tuesday. On Friday, the Cardinals traveled to DeSales and lost to the Irish 62 - 51. They beat Dayton Saturday night at home, 55-40, and then lost to WWVA Monday night, also at home, 66-58. As The Times was going to press Tuesday, the Cardinals were preparing to travel to Milton-Freewater to play the Mac-Hi Pioneers. On...
DAYTON - The Washington State Parks Commission is planning a major change to the way it manages its parks in our area. The commission intends to form a "Mega Area," in which one manager will oversee a group of eight park facilities in southeast Washington. Gary Vierra will serve as Area Manager for the Blue Mountain Area. He will serve as manager for the following park facilities: Field Springs Camp Wooten Lewis and Clark Trail andCampground Lyons Ferry (to be open by2015) Palouse Falls Colum... Full story
