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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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This picturesque winter scene, taken in December, 2016, was captured along Middle Waitsburg Road, just north of Londagin Road, by Waitsburg landscape photographer Bill Rodgers. Read about Bill and his art on Page 7....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg and Dayton school boards brought an end to uncertainty about the proposed middle and high school Dayton-Waitsburg full athletic and activities combine at a joint school board meeting at the Waitsburg Elementary School on Monday night. In one fell swoop, both boards unanimously agreed to join into a two-year combine agreement and accepted the 38 individual action items presented by the combine advisory committee. Following an hour of discussion at the well-attended meeting, each board, in turn, unanimously approved e...
DAYTON-Dayton General Hospital is adding Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (HBOT) to its wound care treatment protocol. There is a growing need for chronic wound care, especially for patients with diabetes, which is the number one reason for treating chronic wounds, said Dr. Kurt Frauenpreis, Program Medical Director, and Provider. "We're living longer but we're not taking care of ourselves. Younger people are being diagnosed with diabetes and the expense is horrendous, right now," he said. Hyperbaric...
Rode her sorrel pony Skookum bareback over the wheat fields her daddy farmed in the foothills of the Blue Mountains, skied those hills on pine planks with her beloved siblings Fritz and Margaret, learned to read and write in a one room schoolhouse on Coppei Creek, learned to dance as her aunt and uncles played at the community hall by the homestead on Jasper Mountain, graduated valedictorian of Waitsburg High School's class of 1940, went to Washington State University on a scholarship and...
Iola Lee Bramhall, a lifelong resident of the Dayton area, passed away Sunday, January 28, 2018 at her home along the banks of Patit Creek surrounded by her loving family. She was 97. A Memorial Service celebrating her life will be held on Thursday, February 1st, at 2:00 p.m. at the Redeemer Lutheran Church in Dayton. A private burial service will take place in the Dayton Cemetery. Iola was born February 28, 1920 at the family homestead at the Aurora Orchards south of Dayton. She was the second...
Ten Years Ago February 7, 2008 Administrations at Waitsburg and Prescott school districts will now delve into the “nuts and bolts, the nitty-gritty” of combining middle and high school athletics between the two schools following approval by the Waitsburg Schools Board of Directors last week. Prescott’s Board unanimously approved the idea on January 24. In the final game on Kison Court, Cardinals senior John Gertsch scorched the nets with seven treys and 25 points to lead the Waitsburg Cardinals to a 73-54 win over the Dayton Bulldogs. The w...
DAYTON - The Columbia Rural Electric Association (REA) announced in a press release on Tues., Jan. 30 that they will sell their Dayton office to NW Straw Pulp, LLC. Columbia REA will cease business in the Dayton location, located at 115 Main Street, on March 22. The sale is expected to close no later than April 1. In November, Columbia REA announced plans to close the Dayton office and consolidate offices as a cost-saving measure but had no plans for the Dayton office at the time. “It’s great to see that the location on Main Street will not...
DAYTON—The public is invited to a special ribbon cutting ceremony and guided tours to mark the grand re-opening of the Columbia County Health System, following the completion of the hospital renovation and enhancement project.The ceremony will take place at Dayton General Hospital, on Feb. 27 at 4 p.m. CCHD CEO Shane McGuire said, “When we first began our renovation and enhancement project, our objectives included modifying the building to support the services we are performing today, which are very different from the services that we pro...
GARFIELD COUNTY – One crew member was killed and two were injured when a private helicopter flying under contract with the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) crashed in Garfield County while performing a mule deer study on Sat., Jan. 27. The pilot, Blake Malo, 33, Clarkston and crew member Garrett Bradshaw, 30, Eagle Point, Ore., were injured and taken to St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in Lewiston. Crew member Benjamin M. Poirier, 19, Berthous, Colo. did not survive the crash. All three men were employed by Hells Canyon H...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg will honor senior athletes prior to Saturday’s game against St. John-Endicott in Waitsburg. The girls’ game begins at 5 p.m. with the senior athletes being recognized at 4:40 p.m. Male athletes will be honored prior to the warm-up for their game which is scheduled for 6:30 p.m....
February 2: Lacy Wood, Grant Garrett, Lauren Broom-Vjoertomt and Brandon White. February 3: Ryan Neal, Ben Turner, Norman Hansen, Robert Weller, Eric Rohde, Mike Gauch, Joe Watson and Chris Walker. February 4: Morgan Baker, Chelsey Smith, Meredith Huwe, Stacey Bennett, Mathew Akers, Renee Bailey, Robert Bailey, Matthew Lyons, and Elaine Till. February 5: Tim Abel, Andrea Tuttle, Mary Phillips, Loretta Hunt, Janet Hart, Jack and Jim Hubbard, Helen Richardson, Chad and Nicholas Pearson. February 6: Aidan Larsen, Jena Worth, Lorene Wood, Sueann...
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To the Editor: Isn’t it funny how, within the mass propaganda campaign to “Vote Yes for Our Kids,” so little is mentioned about how the taxes we are encouraged to regularly, every two years, levy upon ourselves are not predominantly spent on school maintenance and repairs? Four years ago, the Dayton School District floated a (failed) 20-year, $19.9 million construction bond to fix a school they lamented was simply falling apart. In an April 5, 2014 Union Bulletin article by Rachel Alexander, superintendent Doug Johnson brought out, reluc...
