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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - Despite efforts by the Columbia County prosecutor to get all three pot-growing suspects half a decade in jail each, only one of the Mexican nationals arrested this summer faces such a term in federal prison. The other two are expected to serve only half a year in county jail before facing deportation by federal immigration authorities. Santiago Orozco Contreras was the first of three Mexican nationals taken into custody after a raid on federal land in mid-July and charged with manufacturing marijuana and being in possession of a...
WAITSBURG - The Henze hunting party got its first deer of the season Monday morning. The five men from Waitsburg and Aberdeen flushed out the 4-point white tail buck by spreading out around the brush on privately owned wheat lands north of town after walking the fields for more than a mile from the nearest road. It was a cool dewy morning, the sun barely up to illuminate the gently sloping landscape around them. It didn't take them long to spot the buck, to make sure it was large enough to...
DAYTON -- If the number of questions Dayton Chamber of Commerce Director Claudia Nysoe has been getting lately are any indication, there's quite a bit of excitement and anticipation in the valley about a new addition to Dayton's restaurant community. "I've had two or three people a week asking me when's that new place going to open," Nysoe said. "Everyone here in Dayton is really excited about having a new place to eat." The place in question is the Asian Grill and the answer to the much-asked...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council Monday decided to table a proposed ordinance amendment that would have made homeowners responsible for repairs to sewer lines that connect their houses to the main. After holding a public hearing on the ordinance and receiving comments from two concerned Dayton residents, the council voted to explore a new idea that would add a small fee to residents' utility bill to create a reserve for such repairs in the future. "It's a possibility I hadn't considered," Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Merle Jackson said about...
WAITSBURG - The Cardinals Booster Club has reached its goal of raising at least $25,000 for the construction of a press box and equipment storage building behind the bleachers on Cardinal Field. With last week's grant of $2,000 by Pacific Power and the recent press box sponsorship of $2,500 from Sterling Savings Bank, the club has hit its target for the fundraising that started very early this year after it received a $5,000 donation from the Oregon Community Foundation, the charitable arm of Cy...
DAYTON - Despite two back-to-back losses against Yakima's Riverside Christian, the Dayton Bulldogs believed they made progress as a team against a tough opponent. The WP Tigers meanwhile easily outmaneuvered and outscored Oregon-based Trout Lake to remain undefeated since tying with Spokane's St. George earlier in the season. Riverside Christian beat Dayton 5-0 Tuesday night, the same margin of victory they took away during the two team's first encounter of the season in Yakima Saturday that...
DAYTON - A group of four specialists has been selected to help-Dayton's Development Task Force come up with a comprehensive plan for Dayton's Commercial Street corridor from the Touchet River to the Seneca plant. And as local coordinators of the effort, the task force is eager to get input from the public and from historical preservation groups as part of the first phase to shape the future of Dayton's historic corridor, which some say has the "pearls" waiting to be "strung together." To receive public input for the development planning effort,...
DAYTON - After five years on the Dayton City Council, Councilman and Mayor Pro Tem Merle Jackson announced he plans to retire before the end of the year. " I wa n t people to k n ow I ' m working toward full retirement," said Jackson, 66, who joined the council in 2006 after being appointed to a vacant seat following his professional retirement as a nuclear engineer. "It's time to get off the stage." Jackson said he wants to retire this fall, but will serve through Dec. 31 if necessary to ensure...
DAYTON - Federal authorities have asked a grand jury to indict the first of three suspected marijuana growers arrested earlier this summer in the Umatilla National Forest, according to the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office. If successful, the grand jury request would take the case against Mexican national Santiago Orozco Contreras out of the state court system and place it on a federal docket, possibly leading to a much longer sentence for the suspect arrested during a raid on federal land in...
WAITSBURG - Sometime during the past school year, a student approached Dr. Carol Clarke about an offensive text message the girl received on her cell phone. Clarke asked if the student recognized the number. She did not, so Clarke asked her permission to try the number and when she did, another student answered his phone in class and the mystery was solved. Clarke called in the caller's parents, informed them about the incident and the parents took the phone away. If the Waitsburg School Board adopts a proposed new policy regarding the use of...
STARBUCK - Lyons Ferry Marina will host the first annual Snake River Walleye Classic, a new catch-and-release contest put by two walleye fishing clubs in Walla Walla and the Tri Cities the first weekend of October. The two-day event will bring a dedicated group of fishermen to Columbia County's portion of the Snake River who have a strong interest in fresh-water fish. "It's a wonderful place to fish walleye," said Tom Moore, president of the Walla Walla Walleye Club and Walleye Anglers Unlimited based in the Tri Cities. "The numbers are big,...
DAYTON - Conventional wisdom holds that nonleague football games don't matter. But they do matter when an official penalizes a key starter so he has to sit out the next game, and that next game is a league game. That's what happened to starting Bulldogs running back/wide receiver Hayden Fullerton during Thursday's game against the Weston- McEwen Tigerscots. In a highly controversial ruling that first went in favor of the Bulldogs, only to be reversed to go against the Dayton team after the head...
DAYTON -- It was a historic week for the two Touchet Valley high school soccer teams. WP had its first tie against a league team since becoming an official program last year. St. George tied the Tigers 2-2 in Spokane on Saturday. The same day, Dayton won a doubleheader against Northport, winning for the first time in its five-year history against another varsity team. The Bulldogs only beat St. George's junior varsity team last year. Dayton beat Northport 2-1 in the first game, then 5-2 in the s...
