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Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Preliminary Results: Yes 497 (71%) No 203 (29%) DAYTON – Voters in the city of Dayton overwhelmingly approved a measure Tuesday that will increase the sales tax rate in the city from 8.1% to 8.3%. More than 70 percent of voters said yes to the measure. Turnout was just under 45 percent. In December, the Dayton City Council approved putting the measure before voters. With its passage, the City expects to collect approximately $69,000 per year in additional revenues due to the increase. Dayton w...
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners have scheduled a public hearing regarding the county’s moratorium on marijuana businesses for 1:15 p.m. on March 16 in the commissioners’ board room on the third floor of the courthouse. The county’s 15-month-long moratorium on marijuana businesses expires the following day, on March 17. A representative from the Washington State Liquor Control Board will meet with commissioners prior to the hearing, at 10 a.m. The Commissioners extended a year-lo...
WAITSBURG – The Grange has played "a huge role" in the lives of Rick and Terry Ferguson and their family. Rick's great-grandparents, grandparents and parents were all members of the Starbuck Grange. "I grew up in that Starbuck Grange Hall – roller skating, eating pie, and going to dances," he said. Rick's family later moved to Huntsville and he met and married his wife Terry. The couple has been actively involved in the Waitsburg Grange, Washington State Grange and National Grange thr...
Waitsburg High School student Landon Callas gives a big cheer Saturday night during Waitsburg-Prescott boys' basketball game . . ....
Kristine Warren pins an Eagle Scout badge to son Matthew . . ....
DAYTON – The Dayton School Board has scheduled a public informational meeting for Wednesday, March 4, to provide background on the proposed capital-improvement levy planned for an April 10 election. The regular board meeting will take place at 6:30 p.m. with the public meeting at 7 p.m. The board had planned to take official action last week and decide on the language of the $800,000 ballot measure; that vote was postponed again after the board requested that the planned projects be described a...
KENNEWICK – Waitsburg resident Steven Ray Long, 27, was arrested Jan. 30 while driving a car near the blue bridge in Kennewick just minutes after the vehicle was reported as stolen from a nearby apartment complex. The Kennewick resident, Joel Madigral-Nava, told police that he had started his car at about 2:45 a.m. Friday and left it running to return to his apartment momentarily. When he returned, the car was gone. A Franklin County Sheriff’s Office deputy spotted the car minutes after hearing of the theft over the radio and pulled Long ove...
DAYTON – Scott Gillis of Creation Ministries International will be on tour in Dayton Feb. 28 – March 1, as part of his Exposing Evolution’s Fatal Flaws tour. The lectures are free and open to the public. Gillis will speak on Dinosaurs & Fossils: Amazing Evidence for Creation! on Saturday, Feb. 28, at 6 p.m. at Faith Chapel (653 Wagon Road, Dayton). On Sunday, Gillis will present Creation: Why it Matters at 9:30 a.m. at Community Bible Church (203 S. 2nd St., Dayton) and will repeat Dinosaurs & Fossils: Amazing Evidence for Creation! at 11 a....
Ten Years Ago February 17, 2005 The home of Robert and Terrie Abernathy was destroyed by fire which frustrated local firefighters at every turn last weekend. Crews battled the stubborn fire from about 4 p.m. until 11 p.m. when they shifted to defensive positions due to a number of factors including the presence of propane tanks. Waitsburg needed three pointers in its game against Liberty Christian, and it got them from Chris Dessert. The 6-4 Cardinal guard hit five of them in Waitsburg’s 61-53 win in Blue Mountain League tournament play T...
Waitsburg Nothing reported. Dayton Feb. 3 Harassment reported on S. 2nd Street. Feb. 4 Fraud reported at Country Village Courts; fraudulent emails received related to an alleged scam on Craigslist. Verbal domestic dispute between brothers on W. Cameron Street; parties had separated prior to the deputy’s arrival. Suspicious person reportedly walking in yards on W. Spring Street; deputies were unable to locate. Feb. 5 Vandalism to recently purchased residence on Bruce Road reported; window and mirror broken. Erratic vehicle reported driving e...
February 13: Denise Shaffer, Lori Ann Witt, Tamra Fry, James Olson, Jonathon Baker, Justin and Travis Turner and Patty Mayberry. February 14: Susan Talbott, Edith Wold, Gina Lytle, Susan Zuger and David Smith. February 15: Ephraimia Reese, Andrew Wertz, Neta Henze McKenzie, Joe McCown Jr., Ansehl Hofer, Christina Hofer, Jack Otterson, Stacy Ashcroft and Wanda Witt, Andrew Wertz. February 16: Jason Eaton, Mike R. Mayberry, Wren McLurg and Loren Eng. February 17: Loyal Baker, Jack Rodgers, Chris Blair, Mathew Kurth, Betty Sauer, Angela Webb and...
Feb. 13: Pancake on a Stick; Hot Ham & Cheese, BBQ Beans Feb. 16: NO SCHOOL: President’s Day Feb. 17: Biscuit & Gravy; Sweet & Sour Chicken, Rice Feb. 18: Banana Pancake; Tomato Soup, Cheese Sandwich Feb. 19: Breakfast Skillet; BBQ Chicken Quesadilla, Refried Beans...
The newspaper business has changed a lot since the first issue of the Waitsburg Times was published in (get this) 1878. For example, it was some time after that that they started putting in photographs. The beginnings of this newspaper, which (without fail, as far as I know) has been published every week since, preceded such technological icons as the telephone, radio and television. Oh yes, and the internet. For most people in and around Waitsburg in the late 19th century, this was their only s...
