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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG-Two new faces have thrown their hats in the ring seeking a seat on the Waitsburg City Council. Pam Chapman and Jim Elgin will join incumbents K.C. Kuykendall, Terry Jacoy, Kevin House, Jim Romine and Kate Hockersmith to run for a one-year term on the Waitsburg City Council. Incumbent Marty Dunn is running unopposed for mayor. Council candidates fell one seat short as of the original March 10 deadline. The filing deadline was extended three days during which time incumbent K.C....
Performers get into character as they practice for the upcoming Show Stoppers spring musical revue at the Liberty Theater. The show features 18 numbers from favorite past productions. See Page 9 for full story....
DAYTON—The Friends of the Dayton Community Pool has revamped its name and purpose. “We kept running into community conversations that talked about how lovely it would be to have a community or multi-purpose center in our county,” said President Vicki Zoller. Zoller said the members of the newly-formed Friends of the Columbia County Multi-purpose Center are researching and planning for a center that could combine a senior center and early childhood education center, and indoor pool into one shared space, and they are talking about adding a lau...
COLUMBIA/WALLA WALLA Counties—With Columbia and Walla Walla County’s Voluntary Stewardship Program (VSP) plans accepted by the state, implementation is underway. The VSP provides an alternative approach for counties to meet Growth Management Act requirements for agricultural activities. The Washington State Conservation Commission administers funds for counties to designate work groups to develop their own, unique plans to protect critical areas while maintaining economically viable agriculture. Both Columbia and Walla Walla Counties opted in...
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Ten Years Ago March 26, 2009 Photo caption: Pictured are some of the Waitsburg Mat Birds medalists from the Pomeroy wrestling tournament on March 21, 2009. Back row: Ryan Proctor, Dalton Janopoulos, Head Coach Travis Newman, Ben Brown, Trenton Kitselman, Jared Brown, Front row: Devin Newman, Nicolas Kitselman, Ryan Cowden, CJ Lute, Camrin Henzel, Gavin Gould A recent proclamation set a day to honor the local Order of Eastern Star chapter. Recently dedicated Members of Waitsburg Eastern Star chapter presented Mayor Markeeta Little Wolf with a...
Times Reporter Brianna caught this shot of a rollerblader and his dog who found a unique way of enjoying the sunshine as they headed down Waitsburg's Main Street on Monday afternoon. We're not quite sure who's walking who....
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg Commercial Club and the Town Hall Association will host a City Council Candidates Forum on Mon., March 25 at 7 p.m. at Waitsburg Town Hall...
WAITSBURG—Waitsburg Elementary School will hold kindergarten registration for the fall of 2019 during the week of March 25-28. Registration will be in the elementary office from 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. on Mon. and Tues., and from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wed. and Thurs. All children who turn 5, on or before August 31, and live within the Waitsburg School District boundaries are eligible to register for kindergarten for the fall of 2019. A current immunization record and an official state birth certificate will be needed to register. Official Washington Sta...
WAITSBURG—The PenPals 4-H Club is holding a fundraiser Pancake breakfast on Sat., March 23 from 7-10:30 a.m. in the Waitsuburg Elementary School multi-purpose room. Breakfast is $5 per plate for pancakes, eggs, sausage links and juice. Additional pancakes are $1 each. All funds go to support the PenPals 4-H club....
DAYTON—The annual Ski Bluewood BASH (Bluewood Annual Spring Happening) will be March 30-31. Skiers are encouraged to welcome spring by wearing sunny-day wear such as sunglasses and tropical shirts. The popular pond-skim takes place Saturday, along with a beer garden and live music by the FrogHollow Band. Sunday will bring family-friendly games and activities such as scavenger hunts, body bowling and snowthing building contests. There will also be a barbeque on the deck. The first 500 skiers will receive a T-shirt....
March 14 Subject in Prescott taken to St. Mary’s Medical Center for mental health evaluation....
March 22: Garrett Buffington, Kenneth Lewis, Mary Hamblen, Gia Fluharty, Amy Morrow and Cole Janovich. March 23: Jayce Bayer, Sally Baker, Mary Hunziker, Beryl Witt, Ron Bishop, Seth Straayer, Jennifer Pierson, Sandy Baker. March 24: Michael Smith, Fred Hamann, Chloe Pearson, Kim Iverson, Randy Sorick, Jeff Harper, John Dodson and Lacey Maki. March 25: Marilyn Johnson, Lee Brannock and Richard Basel. March 26: Whitney Baker, Rod Estes, Emma Brookshire, Dottie Frohreich, Chet Bond, Jim Kessler, Dawn Nichols and Kris Lytle. March 27: Bill...
