A New Deputy In Town

DAYTON - The newest member of the Columbia County Sheriff's Office is eager to learn and determined to do right in Dayton.

The 26-year-old Tri-Cities man, Matt Weins, will fill one of the two recently vacated positions in the office and he said he is ready to learn everything he can to do a job he has been interested in for a while.

Weins graduated from Kennewick High School and joined the U.S. Marine Corps where he started his higher education, Weins said. After the Marines, Weins said he attended the Washington State University satellite branch in the Tri-Cities for one year, then one year a...