Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – A visit from their neighbors, Mayor Walt Gobel and his wife Gwen, threw a happy kink into Jack and Nancy Otterson's Waitsburg Celebration Days plans this year. When the Ottersons told the Gobels that Eastern Star would be riding in their convertible and that Jack would be driving his red truck for the Alumni Association float, the Gobels informed them that they would need to reconsider that plan because they had been selected as 2015 Waitsburg Celebration Days parade marshals. (...
WAITSBURG – A horse with an empty saddle will walk in Saturday's Waitsburg Celebration Days parade in honor of Karen (Huwe) Mohney, who has been selected as parade co-marshal, posthumously. Mohney, a lifelong, active member of the community, passed away unexpectedly on March 15 at age 53, following a dog handler's event in Heppner, Ore. Mohney was born to Waitsburg residents Pete and Meredith (Hulce) Huwe on September 5, 1961 and attended school in Waitsburg, graduating with the Class of '80. I...
Light dances off Jeffrey Hill's "Founding Fathers" sculpture . . ....
STARBUCK – Columbia Pulp, the 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, has now been issued its six required building permits and is "ready to go," Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais reported on Tuesday. "Just last week they received their shoreline exemption to temporarily pump water out of the Snake River for dust control as they grade the site," Lyonnais said. "I think they're shooting for early June t...
DAYTON – A final count of votes on Tuesday confirmed the failure of Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital-improvement levy. It was a close vote, but just 48.9 percent of residents voted to approve the measure. A 50-percent approval was required. A majority of voters inside city limits approved the levy, according to the election results posted online, but voter turnout was lower in the city than in previous years where support for the district had been strong, according to Dayton Sch...
Top: Winners for the Waitsburg Elementary School 2014-15 Chess and Checkers Tournament . . ....
WAITSBURG - The annual Waitsburg High School alumni banquet will be held on May 23, 2015 at the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room. A meet-and-greet will take place at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. A social gathering will follow at the Waitsburg Town Hall. The Bruce and Wilson-Phillips houses will be open from 2-4 p.m. and the high school will be open from 4-6 p.m. Dinner is $15/person and dues are $10. The event is sponsored by the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association and is open to all graduates of the high school, their spouses...
Ten Year Ago May 19, 2005 Marco Jo Lanning and Richard Pounds, members of the junior class at Waitsburg High School, were the recipients of the Outstanding Junior Girl and Outstanding Junior Boy awards at a recognition program at the Dayton Masonic Lodge on April 20, 2005. “Friends” of Waitsburg’s Jerry Baker, a member of the Blue Mountain Snowmobiel Club, honored him with the First Annual Prestigious Goldfish Award when the group met for its Annual Banquet Saturday, May 14, at the Dayton Golf Course. Bake, a modern Katzenjammer Kid, was ridin...
Waitsburg May 5 Theft of bicycle from Kinnear Street. Malicious mischief 3rd to property on Maple Street. May 9 Subject arrested on a warrant on Preston Avenue. May 10 Civil problem on Preston Avenue. Dayton May 3 Non-injury collision on Eckler Mountain Road near Maloney Mountain Road; tire on vehicle came off and required that vehicle be towed. Two suspicious males allegedly smoking marijuana in a red van on S. 5th Street; deputy contacted subjects, who were not smoking at the time, and advised them that smoking marijuana is not allowed in...
May 15: Pete Rohde, Charlie McCown, Tiffney Hawks, Bryce Scott and Ron Standring. May 16: Gladys Cadruvi, Helen Hall, Bobbie Jean Thomas, Sherrie Land, Genny Menino. May 17: William Keith, Sally Geiger, Kurt Wittman, Elizabeth Mech, Eric Keith, Drew Bennett and Janelle Meier, Jimmy Dunleavy. May 18: Becky Hodges, Dinah Lindsey, Virginia Reece, Vicki Ruley, Tessa Dutton, Tyler Knox, Sean Stonecipher-Sollars. May 19: Gerald Hawks, Jim Hansen, Gerald Collingwood, Terry John, Everett White, Walter Richard White, Joan Summers and Jimmy Crawford....
6: French Toast; PB&J Uncrustable, Sunchips 18: Breakfast Sandwich; Chicken Patty on a Bun, JoJos 19: Biscuit & Gravy; Teriyaki Chicken, Rice 20: Cinnamon Roll, Chicken Pot Pie, Roll 21: Egg, Sausage, Hash Brown; Crispitos, Refried Beans...
[Editors Note: The following history (we’ve edited it slightly) originally appeared in the September 30, 1965 edition of The Times. We bring it back for your enjoyment. Unfortunately, this paper will cost you more than a dime.] 1881 – Washington flour mill enlarged to double present capacity. Single copies of The Times, 10 cents. Wheat market unsteady at 55 cents. Pres. Garfield assassinated. 1882 – W. P. Bruce erects home on Main Street. Wheat selling at 60 cents a bushel. Much of Waitsburg flooded by high waters of Touchet. 1883 – Waitsbu...
