The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Those of us lucky enough to call Southeast Washington home know what a special place it is. The verdant Palouse hills producing abundant crops of wheat and peas to feed a hungry world take one’s breath away with their May beauty.

The Blue Mountains and the foothills offer unique sporting opportunities for hunters, hikers, bicyclists and nature lovers of all strips. We enjoy an uncrowded and mostly peaceful lifestyle that urbanites envy.

We are also home to a lot of honey bees. Go anywhere in the world and say you are from Washington state and people think apples. The tree fruit industry of Was...