The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

The newspaper business has changed a lot since the first issue of the Waitsburg Times was published in (get this) 1878. For example, it was some time after that that they started putting in photographs.

The beginnings of this newspaper, which (without fail, as far as I know) has been published every week since, preceded such technological icons as the telephone, radio and television. Oh yes, and the internet. For most people in and around Waitsburg in the late 19th century, this was their only source of news.

As we at The Times plod along in the early 21st century, we’ve long since lost o...