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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - The best word to describe the Lady Bulldogs' playoff victory over Tri Cities Prep Tuesday night? Convincing. Dayton beat the Jaguars, 61-42, and will face Asotin in the districts semifinals at Whitman College in Walla Walla at 5 p.m. on Saturday. " It's a privilege to be where we are," freshman Lexie Ramirez said, crediting her coaches, Clayton Strong and Nikki Fullerton, with the team's extraordinary growth. "It's the best feeling in the world." The Lady Bulldogs are now 6-7 in league...
WALLA WALLA -- The way divo Morgan James sees it, putting four big guys with big voices and big egos on a stage together can be a recipe for disaster. But it doesn't have to be. It wasn't for the three classic opera tenors - Placido Domingo, Jose Carreras and Luciano Pavarotti. And it isn't for the Four Tenors who are currently stealing the limelight at the Powerhouse Theater, James said. "We complement each other," he said. "We're very much a group of four strong individual singers. Everyone...
DAYTON - A Dayton High School freshman who was reportedly expelled last fall for carrying a pocket knife to school after allegedly making a threat to another student has been allowed to return to campus. The school district itself is tight-lipped about the incident and about the student's return at the start of this semester, citing privacy laws. But the freshman's renewed presence on campus has created concerns and discomfort among some students and parents who say he should not have been allowed to return. One family has decided to transfer...
DAYTON -- A transient man who is suspected of breaking into a Dayton church preschool and may also have broken into several homes in town during the past two months is in custody. Daniel Baxter, a 34-year-old drifter with ties to Montana, California and Pennsylvania, was arrested by Columbia County Sheriff's deputies late last Thursday afternoon after the officers discovered his hiding place in the basement of an empty home owned by Dayton's Community Bible Church on South Second Street....
WAITSBURG - Zach Bartlow, the 2012 WP Cardinals quarterback who took his team to Tacoma to win the state football title, has signed up to play the same position for the college team of Eastern Oregon University in La Grande on a football scholarship. quot;We're pretty happy with it,quot; Bartlow's dad and Cardinals head coach Jeff Bartlow said in a telephone interview Thursday night. quot;That's what he wanted.quot; The coach said the Waitsburg senior was recruited heavily by another school in the same Frontier Conference, a National Athletic...
DAYTON - A transient man who is suspected of breaking into a Dayton church preschool and may also have broken into several homes in town during the past two months is in custody. Daniel Baxter, a 34-year-old drifter with ties to Montana, California and Pennsylvania, was arrested by Columbia County Sheriff's deputies late Thursday afternoon after the officers discovered his hiding place in the basement of an empty home owned by Dayton's Community Bible Church on South Second. quot;Baxter is the primary suspect in the ongoing investigation of a...
DAYTON - After the Lady Bulldogs' game against the TCP Jaguars was over last Tuesday, one of the Blue Mountain League referees came up to head coach Clayton Strong in the boys' locker room and told the Dayton coach what was already on everyone's mind. "They've made an immense improvement since I saw them earlier in the season," the ref told Strong. After beating TCP, 47-37, Tuesday night, the girls went 5-6 in league and 7-12 overall - not a record many observers would have expected at the...
DAYTON - Shaken up a bit after their loss against the Cardinals last week, it took the Bulldogs a couple of games to regain their footing. But Tuesday night's resounding, 73-28, defeat of the Jaguars team that came within two points of beating Dayton last Wednesday shows the Dogs have found their mojo again. "Things are coming back together," senior Bulldog Colton Bickelhaupt said. "We had a tough stretch there with WP and TCP. But tonight we played better defense, we pushed the ball up the...
WARDEN -- All four WP wrestlers did well enough at the qualifying meet in Warden last weekend to advance to the regional competition in Kittitas starting on Friday. The accomplishment was unexpected for the first-year program and underscores the effort each Tiger has put in to get better and wrestle with intensity, head coach Lanny Adams said. "I'm on cloud nine," Adams said. "It's a very successful year for the kids. It was the kids who did it, not me. Hopefully, we'll come back with some...
DAYTON -- Eric Van- Zandt, a 28-year-old Dayton man who was arraigned in Columbia County Superior Court last Thursday on 12 felony charges including theft of firearms and residential burglary, could be sent to prison for many years if convicted of these crimes. VanZandt was arrested on a warrant from Walla Walla County after a neighbor reported a fight at VanZandt's residence at 1531 S. Second St. in Dayton just before 4 a.m. on Jan. 29. According to the certification of probable cause, "three m...
WAITSBURG -- Three teenagers who attended Preston Middle School in Waitsburg are suspected of vandalizing and removing a Baby Jesus doll from the front of the First Presbyterian Church in December, according to law enforcement and school district officials. Two of the three have admitted to the acts against the Christian symbol that upset many in the community and both have written letters to the Rev. Bret Moser expressing their remorse. "I wasn't thinking," Moser quoted one of the letters to...
WAITSBURG - In one of the liveliest Touchet Valley rivalry games in recent memory, the WP Cardinals handed the Dayton Bulldogs their first loss of the season at a packed Kison Court Monday night. Despite reaching deep to preserve their undefeated status, the visiting Bulldogs fell, 51-44, to the home team. A fourth-quarter rally brought Dayton within five points of evening the score, but it wasn't enough to catch up with the Cardinals, who were much improved since the two teams met in Dayton earlier in the season. "We worked our butts off,"...
DAYTON -- First Wind, a Portland-based wind energy company, is preparing to erect 58 wind turbines in Whitman County and it's looking for contractors to help with the construction, according regional economic development officials. The company has $210 million in private financing and will start to clear for roads and the construction of an operations center to service the wind farm, which has been four years in the making, said Marshall Doak, director of the Southeast Washington Economic Development Association that includes Columbia County....
