Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Sunny skies and warm temperatures made for an enjoyable and well-attended Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend. Residents and visitors enjoyed live music, a festive parade, Classic Auto Show, Historic Sunset Cruise, community bonfire, Brewfest, food, games, and more. Preston Park was filled with over 70 car show entries on Saturday and over 200 poker hands were played during the Karen Huwe Mohney Memorial ATV Ride. See Last Page for more Celebration Days photos....
WAITSBURG – The late Tom Baker has held the honor of awarding the Waitsburg Commercial Club's Community Service Award for many years. While he wasn't present in body this year, he was very much present in spirit, at the May 16 award ceremony, where Jim Davison received the Community Service Award and Marci Perkins was awarded Business of the Year. Prior to reading their nomination letters, Joan Helm placed a pair of Tom's shoes on a table next to the podium, and commented that it would take t...
DAYTON-Paul Didelius, owner and commercial director of Frontier Rail, LLC, operator of the short line railroad between Dayton and Walla Walla, spoke about work progress and outreach to potential customers, at last week's meeting of the Port of Columbia Commissioners. Didelius said that 98% of a first rail bank grant has been used and the majority of the work repairing rails and bridges has been accomplished. He said that as soon as they receive the remaining two percent of the rail bank grant,...
Prescott High School held their first-ever college signing ceremony during a pep assembly on May 19. JP Thew opened the assembly by saying that Prescott has the highest number of students showing college intent this year, than in recent history....
Ten Years Ago May 31, 2007 Twenty three members of the Waitsburg High School Class of 2007 are set to participate in commencement exercises on June 8. Valedictorian of the class is Danielle Coila, daughter of Gloria and Richard Lybecker, Waitsburg, and Curtis Coila, Waitsburg. Co-salutatorians are Melissia Sharpe, daughter of Susie Sharpe of Walla Walla, and Jeremy Nichols, son of Jeff and Dawn Nichols of Waitsburg. Honor speaker will be Courtney Gritman, daughter of Fred Gritman and Jamie Young, Waitsburg, and Carla Rowe of Dayton. Photo...
DAYTON – The 35th Annual Touchet River Run will take place on Memorial Day, Mon., May 29th at the Dayton High School Gymnasium. Short course participants will leave at 9:30 a.m. and standard course participants will leave at 10 a.m. Registration begins at 8 a.m. The run benefits the Dayton High School Track and Cross Country Teams. Learn more at www.touchetriverrun.com or contact Dan Nechodom at (509) 382-4775 Ext. 307 or email rd@touchetriverrun.com....
DAYTON – Brad McMasters, the Port of Columbia’s Economic Development Coordinator attended the fifth-annual Walla Walla Valley Chamber of Commerce Business Summit on May 12 at the Marcus Whitman Hotel, along with two local business owners, Jonathan Betts, owner of Manila Bay Café, and Kim Clark, manager of Bluewood Ski Resort. Lou Zacharilla, co-founder of the Intellegent Community Forum, Kelley Moore, multimedia expert, and Joe Spray, Senior Vice President of External Relations for Alaska Airlines were keynote speakers. Breakout sessions incl...
May 17: Civil issue over property line fence and strawberry plants on West St. May 20: A female called to report her brother had pushed her before he left her house, on Orchard St. Deputies responded to a call on Buttercup Lane for a possible assault. May 22: Deputies conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle for speeding on Coppei Ave and E. Eighth St. The driver was arrested for an outstanding warrant....
May 26: Hannah Perry, Pam Hermanns, Rob John and Pamela Gluck. May 27: Betty Maxwell, Sherrie Erikson, Michelle Anderson, Floyd Strohmaier, Mathew Conrath, Allen Robertson and Laisha Archer. May 28: Roy Phillips, Mike Snyder, Jo Wolfe, James Wright, Andrea Miller and Jessie Duckworth. May 29: David Moser, Geraine Hansen, Harry Seaton, Randall Johnson, Betty Wood, James Angell, Andrea Estes, Cody Nordheim and Nick Stroobants. Enzo Harri. May 30: Preston Hinchliffe, Melissa Huwe and Amy Thomas. May 31: Kathleen Smith, Valerie Coe. June 1: Sean...
Republicans like to point out how disastrous President Barack Obama’s tenure was for the Democratic Party. During his presidency, Democrats reached new lows in state legislative, gubernatorial and congressional seats. More than 1,000 state and federal seats moved to the GOP. And though many prefer to blame James Comey or Russia, there can be no question that Democratic losses in 2016 were compounded by an inept Clinton campaign team that ignored the plight of working-class Americans in the Rust Belt, focusing instead on people who looked and t...
Although William J. Baumol, who recently died at 95, was not widely known beyond the ranks of economists, all Americans are living with, and policymakers are struggling with, “Baumol’s disease.” It is one reason brisk economic growth is becoming more elusive as it becomes more urgent. And it is a disease particularly pertinent to the increasingly fraught health care debate. Born in the Bronx, Baumol spent his teaching career at Princeton and NYU but remained an aficionado of New York opera, and when in 1962 the Metropolitan Opera’s orchest...
As the Trump presidency enters its fourth month, conservatives are eager for more legislative successes, more nominations and confirmations of judges, the rapid confirmation of a new FBI director and other achievements. Given the charges of collusion and obstruction that have dogged Donald Trump and his administration from before he took his oath of office as president, the appointment of former FBI director Robert Mueller as a special prosecutor to oversee the Justice Department’s inquiry into those charges is a greatly encouraging d...
