Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Some say they prefer not to wake up to this smell of coffee. Most Waitsburgers are familiar with it. It comes in the form of smoke billowing from a stack at the anony- mous storefront between the old La Monarca Mexican restaurant and the Waits- burg Grocery store on Main Street. Local residents have put up with the emissions from Dyer Straits Coffee for years, but it has begun to affect other businesses downtown and some of the business owners want some- thing done about it. Before I get...
The Columbia County Board of Commissioners received the names of two candidates to replace outgoing Columbia County Sheriff Walt Hessler. The names were presented by the Columbia County Republican Party. Rocky Miller, who is a Washington State Pa- trol officer and Dayton resident was listed by the party as its "first preferred candidate". The party's "second preferred candidate" is Jeffrey Jenkins, who serves as a Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy. In a letter to the commissioners, party chair Tom Bensel said, "The committee believes they have...
Former Columbia County Planner Kim Lyonnais has been hired once again by the County as its planner. Last week Lyonnais accepted the position, replacing Richard Hendricksen, who is retiring at the end of April. In October, Lyonnais was hired by the City of Dayton as its part time planner. On March 26, he submitted his resignation to the city, effec- tive April 24. In his new position, Ly- onnais will be director of planning for both Columbia County and the City of Dayton. Under an agreement that...
At the launch of Paul Gregutt's Waitsburg Cel- lars, tasters were offered a small ribbon-bound booklet describing the elements of the new wine label's logo. The image contains many symbols - all elements of what inspires winemaker and critic Gregutt and his wife, filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt, about being artists in Waitsburg. "Our sense of time both slowed and expanded," Gre- gutt wrote about the couple's transition to life in Waitsburg, which started about eight years ago. "The century-old...
