Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - A Dayton man who has been charged with first degree rape of a child appeared in court last week. According to the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office, Walter Hartwell is scheduled to go to trial April 22 and 23. Hartwell was arrested last month and charged with initiating sexual contact with an 11-year-old child. He is being held in the Columbia County jail, with bond set at $100,000. A hearing to set a trial date for Levi Helgerson, who is charged with first degree assault of a child, is scheduled for April 3. Helgerson was arrested...
WALLA WALLA - Walla Walla County Commissioner Greg Tompkins announced Monday that he will not seek re-election this year to a fourth term. He will finish out his current term, which ends Dec. 31. "I am proud of what we have accomplished in the past 11 years," Tompkins said in a letter to his fellow commissioners. "I also believe we have laid the framework for continued progress in both the near and distance future with the work we have done." Tompkins was first elected to his District 3 seat in 2002. Earlier this month,, former Walla Walla C...
WAITSBURG - Several Waitsburg and Dayton basketball players were named to the Southeast 2B District 9 All-League Team. The selections were made by league coaches and were announced on February 19: WP Boys First Team: Corey Brownlee, Senior Owen Lanning, Junior Chance Leroue, Junior Dayton Boys Honorable Mention: Cruz Ramirez, Senior Zach Waggoner, Sophomore WP Girls First Team: Chelsey Brannock, Senior Sam Fedderson, Junior Dayton Girls First Team: Sarah Phillips, Junior Lexie Ramirez, Junior Madison Mings, Sophomore...
SPOKANE - With a few seconds remaining Saturday night, at the District 7/9 playoffs here, a Tri-Cities Prep outside shot broke a 51 all tie and sent the Waitsburg-Prescott boys basketball team home for good. The Cardinals made a valiant comeback after trailing at the half by ten points. They played outstanding defense in the third quarter, outscoring the Jaguars 9-5 in that frame. They took the lead with two minutes remaining in the game, before the heartbreaking finish. Coree Brownlee le...
SPOKANE - The Dayton Girls' Basketball team ran up against a tough pair of northern opponents last weekend at District 7/9 playoffs, and ended their season with two losses. St. Georges 52, Dayton 33 Friday night, against St. Georges, the Lady Bulldogs fell behind early, trailing 11-5 at the end of one. Dayton trailed by seven at the half, but the Dragons blew the game open in the third quarter, with a 22-12 run. Guard Lexie Ramirez led the Lady 'Dogs with 14 points, including two three- pointe...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Resource Center (WRC) served 196 people in January -- an amount nearly equaling 10% of Waitsburg's population. Seventy-seven families from Waitsburg and Prescott received food and new families continue to utilize the service each week. The food bank currently provides services to families in the Waitsburg and Prescott school districts. Families may visit once per month and large families may take up to 55 lbs of food per visit. The WRC also provides local schools with backpacks - funded by a donation from the Lion's...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg-Prescott boys' basketball team won two big games over the weekend, extending their winning streak to four games. Their season-ending league record of 6-4 gives them a fourth seed going into the Southeast 2B District 9 tournament this week. On Friday night, the Cards dismantled Dayton 48-26. For the third game in a row, forward Corey Brownlee led Cardinal scoring, this time with 10 points. Brownlee also led WP in rebounding with 10. Devin Acevedo and Owen Lan...
COLLEGE PLACE – The Dayton boys couldn’t keep pace with a strong Walla Walla Valley Acadamy team Saturday, falling to the Knights 61-21. The loss leaves the Bulldogs at 0-9 in league play and 1-18 overall. Zach Waggoner led the way for Dayton with 9 points. Cruz Ramirez had a strong game under the boards, with 10 rebounds. For the game, the Bulldogs were 0-13 in three-point goal attempts. The ‘Dogs finish out their season Friday, hosting rival Waitsburg-Prescott....
