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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Hundreds of Touchet Valley residents and visitors descended on Waitsburg for its annual Classic Auto Show and its opening of three new food & drink establishments this weekend. All new businesses reported big crowds at their establishments, stretching their venues and staffs to capacity, but all startups received rave reviews for their high standards in quality offerings and service. The three days of startup celebrations marked a new wave of business activity downtown, leading some...
We would like to express our appreciation to all that made our 50th wedding anniversary so special. The cards, phone calls, and those that attended the reception are treasured. A special thanks to our six wonderful kids, spouses and families for planning and doing everything, and to our many relatives and friends. God Bless You All. Bud & Marilyn Groom...
8-2 Neighborhood Disturbance. A Citizen dispute reported on S 3rd Street in Dayton. Animal Problem. Barking dog complaint on E. Dayton Avenue in Dayton. Juvenile Runaway. Runaway reported on South 4th Street in Dayton. Malicious Misconduct. Malicious misconduct reported at 121 Coppei, Waitsburg. 8-3 Utility Problem. Possible utility problem reported on East Dayton Avenue in Dayton. Controlled Substance/Possession. Drug paraphernalia found by motorist at Dodge Junction rest stop. Turned in to office. Juvenile Problem. Juvenile problem reported...
WAITSBURG - The third reunion of the Joseph and Ebby Breeze Hays family was held July 8-10 in Waitsburg and Walla Walla. In 1899, the family migrated west when Joseph and Ebby Hays brought three of their children from Jefferson County, Illinois, to Hood River, Oregon. Going back eight months later to the Ebby's farm in Illinois, the family was destined to return to the West, settling in Waitsburg as cousin Elmer Stonecipher started growing wheat. With a need for workers, he brought out the...
WALLA WALLA - Before William Shakespeare became a wellknown playwright, he was an actor with Pembroke's Men about a decade before the end of the 16th century. Perhaps more than anyone, the English bard knew that actors feed off their audience. A silent, immovable crowd can kill a good play. A responsive one can inspire actors and lift their performance. So, when it came time to design their own theater in the heart of Elizabethan London, Shakespeare and his friends from the world of drama knew...
WAITSBURG - We'd almost forgotten about the Classic Car Show Cruise when we heard the car horns down on Main Street. We were having a barbeque on the patio behind the house. My friend Michael Bryant Brown, visiting from Bainbridge Island along with my father in law and his girl friend - all here for the grand opening of the coffee shop - noticed it first. He thought it was a freight train coming down the track by the Touchet River. We knew better. We peered between our home and our neighbor's,... Full story
August 11: Alfred Peters, John Wood, Gary Pierson, Kim Townsend, Dorothy Anderson, Bradley Grende. August 12: Seth Deal, Gordon Gilmore, Abby Hyder Barrantes, Darleen Dozier, Shawn Smith, Suzanne Schulke, Mia Becker, Bess Herndon, Patsy Fouste, Keaton Jean Larsen. August 13: Shawn Thomas, Tammy Wood, Mark Leid, Angela Williams, Forrest Waltermire. August 14: Jim Wills, Gary "Bubba" Brookshire, Lassie Wittman, Pamela Cresswell, Betty Kress, Joan Helm, Daniel Stanley. August 15: Kathy Patton, Courtney Durkee, Erica Grende, Jean Hofer, Nicholas...
Greetings from California! Last night, a couple of friends and I met and dined at Henry's HI-Life in downtown San Jose. Henry's is an institution in Silicon Valley, known for its open pit grilled meats, friendly ambiance and the Italianate Board Commercial Building Henry's thrives in. We sat in the bar awaiting our table, sipping Margarita's from tall frozen pint glasses. Finally, our table was called and we were seated with our salads and appropriate dressings and ice waters with floating lemon, in front of us. The prime rib was good but the...
