The Year Ahead

After dispelling alarmist notions foretelling the end of the world in 2012 last week, we'd like to take the opportunity this week to look at what will happen next year or what we would like to happen.

Some of the items that follow are predictions based on announcements made in 2011, while others are more in the realm of our wishful thinking. Overall, we feel 2012 will be a good year for the Touchet Valley.

We expect Waitsburg and Dayton to get even more attention as travel destinations, hopefully sustaining the existing and new downtown businesses that depend on it and provide jobs as a result...