COLLEGE PLACE – As the Lady Bulldogs entered the fourth quarter, trailing Walla Walla Valley Academy by nine points, Madison Mings caught fire. In the final frame, Mings scored 16 of her game-high 22 points, including three 3-pointers. Dayton outscored the Knights 21-4 in the fourth quarter to win the game, 39-31. The Bulldogs played evenly with WWVA in the first half, and led 16- 15 at the break. Dayton struggled in the third, as the Knights outscored them, 12-2. Besides her 22 points, Min...
DAYTON - A 14-year-old boy from Burbank died Saturday from injuries suffered in a fall while snowboarding at Bluewood Ski area south of here. Dian Ver Valen, public information officer for the Columbia County Sheriff's Office issued the following statement on the incident: Ski Bluewood contacted the Columbia County Public Safety Communications Center on Saturday, Jan. 25, at 12:48 p.m. to request that Columbia County Fire District 3 Ambulance respond to a medical incident involving a juvenile. District 3 Ambulance personnel responded and ar...
MILTON-FREEWATER - The Waitsburg-Prescott girls traveled to Mac Hi's Gym January 14, but lost to the Pioneers 40-31. The Lady Cards kept the game close in the first half, trailing by three at intermission. But the Mac-Hi girls outscored them 13-7 in the third quarter before coasting to the win. Heidi Miller led WP with nine points and also pulled down six rebounds. Kassidy Kuykendall and Hannah Grant each had seven points. WP travels to Tri-Cities Prep on Friday and then hosts DeSales Saturday. They finish out the season January 31 against...
ASOTIN - The Waitsburg Prescott boys struggled in the first quarter against a tough Asotin team, but came roaring in the second before finally falling 59-41. After trailing 15-5 after a quarter, the Cardinals briefly regained the lead in the second, before finally trailing at the half 23-19. Asotin roughed up WP in the third quarter, outscoring the Cards 22-11, before coasting to the win. Devin Acevedo led the Cardinals with 12 points, including six-for-six shooting from the free throw line. Corey Brownlee and Chance Leroue each knocked do...
COLFAX - The WP wresting team faced some tough competition in Colfax on Thursday, January 16, competing against Colfax, Garfield-Palouse, Liberty, Reardan, Davenport and Wilbur-Creston-Keller. Only Kavin Kuykendall, TJ Morrison, Tyler Hoffman and Tristan Newman walked away with wins. "A lot of the wrestlers WP encountered are returning state competitors. We did very well for being a young team going up against some tough and experienced wrestlers," said Coach Lanny Adams. David Just (126) p...
KENNEWICK - A group of Waitsburg residents joined Joanna Lanning in her fourth Special Olympics Polar Bear Plunge at Columbia Park in Kennewick on Saturday. Emma and Cindy Philbrook, Melissa Hansen, E.J. Meserve and Nick Pearson all joined Lanning in taking a deep dip in the Columbia River for a special cause. It was a first-time event for all but Meserve who also participated last year. "The water was a balmy 39 degrees; much warmer than last year," said Lanning. Adults are required to rai...
MEAD - The Bluewood Alpine Race Team (BART) faced harsh conditions at the Youth Team's first competition at Mt. Spokane last weekend, but two skiers claimed one top-five and two top-ten finishes in the Giant Slalom event. Heavy, wet snow and fog made even finding the race site difficult and led to rough course conditions. A hard freeze Saturday night turned the wet snow to boilerplate, making Sunday's course extremely fast - testing the athletes' ability to hold an edge on their skis. Halle White (U14 Class) of Walla Walla led the team...
DAYTON - Asotin lit up the Dayton gym with 10 three-pointers Saturday night, as they rolled to a 64-34 league win against the outmatched Bulldogs. After breaking out to a 11-6 first-quarter lead, the Panthers blew the game open with 29 second-quarter points. Five of their treys came in that quarter. Asotin led 40-15 at the half. Zach Waggoner led Dayton scoring with 13 points on six of 13 shooting from the floor. Logan Hays had nine points. For the game, including their three-pointers, the P...
