Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA - The Dayton Bulldogs are in the Final 8 in their 2B division after resoundingly beating Riverside Christian 59-41 at Wa Hi Friday night. quot;We worked hard since fifth grade and this was our goal,quot; Bulldog Joey Schlachter said. quot;It was a hard physical game.quot; At first, the Bulldogs seemed to have trouble outpacing the Crusaders from Yakima, but gained the upperhand through a 6-point run just before half time, boosting Dayton's confidence and spirits. Those never let up in the second half, which saw Riverside resorting... Full story
Carol Coleman Hoffmann, 90, passed away February 21, 2012 at home. She was born November 7, 1921 to Anna & Alexander Coleman in Laredo, Texas. Carol attended high school in Denton, Texas and graduated from Texas State College with a degree in Child Development and Sociology. On April 12, 1941 she married Curtis Hoffmann in Hollywood, California and moved back to Texas while her husband was away at the war. She returned to the farm near Eureka, Washington with Curtis after the war where they raised their family and lived the rest of their...
DAYTON - Judge William Acey decided last Thursday that despite a full confession from a third party to a burglary of a Dayton home in which knives and guns were taken, Eric Vanzandt, the man charged with the crime, should still be held in Columbia County Jail because of other assault and malicious mischief charges. VanZandt was arrested on a warrant from Walla Walla County after a neighbor reported a fight at VanZandt's residence at 1531 S. Second St., just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 29. After he was arrested, his home was searched and weapons...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council last week passed an ordinance that created a transportation benefit district and also passed a resolution to put a sales tax increase to benefit this new district on the April Special Election ballot. Because of a loss of state funding for streets over the past decade, City Administrator Randy Hinchliffe recommended to the council last year that the city create a transportation benefit district to raise money for street repairs and improvements within city limits. The city looked at raising the sales tax...
Wheat prices are in a period in lacking a story of its own powerful enough to push the market into new patterns, although with the spring weather season upon us, the market will be more interesting. Chicago contracts have confirmed the range again in the last few trading sessions, although since Dec. 15 lows, each low has been higher and each high also a bit higher, the definition of an uptrend, with swings of about 80 cents per bushel. The May contract low of $6.28 per bushel on Feb. 16 (repeated Tuesday the 21st) is now a key point to watch....
DAYTON - Glenn Dennison, arrested last week for attempted burglary and burglary of four Dayton businesses Feb. 11, plead not guilty last Thursday to his charges. Dennison is charged with burglary in the second degree, attempted burglary, theft in the third degree, malicious mischief and criminal trespass. Judge William Acey said if Dennison was convicted of all of these crimes, he could face up to 7.5 years in prison and a $15,000 fine. He will next be in court March 8. Dennison is a resident of the Patit Creek Congregate Care Facility, an...
8th grade: 4.0 Morgan Breland 3.25 or Better Coe Richards Devon Watts Elizabeth Johnson Katherine Bryant LaShayla Williams Rachel Gradwohl Shandre Dallolio 7th grade: 4.0 Aislynne Johnson Dustin Meyer Jacob Dunn Taylor Hays 3.25 or Better Cameron Terry Emily Adams Jade Alleman Jared Farley Jasmine Foxe Joseph Leamy Julia Taylor Kyle Gradwohl Lexi Brannock Liliana Shepherd Nicolas Kitselman Selina Mercado Taylor Spoonemore Timber Frohreich 6th grade: 4.0 Chloe Pearson 3.25 or better Anna Nerf Cade Branson Christopher Philbrook Clarrisa Espana... Full story
College Place Resident, Glena " Lee" Nichols, passed away February 15, 2012. Lee was born May 31, 1928, in Montpelier, Idaho, to Daniel Brigham and Frances Hellena Richards. The family moved several times until settling in Nampa, Idaho where Lee attended school. Lee worked in the early years of World War II as a weld inspector at Gate City Steel. She met the love of her life and husband of almost 60 years, Gerald "Gus" Nichols in Nampa. They were married January 16, 1946 and moved to Meridian, Idaho. She was a bookkeeper for Gus's blacksmith...
DAYTON - The WP Cardinals fell to the Dayton Bulldogs, 38-49, last Wednesday night in a District 9 tournamentseeding matchup. The heat was on, both on the court and in the stands with the gym near capacity to cheer on another high school rival basketball game. WP's Billy Brown out jumped Dayton's Joey Schlachter and the game was on. The Cardinals were the first to score with a basket from Zach Bartlow, but Schlachter quickly answered from down low for the Bulldogs' first two points. As the two teams battled back and forth in a playgroundstyle...
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Bulldogs advanced to the District 9 championship game with a 67-53 victory over the Walla Walla Valley Academy Knights last Saturday night. Dayton's brick house Kroft Sunderland got right down to business putting up back-toback baskets to get the Bulldogs started. The Knights lit the board with back to back to back threepointers, but Dayton's Garett Turner drove the baseline to draw defenders before dumping it off to Joey Schlachter for two to prove the Dogs came to...
WALLA WALLA -- The last time the Dayton boys basketball team won the district title, most of the current Bulldog globetrotters were still in diapers. The year was 1995. The 2012 team that beat the WP Cardinals by one point Monday night, 57-56, at Whitman College began to form almost that long ago when sports dads Dean Bickelhaupt, Greg Fullerton and Jeff Turner started dribbling with their sons Colton, Hayden and Garett in kindergarten. The likes of Kroft Sunderland, Joey Schlachter and Wyatt...
