Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA - Waitsburg resident and fugitive Adam Hermanns and his mother Pam Hermanns are both in Walla Walla County jail following their arrest on Monday and Tuesday, according to the Walla Walla County Sheriff 's Department. They were expected to appear in a Walla Walla court some time on Wednesday morning. Adam Hermanns, 23, who had an outstanding warrant for his arrest, was located in College Place late Monday night after citizen tips sparked an hours-long search for him in the Walla...
DAYTON - Local athletes will compete at the United States of America Snowboard Association's Snowboard and Freeski National Competitions at Copper Mountain, Colorado, this week and next. Dayton resident Alex Naylor, 16, will compete in the men's 16-18 age group. He is currently ranked 6th nationally in ski cross. Naylor is one of 22 finalists competing on Monday, April 11. He was undefeated in all qualifying races this winter. Naylor is a sophomore at Dayton High School, plays football and is...
MILTON FREEWATER - Cardinal Kayla Huxoll's unfortunate javelin accident aside, the Carnival of Speed track meet in Oregon Friday was a success for WP, bringing the Lady Cardinals to the top of the heap, head track and field coach Jeff Bartlow said. It followed a productive meet in Colfax on Wednesday despite high cold winds with both Cardinals teams winning that event on points. The Carnival of Speed, in its 75th running, was the more challenging of last week's two events with 19 teams with nearly 600 athletes from Washington and Oregon on the...
DAYTON - Dayton's Seth Jackson won the men's 3200-meter distance event during last Wednesday's Dayton Invite, a meet of six teams that also saw excellent performances from Courtney Fuller, Josh Frame, Briana Fulbright and the women's relay team. " Overall, it was real good," Dayton head track and field coach Shannon Turner said. "It's was only the second time for the girls' relay time to compete and I think they were pleased with their time." That team, which included runners Fulbright, Fuller,...
DAYTON - The Dayton Bulldogs softball team went 5-0 Thursday after defeating a young Tri Cities Prep team in a windy doubleheader at home. The Lady Bulldogs beat the Jaguars 10-0 in the first and 10-0 in the second game, allowing only two hits in each of the two games. "We got to hit the ball today," Dayton assistant coach Desirae Jones said. "Some of our pitchers got some more experience in the circle and we are improving our mental game." The pitchers included Colleen Delp, who started the...
On April 8-10, the Valley Girls Barrel Racing Association will present their 33rd Annual Barrel Daze at the Walla Walla Fairgrounds. Over 1,000 contestants including many girls from Waitsburg and Dayton, will come from all over the United States, including Alaska, and three Canadian provinces. Barrel racers will compete for over $150,000 in cash and awards. The speed and action kicks off at 7 p.m. on Friday, April 8, and will continue all weekend, winding up about 8 p.m. on Sunday, April 10. One of the largest western trade shows in the...
WAITSBURG - Almost half a century after the prestigious distinction was first bestowed on Ernest Kison, two longtime residents known for their support of local events and traditions won the Commercial Club's Community Service Award for 2010. Dick " Skip" Carpenter and Karen Mohney received the award for being exemplary in their care of the community and tireless in the support of events throughout the year, MC and 1976 recipient Tom Baker told the audience at the club's annual meeting recently....
4-4: Theft. Theft of items from around cabin reported on N. Touchet Road, Dayton. 4-3: Accident. Single-vehicle, non-injury accident reported on N. Touchet Road, Dayton. Vehicle slid off roadway. Vandalism. Game camera destroyed on Cottrell Road, Dayton. Burglary. Theft of household items from residence on N. Willow, Dayton. 4-1: Disturbance. Unruly customer who refused to leave a business on W. Main Street, Dayton. Theft. Theft of metal from roof of shed on W. 2nd Street, Starbuck. Burglary. Cabin burglary reported on Cottrell Road, Dayton....
I t's raining again, so what's new? Okay, it's good for the garden and the farmers and the wild things that fly and creep, but sometimes you just want to feel free of an umbrella. Am I the only person in the Touchet Valley who wants spring to be here now!? Funny I ask that. My cousin Betty called. She's getting a divorce. What does that have to do with spring? Nothing, but after that call, instead of moping about spring, I began to feel utterly sorry for the Betty and Bart calamity. Bart called me right after Betty; to say neither he nor Betty...
