Articles from the January 28, 2016 edition
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Walla Walla Public School Open Enrollment Dates
WALLA WALLA – There will be two registration periods for enrollment in Walla Walla Public Schools for the 2016-17 school year. The first is for middle and high school students and will run through the month of February. Kindergarten and elementary p...
Birthdays - Week of January 29
January 29: Dan McKinley, Wm. Hoops and Marci Jo Lanning. January 30: Aaren Lindsey, Hudson Reser, Maxine Attebury, Bob Collins, Donald Want, Jill Ziegler, Michael Flanigan, Rachel Mercer, Kari Green and Travis Williams. January 31: David Hevel,...
Waitsburg School Breakfast/Lunch
11: Breakfast Bake; Fish & Chips, Slaw 1: Biscuit and Gravy; Chicken Patty on a Bun, Jojos 2: Continental Breakfast; Finger Steaks, BBQ Beans 3: Longjohn; Sloppy Joes 4: Continental Breakfast; Nachos, Pepper Strips...
Winning Isn't Everything in the Primaries
By Jonathan Bernstein, The Washington Post As Elaine Kamarck recounts in The Washington Post, winning isn’t all that matters in the early contests on the presidential nomination calendar. Candidates seek to beat expectations, and the press and the p...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, We are writing in support of the upcoming Dayton School District Levies. Nothing is more important than the children of our community. It is the responsibility of all adults in Dayton to ensure that its children have a safe environment...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter in support of the Dayton School M&O levy and Capital Projects Bond, not because I am an employee of the district, but because I support all schools in all communities. As a second grade student, I experienced...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, As a former science teacher and a person who often must make difficult decisions, charts and graphs, data and statistics are something I appreciate and frequently utilize. In the case of the 2016 ballot-proposed levies however, it seems...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, Five citizens coming together to serve as board of directors providing direction to the community’s public school system is the short summary of what being a school board member is all about. Behind that statement is a level of commitmen...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I am writing this letter to encourage every voter in Columbia County to vote yes for the two Dayton school levies on the ballot. We need to have the maintenance and operation replacement levy pass to maintain the programs we currently...
Letter to the Editor
Dear Editor, I want to preface this letter by saying that I don’t hate children and I love living in Waitsburg. So I am hoping that this letter will be taken in the spirit of “we need a break from taxes/levies” that it is intended. When I marri...
The fastest-growing 'news' site of 2015 was an obscure content farm for moms
By Caitlin Dewey, The Washington Post You have probably never heard of the LittleThings.com -- and Little Things is really proud of that. They've only been around 15 months, too short a time to be a household name just yet. And still, somehow, this...
The big myth Facebook needs everyone to believe
The Washington Post · Caitlin Dewey In the middle of January, in a change noticed nowhere but Spain, Facebook added six words to a single dialogue box -- and inadvertently stumbled into a tortuous national debate. The dialogue box is part of...
