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WAITSBURG -- Waits­burg Elementary will hold kindergarten registration for the fall of 2014 during the week of March 31 - April 3. Registration will be in the Elementary office from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.... Full story

Prescott March 19 Malicious mischief to a residence on E. 1st Street. Waitsburg March 20 Attenpt to elude on Preston & Coppei. Resulted in arrest for DUI. Dayton March 18 Lost firearm reported on Highway 261. Report of assault on S. 4th Street,...

WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg 7-8th grade band traveled to Asotin on March 21 where they earned a Su­perior (I) rating in the Mass Band Festival. The band per­formed three songs: "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing," "Tunbridge O...

PRESCOTT - The 7th Annual Cowboy Poetry Cel­ebration (in honor of Cow­boy Poetry Week), will take place Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. at the Prescott Lions Hall. The event features cow­boy music by Nevada Slim & Cimarron Sue and win­ners of the Cow...

Ten Years Ago April 1, 2004 Preston Hall Sixth Graders gave cancer patient Cathy Eastwood $400 they had raised through a quilt raffle to help defray the expenses of her eight-week stay in Southern California. Eastwood will receive proton beam radiati... Full story

DAYTON - A Dayton man who has been charged with first degree rape of a child appeared in court last week. According to the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office, Walter Hartwell is scheduled to go to trial April 22 and 23. Hartwell was arrested last...