Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG—Waitsburg High School faculty is introducing new electives for this upcoming school year. Not only are there new options school-wide, juniors and seniors who have scored favorably on the SDAC, an english placement test, will have the opportunity to earn college credits for their efforts. Unlike the Running Start program, which holds classes only at Walla Walla Community College, Mrs. Liv Leid will teach English Composition I on the high school campus through a College in High School p...
September is National Library Card Sign Up Month! If you haven’t already, come to your local library and get sign up today. Additionally, banned book week takes place from September 22-28. Censorship keeps us in the dark. Keep a light on, by reading a banned book. Discovery Kids 10-11 a.m. Every Wednesday A new, revamped and improved interactive story time for those in the toddler years! Come sing, dance, play and learn with our Flash the Sloth. Family Story Time 6-7 p.m. September 5th Story time with the whole family. Take the stories home a...
WALLA WALLA—As summer yields to fall, artists are invited to celebrate the beautiful post-harvest landscape from the perspective of the Cottonwood neighborhood. The event takes place on Sat., Sept. 7 from 2-4 p.m. A number of homeowners will make their yards available to artists who would like to paint, photograph, sketch, write about or otherwise take design inspiration from a vantage point that mixes the valley’s agricultural roots with the grandeur of the Blue Mountains. At this time of year, it is common to see circling haws, darting swa...
WALLA WALLA—Local Walla Walla celebrities will compete on the Gesa Power House Theatre stage on Sat., Oct. 12 at 7 p.m. for the 4th Annual Dancing with the W2Stars fundraiser for Valley Residential Services. Local participants are paired with professional dancers and have a week to rehearse and learn a ballroom dance routine before a live presentation before judges. Local “celebrities” include: Dawn Adams - Retired Director of Home Health/On-Call Chaplain, Providence St. Mary Medical Center Peter Erb - 911 Dispatch Supervisor, City of Walla...
Submitted by Tracy Barron Swine Makenna Barron - blue in market, blue in showmanship Levi Boudrieau - red in market, blue in showmanship Ben Stillman - blue in market, blue in showmanship Noah Stillman - blue in market, blue in showmanship Eden Glaus - blue in market, blue in showmanship with a callback Sofia Glaus - blue in market, Grand Champion in showmanship Judah Wenceslao - red in market, Reserve Champion in showmanship Luke Wenceslao - red in market, blue in showmanship with a callback Hunter Pope - blue in market, blue in showmanship...
WAITSBURG/PRESCOTT-Both Waitsburg and Prescott school districts brought new teachers on staff this year. Several were kind enough to take time from their busy beginning-of-the-year schedules to introduce themselves to the community on the pages of The Times. In addition to the new teachers listed here. Waitsburg welcomes Mike Speiss, former DeSales head football coach, teacher and dean of students, who will teach middle school math, social studies and art and Colby Starring who will teach...
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OLYMPIA-A milder-than-usual fire season has allowed the Washington State Department of Natural Resources to provide assistance in Alaska. On the week of Aug. 26 the DNR dispatched an additional 69 firefighters to help fight the raging, record-breaking wildfires there, according to a DNR media release. This season the DNR has sent a total of 191 firefighters to Alaska to provide resources and support. Alaska has experienced hot and dry conditions this summer with very little rain. Winds have...
DAYTON-"The start of a playground kicked off one idea, which led to another, which led to a beautiful town center for all to use," said Dayton Development Task Force (DDTF) Chair Bette Lou Crothers. Caboose Park has been several years in the making and started with a desire by former task force member Cara Watts, to build a small playground in the empty lot near the caboose at the Dayton Historic Depot. From there, the project continued to bloom and grow. A public restroom was added in 2016. In...
WALLA WALLA- On Sunday September 8 at 2 p.m. Emily Cairns will portray pioneer school teacher Sarah Miner. The Living History performance will be made at Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 Myra Road. Mrs. Miner, Walla Walla's first schoolteacher, opened a private school in a store building on Main Street in the winter of 1861-62. She was then given a certificate, and on June 16, 1862 began the first public school classes in Walla Walla. She was described as "a lovely, cultured woman, who had the...
COLUMBIA COUNTY—Comprehensive plan updates for Columbia County, the City of Dayton, and the Town of Starbuck are wrapping up with final public hearings planned for September and October, according to Columbia County Planning Director Meagan Bailey. “All three plans were submitted for 60-day review at the end of May and that review period closed the end of July. All three plans received, essentially, accolades from the state with no required updates, indicating that all Growth Management Act req...
DAYTON/WAITSBURG-Rather than having separate athletic directors for both Dayton and Waitsburg, the athletic combine advisory committee recommended hiring one director to oversee the combine. Both school boards approved the recommendation and Luper was selected and accepeted the position in June. Luper was hired as the Dayton School District Athletic Director in November of 2018. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in physical education and health from the University of Idaho and a Masters...
