Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Students and their parents were honored for their hard work so far this DW football season on Senior Night. Newly renovated commercial kitchens at the Waitsburg School District Open House held Oct. 19. The Kenneth M. Zuger Field House dedication ceremony....
DAYTON—The Delany Room was packed on Monday night as the Columbia County Planning Commission heard from the public and from stakeholders interested in a Site Plan Development Agreement Application for a proposed bitcoin mining center to be located on Columbia Rural Electric Administration property east of Dayton. After a short presentation from Leonard Ruff, the architect for the applicant, Eastern Mineland LLC, and followed by a lengthy Q&A session, the three members of Planning Commission present deliberated on the merits of the bitcoin m...
DAYTON— Columbia County Planning Director Meagan Bailey presented a list of 10 final docket items for inclusion in the 2020 Comprehensive Plan update to the board of county commissioners last week. However, Docket Items 8 and 9, which drew the most negative response from the public during an October 8 planning commission meeting, were removed. Bailey told the commissioners that Docket Item 8 was a request from the planning staff to revise the AR-2 minimum parcel size, which is a 10 acre/dwelling unit maximum density, and is more commonly called...
DAYTON—The Columbia County Public Transportation Board of Commissioners has placed General Manager Dwight Robanske on paid administrative leave without giving any explanation as to what is being investigated, or why. County Commissioner Mike Talbott said that an investigation will begin this week when attorneys from the state risk pool are brought up to date on the issue. “We don’t know anything, and we’re not going to know anything, until they make their decision,” said Talbott. Meanwhile the CCPT staff will cover duties normally performed...
Ten Years Ago-October 30, 2008 Waitsburg Commercial Club opted to purchase lighted garland from a local business after hearing a proposal from a Tri-Cities company regarding Christmas decorations for downtown business. At a board meeting Oct 23, the Senske bid was considered and it exceeded C-Club's budget. The Board opted to buy about $1800 worth of lights and garlands from Waitsburg Hardware & Mercantile. Waitsburg native Beth Abbey finished the Nike Women's San Francisco Marathon first in...
WAITSBURG-BooGrass, a Halloween-themed concert and silent auction, will be held Sunday at The Plaza Theater at 4 p.m. Tickets are $10 and are available at the door. BooGrass will raise funds for the Touchet Valley Accoustic Music Project to continue teaching music, as well as help with the June, 2019 planned trip for Switchgrass Delta to travel to Ireland. The group will visit an Irish music school as well as the Westport, Ireland bluegrass festival. TVAMP is a project of the non-profit Rural...
DAYTON—Parents of Columbia County are invited to bring their little ghouls and goblins to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Halloween afternoon for trick or treat goodies again this year. For the eighth year, Sheriff Rocky Miller, his staff and volunteers are again offering trick or treat goodies the afternoon of Oct. 31, between 3 and 5 p.m. Volunteers will be at the front steps of the Columbia County Courthouse during those hours distributing bags of goodies donated by the Patit Valley Grange and members of the community. For the six...
DAYTON—Sunday, October 28, 2018 Waitsburg Christian Church 6th and Main Street Games 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. inside 4:00 p.m. Trunk or Treat outside the church All are welcome...
COLUMBIA COUNTY—The Columbia County Planning Commission is seeking to fill a vacancy in the District 3 seat. The planning commission addresses issues related to zoning, land use and development regulations, and is currently working on the county comprehensive plan update. This is an ideal opportunity for an interested individual to give back and have a voice in the community. Regular meetings are held the second Monday of the month at 5:30 p.m. at the Planning Department office. The commission will meet on the second and fourth Mondays while t...
DAYTON—The City of Dayton Planning Commission has two vacancies, providing an opportunity for engaged and motivated city residents to provide input and give back to their community. Regular meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 6:30 p.m. at the Planning Department office. The vacancies will fill incomplete terms, both ending March 2022. Interested individuals should send a letter of interest to Planning Director Meagan Baily via email at Meagan_bailey@co.columbia.wa.us or mail to: Planning Department, 114 South 2nd Street, D...
DAYTON—The Columbia County Rural Library District and Humanities Washington are inviting the public to a conversation with story teller and artist Rituja Indapure about the power of storytelling. The talk will begin at 6 pm. on Thursday in the Delany Room and is free to the public. Indapure’s presentation is called “The Healing Tale: How stories can move us beyond shame.” She will demonstrate how sharing deeply personal stories releases darkness and leads to creative channels and, ultimately, crosses cultural barriers to create societa...
October 25: Judy Skillings, Jacqueline Glover, Jody Peck, Christine Penner, Debbie Moore, Alfred Ritter, Al Peters, Lizzette Crawford. October 26: Paul Wolfe, Ed Bird, Payton Ng, Dick Buerstatte, Dennis Averill, Jackie Brock, Daniel Pettichord, Jason Delp. October 27: Warren Talbott, Nichole Zuger, Rod Bailey III, Quincy Larsen. October 28: Mary Senter October 29: Daniel Reese, Kaia and Ania Larsen, Paul Presler, Nicholas Lodato, Seamus House. October 30: Judy Bradley, Barbie Thompson, Ken Colby, Cindy Hofer, Robert Peddinani, Meghan Conrath,...