OLYMPIA— Proposed legislation focusing on e-cigarettes and other vapor inhalation products would tighten the state’s control over the legal smoking age, labeling and advertising requirements and retailer licensing. House Bill 1645 takes a holistic approach to vapor-product regulation, according to prime sponsor Rep. Gerry Pollet, D-Seattle, who says this is the first comprehensive e-cigarettes bill in the United States. “We are facing a burgeoning public health crisis with e-cigarettes and we need to approach it as a public health issue and p...
I really do hate to use this column for promotional purposes, but I’d like to take this opportunity to put in a plug for an upcoming event. If you’ve read my column for a while, you know that I don’t do this for most “upcoming events.” But the following upcoming event is special. It helps to support local music. And to keep an important piece of American folk culture alive. And to teach adorable little kids how to play banjos twice their size. And to give cranky, rebellious teenagers the ability...
DAYTON – Relay for Life of the Blue Mountains has set the date for this year’s annual fundraiser kick off, which will take place at the Best Western Hotel at 507 E. Main Street in Dayton on Tuesday, March 24, at 6:30 p.m. The Relay for Life event in Dayton will start on Sept. 19 at 3 p.m. and conclude at 7 a.m. on Sept. 20 at the Dayton High School track. The Relay for Life committee hopes to get teams formed and registered in March; the theme for this year’s relay will be announced, infor...
DAYTON – Dayton man Dante Brown, 19, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault in Columbia County Superior Court last Wednesday. Brown was sentenced to 64 days of confinement but received credit for the 64 days he’d been awaiting trial in the Columbia County Jail and was released from custody. He will continue to be supervised by the Department of Corrections, according to County Prosecutor Rea Culwell. Brown was arrested in early December on suspicion of stabbing another Dayton male, Dalton Bennett, in the back during an altercation at a hom...
DAYTON – For nearly two years, Columbia County Emergency Manager Lisa Caldwell has reported on her department's failing computer systems, which include the 911 phone system and the computer-aided dispatch software that county public safety communications employees use to track calls for service and the location and activities of emergency services personnel in the field. The phone system is still on hold – at least until July, she told commissioners Monday, at which time the state will det...
DAYTON – Start saving your plastic and set aside April 22 for an afternoon with your kids, because the Best Western Plus Hotel and Suites in Dayton is once again bringing its Earth Day celebrations to town. "Earth Day is a good reminder for us all to focus on recycling," said Dayton's Best Western General Manager Eleanor Specht. "To date, we still cannot recycle plastic in Dayton." And so for Earth Day, Best Western Plus of Dayton, which has won several awards for its efforts at being e...
WAITSBURG – For Suze Wood, landing in Waitsburg was a case of a left turn being the right turn. Wood had spent years bypassing Waitsburg as she traveled from her parent's home in Walla Walla to Cheney, where she attended college. It was years later, while seeking a change of pace driving from Walla Walla to her Seattle home, that she decided to take the back way and finally made that left turn off Highway 12 and onto Waitsburg's Main Street. Wood said she was so captivated by what she saw t...
WAITSBURG – The Dayton girls' basketball team held on Monday night to defeat a relentless Asotin team, 52-50. The win garnered the Lady 'Dogs the District 9 league tournament and number-one seed going into the sub-regional tournament next week. Dayton moved into Monday's winners' bracket after defeating Tri-Cities Prep in Saturday's first round, 46-37. The Bulldogs faced Asotin, after the Lady Panthers upset league champion DeSales, a team Dayton lost to twice during the regular season – the...
RITZVILLE – The majority of WP grapplers wrapped up their season at the Feb. 7 Sub-regional meet in Ritzville. Only heavyweight Tristan Newman advances to Regionals after cleaning house in Ritzville. A first place at the Regional meet on Feb. 14 will send Newman on his third consecutive trip to the State wrestling tournament in Tacoma on Feb. 20-21. 132 lb. Devin Newman won three of five matches in Ritzville but fell to Dane Hall of Colfax by pin in 3:12 in the final match for 5th/6th s...
WAITSBURG – The WP boys' basketball team advanced to the sub-regional playoffs next week by defeating Asotin Monday in the losers' bracket of the SE 2B District 9 league tournament here, 54-51. The Panthers were eliminated. Monday's game came after the Cardinals lost a heartbreaker to Tri-Cities Prep in Saturday's first tournament round, 52-51, in overtime. Thirty-three of Asotin's 51 points Monday were the result of 11 successful shots from outside the three-point line. The Panthers sank o...
DAYTON – Dayton School District is considering a revival of golf as part of the school’s athletic program. The school board will decide on the matter at its Feb. 18 meeting. A group of 18 students has expressed an interest in reviving the golf program, which was discontinued due to a lack of interest three years ago, according to Superintendent Doug Johnson. “Numbers for other spring sports may be affected by this request,” Johnson said. The board has asked Johnson to provide the most accurate count possible of students planning to play ea...
WALLA WALLA – The Walla Walla County Planning Commision has an opening due to the resignation of member Jonathan Thompson who is moving from the area. Commissioners are seeking applicants to fill the unexpired term which ends March 1, 2016. Applicants must reside in District 2, which includes Dixie, Waitsburg and Prescott. A map of District 2 commissioner boundaries may be found at the county website at www.co.walla-walla.wa.us. Additional applicant information, an application form and questionnaire are also available on the county website. T...