WALLA WALLA -- The WP Cardinals stayed alive in playoff action with a 37-28 victory over the Tri-City Prep Jaguars last Saturday night. The Jaguars were first to light the board, but the Cardinals answered with a three-point basket from Dalton Estes to start things off for the Cards. The Jaguars answered Estes with a three-pointer of their own, but Cardinal Dustin Wooderchak added two more with a put back from underneath. The Jaguars gave the ball up to the Cards with a traveling violation,... Full story
WALLA WALLA -- The WP Lady Cardinals fought tooth and nail for a 47-44 victory over the DeSales Fighting Irish last Saturday afternoon. The Cardinals, who had recently lost a close battle with the Irish, came out onto the court with a vengeance to stay alive in playoff action. WP grabbed the tipoff and quickly lit the board when Kristin Potter cut through the key banking it in for two. It took the Irish a couple trips down the floor before they connected from behind the three-point line. They... Full story
WALLA WALLA -- The Dayton Lady Bulldogs are living the dream after a 41-36 upset over the Asotin Panthers last Saturday night. With a rocky, 0-8, start to the season, a shot at the district title game would seem out of reach to the average Joe, but that isn't the case for the Dogs. "I kept telling the girls not to get in the mindset that we still couldn't end up in the tournament," said Dayton head coach Clayton Strong. "The girls didn't give up and kept working harder and improving and now... Full story
WALLA WALLA -- With a bit more than half a period left in the fourth quarter, the Lady Bulldogs came within six points of the lead in their game against the WP Cardinals. Then the margin grew again and The Dogs' hopes of un-seating the defending district title holders evaporated. The 2012 Cardinals defeated the Bulldogs, 45-33, in a feisty give-and-take, which the Waitsburg-Prescott team dominated for most of the evening. After all was said and done, the Cardinals remained as the top team of the district, but the second-place finishers' coach s... Full story
WALLA WALLA - If a trey was worth four points, Cardinal Zach Bartlow's three-pointer that drained the net at the buzzer would have tied his team's game against the Dayton Bulldogs, forcing the battle over the district title into overtime. Instead, it fell one point short and the Bulldogs captured their first district crown in 17 years after beating their valley rivals, 57-56, at Whitman College on Monday. "Every time we play them (Cardinals), it's close," Dayton head coach Roy Ramirez said....
DAYTON - Dayton resident Skyler Glasby, 23, is being held in Umatilla County after being arrested following a 20-minute car chase with police over state lines into Oregon on Feb. 17. Glasby, a passenger in the car, was found hiding in a trash can after fleeing with the other three occupants after the car crashed into an apple orchard in Umatilla County. Police believe the vehicle was stolen from College Place. Glasby, who just served two months in Walla Walla County Jail for passing counterfeit $20s, was booked into Umatilla County Jail. He is...
WAI T SBURG -- The genesis of Brian Seagraves' interest in cabinet making and wood working goes back to high school. When he was a junior at Nashua High School on the border between New Hampshire and Massachusetts, he took a shop class after getting burned out on being a drummer in the school band. "I had no background in running power tools," he said. But he soon learned he could be pretty meticulous with fine wood working projects that required precision. As a senior he won an Outstanding... Full story
Waitsburg 2-16 Suspicious circumstance at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds, deputy doing building checks noticed lock hasp on door to camera booth in the grandstands had been pried off, a sleeping bag was found in side of booth indicating that someone had been sleeping in the camera booth, City Hall notified about damage and sleeping bag was placed into evidence at Sheriff's Office. 2-18 Driver arrested for DUI on Lower Waitsburg Road near Hart Road. 2-21 Suspicious person found hiding on porch of a residence in the 200 block of Warren Street,... Full story
After writing about heirloom seed collectors in last week's column, a reader of Wine and Country Living asked for a little more information. So, I did some research and found a most-educated group of growers and protectors of organic seed in the Northwest region. Located in Port Townsend, they call themselves the Organic Seed Alliance. The alliance is a group of farmers who grow seed and believe so passionately about the critical organic seed issue in our country. Using their credentials, the group takes the time to educate interested farmers...
The parents of Caris Cole and Cody Lynch of Waitsburg announce an engagement. The bride is the daughter of Ken and Elizabeth Cole of Waitsburg. She graduated from Waitsburg High School in 2009 and she has been attending Walla Walla Community College. The groom is the son of Jim and Becky Lynch of Waitsburg. He graduated from Waitsburg High School in 2006. He attended Walla Walla Community College and is currently working at American Rock Products in Walla Walla. The wedding will be June 9, 2012... Full story
Ten Years Ago February 28, 2002 The annual caucus for the city of Waitsburg, sponsored by Commercial Club, will be held at Ye Towne Hall on Tuesday, March 5. While visiting friends in Salt Lake City, Jim and Liv Leid of Waitsburg, saw Austrian Fritz Strobl win the gold medal in the Olympic men's downhill. An advertisement featured in this paper from Sunset Houseseekers Bureau of Information states that "The exact center of the greatest apple country in the world is the Touchet Valley, Washington." Twenty-Five Years Ago March 5, 1987 Days of...
February 23: John A. Reese, Jay Thomas, Jane Conover Waldher, Jason Cook, Becky Harshman, Margaret Gibson, Heidi Sickles and Brandon Cole. February 24: Susan Segraves, Jason Wheeler, Helen Porter, Eric Nunn, Wanda Gales, Dane Henze, Misty Reid, Andy Maib, Martha Kenney, David Danforth, and David Baker. February 25: Diane Dill, Le- Anne Piersol, Lana Herrera. February 26: Dena Wood, Alisha Marshall, Dorothy Hall, Wayne Emerson, Walter White, Emilie Baker, Jeff Jameson, Sally Harmon and John Garrett. February 27: Rylan Lybecker, Jerry Baker,...
