Week of December 4, 2025
Week of December 4, 2025
WAITSBURG - On November 25, the Cardinal's Amazing Shake mini-gauntlet brought a creative twist by introducing a Monopoly Edition theme. Waitsburg students stepped into a life-sized version of the classic board game, navigating stations inspired by the game's properties and elements, designed to test their communication skills, professionalism, confidence, and quick thinking. Twenty-one community volunteers served as judges at 14 stations, scoring students who were challenged to adapt,...
WAITSBURG - Since 2014, the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association has awarded an estimated 50 scholarships to WHS graduates for college and postsecondary education. The first recipient of the program was Nicholas Pearson, a member of the class of 2014. Following graduation, Dr. Pearson earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemistry from Whitworth University in 2018 and a Doctor of Dental Surgery from the University of Washington School of Dentistry in 2024. At the UW, Pearson was one of 8 of 72...
WAITSBURG — The Weller Public Library unveiled three stained-glass windows on December 2, in time for Hometown Christmas. The library’s board of trustees worked with John Czarneki of Light & Line Stained Glass Studio in Walla Walla to create the three-panel window. The Friends of the Library enlisted Waitsburg resident Andrew Knee to place exterior windows before completing the decorative glass installation. The windows by Czarneki were funded by donations and installed by Knee, Louie...
WAITSBURG — Hometown Christmas organizers would like to remind drivers that traffic and parking will be temporarily impacted on Sunday, December 7, during the 40th Annual Hometown Christmas Parade. The parade begins at 5 p.m. at Main and First Streets. The route goes down Main, turns right onto W. Sixth, right onto Orchard St., right onto Fourth St., and left onto Main, back to the start. To ensure everyone can enjoy the parade, organizers ask motorists not to park on Main Street between...
DAYTON — It is the last weekend to catch the 2025 Fall Production of “A Christmas Carol” at the Liberty Theater. Remaining dates are December 4, 5, and 6. Tickets are available at libertytheater.org. The theater is accepting non-perishable food items this season in support of our local food bank. The next movie is “Wicked: ForGood,” also known as Wicked part two. It will play from December 12 to...
DAYTON - Dayton's Christmas Kickoff heralds the beginning of the holiday season with the Festival of Trees, Holiday Market, Reindeer, Rizzy the Camel, and the lighted parade and fireworks display. The Dayton Elementary School Bulldogs brought cheer to Main Street. See more photos at www...
WAITSBURG -The Waitsburg Resource Center was the recipient of two food drives for the food bank by Waitsburg School students the week before Thanksgiving break. Stephanie Hinchliffe's first-grade class delivered 137 pounds of non-perishable items on Monday, November 24. Hinchliffe's classes have been collecting food for more than five years, and this year was one of the best years yet. The second food drive was a competition between elementary and secondary students, organized by the high...
Once upon a time, a heavily ticked orange belton setter was born into a grouse-hunting family in Michigan. She was a sleek pup with a stylish point who took to the grouse woods like no other setter. Her name was Kea, from Hawaiian culture, meaning "to be a bird" or "to fly." She could slip through the greenbrier and popple like a speckled ghost, appearing over birds unnoticed. Legend has it that Kea once held down a covey of 14 ruffed grouse for an hour before her owner finally found her. The...
Fifteen Years Ago December 2, 2010 Fifteen-year-old Waitsburg resident Michaela Nordheim is once again the junior winner at the state Make It With Wool competition held in November in Moses Lake. This contest and fashion show, presented in conjunction with the annual convention of the Washington State Sheep Producers Association, involved 21 contestants who modeled garments they had sewn with fabric that was at least 60 percent wool. Nordheim, who was the junior winner in 2008 and 2009, won in...
