Articles from the May 10, 2012 edition
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Shuba: ‘I Ruined Everything’
DAYTON - Tipsy, deep in debt, recovering from a winter car accident and stressed out from a fight with his wife, Joseph Shuba snapped on the evening of Sunday, April 29, went into the couple's...
Quincy Harper Rocks Coppei
WAITSBURG - Described as a Texas Troubadour with a great future, 30-something singer and songwriter Quincy Harper will bring his unique voice, style and acoustic guitar playing to the Coppei Café this Saturday. The performance starts around 7 p.m....
Wernette Seeks Court Judge Post
WALLA WALLA -- Richard G. Wernette, a Superior Court Commissioner, Municipal Court Judge and local attorney announced his candidacy Monday for the Walla Walla County Superior Court, Department II. The current judge Donald W. Schacht recently...
Jack L. Smiley, Jr.
COLLEGE PLACE - Jack L. Smiley, Jr., 69, passed to his rest May 1, 2012, at his home surrounded by his family. He fought a tough battle with a rare form of liver cancer. One of four children, Jack...
Bulldogs Looking Forward To Districts
CLARKSTON - The Dayton High School track and field team is improving and head coach Shawn McGee says his athletes are hard at work and ready for the challenge of postleague competition. The Bulldogs competed in Clarkston last Wednesday in the...
Estes, Thompkins, Potter Obtain Firsts
CLARKSTON - Despite many WP athletes being absent because of other activities last Wednesday, the WP Cardinal track and field teams placed in the top three at the District 9 meet in Clarkston. "Our kids performed at a high level," head coach Jeff...
Independence, Love Of The Game Keep Him On Top
WAITSBURG - Seventeen-yearold Dakota Baker doesn't even remember the first time his grandpa took him to a course to golf because he was so young. And all of that time on the greens and hitting drives...
Dogs Bite LC, Face WP In Playoffs
RICHLAND - The Dayton Bulldogs blew the Liberty Christian Patriots out of the water, 8-0, on Tuesday night in district playoffs thanks to pitcher Lowden Smith. "Lowden pitched a heck of a game," said...
Tigers Trample TOR, 10-0
PRESCOTT - The Waitsburg Prescott Tigers are off to their next playoff game in Walla Walla this weekend after handily beating Tekoa-Oakesdale Rosalia (TOR), 10-0, last Tuesday night. "It was a good day," head coach Dustin Snedigar said after the...
BIRTHDAYS
April 11: Bill Huston, Mrs. Dale Rodgers, Lavonne Hamilton and Jessica Robinson. April 12: Carla Nordheim, Nathan Bartlow, George Pulliam, Doug Long, Kelly Lambert, Clarece Newbury, Lynn Fenton, Andrew Chase Baker, Andrea Jacoy, Molly Baker, Betty...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg 5-2 Theft reported on Weller Canyon Road, air compressor, hand tools and other tools taken from garage, under investigation. Report of an unwanted person on Orchard Street. 5-3 Burglary reported at a motor home on Dent Road, items reported...
Judith Henderson’s Wine & Country Living
5 Spring Release: This weekend, wineries across the state participated in showing the year's newest red and white wine releases. Reports are in: 2012 broke all attendance and wine sales records over previous years. The one surprise was the 2009...
PIONEER PORTRAITS WEDDING
Ten Years Ago May 9, 2002 Wanted: Your comments on Corps' Coppei Creek Flood protection proposal. The Coppei River left the stream bed, going over the north bank in the vicinity of the Days of Real Sp...
BIRTH
A bigail Rose Corey-Boulet was born April 16, 2012, at Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. She weighed 6 pounds, 9 ounces and was 19.5 inches long. Her parents are Makaela and Warren...
BRIEFS
ARMED FORCES DAY PARADE WAITSBURG - American Legion Auxiliaries are honoring all veterans by asking them to be in the Armed Forces Day Parade on May 19 in Waitsburg. The theme is Fly Our Flag. Please meet at Main and First Streets by 9:15 a.m. for...
THANK YOU
The City of Waitsburg sincerely thanks its voters for approving the recent sales tax increase request as it will go a long way to ensure our streets are kept up....
CROPS
Thirty-nine months have passed since February of 2009, when the stock market was at its lowest point since spring of 1997, a 15-year low! Twenty-five of those recent months ended higher than the previous month, 14 ended unchanged or lower, as the...
Heart BEAT
Dayton Street Sale Has Big Benefits DAYTON - The ninth annual sidewalk sale on Third Street in Dayton went off without a hitch last Saturday. The sidewalk sale involves all sorts of entities,...
Smiley Had Their Backs
I n the 1980s and early 1990s, Prescott and Waitsburg high schools experimented with a sports combine, but things didn't go so well. The first try failed and the teams went their separate ways. It wasn't until the mid 2000s that the schools made a...
A Champion For Dayton
DAYTON - One could find Rep. Terry Nealey on the court shooting hoops, talking about job creation at the Economic Development Steering Committee meeting, painting a wall to help a Dayton teen with...
Prom Rules Problematic?
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg School District enacted a new policy relating to how and how close students can dance together at school events that has caused some tension between students and staff, and even between parents with different opinions, in th...