Dear Editor, I am writing to urge you to support Cathy Loftus Shochet for Columbia County Treasurer. Cathy has all the necessary experience to be the next Treasurer. She has been the Chief Deputy Treasurer for 3 years which makes her extremely well qualified to move up to the Treasurer position. She already knows all the routines and computer systems that are used in the Treasurers’ office so there would a seamless transition to Treasurer. Cathy recently received training in the new systems that will be implemented at the office. She has e...
Dear Editor, As the race for Walla Walla County Sheriff continues, I keep seeing and hearing how the Sheriff’s Office needs to go back to the way it was. Why would some of the citizens of Walla Walla County want the operations of the Sheriff’s Office to go backwards? Even though there have been changes at the Sheriff’s Office throughout the years, the last eight years have seen improvements that help serve the citizens of Walla Walla County better. Deputies have also benefited from this with more training, better equipment, hiring of quali...
Dear Editor, Awesome! I’m writing today to encourage you to support my nephew Dain Nysoe for Columbia County commissioner. Yesterday I was driving around and ended up at the ranch, the home where I grew up. It’s so beautiful here! Everywhere you look there is a panorama of color, blue sky, the mountains: it’s awesome. It’s great to be home: this is where the heart is. Dain grew up here too and he loves it like I do. One of my early memories of Dain is when he was a kid and I was driving wheat truck: he would flag me down, “Stop, stop, sto...
Dear Editor, I personally know three people, owners of businesses on Dayton’s Main Street, who left them—closed them or otherwise got out—to take jobs with public agencies that offered benefits that included health insurance. I also know three others--young, talented employees of Dayton businesses--who left those jobs to take employment with public agencies that offered benefits that included health insurance. And I count three storefronts on Dayton’s Main Street that were occupied by private sector businesses, but after lying empty for som...
Dear Editor, At the AAUW Candidates Forum in Dayton, both of the Columbia County Commissioner candidates appeared to be intelligent, conscientious and likeable citizens. The obvious and most important difference, however, was their level of administrative experience. The County Commissioner position is not a political position - - - it is an administrative position. Commissioners are expected to raise and wisely use funds from a variety of sources, administer a budget of about $15 million annually, manage a lot of county employees and their act...
Dear Editor, In these last few days before Election Day I’ve been thinking about respect. In a recent letter to the Union-Bulletin editor a man wrote that he didn’t think being a fighter pilot would make Mark Crider a better sheriff. Crider served this country for 10 years as a Naval aviator, commanding men & women and managing million-dollar budgets. He obeyed orders from superiors while looking out for the welfare of his troops. That is leadership, and that is what will make him a better sheriff than his opponent. Crider served his country in...
Dear Editor, I support Mark Crider for Walla Walla County Sheriff. I was born in Mexico and came to the United States in 1990 at the age of 10. I have lived in Walla Walla since 1992 and attended Walla Walla public schools; graduating in 1999 from WA-HI. As a legal resident, I served in the Marine Corps for four years and received an honorable discharge. After my enlistment, I worked 6 years for BMAC conducting community outreach work as a neighborhood organizer for Commitment to Community. I’ve worked as an intervention specialist at both E...
DAYTON-Chelsey Eaton has been busy since beginning work three months ago as the program coordinator for the county public health department. Eaton said the health department just received a grant for $6,000 from Puget Sound Energy Foundation to purchase automated external defibrillators (AEDs) replacement batteries and pads, for the ones already in use, and for training personnel in how to use them in real life situations. "I went around the community and quite a few were expired," said Eaton....
WAITSBURG—The Dayton-Waitsburg football team dug themselves an early hole against Columbia Burbank Friday night, and couldn’t climb out of it, losing the game, 56-6. After an early safety, CB scored four touchdowns in the first quarter to jump to a 30-0 lead. After each team scored in the second quarter, CB led 36-6 at the half. Chris Andrews got DWs only touchdown of the game on a four-yard run in the second. DW again had a strong running game, gaining 158 yards on the ground. Andrews led his...
WALLA WALLA—The Dayton-Waitsburg volleyball team took on the number one team in the state, Walla Walla Valley Academy, on the road on Oct. 16 and fell in straight sets, 25-19, 25-13, 25-17. “This was our second time playing WWVA,” said Coach Tara Brenner. “I felt that DW played tough against the number-one team in the state. We made them work for it and in return we as a team have grown.” For the Match, Devon Harshman had 11 Kills and Kaleigh White had seven. Harshman also had nine blocks. T...
Main Street wouldn't look the same were it not for the outstanding efforts of Pacific Power Lineman Doug Hinds. Hinds has been busy wrapping the lamp posts on Dayton's Main Street with LED light strings. He said he will soon begin placing the Christmas banners on the lamp posts, and he will trim the Christmas tree in front of Elk Drug with lights for Christmas Kickoff, and the Christmas season. He will also help Dayton Elementary School kids hang Christmas decorations on the...
DAYTON—The state of Washington has recognized the Dayton Elementary and Dayton Middle School for sustained improvement in student assessments over a five year period. “So that’s something to be happy with,” said Superintendent Doug Johnson at last week’s school board meeting. The Educational Service District will host an award ceremony for the schools in their region sometime in the near future, he said. Johnson also said that there are some students in the district experiencing homelessn...
