Pioneer Portraits

Ten Years Ago

July 28, 2011

The Walla Walla County Sheriff’s Office is considering bringing a program to Waitsburg that would dispose of residents’ prescription and illegal drugs to keep them out of sewer systems and landfills, but an inability to fund and staff the program could prevent its fruition.

Zooming by on Highway 12, it’s easy to miss the unassuming signs that mark the county line. “Entering Columbia County” reads the one going east. “Entering Walla Walla County” greets drivers heading west.

For T. J. Hersey, running her father’s grocery store in Dayton is a way for him to live on. H...