Dear Editor, This is in regards to Perry Dozier’s request for a water bottling permit from his well. I am going to speak plainly on this, and I hope that people will think about it seriously...this is nothing but greed. It has a great potential for affecting Surrounding property wells and may even affect Prescott water supplies..This is water for sale, and it is not being put to farming use. The other thing that people need to think about is that it would open the opportunity for many more to apply this and What happens to our aquifer and g...
* It was Italian novelist, philosopher and university professor Umberto Eco who made the following sage observation: “Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.” * The average (presumably non-bearded) man will shave at least 20,000 times over the course of his lifetime. * Although it is a dog, the dhole, which is native to Asia, doesn’t bark; to communicate with other members of its pack, it whistles. Evidently, that high-pitched sound ca...
* On Feb. 7, 1914, the silent film “Kid Auto Races at Venice” premieres featuring the actor Charlie Chaplin in his first screen appearance as the “Little Tramp.” * On Feb. 9, 1942, the Normandie, the first major liner to cross the Atlantic in less than four days, burns and sinks in New York Harbor during its conversion to an Allied troop transport. A welder set fire to life preservers, and by early the next morning the ship lay smoking and capsized in the harbor. * On Feb. 6, 1952, King George VI of Great Britain and Northern Ireland dies. P...
WAITSBURG – Beginning in February the Waitsburg Resource Center will no longer be open on Saturdays. The center, which provides food and resources for residents in Waitsburg and Prescott school districts, is open from 2-4 each Thursday. The decision was made because very few people come in on Saturdays. If demand warrants, the center will look at extending Thursday hours. The resource center provides many resources to the community, in addition to providing food to those in need. In 2017, the ce...
The Dayton School District held an informational meeting in the Elementary Multi-purpose Room on Wednesday of last week, to discuss the District's facilities, and talk about the $800,000 Capital Levy Request that will go before voters in February. At that meeting middle and high school principal Paul Shaber led an exercise to help those in attendance understand the need for improvements to the district's aging facilities, the costs of improvements, and how to pay for them. Short term capital...
Art and history are not neutral subjects. Because they both deal with humanity, with all its messiness of politics, differing opinions, varied cultures, and good and bad behavior, both disciplines force us to think, question, ponder, analyze, reason, and explore. One thing we immediately discover is that there are no easy answers. The second thing develops from the first: though there are no easy answers, it does not mean we stop looking for them. Nona Hengen, a writer, researcher, speaker, arti...
The DW Birddogs 7th grade AAU basketball team, coached by Bill Ayotte, Josh Wood and Jesse Mings, competed in a tournament in Lewiston last weekend. The goal of the group is to help the boys improve their basketball team skills and individual fundamentals, promoting good sportsmanship and good citizenship, according to Ayotte. "We competed well last weekend in Lewiston. Our team played well, gave one hundred percent effort and had a great time. We are planning on playing in a couple of more...
WHITE SWAN – The Dayton Bulldogs came close to taking a win against White Swan here on Saturday night, but couldn’t clinch the deal. The Cougars took the league game 69-50 over the ‘Dawgs. The Bulldogs were in the lead 30-28 at halftime but couldn’t keep the momentum going. Junior Helm, Chris Andrews and Mason Finney all scored in the double figures making 14, 12, and 10 points, respectively. On Friday, the Bulldogs took a 63-21 home court loss against Tri-Cities Prep. Helm was top scorer in that game as well with nine points and Andrews...
WHITE SWAN – The Lady Bulldogs took two hard losses this weekend falling 65-15 on a road match with White Swan on Saturday and losing 57-15 at home against Tri-Cities Prep on Friday. Dayton high scorers in the White Swan game were senior Tatum Laughery with 6 points and freshman Sadie Seney with three points. Junior Neylan Bryan, sophomore Kira Boggs and freshman Cassidy Laughery added two points each. Tri-Cities Prep 57 Dayton 15 TRI-CITIES PREP (57) — Mak. Brandner 10, Ghirardo 6, Dickson 6, Boothe 9, Mad. Brandner 2, White 5, Von Oel...
Dayton Basketball Fri.., Feb. 2 TCP @ Dayton Girls 6 p.m./Boys 7:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 3 Mabton @ Dayton Girls 5 p.m./Boys 6:30 p.m. Waitsburg Basketball Fri., Feb. 2 Pomeroy @ Pomeroy Girls 6 p.m./Boys 7:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 3 St. John/Endicott @ Waitsburg* Girls 5 p.m./Boys 6:30 p.m. *Senior recognition night Prescott Basketball Fri., Feb. 2 Touchet @ Prescott Boys V 7:30 p.m. Sat., Feb. 3 Pomeroy @ Pomeroy Boys V 6:30 p.m./Girls V 5 p.m./Girls JV 3:30 p.m....
WAITSBURG – Semi-retired geologist Bill Rodgers moved to Waitsburg almost exactly two years ago and says he absolutely loves living in "a photographer's paradise." His landscapes have been featured in a collection of books by the Blue Mountain Land Trust and Rodgers hopes to offer landscape photography workshops in the not-too-distant future. Rodgers says his love of the land developed at an early age. "When I grew up in Spokane, there was a little undeveloped hill behind our house; a big pile o...
OLYMPIA – District 16 Representative Terry Nealey (R) was awarded the Association of Washington Cities City Champion Award at the organization's City Action Days conference in Olympia on Jan. 24. Nealy was one of eight legislators to be recognized for championing city issues last year. Nealey and Joan McBride (D) of Kirkland were recognized for their work to pass legislation to help modernize the Public Records Act. "AWC is pleased to recognize representatives McBride and Nealey for their w...