I’m getting to be a “short-timer” – At least that’s what my grandmother says. That means, were I to use both my hands and my toes, I could count the school days I have left. That number’s 19 as of Monday – Nineteen days of high school remain! Nineteen mornings of dragging myself out of bed With the fog of sleep still in my brain. Eighteen hurried cold-cereal breakfasts And one student parking-lot brunch Eighteen ‘leventh-hour dashes to reach school on time – ‘Cuz on the last day, what’s the rus...
Those of us lucky enough to call Southeast Washington home know what a special place it is. The verdant Palouse hills producing abundant crops of wheat and peas to feed a hungry world take one’s breath away with their May beauty. The Blue Mountains and the foothills offer unique sporting opportunities for hunters, hikers, bicyclists and nature lovers of all strips. We enjoy an uncrowded and mostly peaceful lifestyle that urbanites envy. We are also home to a lot of honey bees. Go anywhere in the world and say you are from Washington state a...
Dear Editor, On the front page of the April 20, 2015 edition of the Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, the headline read “4 Area High School Reap Awards.” It stated that Waitsburg High School received the Overall Excellence award from the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. It went on to discuss the 2014 High Progress awards received by three other area schools and explained that “only 10 percent of high schools receive the High Progress award.” What the WWUB article failed to explain was that Waitsburg High School,...
PRESCOTT – The Community Club of Prescott will take over the third weekend breakfasts from May through September, before returning the project to the Prescott Lions Club. The Community Club serves the “regular breakfast” with something special each month. May’s breakfast will include: breakfast casserole, biscuits and gravy, hash browns, sausage, bacon, eggs, pancakes, juice, coffee and tea. Breakfast will be served May 16 and 17 from 8-11 a.m. at the Prescott Lion’s Club Building located at Highway 124 and “D” Street in Prescott. Mea...
Columbia County Superior Court May 6, 2015 Sentencing: Leonard L. Lytle, 24, Dayton; sentenced to six months in county jail following guilty plea on one count of 2nd degree theft of an access device (debit card), one count of 2nd degree identity theft, one count of forgery, and two counts of 3rd degree theft. These crimes occurred in February and early March. Lytle may substitute day-for-day jail time for drug and alcohol treatment; seven other charges filed in March were dismissed as part of Lytle’s plea agreement. First Ap...
DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are wrestling with a tough decision: What will the community need from its hospital in the next five to 10 years? "With legislative changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and the rapid technology changes going on, this is hard to figure out," CCHS Chief Operations Officer Shane McGuire said. "There is so much going on in healthcare right now, I feel bad for the board coming in once a month and trying to keep up with everything g...
Dayton seniors Matthew Warren and Sarah Phillips are recipients of this year's P.E.O. Citizenship Award for possessing good qualities of character (honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality and punctuality), achieving high scholarship, and participating in a number of community and school activities. They are pictured here with Susie Payne, a member of the P.E.O. Citizenship Award Committee. P.E.O., which stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, is an international group whose mission...
Dayton High School students, including many in the Students Helping Each Other (SHEO) club, helped clean the alleys and other out-of-the-way places near Steve's Grocery, around the high school and along the Touchet River dike in April. . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners are moving forward with repairs to the Columbia County Senior Center on E. Washington in Dayton. "This is a good, functional and well-used building," said Commissioner Merle Jackson. Jackson met Tuesday morning at the center with Zella Powers and Barbara Gibson, members of the Senior Center Board, as well as County Engineer Andrew Woods and Courthouse Maintenance Supervisor Dave Finney, to decide on maintenance projects. New flooring and a leaky roof w...
Friday, May 15 6:30 p.m. Antique Auto Cruise Cruise begins at Preston Park. Saturday, May 16 6:30 – 10:30 a.m. American Legion Breakfast Waitsburg Town Hall All-you-can-eat pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice for $5. Proceeds support American Legion projects. 9 a.m. - Noon Cancellation Stamps Waitsburg Post Office Purchase special Waitsburg Celebration Days envelopes for $1 and take them inside the post office to be stamped with a commemorative cancellation stamp. 9:30 a.m. Kiddie Parade Main Streeet Children in grades five and below l...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Kevin Blair and longtime friend Paul Baumgart, of Hayden, Ida., have spent the last seven months working on a detailed replica of Wait's Mill. The partially completed model will be on display behind the Wilson-Phillips House museum following Saturday's Celebration Days parade. Blair (who wants no recognition and required major prodding before he would allow his name to be used) has traveled to Hayden regularly since November, to work with Baumgarten on the mill r...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Post Office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 16 to cancel stamped envelopes with a commemorative Waitsburg Celebration Days stamp. Stamped envelopes containing a double-sided document with the city ordinance approving the seal on one side and the Walla Walla County Commissioners' proclamation on the other will be sold in the post office lobby for $1. Those envelopes may then be addressed and taken into the post office where they will be stamped with t...
WAITSBURG – Campsites will be available at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday nights during Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend, May 15 and 16. Camping is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Bring an ATV and spend the night or enjoy the Burgers, Band and Brew without having to worry about driving home. Campers should enter the rear of the fairgrounds via College Street, the dirt road between the track and the City Cemetery, off East 8th Street. Travel past the pig barns to where the ATV’s will unload for the Poker Run...
