Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Sunday was opening day for the 2015 trout fishing season, and hundreds of fishermen, fisherwomen, and fisherchildren flocked to the Tucannon River valley for the event. By sun-up, the banks of Spring Lake, Blue Lake (pictured here), Rainbow Lake, and points further south into the Blues were lined with patient guests quietly - and not so quietly - casting and reeling in their lines. At Rainbow Lake, most of the vacant sections of shore were still frozen over on this cold morning. By 9 a.m....
AGENDA Regular Monthly Meeting – 10am – March 11th, 2015 1 Port Way Dayton, WA 99328 1. Open the Meeting 2. Public Comment: 3 minutes maximum per person 3. Administrative Items a. Approve Minutes b. Review Monthly Budget Report c. Review Inquiry Summary d. Approve Cathy as Bank Signer e. Leases f. Consider Approval of Policy #16-2015 4. Blue Mountain Station a. Marketing and Business Development b. Solar Project Update c. Development Agreement 5. Lyons Ferry Marina 6. Industrial Park a. Maintenance Items b. CHS Farmers Co-op remodel 7. PCC Rai...
DAYTON – Monty N. Dunn, the 50-year-old Dayton resident arrested at his home on Wednesday, Feb. 25, will enter a plea this week on a handful of drug-related charges. Dunn was booked into Columbia County Jail after local deputies and a special team from Walla Walla executed an early morning search warrant at Dunn's residence last week at 721 S. 3rd St. Deputies were acting on information that led them to believe they might find drugs in the home. "Today's warrant is the result of hard work and d...
WAITSBURG – Last year's Waitsburg Celebration Days ATV Poker Run garnered a great deal of local interest and enthusiasm but had to be revamped to an in-town scavenger hunt at the last minute due to an inability to meet Walla Walla County ordinance requirements in a timely manner. This year organizers started the permit process in plenty of time and prospects are looking good. During their regular meeting on Feb. 23, the Walla Walla County Commissioners approved a new ordinance that will allow th...
DAYTON – Parents and community members met Monday and Tuesday evenings with all four of Dayton’s secondary school principal candidates advanced to stage two of the hiring process by the selection committee last week. The candidates included Paul Shaber, Guin Joyce, Randy Hoover, and Kate Wenzl, who is the district’s interim secondary principal. Following a brief biographical introduction, the candidates answered audience questions for approximately 45 minutes each. The community members prese...
Madison Jones was caught reading The Times . . ....
DAYTON – March is Substance Abuse Awareness month, and members of the Coalition for Youth and Families have several activities planned. They will place table tents in several businesses and offices around town to offer information to the public on raising awareness of substance abuse issues. Parenting classes will be offered every Monday night at the Delaney Building from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Guiding Good Choices is a Best Practice Parent Education Curriculum course meant to enhance parenting skills, promote healthy bonding, and prevent substance a...
Ten Years Ago March 10, 2005 Members of the Waitsburg City Council got a lesson in how congested Academy Street becomes during pick-up and drop off times at the Waitsburg School District. Transportation Supervisor Ken Colby, armed with video images of the bus loading area, gave graphic proof that parents delivering students to school perform some fairly outlandish maneuvers in doing so. Ed and Lena Fern Tusty’s family gathered recently to celebrate the couple’s 60th Wedding Anniversary. The Tustys are the parents of Pam Conover of Wai...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Commercial Club is sponsoring a City Cleanup Day on Wednesday, May 6. A crew from the Walla Walla Penitentiary will join with local volunteers to pick up organic materials left at the curbside and to assist with general cleanup. Volunteers with shovels and rakes are appreciated. Organic materials should be out to the curb by 7 a.m. in order to be picked up....
Waitsburg Nothing to report. Dayton Feb. 24 Suspicious circumstances on S. 3rd Street; caller reported an adult male sleeping in an alcove at the church who spoke with deputies and then left the area. Theft of coins and knives reported at Cameron Court; theft occurred approximately one month ago at a previous address. Feb. 25 A light was seen in a vacant residence on S. 4th Street; deputies checked the area and everything was secure. Caller reported people at a residence on S. 3rd Street where a search warrant was served earlier in the day;...
6: NO SCHOOL: Snow Make Up Day 9: French Toats; Beef Tacos, Peanut Butter Fingers 10: Biscuit & Gravy; Chicken Nuggets, Potato Smiles 11: Strawberry French Toast; Chicken Fried Steak, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy 12: Breakfast Casserole; Chili, Cornbread...
March 6: Marianne Newell, John P. Janovich, Shane Johnson, Trulie Griffin, Michael Jantz, Ryan and Scott Downing, Del Benson, Larry Olson and Kevin Jones. March 7: Renee Adams, Jayce Dunleavy. March 8: Donovan Smith, Tanaa Maib and Scott Mason. March 9: Larry Johnson, Robert Langdon, Steve Pierson, Jennifer Bennett, Kay Baker. March 10: Bill Gluck, Win Deanna Anderson, Frank Reser and Casey Worth. March 11: Bettie Chase, Jacqueline Klaas, Catherine Donnelly, Kelly Lodato, Aaron DeFord, James Kenworthy and Adraine Michels. March 12: Cherie...
Here at The Times, we don't cover news from Walla Walla all that much, but an announcement Monday from that little village down the road got my attention. I'm old enough to remember Woodstock, and Walla Walla is going to get its version of that landmark music festival this summer. (Woodstock happened in 1969 on the weekend of my 14th birthday, and no, I wasn't there.) Exactly 46 years after Woodstock (again on the weekend of my birthday; you can do the math), as many as 40,000 people are...
