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Council Confirms Utility Rate Increase Funds will be leveraged to obtain a loan to improve infrastructure WAITSBURG – At their January meeting, the Waitsburg City Council voted unanimously to approve a utility rate increase to fund imminent infrastructure repairs and upgrades, but opted to review the numbers one more time before making a final decision. The council approved the proposed increase, with minor changes, at their February meeting. The council voted to raise utility rates by 5% on b...
Temperatures may be nippy but there is still plenty of wildlife to be seen. Dayton photographer Nick Page captured these critters in his lens on a Feb. 4 drive....
STARBUCK -- Jim McArthur's reuben sandwich junkies will be happy to hear that the restaurant at the Lyon's Ferry Marina will have an earlier than usual opening this year. McArthur said an early opening will go a long way to alleviate his wintertime blues, which have been worse than ever this year. This is partly because he is recuperating from total knee replacement surgery, but also because there has been considerable damage to the moorages and walkways at the marina due to winter ice accumulat...
DAYTON – February is Heart Health Awareness Month and there are many activities and promotions taking place in Dayton. Columbia County Health System is asking businesses to spread the message of heart health by decorating their windows. Take the time to check out the many windows around town that have been decorated. Supporters are asked to wear red on Fridays in February and bright red "Rock the Beat" t-shirts are available for purchase at the Dayton General Hospital for $10. Blue Mountain S...
WAITSBURG – Dr. Bill Jordan of Northwest Leadership Associates met with school board members in executive session prior to the Feb. 8 regular board meeting and told the board that 10 to 12 candidates have expressed interest in the district superintendent position that Dr. Carol Clarke will retire from on June 30. Clarke reviewed the search timeline with those in attendance. Applications are due Feb. 17 and the board will meet in executive session on March 1to review them and choose p...
Ten Years Ago February 22, 2017 Harold Cochran of Prescott was appointed to the Board of Regents at Washington State University (WSU) by Governor Chris Gregoire last week. The Waitsburg branch of AmericanWest Bank will cut its operating hours beginning in April, The Times has learned. “Financial factors” had a role in the decision made by the AmericanWest Bank board of directors, a bank spokesman said Tuesday. Six Waitsburg residents attending Washington State University have earned recognition on the President’s Honor Roll for the fall 2006...
WAITSBURG – Citizens are invited to support Waitsburg Celebration Days Royalty at a spaghetti dinner fundraiser on Fri., Feb. 24 at Waitsburg Town Hall. A social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. The evening will also include a silent auction and dessert auction. Tickets are 2 for $15 or $10 each. Wine and beer will be available by donation. Funds will be used toward royalty expenses such as wardrobe and travel. Tickets may be purchased by calling Cheyanne at (509) 629-1693 or by messaging Ann Adams on Facebook. They will a...
DAYTON – The Dayton Lions Club will host its second annual crab dinner on Sat., March 11 from 5-7 pm. at the Dayton school multipurpose room. Tickets must be purchased by March 1, in order for the club to know how much crab to purchase. This is the second year for the event that the Lions hope to see grow into an annual fundraiser. This year’s event will include live music by Bobby K. and Mike McQuary, and several door prizes will be given away. The menu includes fresh crab (cleaned with no shell), macaroni salad, baked beans, coleslaw, gar...
DAYTON – Beginning March 1, 2017 the Columbia County Board of Commissioners regular meetings will be held the first and third Monday of each month, at 9 a.m. Work sessions will be held at 9 a.m. on the first and third Wednesday of each month. The commissioners meet at the courthouse, 341 E. Main Street, Ste #4. Agendas are available online prior to the meetings at www.columumbiaco.com....
DAYTON – Citizens are invited to discuss their priorities for updates to the Community Wildfire Protection Plan meeting on Feb. 21 at 1 p.m. at the Columbia County Fire District #3 station located at 111 Patit Rd. in Dayton. The updated CWPP document will focus on three key areas: creating fire adapted communities, improving wildfire response, and restoring and maintaining healthy landscapes. The goal of the project is to review and update, if necessary, initial assessments of wildland fire risk in Columbia County and make mitigation r...
February 17: Loyal Baker, Jack Rodgers, Chris Blair, Mathew Kurth, Betty Sauer, Angela Webb and Larry Lawrence. February 18: Cole Lindsey, Greg Schuler, Lauri McKinley, Michael and Philo Murphy, Nancy Powers, Ann Ahler and Charles Mead V. February 19: Carrie Abel, Margaret Osterero, Rick Harper, and Mark Johnson. February 20: Harvey Danielson, Jace Grende and Colter Mohney. February 21: Dick Brunton, Ted Hopwood, Rich Pierson, Travis Wood, Joshua Wood, Chris Huwe and Molly and Mandy Hays. February 22: Cheri Maxwell, Gerald Morgan, Charles...
WASHINGTON -- At their post-Civil War apogee, 19th-century Republicans were the party of activist government, using protectionism to pick commercial winners and promising wondrous benefits from government’s deft interventions in economic life. Today, a Republican administration promises that wisely wielded Washington power can rearrange commercial activities in ways superior to those produced by private-sector calculations in free market transactions. According to the Financial Times, which interviewed him, Peter Navarro, head of the p...
I’m walking down a long, paved sidewalk in early March, with a practice baseball field on my left and a grove of well-trimmed trees on my right. I’m worrying about the snow that fell as I left Washington, D.C., the night before, worrying about work and bills and the hassles of everyday life, worrying about the sunscreen I left at home. A hundred yards from the stadium, I hear what has become an annual ritual: A cheer rising from the stands, the cheer of a happy and hopeful crowd that has traveled to Phoenix to watch their baseball team pre...
