Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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STARBUCK - More than 40 residents of Starbuck packed the small, dimly lit Community Church last Thursday to voice their concerns and disapproval of the postal service's study of whether to close the Starbuck Post Office. "This is a study, it's not a done deal," said Carol Rebstock, a United States Postal Service operations manager from the Spokane area. Rebstock and Doreen Karoly, from the Seattle office of USPS, hosted the meeting to let the residents of Starbuck know their options if the postal service does decide to shut down their post...
DAYTON - Despite efforts by the Columbia County prosecutor to get all three pot-growing suspects half a decade in jail each, only one of the Mexican nationals arrested this summer faces such a term in federal prison. The other two are expected to serve only half a year in county jail before facing deportation by federal immigration authorities. Santiago Orozco Contreras was the first of three Mexican nationals taken into custody after a raid on federal land in mid-July and charged with manufacturing marijuana and being in possession of a...
WAITSBURG - The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning. The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road. It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn't take them long to spot the buck, to make sure it was large enough to...
