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WAITSBURG - Up against a deadline to make a recommendation regarding the preliminary plat proposal for the Whoopemup Meadows subdivision here, the Waitsburg Planning Commission chose to recommend disapproval on Sunday evening. However, they appeared to make that recommendation anticipating that the Waitsburg City Council will reject it and will instead require the commission to gather more information. This would allow the city and developers, Warren Land Co., the time they need to make...
WAITSBURG -- Early this school year, Waitsburg High School special education teacher Patty Hazelwood happened upon a small dresser desperately in need of refinishing. It occurred to her that such a project would be ideal for her life skills students: Coe Richards, Austin Baker and Rachel Gradwohl. The trio successfully transformed the eyesore into a work of beauty, learning new skills and experiencing the satisfaction of a job well done along the way. Hazelwood has over twenty years experience...
WAITSBURG – Debra Callahan, a member of the Waitsburg city council and the fairgrounds advisory committee, has been working hard to organize events she hopes will create a stronger sense of community among locals while drawing visitors to the area. At last week's city council meeting Callahan reported on several event reservations for the Waitsburg Fairgrounds, possibilities for a Fourth Friday music festival during the summer months, and Waitsburg's first National Night Out celebration. C...
BREMERTON, Wash. – Waitsburg native Wyatt Withers, son of Laurie Withers and the late Ian Withers, and grandson of Jack McCaw and the late Laurette McCaw, has done his family proud by receiving recognition as the 2014 Sailor of the Year for Submarine Squadron 5 out of Bremerton. Withers graduated from Waitsburg High School in 2010 and followed in "Grandpa Jack's" footsteps by joining the Navy, where he pursued a career in nuclear engineering. He excelled early on, finishing 13th among 320 s...
WAITSBURG - Establishing a quorum at Waitsburg planning commission meetings may soon become a bit easier. Uniquely qualified Waitsburg residents Stan Bly and Larry Johnson have each applied to fill two currently vacant seats on the board. Approval of the applicants is on the agenda for Wednesday night’s city council meeting. The six-position planning commission is chaired by William Potolochio and made up of commission members K.C. Kuykendall, who is also a city council member; Karen Gregutt; a...
WAITSBURG - Eastern Washington University broadcaster and Waitsburg native Larry Weir is pleased to join the ranks of his longtime role model, Bob Robertson, by earning the title of National Sportscasters and Sportswriters Association Washington Sportscaster of the Year. Weir, who has provided the play-by-play for EWU basketball and football games for over 20 years, was selected as the 2014 award recipient on Jan. 7 and will be honored at a ceremony in Charlotte, N.C., in June. The 1979...
WAITSBURG -- With January's designation as School Board Appreciation Month in the state of Washington, Waitsburg board members were honored at the Jan. 14 school board meeting. Elementary students sent handmade cards, flowers and photos and representatives of the high school National Honor Society served the board punch and cookies. High school ASB members presented each member with a card of thanks from the high school. FFA members had honored board members in December with handmade Christmas...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Planning Commission met with a full quorum Monday to receive public comment and discuss the proposed Whoopemup Meadows housing development in northeast Waitsburg. Tones were tense as first the developers and then the Port of Walla Walla discussed the main sticking point - ownership of water and sewer lines installed by the Port but maintained by the city. Mary and Gene Warren, of Warren Land Company, submitted an application for the 114-unit development on November 17....
WAITSBURG – “I didn’t know what a heart attack was supposed to feel like,” said Waitsburg Presbyterian Church Reverend Bret Moser, who now knows all too well what to expect. Following his own recent heart attack, Moser is loudly singing the praises of the Waitsburg Ambulance Service and strongly encourages all Waitsburg residents to take advantage of the service’s unique donor program which assures swift and free service. Nothing was out of the ordinary when Moser went to bed the night of...
WAITSBURG - Members of the Waitsburg Celebration Days Committee have been working hard the last several months to make sure this May’s celebration - honoring Waitsburg’s 150th anniversary - is a truly memorable event. With the framework in place, they are now in need of helping hands and financial support to make their May 16 Celebration Days plans a reality. “What we want is to create one or two signature events that we become known for and that grow every year,” said Mayor Walt Gobel. The comm...
PRESCOTT - WP wrestlers had two meets last week where grapplers Tristan Newman and Dejay Lalka celebrated personal successes. The team traveled to Springdale on Saturday, where Newman beat long-time competitor Mark Dituri of Mary Walker for the first time in two years. At Monday's home meet here, Dejay Lalka, who wrestles with just one leg, brought the crowd to tears as he secured the first win of his wrestling career. At the Springdale meet, 138 lb. David Just won two and lost two, all by pin....
WAITSBURG – Construction of the Whiskey Creek Sports Bar & Grill on Waitsburg's east side is moving ahead right on track, and owners expect to open the doors in late March or early April. The recent hire of the Grill's first employee, General Manager Gary Bales, will help to speed that process along. Whiskey Creek, located on the former site of the White Stallion Restaurant at 701 Preston Avenue, is a joint effort of investors Dan Cole, Ken Cole, Jr., Guy McCaw and Byron Seney, along with w...
WAITSBURG – WP wrestlers continued to compete through the Christmas school break, participating in a tournament in Pomeroy on Dec. 30 and the Jo Hi Invitational in Joseph, Ore. on January 2. Senior Tristan Newman took third place, wrestling against several past state competitors, at Jo Hi and walked away with a first place medal at the Pomeroy competition. Five wrestlers competed at the Pomeroy meet on Dec. 30. Coach Lanny Adams said Devin Newman wrestled hard against very skilled and t...