Ten Years Ago April 12, 2001 As soon as the weather breaks, the Waitsburg Lions will complete their service project of constructing a BMX track in Waitsburg. The project was initiated at the Lions January 23 meeting and hopes to draw racers and families to Waitsburg for sanctioned events. Touchet Ramblings author Vance Orchard writes of his quest to find the Old Hudson's Bay Company farm marker west of Umapine this week. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 3, 1986 Brenda Gales exhibited her fearless attitude so important to successful donkey...
DAYTON - It's a bird! It's a plane! Nohellip;it's "the world's first destination eco-food processing park." That's how Port of Columbia Manager Jennie Dickinson and consultants Dennis Miller and Gary White describe the project. But what does that really mean? The Kennewick men came up with the idea for the Blue Mountain Station in 2007, and they continue to attend national and organic food processing trade shows around the country trying to drum up enthusiasm among developers who might want to...
CALLING ALL VOLUNTEERS WAITSBURG - The Tour of Walla Walla, presented by Banner Bank, is looking for local volunteers for the cycling races April 15-17. The Tour is a four-stage, three-day race where nearly 600 riders from the U.S. and Canada will compete in the Walla Walla Valley. Volunteers are needed as corner marshals, traffic control and race-support vehicles. Friday, the 15th, and Sunday, the 17th, volunteers are needed for Road Races in Waitsburg. On Saturday the 16th, volunteers are needed in the morning for the individual Time Trial...
As the city elections draw to a close, we would just like to take the opportunity to thank our current mayor and council members. In our little section of town, it has been quite peaceful and uneventful. No letters from the city imposing mandates on what we can and cannot do with our own home. Honestly, we really haven't followed Waitsburg's political stuff like we should have this last year, but it has been nice not to feel like we "had to"!! Just a quick "Thank You" for a job well done!! Randy and Dana Moon, Waitsburg...
Ms. McVey's remarks (in her letter to the editor published in the Times on March 31), critical of our current city council members, just makes me tired all over. She is not satisfied with simply being critical of the "council," she goes for the whole ball of wax, blaming the voters of Waitsburg. It is not unreasonable to believe her opinion expresses her confusion of Waitsburg operations and goals. Why would she be concerned if the council meets once or four times a month, if she does not attend the council meetings? Additionally, urging...
More than half the student body at Dayton High School has pledged this spring to steer clear of alcohol, and close to 60 adults in the community have promised not to provide alcohol to minors. "It's exciting," said Dayton junior Nicole Lambert, who is leading the youth component of "Let's Draw the Line" in Columbia County through her internship at Blue Mountain Counseling. "Let's Draw the Line" is a campaign through the Washington State Coalition to Reduce Underage Drinking. The aim is to "Draw...
Wake up Oregon high schools! Your track and field athletes are using potentially lethal weapons that could be made much safer without any effort. Of course, track and field involves a lot of activities that are risky, such as pole vaulting, discus, shot and hurdles. But few, if any, of those are as easily changed to avoid injury and few, if any, are as fast and as sharp as the "weapon" in question here: the javelin. On Friday, Cardinal Kayla Huxoll was hit in the leg by an unprotected, steel-tipped sports spear, a type that has been banned in...
WAITSBURG - There may not be any state-sanctioned horse racing in the Touchet Valley this year, but keep the last two weekends in May clear on your calendar to be in Waitsburg and Dayton because lots of events are in store for those dates. On the traditional Days of Real Sport weekend of May 21, Waitsburg will host its Saturday Main Street parade, have a farmers market at Preston Park throughout most of the day, stage afternoon activities around town and close the day with a livemusic street dance at the end of Main Street. Meanwhile, Dayton Da...
WAITSBURG - Preliminary election results for Waitsburg's city government show incumbent Mayor Walt Gobel and the current five city council membe rs re- turned to office by a landslide. With 357 votes cast, Gobel obtained 276 votes compared to challenger Bart Baxter's 64 votes. Among the candidates for council, Kevin House got the largest number of votes with 293, followed by Orville Branson with 283, Karl Newell with 279, Marty Dunn with 272 and Scott Nettles with 250. City council candidate...
MILTON-FREEWATER - Not to put too fine a point on the problem, but when it comes to throwing the javelin, Washington and Oregon have different safety rules. In Washington, javelins are blunted and equipped with a rubber tip. In Oregon, athletes are still allowed to use the solid steel-tipped spears that have been banned in Washington since 1989. WP athlete Kayla Huxoll found this out the hard way during the Carnival of Speed at Mac- Hi on Friday in a rare accident that has infuriated her...
