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DAYTON – Monty N. Dunn, the 50-year-old Dayton resident arrested on multiple drug charges at his home across the street from the Dayton High School in February, was sentenced to 57 months in p...

DAYTON – The weather over Memorial Day weekend was perfect for all the festive, outdoor activities around town, not too hot but dry with a fresh breeze. Dozens of floats, horses and vehicles p...

DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are moving forward with upgrades to Dayton General Hospital. The board unanimously agreed on Thursday that hospital district executives s...

DAYTON – Port of Columbia Manager Jennie Dickinson is quite proud of the document she shared with The Times last week – the Blue Mountain Station Development Agreement. She and planning con...

DAYTON – Last week the Washington State Department of Natural Resources presented to several county residents at a public hearing its plan to sell 640 acres of land it owns in Columbia County to t...

DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners agreed last week to sign an interlocal agreement with the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a government services organization based in Texas, through which the co...

DAYTON – Local youth leaders are asking community members and other supporters to help save the Dayton Summer Youth Program (Summer Rec.). All supporters must do is go online to: h... Full story

STARBUCK – Columbia Pulp, the 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, has now been issued its six required building p...

DAYTON – A final count of votes on Tuesday confirmed the failure of Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital-improvement levy. It was a close vote, but just 48.9 percent of residents voted to app...

DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are wrestling with a tough decision: What will the community need from its hospital in the next five to 10 years? "With legislative changes t...

Dayton seniors Matthew Warren and Sarah Phillips are recipients of this year's P.E.O. Citizenship Award for possessing good qualities of character (honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality and...

DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners are moving forward with repairs to the Columbia County Senior Center on E. Washington in Dayton. "This is a good, functional and well-used building," said C...

Superintendent wonders how to engage community in school-upkeep conversation DAYTON – The Columbia County Auditor's Office counted 61 additional ballots last Friday, but the new results don't show muc...

DAYTON – This little community was abuzz with activity Saturday, both at the annual street sale on South 3rd Street as well as all along Main Street and beyond, where Dayton sixth graders hollered a...

DAYTON – Columbia County road projects old and new were presented in April to county commissioners. To assist with one major new project, the county road department has hired two engineering i...

DAYTON – Columbia County signed an interlocal agreement with the city of Walla Walla in April to share in the purchase and installation of a new computer-aided dispatch and records management system f...

DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System Board of Directors agreed last week at their monthly meeting that they need to move forward with a decision on how to spend the $5.5 million hospital levy ap...

DAYTON – Dayton man Andrew J. Churchill, 43, pleaded guilty to multiple domestic violence assault charges last Friday in Columbia County Superior Court and was sentenced to seven months in county j...

DAYTON – Azure Mountain made a subtle entrance to downtown Dayton retail this spring, opening a handcrafted, artisan soap shop next door to Manila Bay Café on East Main Street. No grand opening or "lo...

DAYTON – Jeannie Lyonnais has joined the team in the Dayton Elementary School office this month as full-time secretary. Her smiling face is new to the front desk but not to the district. She has w...

DAYTON – Anna Steinhoff is determined to find beauty even in everyday life. She makes rings and necklaces out of bullet casings and Swarovski crystals and crafts bracelets out of leather and metal. T...

DAYTON – Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested two of Washington's most-wanted criminals here last Wednesday night during a traffic stop in the 800 block of East Main Street. The c...

STARBUCK – The Washington Economic Development Finance Authority has approved issuance of $110 million in non-recourse revenue bonds to Columbia Pulp, LLC. The bonds will cover construction costs f...

DAYTON – After months of deliberation, Columbia County Commissioners decided on April 15 to switch power providers for the county courthouse and the county public works building from Pacific Power &...

DAYTON – Columbia County has its eye on Seneca property neighboring the county public works office on North Guernsey Avenue, including the much-used activity center and well-known "Labor Camp" on G...