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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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I am a self-proclaimed lover of technology. It's a passion that has caused me to be called a few names, and it occasionally costs me a little more money than I should be willing to part with. But it's an incredible and overwhelmingly won- derful field. Technology is a pretty broad term and I am fond of that. Of course my love for all things that go "beep" in the night isn't constrained to the MyFace status updates or those six Chirper posts every second. My love for technol- ogy isn't even...
The Waitsburg High School Knowledge Bowl team placed ninth at state this year. Last year, we were young- er, less prepared, had poorer team communication, and lacked the snazzy coordinat- ing T-shirts that the Booster Club gave us for the 2013 trip to State. But we managed to place fifth that year. Yes, I'm upset about the drop in ranking. But I'm also relieved that we even man- aged to bring home a plaque. I was shaking as our team walked into Arlington High School last Saturday morning. Having placed first in Regionals, our team would be comp...
Despite being heir to a fortune, Booth Gardner was a humble soul Almost a quarter century ago I worked as a public in- formation officer for the then Department of Trade & Economic Development in Olympia. Among other things, I wrote news releas- es, newsletters and briefing materials about the agency's activities. These included in- ternational trade promotion, small business assistance, tourism, film location servic- es, economic development and business retention. John Anderson ran the...
Assistant Editor Morgan Smith is leaving her posi- tion with The Times after this issue. Smith started with the times in February 2012 as a freelance writer and came on board as a full time reporter in May. Smith came to The Times after a stint as editor of the Daily Evergreen, WSU's student newspaper. She also was a regular columnist there. Her understanding of good reporting and editing, newspaper layout and working to deadline (at the Ev- ergreen, every day was deadline day) have been invalu- able at The Times. Smith became a fixture last...
Waitsburg's annual city government elections are take place Monday, April 1. No Joke As the only city in Washington still operating under its territorial charter, Waitsburg has the honor of bring- ing its mayor and city council members before the voters each April. This year, all of the incumbents are running, along with one city council challenger: Mayor - Walt Goble City Council - Deb Callahan Martin Dunn Kevin House K.C. Kuykenall Scott Nettles Karl Newell The top five vote-getters among the council candi- dates will take office for the...
WAITSBURG - With elections just around the corner, the "Truth and Trust" slate of incumbents and council challenger Deb Callahan will face the city's decision when ballots are counted Monday. The five city council can- didate incumbents Martin Dunn, Kevin House, K.C. Kuykendall, Karl Newell and Scott Nettles face chal- lenger Callahan in Monday's election. The top five vote-receiving candidates will earn seats on the city council for the coming year. The incumbents range in experience and are al...
"At 1:54 p.m. dispatch received the emergency call. At 1:56 p.m. the city fire whistle was sounded. At 1:59 p.m., the City ambu- lance arrived on the scene," read EMS technician Sharon Brooks. Glancing up from the report, she added, "That's when I realized the house fire we were respond- ing to was my own home." By 2:22 p.m. the fire was out and "mop-up" had officially begun. For the Brooks fam- ily, "life as usual" will be some time coming. March 22 started out as a typical Friday afternoon...