WAITSBURG – Losing a public works director with 40 years on-the-job experience is bound to be a big blow to a city, but that hit is softened significantly when the incoming director has 20 years experience of his own. At the Dec. 17 city council meeting, the council approved a recommendation from the personnel committee, consisting of Walt Gobel, Randy Hinchliffe and Marty Dunn, to promote city crew staffer Jim Lynch to public works director. Lynch, who replaces longtime director Dan Katsel, b...
WAITSBURG/PRESCOTT – Twenty-fourteen has been a year of change, from the transfer in ownership of The Times at the beginning of the year, to the pending dissolution of the WP sports combine agreement reported just last week. With a new sports bar and restaurant taking shape on the east side of town, a trio of bronze sculptures being readied to adorn Main Street in time for the City's 150th anniversary celebration and the potential to break ground on a new subdivision, it appears that 2015 w...
WAITSBURG/PRESCOTT - A shortage of available gymnasiums between Prescott and Waitsburg means the boys and girls high school basketball teams alternate between early and late practices in Waitsburg while middle school students practice in Prescott. Neither coaches nor athletes are fans of the late practice schedule, but it became "the straw that broke the camel's back" when a proposed - then rejected - solution to that problem resulted in the pending termination of the Waitsburg Prescott...
WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards fell 4-4 last week in games against Milton-Freewater, Walla Walla Valley Academy, Weston-McEwen and Asotin. The Milton-Freewater Pioneers felled the Cards 43-26 in a Dec. 16 league battle against the Pioneer court. Taylor Jones was top scorer of the night with seven points, followed by Loegan Harshman with five and Analise Salazar and Kassidy Kuykendall with four each. Jones nabbed nine rebounds while Kuykendall, Paige Wood and Salazar made four each. The Lady Cards...
WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards basketball team lost two non-conference road games last week, falling to Touchet, 22-68, on Dec. 9 and Pomeroy, 17-63, on Dec. 12. Despite the losses, coach JT Elsey is encouraged by the team's steady improvement in play and teamwork. Elsey said the team played hard in the Touchet game and made headway in working as a team. "What I expect for them to do game to game, is to improve little by little," he said. Leading scorers for the Touchet game were Paige Wood, with...
SPANGLE - The WP wrestling team traveled to Spangle Saturday to compete against 14 teams in the Liberty Invite, their first meet of the season. Of the four WP wrestlers eligible to compete at the meet, three failed to make weight goals and were forced to compete in a higher class than expected. David Just, at 138 pounds, was forced to compete in the 145 pound class, giving up nearly nine pounds to his opponents. Just started out strong in his first match against Brock Higgins from Hanford. Just...
WAITSBURG - If you're in Waitsburg and in the mood for a great cup of coffee, a tri-tip steak breakfast burrito, a bowl of gourmet soup or a freshly-baked treat, there's just one place to look: The Q Wood Fired Grill. Owners Emry and Sandy Kleck, accomplished chef Jeff Davis and barista Nichole Wood combine their passion for food and drink with an appreciation for community and the individuals they serve. From the beginning, the Klecks's had a vision for the type of atmosphere they wanted to...
WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards took a hit in their first match of the season, falling 60-17 against the Pomeroy Pirates in a home court match on Dec. 6. In spite of the score, coach J.T. Elsey said he felt the team performed well overall. "I felt that the girls played a pretty good game, although the overall score did not reflect that. They did pretty good for the first time playing for a new leader that has a complete different set of expectations," he said. Elsey said the team put forth a decent...
WAITSBURG - Walla Walla Emergency Medical Services recently re-evaluated their coverage to outlying areas and made changes in how they respond to calls in Waitsburg. Previously, when a call went to dispatch, crews were sent from both Waitsburg and Walla Walla. "Waitsburg covers their own calls, so financially, it doesn't make sense that they send a crew out, transfer the call to Dayton who sends us (Waitsburg Ambulance Service) out - then we get there and realize we don't need paramedics and...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Ambulance service is looking for a few good men (or women!) to help with shift coverage. Deputy Chief EMS responder Sharon Brooks said she'd love to see five to ten volunteers join the service and commit one day a week to being on call. The Waitsburg Ambulance Service (WAS) will be 45 years old this March. It began in 1970 as an all-volunteer service. Today the service is run by EMS Chief Richard Naumann and EMS Deputy Chiefs Sharon Brooks and William Potolichio, who...
WAITSBURG - Weller Public Library manager Rosie Warehime waited until she had the library all decked out for Christmas before letting her youngest patrons open an extra-special present. At Monday morning's Story Time, Warehime shared a box of 83 brand new children's books - purchased through a grant from the Libri Foundation and Friends of the Library donation -- with a group of excited young readers. The youngsters excitedly unpacked two large boxes of books, stopping to examine new favorites...
WAITSBURG - Artist Squire Broel's monument, to be placed in downtown Waitsburg in May, was chosen by the Waitsburg Art Commission to honor the three founding fathers of the Waitsburg community: William Bruce, William Preston and Sylvester Wait. It is Broel's desire that the piece will also recognize the efforts of the countless other individuals who quietly labored to make Waitsburg the town it is today. "Each individual - regardless of level of recognition - makes an impact on their...
