Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG-The Waitsburg Historical Society was excited about the visit of three Sherwood Trust representatives on Tuesday morning, June 7, at the Bruce Mansion on Main Street. The plan was to welcome the visitors and arrange a photo accepting the recently awarded grant from the Trust. The Historical Society had applied for a grant to help pay for painting and repairs to the Bruce Mansion. Before the traditional check presentation photo, Sherwood Trust Project Manager Julia Leavitt gave the...
WAITSBURG/DAYTON—The Waitsburg and Dayton School boards met on June 1, 2022, for a joint meeting to discuss details surrounding the future of the DW Athletics Combine. The loosely followed agenda included discipline, middle school athletics, finances, and future joint board meetings. On the topic of discipline, Dayton School Superintendent Guy Strot and Waitsburg Superintendent Mark Pickel suggested the secondary principals handle disciplinary issues with the combine athletes. This would r...
DAYTON—Residents, business owners, and concerned neighbors gathered at Dayton High School last Wednesday, seeking clarification on the status of the city’s wastewater project. Concerns were raised after the Dayton City Council twice voted against a purchase that was one of the critical steps towards solving the city’s wastewater issue after a decade of planning. “What happens next?” was on everyone’s mind at the June 2 town hall gathering. Cynthia Wall-Fuller, Washington State Department...
This movie is of particular interest to Downton Abbey fans. The original principal cast of Downton Abbey will all once again return for this second film. In addition to the original cast, Hugh Dancy, Laura Haddock, Nathalie Baye, and Dominic West will join the cast. A critic on Vulture.com said, “It should surprise no one to learn that Downton Abbey: A New Era includes a joyous wedding, an equally joyous marriage proposal, more than one health scare, news of an unexpected inheritance (the gold standard of Downton Abbey storylines), and the u...
DAYTON—The Columbia County Rural Library District in Dayton, WA, has been awarded a grant for $20,000 from the American Library Association (ALA) COVID Library Relief Fund, one of 77 grants awarded to libraries that continue to experience substantial economic hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic. The ALA COVID Library Relief Fund awards grants to academic, correctional, public, school, and tribal libraries from 32 states and Puerto Rico. The ALA COVID Library Relief Fund is one of the largest non-federal grants available to libraries. C...
DAYTON— In February, Washington State legislators adopted a new congressional and legislative map, removing Columbia County from Legislative District 16 and placing it in Legislative District 9, with Franklin, Adams, Spokane, Whitman, Asotin, and Garfield counties. Columbia County voters will be asked to return incumbents Rep. Mary Dye (R) Pomeroy and Rep. Joe Schmick (R) Colfax to the state legislature next January. Both Dye and Schmick are running unopposed for the following two-year terms. Columbia County remains in U.S. Congressional Distri...
Last week Neighbors United held a public information meeting about the City of Dayton’s proposed Wastewater Treatment project. The meeting was well attended and representatives from the professionals that had worked on this project over the years gave a background review of the project and the current state of the project. This panel answered audience questions with why or why not certain decisions were made to facilitate the project. These questions were answered to the best of the Wastewater professional’s ability and experience. Alt...
WAITSBURG—The Waitsburg School District offers a Summer Food Service Program, serving meals free of charge to any child aged 18 and younger. Meals will be served at the Waitsburg Elementary School cafeteria. The program runs Monday through Friday, beginning June 27 and ending on July 29, 2022. There will be no food service on July 4. Breakfast is from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Lunch is 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. This program is open to all Waitsburg residents; children do not need to be students in the s...
DAYTON- The Dayton School Board held a work session meeting at 6 p.m., June 1, 2022, in the high school auditorium and Zoom. All members of the Dayton School Board were present in the auditorium, Aneesha Dieu, Zac Fabian, Grant Griffen, Chair Jeffrey McCowen, Korinda Wallace, Madison Richardson (Student Representative), and Superintendent Guy Strot. The consent agenda included the resignation of M.S. math teacher Brenda Henderson and the hiring of Martin Surridge as an HS English teacher, Pam Nolan Beasley as the elementary STEM teacher, and...
DAYON—The Columbia County Rural Library District (CCRLD) in Dayton, WASH., has been awarded a “Virtual Reality in 360” grant providing the library with the tools and specialized training needed to create a virtual experience. The experience should tell a story about something that has importance to the community. The library will partner with the Dayton Historical Depot Society to create a virtual reality (VR) tour of the Depot so anyone, anywhere can explore the oldest standing train depot in Washington. Once created, the tour will be hoste...
WAITSBURG—On May 30, Waitsburg-youngster Jace Grende was life-flighted to Harborview Medical Center with a spontaneous brain bleed. There, it was discovered that Jace had a brain tumor, and a successful surgery removed most of the glioma that was discovered. A secondary tumor was found on his thalamus and is inoperable. Jace has a long road ahead of him, but he’s a tough kid and is giving cancer the biggest fight yet. Jace, his parents, Brad and Abby, and his two little brothers live in Wai...
