Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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.waitsburgtimes.com....
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 — 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 F...
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 16....
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 de...
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...
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 school...
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...
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 Gag...
Trevor Corbin and Caitlyn Potts, owners of Wolfling Coffee, welcomed Waitsburg City Council Member Jillian Henze during the shop's test run on Saturday, November 22. The doors officially open on Thanksgiving Day, between 7 a.m. and 2 p.m. Start your day of family, friends, and cooking with a great coffee and house-made baked goods....
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg secondary students and staff meet in the Cage before each day before school begins. It is an opportunity for Secondary Principal Joe Wirtzberger and his staff to foster a positive environment and help students smoothly transition to the classroom after the morning bell. Wirtzberger makes the daily announcements, followed by faculty and student shout-outs. A teacher starts the week by giving a shout-out to a student. That student will give a shout-out to someone the...
DAYTON — The Dayton School Board held its regular meeting on November 19, 2025. Superintendent Jeremy Wheatley, Board Chair Jeffrey McCowen, and board members Pat Davidson, Grant Griffin, and Ryan Paulson were present in the school library. Aneesha Dieu joined via Zoom. The board approved the consent agenda, including Shannon McMillen as a volunteer HS Girls Basketball coach and accepted a $1,000 donation from Puget Sound Energy for warm winter clothing. Lucy Trump gave the ASB report, covering homecoming week activities, including the dance a...
“A Christmas Carol” & “Elf” DAYTON — Come and kick off the holiday season at the theater. There are two weekends left to catch the 2025 Fall Production of “A Christmas Carol” at the Liberty Theater. Tickets for the remaining dates, between November 29-December 6, are still available. “A Christmas Carol” combines the beloved story by Charles Dickens, published in 1843, and the short story “The Gift of the Magi” by O. Henry, published in 1905. The reimagined play and lyrics were written by co-directors Mike Ferrians and Brenda Henderson. The...
WAITSBURG - After Black Friday comes Small Business Saturday, and on Nov. 29, Waitsburg's Main Street shops will be ready. Start with smooth coffee and fresh baked goods at Wolfling Coffee, 206 Main Street. The new shop will be open from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. and will host the first of four Saturday Markets before Christmas. The Press Room, 137 Main, will be offering Press Paper Wrap sets, a chance to pull letterpress gift tags, and a private wrapping area for holiday treasures and gifting secrets....
Letter to the Editor To the citizens of our beautiful Dayton, I’d like the opportunity as your elected Mayor to address a few situations and clarify some things that have recently been floating around the different channels of information we have at our fingertips. Some folks prefer the newspaper, some prefer the internet, and others utilize good old-fashioned face-to-face conversation. Some things recently have made “headlines” on social media, spreading false information about the City’s Public Works Director, Ryan Paulson. He has only been h...
Whoopemup Hollow Café and The Bobcat Room at Hotel Hardware are teaming up to celebrate Dayton's Annual Christmas Kickoff Festival on Friday, Nov 28. Val will be serving her infamous Gumbo with Christmas Cocktails from The Bobcat Room. Food is served from 5 p.m. until it sells out. Bar closes at 10pm. 21+ only. Text to pre-order Gumbo at 509-386-2448....
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg High School winter sports began on Monday, November 17. The girls' and boys' basketball, cheer, and wrestling teams are looking forward to a good season. The Lady Cardinals have two returning starters, Cheri Mathews and Olivia Kiefel. Teammates are vying for playing time to fill the spots left by Alyssa Hollingsworth, Jessica Lambert, Morgan Lindsey, and Kadence Tiner, who graduated last year. Girl's Basketball Coaches Kira Waggoner and Hunter Wallace have three freshmen,...
Waitsburg staff members, Brenda Henderson, Elizabeth Jagelski and Stephanie Hinchliffe are joined by Waitsburg students and Waitsburg High School alumni in the delightful musical, "The Christmas Story", playing at the Dayton Liberty Theater. Get your ticket before the last show on December 6. Photo above: (l-r) – Waitsburg 7th grader Oliver Harvey, teacher Elizabeth Jagelski, freshman Roz Harvey, 7th grader Owen Harvey, Junior Sasha Collins, 5th grader Sawyer Harvey, WHS alumni and teacher S...
Fifteen Years Ago November 18, 2010 [photo caption] McKayla Bickelhaupt gets ready to spike the ball as the Bulldogs battle the Darrington Loggers during the state playoffs at Yakima SunDome Friday. Twenty-Five Years Ago November 23, 2000 Justin and Laverne Mayberry received word this week that Michelle Jansen, daughter of Mike and Kathy Mayberry Jansen of Crawfordsville, Indiana, will go to Reno, Nevada for the Nationals in cross country the 9th of December. Michelle's team placed third in...
Air Hockey comes to Waitsburg's new Ice (not ice) Skating Rink. The new attraction was "hockey player" approved by PocketiNet representative, Nate Ewers, who generously agreed to take a test spin or two. "I am from Maine, and this makes a Maine guy happy," he said of the experience. The synthetic ice rink will be officially opened during Hometown Christmas on Saturday, December 6, with a ribbon-cutting at noon and skating from 1 to 7 p.m. Fun for all ages, skates are provided at the...
DAYTON- The Dayton Memorial Library hosted speakers from the Washington Department of Ecology's Nuclear Waste Program on November 7 and 15. Community Outreach and Environmental Education Specialist Sarah Williams, and Communication Manager Ryan Miller presented the department's progress on clean-up efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation. From 1945 to 1988, plutonium production at Hanford resulted in more than 400 billion gallons of contaminated liquid waste. That waste was stored in undergro...
DAYTON – The Port of Columbia Commissioners held their regular meeting at 5 p.m. on November 11, 2025, at the port’s conference room. Mike Spring attended in person, and Johnny Watts joined the meeting on Zoom. Chair Seth Bryan did not participate, and Spring led the meeting. Also present were Executive Director Jennie Dickinson and Economic Development Coordinator Shane Laib. Spring and Watts handled administrative tasks, including reviewing the monthly budget and approving vouchers. Spring was selected to provide the digital signature for...
PENDLETON—Christmas tree permits are now available at Forest offices, several local businesses, and online by searching “Umatilla National Forest Tree Permits” at www.recreation.gov. Christmas tree permits purchased online must be printed to be valid and can only be used on Umatilla National Forest lands. Christmas tree permits cost $5 each and are limited to one per household. An additional $2.50 fee is charged for permits purchased online. Christmas tree permits are also available at Umatilla National Forest offices and local busin...
DAYTON — He saw the past, present, and future, and you can too. The live performance of “A Christmas Carol” opened last weekend at The Liberty Theater. The show runs through Dec. 6, and tickets are still available at libertytheater.org. The reviews are in with one audience member saying, “fantastic production that will transport you to a bygone era, the attention to detail is incredible, and the whole cast and crew should be proud.” While another said, “absolutely amazing play for those who haven’t seen it.” This year’s production is a r...
