Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Excerpts are from "Chief Joseph Country Land of the Nez Perce" by Bill Gulick, 1985 Quoting the plaque on the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park on Highway 12: "In early May of 1806, Lewis and Clark passed through here on their return from the Pacific Ocean." On April 18, 1806, Clark wrote: "Early this morning, I was awoken by an Indian man of the Chopunuish (Nez Perce) Nation who informed me that he lived in the neighborhood of our horses. This man delivered me a bag of powder and ball, which he had picked up this morning at the place the goods...
About Needs & Good Deeds I t's always great to see high school students use their senior projects to make connections in the community. Especially, when they help younger children in the community learn new skills and gain confidence. This week, our hats are off to Danica Proctor-DePaulo, an 18-year-old senior at Dayton High School. During January, this veteran member of the Dayton cheer squad held three practices after school for about 25 girls and boys who learned cheers, motions, jumps and a...
We're carrying a story this week about an incident that occurred at Dayton High School in October and still has reverberations in the community today. As reported on the front page, an alleged threat to at least one student and the reported subsequent discovery of a weapon on a freshman who allegedly made the threat a week earlier concerned some parents and students in the district. Naturally so. But how serious was it really? It might be impossible to gauge because of privacy laws that limit the district's ability to share information. Many...
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...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg School Board has a big question to answer and it needs to be answered soon - what to do about the lights and power? Colter Mohney, the district's facilities/transportation/ maintenance supervisor, and Board Chairman Ross Hamann, told the school board and the district personnel last week that the power for the lights on the district's football field is lacking to the point that it is a fire hazard. Mohney said last fall, employees from Pacific Power and Light reported...
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....
