Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Preliminary scores for the 2011-12 High School Proficiency Exam are in for Waitsburg and Prescott and the students and staff members have a lot to be proud of. Waitsburg earned 100 percent in meeting both reading and writing standards. Prescott earned 84.6 percent in reading and 100 percent in writing. The annual proficiency exam measures how much students are learning and serves as the state's exit exam in reading and writing. Students must pass this assessment or a state-approved alternative in reading and writing in order to be e...
ELECTIONS 2012 DAYTON -- Current small business owner and former auditor Anne Higgins says she is the best candidate for the Columbia County Commissioner seat because she knows the books. Born in Memphis, Tenn., Higgins, now a mother of three, moved around with her family because her father was in the military. She moved to Dayton with her long-time partner Gary Snyder when she started attending Wash- ington State University for zoology, later switching to social science. She commuted to the...
DAYTON -- Main Street was packed from end- to-end last weekend as old favorites and new exciting events came together for a warm and sunny annual Dayton All-Wheels Weekend. The event brought classics including the car show and drag races, the groundbreaking of the new Best Western Hotel and a pub crawl that catered to the young adult event attendees. More than 360 cars were registered for judging and there were 413 cars parked along Main Street, coordinator Bette Lou Crothers said. "It was out...
DAYTON -- The new chamber director in Dayton is one of the town's well-known restaurateurs, Brad McMasters. McMasters was appointed into the position last Wednes- day by the Dayton Chamber of Commerce board and he will officially begin his duties on July 9. McMasters said he is "unbelievably excited" to have been selected for the position. McMasters owns the Wein- hard Café, which he purchased at the end of 2010. He was a school teacher for six years before going into the restaurant business. He...
