Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG — Due to increasing print production costs, I am transitioning “The Times” from a print to an exclusively online publication beginning February 6, 2025. The transition will allow the paper to continue covering local news and support businesses, non-profits, schools, and healthcare systems in the Touchet Valley. “The Times” is committed to providing accurate, fair, and relevant information to its readers and community. I purchased the paper at the end of 2018 when the previous owners planned to close the publication after they coul...
DAYTON — The Dayton School Board met in the high school library at 6:30 p.m. on January 22, 2025. Superintendent Jeremy Wheatley, Business Manager Jana Eaton, and Student Representative Lila Hutchens were present. Board Chair Jeffrey McCowen and board members Aneesha Dieu, Grant Griffin, and Ryan Paulson were present. A board position remains vacant, and persons interested in volunteering should contact the district office for more information. The board re-elected McCowen as board chair and Griffin vice chair. In the consent agenda, the b...
"Frost in the Hollow" by local photographer and longtime supporter of "The Times." This photograph was published in November 2022 when cold temperatures and a foggy inversion created a fairyland of frosty trees and weeds in the greater Walla Walla Valley. Rodgers is one of many generous contributors who have donated their work to the paper. HIs published work can be seen by searching the paper's website at www.waitsburgtimes.com....
DAYTON — Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, Timothée Chalamet stars and sings as Bob Dylan in James Mangold’s “A Complete Unknown,” the electric true story behind the rise of one of the most iconic singer-songwriters in history. Set in New York in the early 1960s, when the 19-year-old Dylan came to the West Village from Minnesota during a time of vibrant music and tumultuous cultural upheaval. With his guitar and talent, he was destined to change the course of American music. He formed close relationships with musicians from the folk movement...
WALLA WALLA — The Walla Walla County Commissioners announced an opening on the Walla Walla County Rural Library Board of Trustees. The board of trustees determines the mission and basic policies for the library’s operation, has supervision, care, and custody responsibilities for all library property, including buildings, books, and other supplies, and has exclusive control of the library’s finances. The rural library district board must submit and certify an annual budget used to levy taxes for the library district. The board reviews the annua...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Resource Center is open from 2 to 4 p.m. on Thursdays at 106 Preston Avenue in the Banner Bank building. The service provides a food pantry and personal care items to help meet community needs. The WRC is now offering free clothing assistance at the Waitsburg Christian Church when the resource center is open on Thursdays from 2 to 4 p.m. Anyone can come to the church for adult and children's clothes and do not need to be registered with the WRC. Speaking on behalf of...
Patricia "Patty" Irene "Harris" White, left this world to join those whom passed before her in Heaven on January 5th, 2025 at Providence St. Mary's Medical Center. Due to respiratory failure complicated by infections and Metastasis Breast Cancer that spread to her lungs. She was surrounded by her loving family. Patty was the second born to Walter and Dorothy "Kienholz" Harris on January 16, 1947 in Bertha , Minnesota. The family moved to Waitsburg, Washington where she would grow up, and graduat...
WAITSBURG - In the first semester at Waitsburg Schools, Elizabeth Jagelski introduced Music Exploration to a combined class of sixth and seventh graders. Jagelski led students in exploring music and musical instruments, including bucket drumming and kazoo playing. The students got to vote for their last segment of instruction in music. They could choose between putting on a play, learning to play recorders, or forming a choir to sing in four-part harmony. With ninety-eight percent of the vote, t...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinal boys varsity basketball team dropped two games last week. St. John-Endicott (SJE) beat Waitsburg on Friday, January 24, and Dayton came out on top, 62-51, on Saturday, January 25. In the SJE game, the Eagles built a ten-point lead in the second quarter and did not let up as they cruised to a 69-45 win. Coach Westin Wallace stated that his boys need to invest in defensive intensity. Logan Seal led Waitsburg with 16 points (including hitting four 3-point shots). He also...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg High School girls basketball team lost 43-41 in a close game against St. John Endicott (SJE) on Friday, January 24. The Cardinals were leading before SJE tied it in the third quarter. Cardinals' Alyssa Hollingsworth hit a 3-point shot, and Cheri Mathews scored two points to reclaim the lead. Waitsburg had a 10-point lead with about six minutes to go in the fourth quarter. Turnovers and missed shots allowed SJE to tie the game, hitting a 3-point shot with 50 seconds...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Middle School Girls basketball team played their first season game at Rogers in College Place on Wednesday, January 22. In the 28-23 loss, the Cardinals were led by seventh graders Kaitlyn Paul with nine points, Audrey Kiefel had eight points and five steals, Laila Long scored four points and rebounded seven in her basketball debut, and Mady Potter led the team in rebounding with eight board, and she scored two points. "The girls played well for their first game of the...
WAITSBURG — Waitsburg wrestlers traveled to Walla Walla High School on Saturday, January 25, to participate in the Foothills of the Blues Tournament. The Cardinals competed against high school wrestlers from WA-Hi, College Place, McLoughlin High, Dayton, and Pomeroy. Highlight for Waitsburg was Junior Graycen Teal, who went 1-2 on the day. The other Cardinal wrestlers went 0-2. The team will compete in Districts at Almira Coulee Hartline High School on Saturday, February 8....
While the fires in Los Angeles were raging, I texted my friends who had visited me last fall to let them know Walla Walla was sending some firefighters to the inferno that Los Angeles had become. Thanking me, they asked if I would throw some bottles of wine in the firetruck for them. Unfortunately, that was not an option. Knowing that they enjoyed our wine-tasting adventures when they visited, I sent each of them a bottle of wine to help them cope with their smokey, evacuation yoyo life. Of...
WALLA WALLA - The Combine Art Collective invited artists from Waitsburg to exhibit their work at the gallery in Walla Walla. The show will feature Carrie Hendrix, Bill Rodgers, Greg Tate, Twila Tate, Tom Benett, Karen Gregutt, Lane Gwinn, Kim Bruzas, David Gignac, and Suze Woods. The diverse range of artwork by the Waitsburg artists includes photography, collage, pinhole photography, painting, and multimedia. The show will run from March 6 to April 27, with a reception and several...
WAITSBURG. - The Waitsburg Celebration Days will hold its Annual Spaghetti Feed Fundraiser on February 15 at the Waitsburg Town Hall. The doors will open at 5 p.m. with live music and a silent auction. The event organizers will begin serving the spaghetti dinner, with salad and garlic bread, at 6 p.m., followed by the live dessert auction. The evening ends with the crowning of this year's royal court at 8 p.m. The three court members are Hadley Fullen, age 15, from Milton-Freewater; Jemma...
Ten Years Ago January 29, 2015 Waitsburg native Wyatt Withers, son of Laurie Withers and the late Ian Withers, and grandson of Jack McCaw and the late Laurette McCaw, has done his family proud by receiving recognition as the 2014 Sailor of the Year for submarine Squadron 5 out of Bremerton. Withers graduated from Waitsburg High School in 2010 and followed in "Grandpa Jack's" footsteps by joining the Navy, where he pursued a career in nuclear engineering. He excelled early on, finishing 13th...
For me, cooking has always been about more than just sustenance alone. The foods we eat tell a story, and I am always listening. Every ingredient and technique used in modern kitchens are a daily retelling of the movement of cultures across time. Individual family histories come to life with the recipes that have been passed down from one generation to the next. Perhaps, this could be another way of interpreting the old saying, "you are what you eat." I can still remember the first time I had...
