Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAI T SBURG - The first giveaway was a pellet. Nathaniel Farnam found it one day in late January when he came in to work on the Loundagin building next to the post office as he has for more than a year, helping turn it into a boutique hotel. It was an unusual excre- tion. Most pellets of its kind are ovoids, about the size and shape of a chocolate Easter egg or formed like a little Almond Rocca log. This one was spherical, not the shape of what he thought it belonged to. But when Farnam took it...
WAITSBURG - Following the announcement that there will be no pari-mutuel horseracing this year in Waitsburg, Dayton and Walla Walla, the board of the Days of Real Sport has cancelled its annual May racing event for 2011. But DRS directors said they hope it will only be a temporary interruption of a near century-old Waitsburg tradition as they and the other Class C tracks try to change the way their racing events are funded, paving the way for a resumption of the sport in 2012. The Dayton Days...
WAITSBURG - Local developers David Corbett and Mark Jones will ask the city of Waitsburg for a reprieve during Wednesday night's city council meeting. Three years ago, city councilors approved a subdivision plan, Waitsburg Estates, proposed by Corbett and Jones for several acres on Wood Street, just north of the old Jackpot gas station (now Midway Food Mart) on Highway 12. But the agreement with the city stipulated that the small-time developers, both farmers in the Walla Walla area, had to carry a surety bond on the property, which assured...