Scott Kirk Back row: Brayden Mohney, Theo Anderson, Evan Allen Middle row: Keon Lindley, Caleb Barron, Megan Forney, Jessie Atteberry, Brandon Thompson, Ben Ingram Front row: Chloe Gleason, Nathalie Abel, Lilly Bone, Alex Struckmeier, Olivya McFarland, Kenzie Lewis-Seal, Alexis Reeves...
Front row: Ella Larson, Eloy Garcia Romeo, Tristan Cush, Arla Woodend, Trinity Anderson, Max Schmidt Middle row: Julia Brooks, Elaina Gembala, Trist Villaro, Sagelyn Kilts, Jesse Grant Back row: Mikel Vance, Dylan Bledsoe, MacKenzie Faith...
My first year of retirement from Waitsburg Schools just zipped by! I went with three of my four sisters on my first zipline adventure to commemorate the occasion. It zipped by also! The Coeur d'Alene 7-line zip tour consisted entirely of tree-top platforms. There were two high-swinging sky bridges to cross, and twice we belayed down to the next level. There is not a lot of walking in this family-friendly adventure; just zipping along above Beauty Bay, through trees and gorgeous scenery....
It was great fun to see the Celebration Days Parade this year. It brought back so many parade memories, from attending and marching in parades. I marched in New York with my 4-H troop. Later, as a High School band member in Tucson, I marched in a heavy wool uniform in 100-degree heat. In Flagstaff, where I went to college, I continued in the band and marched in ten below zero weather. In Los Angeles, I was just an avid spectator past my marching days. A Los Angeles parade would include...
Baseball has made several changes to the ball over the game's history. Before 1876 baseballs were not uniform. Pitchers made the balls used in games, and no two were alike. In 1876 the National League was founded, and a pitcher named A.G. Spalding convinced the league to use his design with a rubber core as the model. It was the beginning of a partnership that would last for a century and create the company called Spalding Sports goods that still exists today. During the 1910 World Series, the...
OLYMPIA—The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission invites visitors to enjoy a state park on Saturday, June 11 in celebration of National Get Outdoors Day, Sunday, June 12 in recognition of Free Fishing Day, and Sunday, June 19 in honor of Juneteenth. Visitors are not required to display a Discover Pass for day-use visits to a Washington state park or on lands managed by the Washington Department of Natural Resources (DNR) or Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) on these dates. Juneteenth commemorates the emancipation o...
Athletic Director Sam Korslund received a special award and recognition for the work and leadership he has given the athletes and their parents this season. The Spring Sports Awards was held June 7, in Dayton....
For a number of reasons, the best dry rosé wines have gotten more expensive, especially those Oregon rosés made exclusively from Pinot Noir grapes. Pinot Noir is costly to grow and turning it into rosé doesn't make that part of the process any cheaper. Additionally, the fires of 2020 meant a number of wineries lost some or most of their crop, so 2021 is a recovery vintage. This estate-grown, pale copper, generously flavorful wine mixes strawberries, blood oranges, watermelon, and jicama ac...
WALLA WALLA-Walla Walla Community College (WWCC) has announced the completion of a comprehensive search for a new director of the college's highly acclaimed Institute for Enology and Viticulture. Stylianos Logothetis is slated to begin his new role at WWCC on July 6. Logothetis has more than 25 years of experience in the industry, including work as an oenologist, university professor, and industrial consultant to the wine industry. He holds a Master of Philosophy and a Ph.D. degree in Yeast...
EVAN ALLEN Waitsburg Lions Club Scholarship $500 Evan will attend Western Welding Academy in Gillette, Wyoming. JESSIE ATTEBERRY Hevel Waitsburg Scholarship $1, 250 Kenneth Garner Non-Endowed Scholarship $650 T.B. Elliott Student Scholarship $100 Emory Clapp 4-H Scholarship $300 Waitsburg American Legion Auxiliary Scholarship $500 Jessie will attend Spokane Community College. CALEB BARRON The Ike Keve Outstanding Senior FFA Member Scholarship $429 Caleb will attend Walla Walla Community College LILLY BONE Rasty and Nona Ketcherside Scholarship...
SEATTLE-The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences held its 2021 Northwest Regional Emmy Awards in Seattle, Washington, on June 4, 2022. KOMO News, the ABC affiliate in Seattle, won the Morning Newscast category for large markets for its July 14, 2021, 6 a.m. newscast, "Spreading Like Wildfire." Holly Menino anchored the winning newscast alongside her co-anchor Ryan Yamamoto. "Television news is very much a team effort, so this is a team award," said Menino. "During a time when there w...
Ten Years Ago June 7, 2012 The 131st class to graduate from Dayton High School recessed from the gym and into the rest of their lives on Saturday with thousands of dollars in scholarship money in hand and an upbeat Kenny Chesney country song filling the room. Valedictorian Carter Currin said any bad moments in high school were ultimately tiny blips on the radar and many happier moments await the group. “We, the class of 2012, are ready to make that future bright,” salutatorian Keisha Phi...
