Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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A few weeks ago, we ran an editorial about the shifting burden of responsibility to the shoulders of our youths. More and more these days, changes in privacy laws and government policies force teenagers to be more in charge of their destiny early on in life whether they are ready or not. This is quite aside from the benefits to teenagers of recognizing well before they become adults that they need to develop a vision for their lives and use that as a source of inspiration to do well in school, and learn to become self-sufficient. This week, we...
WAITSBURG - The creation of a digital super highway through the Touchet Valley made some big strides this winter and the conduit for its fiber optics cable may be completed as soon as early spring. Crews have been trenching and boring their way from Walla Walla to Waitsburg through Dixie since the beginning of the year. This week, they are mobilizing to start in Dayton and head in the opposite direction to connect the route to Waitsburg, then on to Clarkston. If all goes well, the 1,600- mile...
DAYTON - If it shoots like a duck and dribbles like a duckhellip;it's a Fighting Duck. The Dayton Bulldogs will face a team from Toutle Lake at the Hardwood Classic in their first Final 8 game in Spokane on Thursday. This phase of the playoffs is double elimination. Even if they lose, the Dogs will face at least one more team at the arena on Friday. The Dayton players are still pinching themselves after putting away Riverside Christian in a convincing, 59-41, victory at Wa Hi Friday night, but...
WAITSBURG - Dayton and Waitsburg Elementary students hula hoop-ed and jumped rope for their hearts last week and raised thousands of dollars for the American Heart Association. Dayton fourth and fifth graders completed their Hoops for Heart program last Wednesday. About 100 first through third graders jumped rope last Thursday. On Friday, about 125 Waitsburg students, kindergarten through fifth grades, jumped rope and hula hooped in the Waitsburg High School gym. Both schools have participated...