With the summer heat still baking the brown and brittle landscape, dog work would need to be restricted to the precious early morning hours of refuge. Fortunately, we were blessed with an overcast sky; one of the first to come of the early fall season. But the transition to autumn was in full swing, presenting a soothing canvas of large pines towering dark above the reddening of the Oregon grape and snowberry, and the fading yellow of elderberry leaves accented by their rich, black berry cluster...
Waitsburg fared well at the 2019 Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days last weekend....
DAYTON-"It's been a long time coming," said Ed Terry last Friday, when a jury returned verdicts of "guilty" to all three charges in the Benjamin Orozco case. Orozco has been charged with second degree murder of Ed Terry's son, Lance, first degree assault of David Eaton, and unlawful possession of a firearm in a shooting that took place in Columbia County, on July 7, 1996. Terry's father said every human has his doubts, but he had faith that Orozco would be brought to justice. Lance Terry's...
DAYTON—Barring a majority of ‘nay’ votes, Columbia County Planning Director Meagan Bailey will become the new City of Dayton Planning Director next month. Mayor Zac Weatherford called an Aug. 27 special meeting with two actions items; the affirmation of Weatherford’s appointment of Bailey to serve as the Director of Planning and Community Development and approval of a Resolution authorizing Weatherford to sign an employment contract with Bailey. In June, the Dayton City Council voted to terminate interlocal agreements with the County for Pla...
SNAKE River—The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), Walla Walla District, is preparing to revise the 1969 Little Goose Master Plan and the 1966 Lower Monumental Master Plan. Open houses were held, one in Dayton on Aug. 21 and in Pasco on Aug. 21, with little attendance. The meetings were designed to inform the public on plan revisions and to receive comments on how users would like to see the Corps manage the natural and recreational resources related to Lower Monumental and Little Goose in the future. Requests for the addition of a...
WALLA WALLA—The Walla Walla County Lodging Tax Advisory Committee has announced grant fund availability for supporting tourism promotion-related events or projects in 2020 that will result in increased numbers of people traveling to the area for business or pleasure and utilizing lodging for overnight stays. Proceeds of the county lodging tax funds the opportunity which has approximately $35,000-$50,000 available for 2020 grants. An informational meeting will be held on Thurs., Sept. 5 at 4:45 p.m. in the Commissioners’ Chambers, County Pub...
Floral entries for the Columbia County fair will be accepted at the pavilion from 7-9 a.m. on Thurs., Sept. 5 (not 7-9 p.m. as previously reported....
WALLA WALLA County—Walla Walla County has collaborated with the Walla Walla County Dept. of Community Health (DCH), the Blue Mountain Community Foundation, Sherwood Trust and the Blue Mountain Action Council to create the Blue Mountain Complete Count Committee (CCC). The CCC program was established by the U.S. Census Bureau with the goal of creating awareness in communities across the country regarding the 2020 Census which will be sent electronically to Walla Walla County residents on April 1, 2020. The CCC’s purpose is to provide acc...
DAYTON—Dayton artist Steve Henderson’s art has gone big – literally! As a winner in a Fine Art America contest, his image, Ocean Breeze, will grace a Los Angeles billboard this fall. Ocean Breeze received the required popular votes to advance to the final selection stage of the 2019 Pixels Billboard Contest where it competed for one of five 24’ by 12’ billboard spots. “I don’t remember the initial number of images entered into the contest, but I think it was around 20,000. In order to adva...
WALLA WALLA-Dunham Cellars kicked off their tenth annual Dunham Days Celebration this past weekend including live music, new wine offerings and local artisans. Among them, Waitsburg Cottages owner, and Waitsburg Planning Commission chair Karen Stanton-Gregutt debuted new works with familiar subjects. "This work is all about the children and the secrets they tell their imaginary friends," says Stanton-Gregutt. In her larger pieces, children are set amidst overgrown flowers and bees, or in wheat...
WALLA WALLA-They were separated by decades in life but have come together in a permanent exhibit at the Kirkman House Museum. A special presentation on how Adam West and Batman influenced the exhibit honoring one of Walla Walla's best-known sons will take place at the Fort Walla Walla Museum, 755 Myra Road, on Thurs., Aug. 29 at 5 p.m. Johnathan Grant, who often portrays Batman at various events, has loaned most of the items on display in the Adam West Exhibit at the Kirkman House Museum. He...
The graphic at right was received in a newsletter from Enough is Enough: Making the Internet Safe for Children and Families. The Sarasota County Sheriff's Office put together this list of 15 apps parents should know about. The list was updated in July. Of course, there are more apps that are not listed here that predators use to try to connect with and groom children. It is important for parents to know what apps and sites their teens are visiting and what information they are posting. Here are...
DAYTON/WAITSBURG-Medical students Taylar-Rhea McGuire and Alexandra Drury spent three days working in Dayton and Waitsburg last week to experience rural healthcare firsthand. The WSU Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine students worked with local physicians and other local healthcare providers as part of their Clinical Campus Week experience. During the first and second years in the medical school program, students complete foundational science studies at the school's Health Sciences Campus in...