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Editor's Note: We need you! In an effort to promote positivity The Times will run a "Cheers!" section each week. This is like "Cheers and Jeers" section but without the "Jeers." If readers see or hear something that deserves a pat on the back or sparks inspiration, send it to dena@waitsburgtimes.com with the subject line "Cheers!" This could be a photo, or simply be a sentence such as: "Thanks to the lady in the grocery store who saw my fussy toddler and let us cut in line" or "Mrs. B's flower...
WAITSBURG-Multifaceted entrepreneur Jessika Bannerman is having a busy week. Her book and gift shop, Ju's Traveling Pages, launched this past weekend and locals are stopping in to peruse the curated selections Ju's has to offer. The brick-and-mortar shop is a permanent installation of what was initially slated to be a traveling show. The concept of travel is inherent to the adventurous quality of reading, especially for young readers, so the name isn't too far of a stretch. Bannerman is still...
WAITSBURG-For more than 20 years, visitors to the Waitsburg Elementary School office have been greeted by the smiling face of Linda Henze. With Henze's recent promotion to Human Resources/Fiscal Assistant, Hannah Peterson takes her place in the elementary school office. Henze began working for the Waitsburg School District in 1997 as elementary school secretary in 1997. As time passed, her duties grew and she eventually took on the title of District Administrative Assistant, under...
DAYTON—A $7,612 grant from the Wildhorse Foundation has helped enable the Touchet Valley Arts Council (TVAC) to address several safety and energy efficiency needs at the annex building adjacent, and integral to, the Liberty Theater in Dayton. The Wildhorse Foundation grant was combined with a smaller grant of $3,222 from the Sustainable Living Center in Walla Walla to complete energy efficiency and electrical safety upgrades. This project included adding insulation to the pre...
The gap on Waitsburg's Main Street got a little larger when the building at 103 Main was demolished Tuesday morning. The building was damaged by fire last September when the adjacent structure, at 109 Main, which housed Hugs, Gifts and Collectibles at the time, burned to the ground. The 103 Main building was deemed unfit for occupancy (use) by the building inspector, following the fire. City administrator Randy Hinchliffe says he encouraged J.P. Kelly, the building’s owner, to fix rather than d...
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WALLA WALLA-Upstairs, and down the hall of a brick-and-mortar building on Walla Walla's Main Street sits one Gerald Matthews; part artist, part exhibit. Matthews is a retired actor most famously known as the voice of Sugar Bear, the suave Sugar Crisp cereal mascot and the little man in the Ty-D-Bol ad. Matthews has spent the last 30 years creating a madhouse of irreverent sculptures that whirl and buzz as a social commentary referencing Dadaism, Surrealism and Absurdism. Astounding and...
WALLA WALLA—Gesa Power House Theatre presents a local production of the play "A Doll’s House,"Part 2 on Thurs., May 9 and Sat., May 11 at 7. p.m. and on Sun., May 12 at 2 p.m. In the final scene of Ibsen’s 1879 groundbreaking masterwork, "A Doll’s House," Nora Helmer closed the door on her husband and family in order to find herself. In "A Doll’s House," Part 2 modern playwright Lucas Hnath imagines that she comes back through that door fifteen years later. In a series of provocative and often hilarious skirmishes with the members of her aband...
Walla Walla—The Little Theatre of Walla Walla will stage the drama "To Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee (dramatized by Christopher Sergel) with performances March 29, 30, April 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 14. A literature classic, this dramatization incorporates an older Jean Louise (Scout) as a narrator reflecting back on the event that shaped her childhood. The cast of "To Kill a Mockingbird" includes: Micah Aguilar, Catie Allen, Lola Bloom, Daphne Griffin, Brenda Jones, Judy Jones, Emily Loney, Jon Loney, Kevin Loomer, Nathan Loomer, Cate Lyon, Tim M...
DAYTON—Sixteenth District representatives Skyler Rude (R-Walla Walla) and Bill Jenkin (R-Prosser) will be hosting three town halls on March 23. During the events, the lawmakers will provide and update on the 2019 legislatives session and will take questions from attendees. The 16th District includes all of Columbia and Walla Walla Counties and parts of Franklin County. Representatives will be at the following sites: 10 a.m. – noon - Walter Clore Wine and Country Culinary Center, 2140A Wine Country Road, Prosser 2-4 p.m. – Performing Arts Audit...
Urban Growth Area land swap proposal moves forward DAYTON-City of Dayton Mayor Craig George will pass his gavel to Mayor Pro-tem Zac Weatherford on April 30. George read a letter of his resignation to the Dayton City Council during last week's council meeting. "It has been a pleasure and an honor to have served as your Mayor, and I want to thank the council for their great work and support these past years. We have all worked very hard for the betterment of Dayton," he said. George and his...
