Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Dear Editor: This! Like many, all through our lives we have thanked others for simple things. It is a warm and friendly thing to do and costs nothing. Sometimes there are thanks due and gladly given for greater things; when someone grabs you before you step off a curb into the path of a bus, or stops to help you on a rainy night when you have engine failure, or when a stranger returns your lost wallet. These are heart-felt expressions of real gratitude. Now we find there is a kind of thanks that even the strongest words of relief and g...
DAYTON - Columbia County Fire District 3 and Columbia REA announced last week that REA has sold its shop, warehouse and property at 115 Patit Road to the district. The deal closed on February 7. According to the Columbia County Assessor's Office, the building and just over four acres sold for $850,000. In a press release, District 3 Fire Chief Rick Turner said, "The REA building is better designed to meet the current and future needs of our Fire Department and its responsibilities." The release...
WAITSBURG - Overwhelming, fun and incredibly worthwhile. Those three sentiments were echoed repeatedly by last year's Evergreen Boy's and Girl's State representatives as they addressed guests in an honorary desert banquet Monday night. EJ Meserve (Waitsburg), Erik Sandoval (Prescott), Emily Wilson (Prescott), Meara Baker (Waitsburg) and Yesenia Escalante (Prescott) were sponsored by Waitsburg's American Legion Post #35 and Auxiliary to the 2013 State events in June. Boy's and Girl's State...
DAYTON - During a special meeting Wednesday, the Dayton School Board approved placing a $19.955 million bond before voters in April. The vote was 4-0, with one board member absent. Voting on the measure will conclude on April 22. A yes vote above 60% will be required to approve the measure. Bond funds would go toward a major renovation of school district facilities. The total estimated project is cost $24.25 million. The remaining funds (approximately $4.3 million) would be provided by Washing...
