Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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PRESCOTT - Waitsburg- Prescott fared well in its first home meet in the history of the WP combine Tuesday. WP wrestlers raised their hand in victory after nine of their 14 matches against foes from seven visiting schools. Adolfo Armenta, Dalton LaRue, Tristan Newman, Brandon Aceves, James Thompkins, Trenton Kitselman, and Steven Grimes all recorded wins by fall. Newman tallied two pins on the night. Gabe Escalante, wrestling at 120 pounds, was the only WP wrestler to go the distance, whic...
DAYTON - To call the opening quarter of the Dayton versus Waitsburg- Prescott boys game 'slug- gish' would be a slap to the slimy faces of gastropods everywhere. The Bulldogs snapped out of their scor- ing slump first then held off the visiting Cardinals late to earn a 34-31 victory in the first meeting of the season between the Touchet Valley rivals. The point total of the first 8 minutes of Saturday's con- test hearkened back to the point totals of the early days of basketball - before Dr. Nai...
DAYTON - The Dayton girls basketball team dropped Waitsburg-Prescott 37-34 Saturday night to keep its 2012-13 record spotless, thanks to superior free throw shooting in the second half. WP held the advantage in that category at halftime, hitting on 3-of-4 attempts. Meanwhile the Bulldogs managed just five makes on fifteen tries. In the second half, the Lady Dogs turned those numbers around nailing 8-of-9 third quarter tries and 11-of-17 for the half. The Cards missed six of their first eight fre...
CHAMBER BOARD OPENING DAYTON - The Dayton Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors is seeking a new board member to begin in 2013. The terms are for two years. Board members are required to be current Chamber members as either individuals or as a business. The board of directors meet twice monthly on the first and third Wednesday at noon at varying locations in Dayton. A commitment to this community and the ability to represent the needs of Chamber members is imperative. The board tries to represent a cross-section of our business community, but...
December 20: Kellie Rarick, Margaret Naumann, Melanie Land, Jeff Gusse, Nathaniel Abel, Bitsey Harshman, Christy House. December 21: Jamie Kibler, Katy Hofer, Loren Davis, Jenny Devine, James Adkins. December 22: Micah Winnett, Kara Largent, Callie Dueñas, Forrest Mock, Gordon Bateman, Suzanne DeCoria. December 23: Tyler Hofer, Joyce Beckley, Claire Raven, Alta Daniel, Larry Bickelhaupt, Lorene Brown, Kim Douglas, Carl Smith, Richard Bessey, Karen Lambert. December 24: Shirley Kitter- man, Carolyn O'Brien, Ed Law- rence, Shane Hilton, Mary...
Dayton Ameristar Pizza, subs and more 509-382-9952 Subway Sandwiches 509-382-2563 Elk Drug Stationary, cards and so on 509-382-2536 Tucannon Meats Boxed Meat Packages 509-382-4371 City Lumber Variety of tools 509-382-4211 Shell Food Mart Beverages and food 509-382-2741 Dingle's Large variety of gift items 509-382-2581 Time Out Pizza Delivers pizza 509-382-9999 Weinhard Café Ask about catering 509-382-1681 Country Cupboard Sweets, lunch, gifts 509-382-0606 Wenaha Gallery Framing & fine art prints...
MORATORIUM ON POT SHOPS WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg City Council this Wednesday will vote on an ordinance imposing a one-year moratorium on the establishment of marijuana dispensaries, processing and production facilities in the city pending the implementation of new state rules on such shops. The ordinance is not designed to ban such operations here but simply to await final state rules and regulations allowing for their establishment following the passage of Initiative 692 making possession of small amounts of pot legal in Washington. The counc...
Waitsburg 12-12 A burglary was reported on West Maple Street. A TV, cd playerand computer were taken. 12-15 A subject arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia andpossession of a dangerous weapon was reported on Preston Av- enue. Dayton 12-11 Suspicious persons were reported on Fourth Street. A sexoffender failing to register was reported on Main Street. A suspi- cious vehicle investigated was reported on Highway 12. 12-12 A juvenile problem was reported on Clay Street. An accidentwithout injuries was reported on Main Street. A vehicle...
