Articles from the January 3, 2013 edition
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Top 5 Sports Stories Of The Year
1: Bulldogs To State After growing up together playing basketball, a core group of senior Bulldogs and their younger teammates made it to the state basketball tournament in Spokane for the first tim...
Lady Cardinals Win One, Lose Two In Walla Walla
WALLA WALLA - The Lady Cardinals easily got the upper hand against Valley Christian 56-20 at the D.A. Davidson Christmas Classic hosted by the DeSales over the holidays, but they couldn't subdue Weston-McEwen and were badly bruised by Touchet....
Dayton Boys Lose One By Inch, One By Mile
DAYTON - Dayton's boys basketball team emerged from its home Christmas tournament with two losses, but the way those losses came about couldn't have been more dif- ferent. The Bulldogs dropped their...
Dayton Girls Sweep Home Tourney
DAYTON - Dayton took down two regional opponents at its own Christmas tourna- ment Thursday and Friday to notch its seventh and eighth wins of the season and keep its 1-loss record intact. The Bull-...
WP Boys Split At Tourney
WALLA WALLA - The Waitsburg- Prescott boys dropped their first two con- tests at the DeSales Christmas Tournament before knocking off the host Irish in the tourney finale. WP fell to Touchet 58- 48 on Thursday and to Weston- McEwen 66-45 on Friday,...
Top 10 News Stories of The Year
1: Tragic Murder For the first time in a decade, the Dayton community was shaken by news of a murder. In early May, Joseph Shuba (left in photo with attorney Dale Slack) was arrested and charged with...
Robert S. Moulton
Waitsburg resident, Robert Simpson Moulton, 69, passed away December 23, 2012, after a long, heroic struggle with cancer. Born March 12, 1943, in Los Angeles, California, to Robert and Dolcie Moulton, he moved to Waitsburg in 1990 and worked at the...
BRIEFS
WEIGHT LOSS SUPPORT GROUP DAYTON -- Lose weight. Eat healthy foods. Quit smok- ing. Exercise daily. If you're like many people, you made these or similar pledges during the annual New Year's Day ritual of resolving to improve your health. Of course,...
THANK YOU
The family of Ardie Hen- ze would like to thank the community, as well as her church family, for the sup- port given during her recent illness and passing. The abundance of food donations was remarkable, making the fellowship time, after her...
BIRTHDAYS
January 3: Mary Olona, Guy Antonius. January 4: Meagan Zajac, Loegan Harshman, Andrea Payne, Ben Kiefel, Carol Clarke. January 5: Fred Rankin, Barb Colby, Willard Cameron, James Wood, Terry John, Aaron Jones and Ted Seaton. January 6: Kurtis Reser,...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg 12-20 A suicidal subject taken into protective custody andtransported to the hospital for evaluation was reportedon Preston Avenue. 12-23 A bicycle in front of a building with the light on wasreported on Main Street. A door was found...
ANNIVERSARY
Bill and Linda Stonecipher will celebrate their 50th wedding anniversary on January 6, 2013. William D. Stonecipher and Linda A. Harris were mar- ried on January 6th, 1963 at St. Ignatius Catholic...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago January 2, 2002 The city of Waitsburg's budget for 2003 will return to a more "normal" range in the coming year as the Waitsburg Wastewater Treatment Plant Upgrade Project dollars bal- looned late year's budget about two times the...
Correction
The calendar in the Dec. 27 issue stated incorrect show dates for "Nunsense II." The show will take place on Jan. 18-20 and Jan. 25-27....
Dear Editor:
"It's a sign of the timeshellip;" we often hear and say in observance of just about anything we don't particu- larly agree with. The irony of course is that the criticism comes equally from oppos- ing views on the same issue. Both young and old,...
Counting The Days
We issue a sigh of relief at the news that a group of Waitsburgers has sunk their teeth into plan- ning for a landmark 2013 event in town: the 100th anniversary of the Days Of Real Sport. The group, which includes Mayor Walt Gobel and his wife Gwen,...
Capitol BEAT
Nealey’s New Top Job Area Rep. Named To Key Post, While Holding On To Existing Committee Assignments Editor’s Note: This article was submitted to The Times by John Sattgast, senior information off...
Birds Of A Feather
WALLA WALLA – Waitsburg’s Joanna Lanning can breathe a little easier these days. More than a month ago, the part-time caretaker of the Pioneer Park Aviary in Walla Walla was dusting off her resum...
Dayton Eighth Graders Play Up For Basketball
DAYTON - The Dayton boys basketball squad got a little larger and a bit younger thanks to a school board decision during the Dec. 19 board meeting that allows eighth-grade students to play junior varsity basketball. The proposal, agreed to by...
Hospital Board Votes to Bend Rules
DAYTON - Columbia County Health System board members are prepared to bend the by-laws a bit to help keep the board consistent for new Chief Executive Officer Dale Polla at the monthly hospital board meeting on Thursday, Dec. 27. The board moved to ke...
M-F Man Arrested In Dayton
DAYTON - Thirty-three- year-old Donald Cowden was arrested Wednesday, Dec. 26, and charged with seven counts, including burglary and theft of a motor vehicle. Cowden, a Milton-Freewater resident, was arrested in Columbia County and has been...