DAYTON-Take a tour of a new exhibit at the Dayton Historic Depot Museum, beginning on March 1, to see some gadgets that made the lives of women "easier" in the years from the early 1900s to the 1950s. "We're looking at the intersection of consumerism, changing women's roles, and rural electrification," said Museum Director Tamara Fritze about the idea behind the exhibit. Most of the appliances on loan to the museum are electric, with the exception of a display of hand tools for mixing, and some...
DAYTON-Good things have been happening at the Dayton Memorial Library, including a recent honor bestowed on the library by the American Library Association, for the Family Dinner and Story Program, which will be featured on the ALA website "Future Trends of Libraries". Since Dusty Waltner hired on as the Library Director in March of 2015 there have been many visible improvements at the Dayton Memorial Library. "My goal has been to increase programming and services, and boost awareness in the com...
PRESCOTT – Prescott High School Athletic Director Susan Deruwe smiled as she described the chants and cheers, in support of the Prescott Tigers, that had filled the school halls earlier in the day. Such enthusiasm is the norm for many high schools, but it has been years since Prescott has experienced that type of school spirit, according to school administrators. Effective with the 2015-16 school year, Prescott withdrew from a longstanding Waitsburg-Prescott sports combine in an attempt to c...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg fifth-graders are soliciting recipes from every student and staff member of Waitsburg schools, to be included in the first edition of the Waitsburg K-12 School Cookbook. All funds will be used toward the fifth grade ski program. Waitsburg's ski program was initiated by retired teacher Pam Conover with the first trip to Ski Bluewood taking place in 2009. Since then, classes have raised funds through fun runs, selling pizza kits, running the basketball hoop shoot during v...
Elementary Principal’s Report: The fifth grade ski program is underway and the costs are being offset by sales of a K-12 School Cookbook. Proceeds will support students for this year and future year. Elementary students held their Jump/Shoot for Heart fundraiser kick-off. The actual Jump/Shoot event will be held Feb. 22. The Home and School association Father-Daughter dance was a huge success. The HASA is raffling a trout carving that will be raffled at the annual school carnival on April 21. S...
WAITSBURG – Kyle Gradwohl racked up 27 points and Jacob Dunn added another 24, as the Waitsburg boys' basketball team beat Colton in the first round of District playoffs. With the win, the Cardinals move on to face Pomeroy Friday in Colfax in the district championship. The winner of that game moves on to regionals the following weekend. The loser will play a consolation game Saturday for a last chance to make regionals. Waitsburg led 14-12 at the end of the first quarter, and built the lead t...
POMEROY – The Waitsburg Girls’ basketball team played their first playoff game here on Feb. 8 and struggled against a strong Pomeroy team, falling 55-24. The Lady Cards were to play a loser-out game on Monday. Waitsburg got blown out in the first half, falling behind, 18-4 after the first quarter, and trailing 38-8 at the half. Tayler Jones and Taylor Hays each had six points to lead the Cardinal scoring. All of Hays’s scoring came on two three-point shots. Analisea Araya pulled down five rebounds for Waitsburg. Waitsburg 4 4 10 6 — 24 Pomeroy...
COLBERT – Waitsburg's Joe Adams won all three of his matches at the Regional Meet in Colbert Saturday, to take first place in the 182-pound class. He moves on the state tournament at the Tacoma Dome on Friday and Saturday, as regional champion. Also moving on to state is Tyler Hoffman, who took third place in the 285-pound class. David Just and Ky Adams will both travel to Tacoma as alternates. Joe Adams won his first match, against Damon Holt, of Republic, by pin at 0:25. In his next match, J...
MABTON – The Dayton boys’ basketball team lost a tough season finale to Mabton here on Saturday, 60-57. The loss ended the season for the Bulldogs, who finished with a 4-16 record. Dayton jumped out to a 20-11 lead in the first quarter, but Mabton came roaring back in the second, to take a one-point lead at the half, 37-36. The bulldogs led by one at the end of the third quarter, but couldn’t hold the lead. For the game, senior Ben Kleck shot 13-20 from the field, hitting three three-point shots, and went two-for-two at the free-throw line....
MABTON – The Dayton girls’ basketball team played without two starting seniors in their final league game here Saturday, and lost to Mabton, 48-35. It was the Lady Bulldogs’ only league loss of the season. The game, originally scheduled for Feb. 4, was delayed twice because of weather. Starters Shayla Currin and Josilyn Fullerton, along with reserve Neylan Bryan, were suffering flu symptoms and did not make the trip to Mabton. Dayton ended the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference regul...
WALLA WALLA COUNTY – Walla Walla County is looking to fill a vacancy on the Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days Board of Directors. Board terms are three years with members eligible to serve up to three terms. For balanced representation, female applicants are encouraged to apply, but all applicants will be considered. The board meets monthly, or as needed, but board members perform approximately 10 hours of board-related duties during most of the year. In the weeks surrounding the annual Fair and Frontier Days event, held over Labor Day w...
DAYTON – Thirty-two year old snowboarder, Able Cortinas, of Richland was reported missing at Ski Bluewood at 6 p.m. on Fri., Feb. 11 when he failed to arrive at the car of the group he was traveling with. He was found safe the following morning. Ski Bluewood partnered with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, LifeFlight, U.S. Forest Service, Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office, and local volunteers and initiated a search Friday evening. Cortinas had last been seen at 4:30 p.m. in an area k...