WAITSBURG - The first few weeks of WP's cross country running season have gone well for the Cardinals, particularly for Waitsburg High School junior Seth Deal. Deal won the Seaport Invite hosted by Clarkston High School at Beachview Park this weekend, finishing the 5,000-meter course in 15:43. That's an improvement over last year, when he placed second with a time of 16:29. "Seth took a commanding lead in the first part of the race and never looked back," head cross country running coach Joanna...
DAYTON - Erin Gibson got her start as a pet groomer when she worked as a receptionist at a veterinarian clinic in a suburb of Portland. She'd always been an animal lover, growing up in a household that bred Labradors, so she couldn't resist sneaking to the back of the clinic where the kennels were. "I fell into it by chance," said Gibson, 28. "I started by helping out giving them baths, clipping their nails, drying them." After about a year, she was busy as a full-fledged groomer at the store...
WAITSBURG - Getting tourists and travelers to the state, then across the mountains to eastern Washington will be one of the main goals for the state's new privatesector tourism alliance, its newly appointed director said Friday. "This corner of the world (and state) is a diamond in the rough," said Suzanne Fletcher, who was appointed earlier this summer as the head of the Washington Tourism Alliance. The state Legislature axed the last remaining funding for the government-run state tourism...
DAYTON - In Waitsburg and many other cities in Washington State, homeowners are responsible for any trouble in the sewer line between their home and the sewer main. When the line gets blocked and needs to be dug up, residents are required to hire a contractor or pay the city to do the work. Not so in Dayton, at least not until the city passes a proposed new ordinance that takes away the current "gray" area in the law still holding the city for repairs in the city right of way. The Dayton City Council on Monday passed the first three readings...
DAYTON - One look at the Asotin roster and it's easy to see why its volleyball team had at least one advantage in their threegame victory over the Bulldogs on Tuesday night. Senior Panthers JaLisa Jose and McKayla Swearingen are both 5' 11" and they were both hitting hard and shielding their own court at the net like ramparts on a fort. But that wasn't the only drive behind the Asotin's tough trouncing of Dayton's otherwise well-composed 2011 team. "Last year, they were league champs and we...
DAYTON - The WP Tigers won the seasonopening soccer jamboree in Dayton last Wednesday, but not as convincingly as last year. The friendly late-summer competition between the teams from Dayton, Waitsburg-Prescott and Walla Walla Valley Academy saw improved performances from the other two teams, though neither one managed to score against the 2011 Tigers in the 95-degree heat. The Tigers beat WWVA 3-0 and went 6-0 against Dayton, a team they beat 19-0 last season. The WWVA Knights beat Dayton 2-1...
DAYTON - With 11 minutes to go in the third quarter, it began to dawn on the players on the Bulldogs sideline that a second victory of the season might be possible. Garrett Turner had just caught a Dean Bickelhaupt pass on the 2-yard line and running back Hayden Fullerton punched it in for the touchdown, 19-14. It wasn't just that the Bulldogs were ahead. It had as much to do with the fact that Dayton scored less than one minute after the visiting Enterprise Outlaws made a breakthrough running...
WAITSBURG - Suzanne Fletcher, executive director of the newly formed Washington Tourism Alliance, will visit Waitsburg and Dayton on Friday afternoon. Her visit here is part of Fletcher's tour of the greater Walla Walla area that starts with a meeting with local tourism and hospitality industry leaders at the Walla Walla Regional Airport 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. that day. She is scheduled to meet with members of the Touchet Valley Tourism Alliance and other local business owners and government officials at 3 p.m. at the Coppei Coffee Co. on Main...
A few weeks ago, some 20 plus members of the local PEO chapter came in to have lunch at the Coppei Coffee shop. They enjoyed coffee, sandwiches and drinks from the shop's ever-growing menu, then lingered around their tables in the space behind the Times front office that functions as Waitsburg's community living room. Anita Baker, PEO member and wife of former Times publisher Tom Baker, was on hand to explain some of the equipment on display in the space: the Linotype machine from the 1920s,...
WAITSBURG - It took a while for Pastor Mike Ferrians of the Waitsburg First Christian Church to figure out who had just made a very large bequest to the congregation. Few at the church had heard of Charlene Buroker. But after some asking around, it became clear who she was - the widow of the late Fred Buroker, who grew up in Waitsburg before World War II. The gift of $40,810 from Charlene Buroker of Colville was announced during regular church service on Sunday. She also made a large bequest to...
STANFIELD, Ore. - Cornerback Wyatt Frame clearly felt awkward being on the sideline watching his teammates take on the Stanfield Tigers without him and linebacker Joey Schlachter in the Dayton Bulldogs' first game of the season Friday. But the Bulldogs did well without the two injured starters, beating the Oregon team handily at home, 20-0, and chalking up its first seasonopening win in four years. "You always have your doubts when you don't have two of your starters," Bulldogs head coach Dean...
WAITSBURG - It may be another week or so before the Waitsburg-Prescott sports community will see him on the sidelines, but the two school districts have made their choice for their new joint athletics director. JP Thew, a former assistant coach for the Cardinals and the Tigers, who has just wrapped a second tour of Iraq with his National Guard unit from Oregon, will become the new sports programs coordinator for WP. Thew is expected to start his new job when he returns to southeast Washington by mid-September, school officials said. He arrived...
