Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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A lthough the recent article appearing in the Times, "Eager Beavers Worry Hofers," was written with obvious journalistic skill, I take exception to the headline and leading sentence: "Although Cindy Hofer loves the beavers who visit the family farm on the banks of Coppei Creek, she gets nervous when they settle in." It would be more accurate to say that the beavers cause little or no uneasiness. In fact I enjoy their antics and feel honored to live so close to their chosen habitat. My actual...
The Waitsburg City Council last Wednesday listened to comments during a hearing about the BMX track proposal initiated by Tawnya and Greg McVey. Late last year, the council voted to deny the use of up to five acres of city-owned land to site the track, and it did so again on Wednesday night, after its members heard brought up some old and some new concerns about the land-use proposal. We welcome the council's thoughtful effort to explore the possibility of this youth activity and the research several members did to see if it would be viable...
DAYTON - Hi s friends call him " Honker." He's nearly 2 years old. And he was born a Canada goose. But he thinks he's a cow. And as Dayton contractor Jim Erskine knows, Honker makes friends with humans easily and likes to pal around. Earlier this month, Erskine was driving back to Dayton from a job in connection with his local business, JDL Construction, on South Touchet Road. About one mile before the thoroughfare meets up with North Touchet Road, Erskine caught movement in his peripheral...
DAYTON - Starbuck Mayor Darcy Linklater has been charged with driving under the influence and will appear in Columbia County District Court to enter his plea on Wednesday, Feb. 2. Columbia County Sheriff's records indicate Linklater was stopped at 11:20 p.m. Sunday night on McKay-Alto Road headed to Waitsburg after a possible DUI tip was called in to dispatch. Linklater refused to take the breath test for blood alcohol content, according to county prosecutor Rea Culwell. He was arrested, issued a criminal citation charging him with the DUI, and...
WAITSBURG - It all started just before Christmas. The first topic of Andie Holmberg's conversation with B. A. Keve was the food baskets program run by the Waitsburg Ministerial Association. Holmberg's employer, AmericanWest Bank, was about to participate as a donor in the program for disadvantaged local families for the first time. But small town chats meander, and so did this one. Soon, the women's discussion turned to the subject of the Waitsburg Food Bank. Holmberg learned from Keve that the...
