Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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The Times is moving back into its renovated historic building on Main Street this week after almost a year of using the former Mock's Electric building as its headquarters. As with any move that involves computer and communications equipment, there is a chance some of its services may be interrupted Wednesday through Friday. The renovated Times front office will reopen to the public on Monday, though its reception area will still undergo some additional changes so we ask for your patience as we settle back into the space where the ne...
Dec. 16: Katie Ford, Perry Dozier, Samantha Henze, Christopher Holmes, Lesli Crawford, Kenna Larson. Dec. 17: Matthew Ted Baker, Rex Munden, Jane Butler, Merle Bickelhaupt, Kerry O'Brien, Chelsea Logemann. Dec. 18: Corrie Berneking, Mariah Hofer, Sharon Richter, Cindy Pettichord, Liz Quigg, Kelli Pettichord, Dale Miller. Dec. 19: Lexus Ann Benson, Jack Maxwell, Shirley Cummings. Dec. 20: Kellie Rarick, Margaret Naumann, Melanie Land, Jeff Gusse, Nathaniel Abel, Bitsey Harshman, Christy House. Dec. 21: Jamie Kibler, Katy Hofer, Loren...
The first winter snow recedes, and what do we find? Mushy gardens. So what now, weather person? Maybe more rain, wind, even another good dusting of snow? Are we experiencing global warming or just a mild winter? Even the Farmer's Almanac can't seem to make up its mind. Maybe it's too early to tell. I was home this weekend and pulled a box of bulbs from the basement where I usually store unplanted bulbs from the fall. Because we haven't had but one freeze this winter, I was able to dig in the earth and plant the straggling bulb. Now, I wait for...
Ten Years Ago December 28, 2000 County Road Foreman Jack Otterson retired this week after 30 ½ years of service. Otterson says the 1996 and 1997 area flooding was the "highlight" of his 16 years as road foreman. Although he and his seven-man crew were severely tested when waters raged through Waitsburg, there was a silver lining: County officials teamed with FEMA funding to build a new shop, which affords many efficiencies on higher ground. Scott and Michelle Huxoll of West Third Street were declared winners for the Christmas lighting display...
SKI BLUEWOOD - Joe Amend pulls his visor down over his face, fires up his welding torch and, sparks flying, tools around on the surface of a steel tube in the shop downstairs from the lodge at Ski Bluewood. After a few minutes he calls over Travis Stephenson, the mountain's new general manager, to show him the results. Down the length of the rounded metal he has "written" the letters "B.wood" for Bluewood as though he had a hair to scratch his name in the bark of his favorite tree. The moment...
MORE CHRISTMAS BASKETS WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Presbyterian Church reported that its seasonal care effort for needy local families produced 28 baskets this year, 10 more than last year. The collaborative program with the Catholic Church of Waitsburg drew more requests for the baskets but also more support, indicating more families appeared to be in need of the baskets, Rev. Brett Moser said. Donors still wishing to help local households in need can do so by donating to the Waitsburg Food Bank. PLAYGROUND GETS BIG GRANT DAYTON - The sponsors...
POMEROY - The Lady Bulldogs lost to the Pomeroy Pirates in a pre-season game in Pomeroy Tuesday evening, their fourth pre-season loss. The final score was 58-34. What started as a "really good game," according to head coach Scott Hudson, turned gloomy when the Pirates slammed an extra 11 points in the last two minutes of the first half. "The girls literally had meltdown," Hudson said. "And they just could not recover from it. We came out extremely flat in the second half." Before the half, Dayton was just six points behind. In the third quart...
POMEROY - Dayton junior Hayden Fullerton may have had the best game of his life Tuesday night in Pomeroy. The Dayton boys brought the Pirates to their knees during this pre-season basketball game, out-scoring Pomeroy 58-30. Fullerton scored 19 of those points, making four out of six three-point shot attempts. "Fullerton just went ballistic," said Jeff Turner, a scorekeeper for the Bulldogs. Vying for the spotlight Tuesday night were juniors Kroft Sunderland, scoring 11 points, and Colton Bicke...
VISTA HERMOSA - The WP Tigers soccer team didn't break any of its own records this fall. After all, this was its first-ever season. But its tenacious performance set new benchmarks in the state, and its recognition around the league has been impressive, giving the boys and girls from the Broetje Orchards, Prescott and Waitsburg plenty to celebrate. "You started as the lowest-ranked, 23rd, and finished number one (in the 7/9 district)," head coach Rickie Hamilton told the team members, sibl...
