The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

DAYTON-When the students of Dayton Elementary School achieved their reading goal, Principal Katie Leid spent the day on the roof. "The kids brought me lunch up there," she says. "It was so much fun."...

DAYTON- Madison, a black quarter horse, is doing a slow square dance beside Robert Phinney. She moves her hind end to the left, takes two steps back, and bows her head. Phinney has hardly moved....

DAYTON - Jackie Penner believes God put her on earth to care for the animals that cross her path. A few years ago, Penner adopted a newborn starling and taught it to whistle Yankee Doodle Dandy. The...