Ten Years Ago December 19, 2002 A new Historic Resources Coordinating Committee has been formed to provide expertise in reviewing historical brochures, increasing the accessibility of historical resources and helping fill gaps in the history of our area. The committee includes representatives of various local institutions involved in valley history, and is being coordinated by the Walla Walla Valley Chamber of commerce, which took the lead in bringing the group together."We all have been following our passion for history and now we have an...
A rdath “Ardie” Alice (Pierson) Henze went to be with our Lord 12-12-12. Ardie was born Nov. 28, 1921, to Roy and Katherine (Miller) Pierson in Hillsdale Township, Eddy County, N.D. She received her education in the Warwick School system, graduating in 1938, where she was active in sports, especially basketball. Church was an important part of the Pierson family and Ardie played piano and organ and sang with the choir as a member of the Warwick Lutheran Church. In the fall of 1939, Ardie went to...
Since we bought The Times more than three years ago, we've made a lot of changes we believe have improved local readers' access to good and timely information. One of those changes is more indepth and, at times, critical reporting of public agencies such as the hospital district, schools, city governments, county government and so on. One of the most important reasons for this approach is the need for local residents and tax payers to know how their hard-earned contribu- tions to these agencies are be- ing spent and what decisions their...
I , like you, am sickened by yesterday’s events at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut. I want everyone to know that the victims, their families and all who are affected by such a horrific event are in the conversations, thoughts and prayers of our Sheriff’s Of- fice and myself. Events such as yesterday bring home the realities of this world and strengthen our resolve as a law enforcement agency to protect and serve our own wonderful community here in Walla Walla County. The rea...
We don’t comment very often on national news, but we make an exception for the tragedy in Connecticut because there’s not a soul in our local communities untouched by the senseless death of 20 innocent children and eight adults. Our thoughts and prayers are with the survivors and the members of their community. News of the shooting came on Friday as we began preparing this week’s special Christmas edition with all the elementary school kids’ letters and poems to Santa. It’s the most precious publication we do each year. The news spilled over in...
WAITSBURG - Attendance at the recent WHS Harvest Ball was down compared to the Homecoming Dance earlier in the school year, according to Waitsburg School District officials. Only 40 kids showed up for the second of three annual school-facilitated dances. Short of a student body survey, it's hard to know why fewer students attended the event, but school officials are concerned some would-be dancers stayed away because of the controversy over dance rules and parent access to the kids' social activities. "I think it's sad our kids are i...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council revisited one of about 76 ordinances that should have been part of the city's municipal code but were inadvertently omitted. The ordinance, title five, chapter 12, section 840 of Dayton's Municipal Code, creates an appeal period of 21 days from the date of an administrative decision and/or an interpretation of an administrative code, city Clerk-Treasurer Trina Cole said at the city council meeting Monday night. The ordinance was apparently inadvertently appealed in 2001, Cole said, and was reinstated at the...
DAYTON - Two men were arrested, one for burglary and one for theft, in separate incidents in Columbia County Sunday, but there's no indication in court documents that either one is connected to any of the commercial burglaries or car thefts committed in the area recently. The suspect in the first incident, Andrew Gatz, 34, listed as homeless, appears to have been caught up in a domestic dispute with a woman he dated on Rose Gulch Road. He was charged with one count of residential burglary and one count of malicious mischief for breaking do...
WAITSBURG - The Times of Waitsburg has hired former Blue Mountain News Editor and Publisher Ken Graham as its new editor following the departure of Jillian Beaudry, who left the Times on Dec. 7. Graham will begin at the weekly newspaper on Jan. 2. The Times also announced it has promoted Morgan Smith to Assistant Editor, a position in which she will support Graham in coordinating news coverage and production. That appointment is effective immediately. The new composition of the Times' news t...