By Cooper Inveen, Reporter WNPA Olympia News Bureau OLYMPIA - As Washington’s gray wolf population continues to grow, so do concerns of those living in the areas of the state most affected by their return. “There’s two sides to this issue, and it kind of boils down to either you like them or you don’t,” said Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, who co-sponsored several wolf-related bills this session. Seven bills relating to Washington’s gray wolves have been introduced to the 2015 Legislature, with four surviving for continuing considerati...
Now that the Waitsburg Knowledge Bowl team knows that it’s state-bound, we’ve started planning like crazy for our trip to Seattle. We have an official t-shirt design mocked up, we’re picking places to visit for when we go into town, the hotel rooms are reserved, and the only question is whether to have dinner at The Crab Pot or Pike Street Fish Fry. In the meantime, we’ve been practicing up on our trivia. The Times writes a nice article every year about the local Knowledge Bowl teams, and the...
If you own wheat in storage right now, you are probably holding it because you think it will be more valuable later or because you want to minimize your taxes. Some may just get a warm feeling all over to think of it sitting in that bin; a valid incentive but difficult to account for in bookkeeping. There are other reasons, but there is no denying that it costs something to hold onto the stuff. Storage rates and interest costs on borrowed funds are the two most obvious holes in the bucket. Then there is the risk. “Market Risk” is the rea...
WAITSBURG – Eight Waitsburg High School musicians are preparing to perform with the Southeast Washington Music Educators’ High School Honor Band in Colfax on March 9. School officials are pleased to note that this is the largest group from Waitsburg to attend Honor Band in many years. Honor band students must be good musicians who commit to practices and rehearsals, according to WHS band director Brad Green. The eight students who applied and were accepted to the prestigious group include Emily Adams (baritone horn), Korben Duffy (pe...
Paul Shaber Paul Shaber currently teaches high school math and science in Idaho at the Fruitland School District and has been there for 13 years. He recently earned his administrative credentials through the University of Idaho. He doesn't have a lot of administrative experience yet, he said, but he often substitutes for his current principal as needed. The principal at Fruitland High School, which has 460 students, told Dayton School Board that Shaber, "thinks outside the box to help students...
WAITSBURG – Is it a deck? Is it a stage? No, it's a massive display case! The Times (whose Waitsburg reporter happens to live next door to the Wilson-Phillips House) has kept a curious eye on the recent flurry of activity taking place in the backyard of the house/museum owned and operated by the Waitsburg Historical Society. It turns out the burgeoning structure will be a mini-house that will hold a scale model replica of Wait's Mill. The plan was to display the model inside the Wilson-Phillips...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg's American Legion Auxiliary hosted a Boys and Girls State Honor Night dessert at Town Hall on March 2. Students who attended the 2014 week-long mock government events shared their experiences and encouraged upcoming seniors to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in government firsthand. The American Legion Post #35 and Auxiliary sponsor Prescott and Waitsburg students to the events each year. Emma Philbrook, the only girl to attend the 2014 American Legion A...
PASCO – The Dayton girls' basketball team needed one more win to make the trip to the Hardwood Classic state finals tournament in Spokane this weekend. But in their regional game against the White Swan Cougars here Saturday, they came up short, taking a 50-41 loss, which ended their season. The Lady Bulldogs finished with a 17-5 record for the season. The Lady Bulldogs fell behind early. Against a tenacious full-court press from the outset, Dayton couldn't get its offense going. White Swan h...
On Feb. 27, 47 Waitsburg High students made the trip to Bluewood for a day of skiing and snowboarding. According to Waitsburg P.E. teacher Jeff Bartlow, this has been an annual event for nearly two decades. "We do a lot of different things here and lifetime fitness and sports is an important part of our education at WHS," Bartlow told The Times. "We want to take advantage of the close proximity of Bluewood to where we are here at Waitsburg. The idea of skiing and snowboarding and learning to do...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg High School Winter Sports Awards ceremony was held Wednesday, February 25at the Waitsburg High School Auditorium. Coach Vickie Hamann presented awards to the basketball cheerleaders, coach Lanny Adams presented wrestling awards and coaches Tavis Crittenden and J. T. Elsey presented awards for boys and girls basketball, respectively. Basketball Cheerleaders: Most Valuable Player - Timber Frohreich Most Improved – Taylor Spoonemore Wrestling: Most Improved – Devin Newman Most Inspirational – David Just Most Valuabl...
WALLA WALLA – The former Albertson’s Walla Walla is now a Haggen’s Northwest Fresh grocery store. With the tradition of featuring locally produced products when possible, Haagen is inviting community members that are interested in partnering with the brand to meet with company leaders on March 12. At this informal, public meeting, local farmers and producers can discuss selling their products on Haggen’s shelves, nonprofit organizations can learn about Haggen’s community giving, and small businesses can explore co-marketing programs. The meeti...
February 12, 2015 Members present: K.C. Kuykendall, Kevin House, Marty Dunn, Mayor Walt Gobel, Karl Newell, Debra Callahan Public Comment: -Delores Nettles asked about plans for City Cleanup Day. New Business: -Approved EMS Levy Agreement with Waitsburg Ambulance Service -Set a public meeting date of Feb. 19 to discuss planning commission’s recommendation for the preliminary plat for Whoopemup Meadows. -Changed the date of the March City Council meeting to Thursday, March 26. -Approved Ordinance 2015-1030 which adds a seventh seat to the p...