WAITSBURG - The WP Cardinal boys lost a high- scoring game Saturday to Tri-Cities Prep, falling 54- 51. Devin Acevedo led his team with 12 points. Owen Lanning had 10 and Chance Leroue followed with eight. The Cardinals struggled in the second quarter and were down at the half by eight. WP cut the lead to five after three, but were done in in the final frame by the Jaguars' outstanding free throw shooting. TCP's 15 points in the final frame came from the charity stripe. The Cardinals play at...
The New Year has meant great strides for Baby Mateo, son of Waitsburg graduate Taryn (Thomas) Aguiar and her husband Jose. In the November 28 issue of The Times, we shared their story. In June of 2013, Taryn & Jose found out they were ex- pecting their first children - twins. In October, they learned the babies were boys - Sebastion and Mateo. On November 4, during a routine ultrasound, the couple learned that Sebastian was no longer alive, though Mateo was doing well. On November 11, Taryn...
DAYTON- The Dayton girls' basketball team won both games in their home holiday tournament over the weekend. The Lady 'Dogs dominated LaCrosse-Washtucna Friday night, 46-16 and then won Saturday's championship game against Elgin easily, by a score of 54-33. "It was kind of nice to knock off some rust from the holiday layover," said coach Clayton Strong. "Everybody had a chance to play and got lots of minutes." Madison Mings had a huge game against Elgin, scoring 20 points. She made eight of 16...
DAYTON -Ski Bluewood, celebrating its 35th year, opened just before Christmas to the delight of skiers from around the region and now everyone with their eyes on the mountain is hoping for more snow. "Though we have been a bit limited on our actual snow pack, the good news is that our groomed slopes have been skiing quite nicely," general manager Jody Ream said. "The cat operators have done a most excellent job with their many efforts over the past week. Sure we would love to have another foot...
DAYTON - Columbia REA has donated $50,000 to the Dayton Development Task Force as part of a local tax incen- tive program that was recently approved by the state. The money will be used in the Task Force's efforts to im- prove the economic health of downtown Dayton. In return, Columbia REA will receive a 75% credit on their Public Utilities Taxes paid to the state in 2014. Columbia REA CEO Les Teal said he felt that the tax in- centive program was an excellent way for the co-op to make a difference in Dayton. "We're part of this community, and...
WAITSBURG - City res- idents will see an increase in their water/sewer statements come January - but only about half of what was origi- nally proposed. At Monday night's City Council meeting the board approved a water/ sewer increase of 3% to begin with the January 2014 statement. City Administrator Ran- dy Hinchliffe proposed an increase of $4.90, either to be initiated with the January bill or phased in over time. The amount was arrived at by evaluating the rate of inflation over the last 10 years and determining what a rate increase would...
WAITSBURG - Out of 15 area schools - large and small alike - Waitsburg's Knowledge Bowl team currently ranks third, only one point shy of second place. "I'm impressed," said Knowledge Bowl Coach Brad Green. "We held our own even against the mighty Hanford High School." Waitsburg took first place in their first two meets of the year - the first with a score of 88 and the second with a score of 100. The next meet will take place in Dayton against an unlimited number of teams. In February teams...
MILTON-FREEWATER - The Dayton Bulldogs played hard against a tough Mac-Hi team, losing the opening round of the Milton Freewater Open Invite tournament Friday night, 50-32. The Bulldogs trailed by only two at the half, 23- 21, but were outscored 18-7 in the third quarter, as the Pioneers pulled away. Logan Hays led Dayton's scorers with eight points, followed by Ian Smay and Ben Kleck with six each. Cruz Ramirez was dominant on the boards, pulling down 12 Rebounds. In Saturday's loser's bracket game, Dayton dominated Helix, winning 41- 26...
DAYTON - The Co- lumbia County Sheriff's Office is asking all citizens who are still missing property from recent unreport- ed car prowls to call (509) 382-2518 and make a for- mal report. After recent arrests, a cache of property was recovered by deputies, some of which has yet to be linked with victims. Sheriff's deputies ar- rested three Dayton men on November 30, whom they believe may be linked to a rash of car prowls here in November. The suspects are currently in jail and awaiting trial. Between September 1 and the end of November, Dayton...