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COLUMBIA CO PORT DISTRICT COMMISSIONER #2 6-year term EARLE MARVIN PUBLIC HOSPITAL DISTRICT COMMISSIONER #1 2-year unexpired term BOB HUTCHENS COMMISSIONER #2 6-year term COLLEEN SPROUL COMMISSIONER #5 6-year term JACK KARL OTTERSON CITY OF DAYTON COUNCIL MEMBER #1 4-year term DELPHINE BAILEY COUNCIL MEMBER #3 4-year term MICHAEL L PARIS COUNCIL MEMBER #5 4-year term KATHY A BERG KYLE ANDERSON COUNCIL MEMBER #7 4-year term MATT WIENS TOWN OF STARBUCK MAYOR 4-year short and full term RICHARD A ELLS CLERK/TREASURER 2-year unexpired term JAN ELLS...
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DAYTON – Dayton's new XO Alambic distillery will be offering tours of their shop during Saturday's Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market, coinciding Mule Mania Weekend. The spirits distillery, which is expected to hold its grand opening later this summer, is located at Blue Mountain Station, west of Dayton. People taking part in the tour will be shown around the distillery and shown the various barrels, as well as the still and other equipment used in the making of the spirits. XO Alambic is run b...
Construction and maintenance projects are also on tap for this summer DAYTON – Eighth-grade math teacher Kristen Frankie gave a presentation at last week’s meeting of the Dayton School Board about a national middle-school math conference she recently attended. She said the purpose of the conference was to explore curriculum and support materials designed by MidSCHOOLmath, for middle school classroom use. Frankie demonstrated a sample lesson from the curriculum, which provides student-based lea...
DAYTON — At last week’s meeting of the Columbia County Commissioners, county department heads were asked by the commissioners to provide input into the discussion of raising revenue to pay for essential services in the county. Establishing a Park and Recreation District, raising the sales tax by three-tenths percent for law enforcement, and raising the levy lid, are ideas worth considering, according to the commissioners. Commissioner Merle Jackson said the number-one topic at meetings of the As...
On June 2, the Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival will provide a free concert for people of all ages at 3:30 pm, in the Delany Room. On June 8, the Summer Reading Program kick-off event for all ages, featuring Blue Mountain Wildlife and their rescue raptor program, will take place at 3 p.m. in the multi-purpose room at Dayton Elementary School. On June 17, Book Chat, the not a book club book club, will meet at 6 p.m. in the Delany Room. On June 21, the Friends of the Dayton Memorial Library monthly meeting will be held in the Delany Room, at 4...
WAITSBURG – After 30 years teaching in Waitsburg, Mel McWhorter will be the third long-time staffer to retire from the Waitsburg School District this summer. Mc Whorter, a favorite among students, will join first-grade teacher Dinah Lindsey and superintendent/principal Dr. Carol Clarke, and wrap up his teaching career this school year. "Teaching in Waitsburg has been a real positive career," McWhorter said. McWhorter grew up in the Kalispell area of Montana, where he graduated high school. He e...
SPOKANE VALLEY – Waitsburg senior Emily Adams won all four of her events at the regional track and field championships here last weekend and moves on to the State 1B tournament in Cheney beginning Friday. Adams out-paced the competition in the 800 meters, with a time of 2:25.97; the 1600 meters, with a personal best time of 5:24.12; the 3200 meters, at 11:55.45; and the triple jump with a leap of 33-03.00. Landon Callas topped the 300 hurdles with a time of 40.27, and will also be going to s...
EPHRATA, Wash. – On Saturday, the Dayton softball team traveled to Ephrata to battle in the D5/D6 Regional Tournament. The Dawgs beat Liberty Bell and DeSales to put them in the championship game, where they were defeated by Brewster for the number one seed for the State 2B tournament this weekend. Against Liberty Bell, Dayton tallied 13 hits to take them to victory, winning 11 – 4. The Lady Bulldogs scored seven runs in the second inning to take the lead, and never looked back. For Dayton, Savannah McFarland hit a triple and a double. Meg...
QUINCY - Cal Martin and Hayden Wooldridge will be moving on to the State 2B tournament this weekend in Cheney, after competing in the regional district 5/6 championships. Wooldridge qualified with a first-place finish in the 300-meter hurdles, with a personal best time of 44.37, beating his nearest competition by nearly three meters. Wooldridge was also fourth in the 110 meters, at 16.63, also a personal best. Martin will advance in the javelin, where he topped all competitors with a...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg High Senior Jacob Dunn has been chosen to play in the Earl Barden Classic 2017 East-West 2A/1A/B All-Star Football Game, which will be held at East Valley High School in Moxee, Wash. on June 24 at 1 p.m. Tickets are available for $6 each and ticket sales will help support the cost of his participation in the game. Anyone wishing to purchase tickets may do so by calling the Dunn’s at (509) 337-8857. Please leave a message if there is no answer....
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg’s Kyle Gradwohl was selected as the player of the year for baseball in the Eastern Washington Athletic Conference. Teammate Jacob Dunn was also selected as a first-team all-star for the EWAC. The first team is a hand-selected group of 14 athletes recommended by their coaches. The team consists solely of seniors. The EWAC team will play against the Walla Walla Sweets in their season opener Tuesday, May 30 at 7 p.m. at Borleske Stadium in Walla Walla....
