The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Ten Years Ago

July 20, 2006

Wheat harvest in the Touchet Valley area has started. “It’s just getting going but the pace is going to pick up here rapidly,” J.E. McCaw, local manager of the NGG branch, said Tuesday afternoon. Grain is coming into Northwest Grain Grower’s elevators in Waitsburg, Prescott and Coppei beginning sometime last weekend, said McCaw. Jackie Miller was the first to get started north of Waitsburg, with the Brown & Ford, and Sam and Bill Grant operations in the Prescott area cutting as of deadline Tuesday. Perry Dozier was also one of...