WAITSBURG - Standing over the engine of a 2012 Mustang with his young son Race, Reece Hubbard was melancholy for the car he was recently forced to sell. "It was a 2008 Mustang Bullitt, celebrating the 40th anniversary of the '68 version," he said, recalling the movie Bullitt with Steve Mc- Queen, who helped make the model famous. "They only made 5,800 and my mine was #5,780. " With his wife out of work for a year following an injury, he had no other choice, but he still pines after the car...
Ten Years Ago August 16, 2001 Pat McConnell displays the artifact he found in a newly graded field near Bolles Junction when he was a young boy. Consulting a military historian, Pat discovers the good-sized piece of metal he assumed was a belt buckle is a cartridge box plate, possibly dropped when Colonel E.J. Steptoe and one hundred and fifty men left Fort Walla Walla on the morning of May 1858 made their way north past what became known as Bolles Junction en route to the Snake and thence north to Fort Colville. Touchet Valley Communications... Full story
DAYTON - Mead is wine made from honey instead of grapes. A new winery featuring the buzzing bee's nectar in its wine is opening on Main Street in Dayton soon, almost a year after it was first announced. The grand opening for Mace Meadworks is set for Friday and Saturday, August 19 -20th. Lots of live music will be featured at the opening . D aergan Guy, Quincy Harper, DJ Sailsworth and Table of Contents are all scheduled to perform. The full lineup of events is posted at www.macemeadworks.com.... Full story
NEW LIBRARY MANAGER WAITSBURG - Longtime Waitsburg resident Rosie Warehime has been hired by the City of Waitsburg to be the new manager of the Weller Public Library. Warehime, who succeeds Su Alexander after her departure in June, was selected from two candidates who applied for the position. The new manager held numerous clerical positions at companies in the area, including Touchet Valley Grain Growers, Green Giant and National Bank Of Commerce, which is now Sterling Savings. Most recently, she worked at the Cenex gas station on the corner...
The well-publicized triple grand opening and Classic Auto Show weekend added up to a festive event for Waitsburg. Not since the Days Of Real Sport has the downtown area seen so much traffic. Some visitors came for the car show itself, bringing their classics to Preston Park from all over the region. Some came because they were intrigued by the new 1950s diner and had heard about it on Facebook. Of course, anyone who likes cars likes the 1950s, by some standards, the peak of automotive creativity and esthetic abundance. Some came from the Tri...
DAYTON - The Green Giant has a hole, a giant hole. It's squarely in the center of his tunic, which the jolly big guy dons with wreath and leafy boots on the steep hill overlooking the edge of Dayton like the town's own "Hollywood" sign. Gary Lowe wants to fill the hole and if you're a strapping high schooler, he'll want your help late next month to complete the green tunic on the football field-sized figure, marking the last phase of a project that started almost two decades ago. "We'll finally...
WAITSBURG - She worked all day every day. Chop the wood, haul it into the woodshed, split the rounds into useable chunks, haul it into the house, feed the stove for cooking or warmth, clean out the ashes, pump water from the well, haul it into the house, heat the water in buckets for washing or bathing, make candles or buy them, buy kerosene and lamp wicks if available, fill the lamps, trim the wicks, store the milk, cream, potatoes or apples in the cellar, smoke the meat, salt the pork, dry...
DAYTON - Kevin Carson must have been about 12 when his parents introduced him to books about Chief Joseph of the Nez Perce. He devoured the l ike s of "Hear Me My Chiefs" by Lucullus Mc- Whorter and "I Will Fight No More Forever" by Merril Beal. Growing up in a household that admired the Native leader and sympathized with his plight as the last holdout of his tribe, the irony of his own ancestry wasn't lost on the teenager. As the great great great grandson of Dayton Volunteer Lieutenant Levi...
DAYTON - Imagine downloading a music album in five seconds or a one-hour TV show in half a minute at home or the library. Or picture going to Dayton General Hospital and having your doctor share your X-rays with another medical expert in Walla Walla or Spokane so you don't have to drive all the way there. Such conveniences aren't too far into the future because plans are in the works to make Waitsburg and Dayton stops on a new fiber optic super highway that will bring high-speed broadband to rural communities throughout the state. Some compare... Full story
