Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Waitsburg 6-4 Deputies responded to a domestic violence issue on Maple Street. 6-5 Subject arrested at Coppei and 7th for DUI. Prescott 6-7 Unknown suspect struck the sign to the Prescott cemetery. 6-8 Deputy responded to anhydrous leak at McGregor's. Dayton 6-5 Suspicious circumstances were reported on E. Dayton Av- enue. Report of suspect driving with a suspended license onN. Cottonwood. A non-injury vehicle accident was reportedon Highway 12. An alcohol related offense was reported onS. 3rd Street. An abandoned vehicle was reported on N. Che...
The Waitsburg High School scholarship list in last week's Times omitted graduating senior and Honor Student Alex Leathers, who received a merit scholarship from Walla Walla Community College for $4,200, which is also renewable in his second year. He also received $575 from the William and Delora Harpe Scholarship. Alex will be attending WWCC this fall.... Full story
School's out. After a few high- stress days of testing, a surprisingly successful performance of my drama class's play, and a locker cleanup that was more like a high-stakes Jenga game (those math textbooks leave nasty bruises), I am offi- cially a junior. Scary. After such a busy last week (did I fail to mention a field trip to Silverwood, a frenzied attempt to fill in my student portfolio, and a bevy of personal appointments?), I was all for plopping down on my couch, petting the cat, and gulp...
I 've learned that in Waits- burg, one's backyard can be the target of a selective little snow bliz- zard as late as the month of May. Actually, in my case with property on the alley between Main Street and Coppei, it's guaranteed. Every year when temper- atures rise and the foliage explodes all around us, our whole neighborhood gets covered with fluffy white fir that gets into everything, including my plants, my garage and even my house. It doesn't melt like winter snow. It sticks around and... Full story
I n 2007, when planning was underway for the second phase of the Marengo wind project in Columbia County, a small number of local citizens went to great extremes to try to stop it. They were unsuccessful, and that project joined Hopkins Ridge and Marengo I to establish an important new economic driver in the Touchet Valley. Puget Sound Energy, owner and operator of Hopkins Ridge, has since received a Conditional Use Permit in Co- lumbia County (as well as one in Garfield County) for the development of the Lower Snake River Wind Project. Phase...
DAYTON - Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais told county commissioners last week that his office may have to devote more than 2,000 additional hours in the next two years to planning and inspection efforts related to construction of Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Energy Project. He asked the commissioners to consider adding a full-time planning position to his office to cover the increased workload. "I don't think of this as a 'part-time temporary' posi- tion," Lyonnais said....