ASOTIN - During the first half of the Bulldogs' game against Asotin, it appeared as though their undefeated status might be at risk. At one point during the second quarter, the Panthers had a three-point lead, 21- 18. But Dayton came roaring back after the break, outscoring Asotin, 19-2, in the third quarter and 16-14 in the fourth to win the game, 62-39. After winning their game against Walla Walla Valley Academy with a comfortable 27-point margin, 68-41, the Bulldogs went, 15-0, for the season before their encounter with the muchimproved WP...
WAITSBURG - Unseating the Asotin Panthers from their top spot in the league this weekend gave the WP Cardinals the momentum to beat the Lady Bulldogs Monday night, 55-35. Dayton lost against the Panthers last Friday. "We went cold," Bulldog head coach Clayton Strong said. "They made a run and we never recovered." Hailey Goenen opened the Cardinals' scoring drive with a trey, followed by several WP lay ups that quickly put her team ahead, 9-2. With lay ups from Nicole Lambert and Shelby Smith,...
WAITSBURG - To say the city of Waitsburg is stumped by the future of the collapsed bunk house east of the McGregor plant is putting it mildly. No one came forward to put in a salvage bid for its materials. The fire district doesn't want to burn it as part of a training exercise because it contains hazardous materials. And now it appears the city is in violation of its own code by just letting sit there. "It's been a worrisome issue," said Mayor Walt Gobel. "We may need to bite the bullet and get it squared away." The council voted unanimously...
DAYTON -- As close as Curtis and Sandy Seiss can tell, Woody's tavern started as Burdett's pool hall in about 1898. And that could make the iconic bar on Dayton's Main Street one of the oldest watering holes in the state. There's a few other saloons that claim that distinction: the Brick in Roslyn and Bickelton's south of Yakima. But whether Woody's -- soon to be renamed Threshers -- is in the top three oldest or not, there's no question the down-home establishment with its spectacular wooden...
ROYAL CITY -- The WP Tigers wrestling team brought home two fourth-place medals from a big regional meet in Royal City on Saturday after reeling in two pins at a smaller meet in Ritzville on Thursday. "I'm happy with the improvements and performance out there," Tigers head coach Lanny Adams said. The Royal City meet was among the largest meets in which the WP team has participated so far. Fifteen teams attended from WP, Royal City, Pomeroy, Reardan, Riverview, Wahluke, Davenport, Burbank, St....
WAITSBURG -- As clear as day, Craig Funabashi remembers the first time he saw his grandmother's Story & Clark Victorian pump organ. He was six and visiting the Seattle area with his parents from Long Beach. As they would for many years to come, he and his family traveled up to Whidbey Island for his grandmother's Sept. 5 birthday and family reunion. They would meet at the cabin where Vangee Johnston kept the ornate wooden instrument and played many old- time Ragtime favorites for her grand kids...
DAYTON - For the second game in a row, officials applied the mercy rule to speed up a game in which the undefeated Dayton Bulldogs took a runaway lead over its opponent. The team in white almost shut out the TOR Nighthawks, 79-13, with head coach Roy Ramirez rotating his bench onto the court midway through the third quarter. The Nighthawks barely managed to score 6 points in the first quarter, 3 points in the second quarter, none in the third and 4 points in the fourth, while the Dogs kept sinking it through the hoop for one of their...
WALLA WALLA -- The recent downshift in weight classes for the four WP wrestlers saw an immediate payoff during the Tigers' meet last week at Walla Walla High School. Meeting opponents from Wa Hi, Mac Hi and Pomeroy, the boys brought back three wins. Dalton Larue won two of those, including one pin. " It's starting to come along," head coach Lanny Adams said in between his students' matches. "They're getting exposure to some bigger schools with more competition for them." Larue, who switched to...
PULLMAN -- Former Bulldogs running back Dain Henderson once had a dream to join the football team of a small to medium-sized college . He didn't exactly fulfill his dream the way he had originally envisioned: as a player. But he did join one of the best-known teams on the West Coast. Since he graduated from Dayton High School last year, he has been on the PAC 12 Cougars football team as a manager. "I've played football since second grade -- 12 straight years and I still have the itch to play,"...
DAYTON - It was almost as though time stood still when Nicole Lambert got ready to release the basketball for a trey attempt with less than a minute to go in the game at the TOR Nighthawks on Tuesday night. It was a gutsy move. The seconds were flying off the clock and the Lady Bulldogs were behind, 53-48. They needed a minor miracle to keep their three-game winning streak going. With all eyes on the ball as it arced towards the bucket, the Dayton High School gym exploded in cheers as the perfec...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg Knowledge Bowl team didn't know the answer to the question "What branch of mathematics was pioneered by the Islamic mathematician al- Khwarizmi?" To score the point in round three of Monday's Knowledge Bowl meet at the Waitsburg Christian Church they didn't really need to know the exact response. They just needed to be fast on the buzzer and take the 15 seconds they had to use logic and the process of elimination to figure out that it might algebra, derived from the...
DAYTON -- Right after she scored the first two points in the game against Lacross Washtucna Friday afternoon, McKayla Bickelhaupt knew this match was going to be different than the others her team had played so far this season. The junior, who laid it up the bucket from a steal, knew right away the Bulldogs were going to beat the Tigercats and put a "1" in the victory column next to the 8 losses from the first part of the season. "We came out with a lot of confidence," Bickelhaupt said about the way her team took the court in the consolation...