WAITSBURG - It may sound like a strange observation, but WP basketball Head Coach T.J. Scott almost prefers to start his season with a loss, particularly against good team. "A loss makes you see what you need to improve on and become the team you want to be," he said. "That was a good team and that was their sixth game." The Cardinals Boys team lost by two points 47-45 in the last handful of seconds of their game against the Weston-McEwen Tigerscots, a heartbreaking cliff hanger more than a r...
WAITSBURG - Though they had to shake off some nerves during the first half of their game against Weston-McEwen, the WP Lady Cardinals came out regrouped after their break and beat the Tigerscots confidently in a lob-sided 45-19 victory. Head Coach Jerry Baker said he wasn't surprised his team came out a bit flat-footed in their first game of the season against an opponent that already had five games on the court, but he was pleased with the way the girls turned on the heat in the second h...
3-13: Threats. Threatening text messages received on Main Street, Dayton. Burglary. Residential burglary and possible forced entry discovered on Columbia School Road, Dayton. Hit and Run. Hit and run reported on S. 3rd Street, Dayton. 12-12: Ordinance Violation. Vehicle driving beyond Road Closed sign on Eckler Mountain Road, Dayton. Suspicious. Suspicious vehicle parked at Long's Elevator, on Highway 12, Dayton. 12-11: Illegal Burn. Resident on Chandler Road, Dayton, burning on a no-burn day. Subject contacted, instructed to douse fire....
Dear Editor and Mr. Paul McCaw, I just read your latest letter to the editor in last week's edition of the Times. While I cannot possibly argue with your theory, since you have obviously devoted much time and study to your thesis, my lingering question to you is WHY? What is the point of your diatribe disparaging the merits of high school sports? What could your motivation be? The kids that participate in football, basketball, track, soccer, baseball, softball, cheerleading, etc., are-if nothing else-making a commitment to something that...
VIENTIANE - I am on a basketball court in the capital of Laos. The shouts of the players and the cheers from onlookers bounce off the walls of the brightly lit gym as we race between baskets, dribbling, passing, shooting - all from our wheelchairs. I am not disabled but the special sports chair I am strapped into levels the playing field for those among us who are physically impaired. In theory. In reality, the field is anything but level. The disabled players who have practiced and competed here at the National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC) a...
In his guest column "The Six Points Of War," published here on Nov. 18, Ells Bartlow opened his narrative with a description of war's casualties. In all, the wars fought by Americans, including the Civil War, resulted in the loss of about 1 million American lives. We commemorate these losses, these personal sacrifices, these tragic ends to often heroic lives every year on Memorial Day and rightly so. What gets overlooked in most discussions about the legacy of war, however, is the toll it takes on civilians. We're not just talking about w...
PRESCOTT - Authorities are on the lookout for an SUV involved in a two-vehicle hit and run accident in Prescott at around noon on Friday. Prescott resident Ruth Clarke, 51, was driving her early '80s model, orange Ford Bronco to Sandy's Market on Highway 124 in downtown Prescott. She was about to make the turn onto C Street, the same route she always takes to access Sandy's parking lot, when a blonde woman, possibly in her 30s and wearing glasses, made a left turn onto Highway 124 off C Street and smashed her bright yellow Ford Excursion ri...
STARBUCK - The Port of Columbia will end its lease of Lyons Ferry Park with the U.S. Corps of Engineers, which means the recreational facility across the river from Lyons Ferry Marina will not reopen unless the Corps can find another tenant. The Corps is now looking for new operators for its Lyons Ferry and Central Ferry parks on the Snake River after the latter's operator too ended its lease with the federal agency. Lyons Ferry Marina, which is operated by P.M. Farmjam LLC, is not affected by the change. Farmjam owners Jim and Angela Mac...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg City Public Works Director Dan Katsel points to a long, vertical gauge painted on the concrete structure under the Main Street bridge across the Touchet. Against a white background, the river's ever- changing water level is indicated in black, one foot at a time. It starts at about the 1 and runs all the way up to the 11, with a red mark at the 8 - flood stage. On Tuesday, the level was below one foot. But last winter, the river reached six feet, and Katsel, who mon...
DAYTON - Lisa Ronnberg, executive director of the Dayton Chamber of Commerce for the past three and a half years, has announced she will leave her position there to become the business manager for the Columbia County Public Works Department. "It's an exciting opportuDirector for me," Ronnberg said about her new job under public works director Drew Wood. "I'm looking forward to it." The change is effective the first of the year. Ronnberg's assistant, Amber Phinney, who joined the Cha...
