Articles from the June 9, 2011 edition

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Franklin Under Investigation

DAYTON - Columbia County Sheriff 's Deputy Mark Franklin, a former candidate for sheriff in the county, has been placed on paid administrative leave pending an investigation into an incident that occu...

 

Waitsburg Man Arrested After Motorcycle Accident

WAITSBURG - Steven Long, a Waitsburg resident who lost his home to a fire late last year, was arrested in the aftermath of a motorcycle accident in east Waitsburg on Saturday afternoon. A Walla Walla County Sheriff's Office report indicates he was ta...

 

Alumni Return From Far And Wide For Annual Banquet

WAITSBURG - The 108th Waitsburg Alumni Banquet was held Saturday night, May 28, in the Multipurpose room at Waitsburg Elementary with Ross Hamann, Class of ' 80, and Waitsburg School Board Chairman, w...

 
 By Imbert Matthee    Sports    June 9, 2011

Thank You Fans, Coaches, Parents And Players!

DAYTON - Sometimes, the most important observations about the past come in the form of a footnote as did this one from Bulldogs' head baseball coach Sal Benavides about the spring sports season: "In...

 
 By Imbert Matthee    Sports    June 9, 2011

Thank You Fans, Coaches, Parents And Players!

WAITSBURG - Ten minutes before the women's relay race at the Carnival of Speed in Milton Freewater began that fateful weekend, head track coach Jeff Bartlow knew the team was in a pickle. One of the...

 
 By Imbert Matthee    Sports    June 9, 2011

How Sweet It Is

WALLA WALLA - As the sun angled in from the west, casting its golden evening warmth over Borleske Stadium, Sweets fans began to fill the bleachers, food courts and beer gardens for the first game of...

 

2011 Waitsburg & Dayton Scholarships

DHS Taylor DeRuwe - Western States Equipment 250; John Hinchliff/Pheasants Forever 250 per year for 3 years; Northwest Farm Credit Services 250; Patit Valley Grange 500; Jim Kibler Agriculture 555; Archer Ranch 500; Excellence in Agriculture 500;...

 

BIRTHDAYS

June 9: Kay Heady, Vance Potts, Jack Roberts, Barbara McCauley, Edward Fisher, Ed Sickles, Jenny Rencken, Marnie Henderson, Cathy Abel, and Rich Webber. June 10: Jake Long, Belinda Johnson, Linda Doyle and Mike Drew. June 11: Frank Donnelly and...

 

POLICE NOTES

Waitsburg/Walla Walla County & Dayton/Columbia County 5-30: Malicious Mischief. Broken windows reported on Warren Street in Waitsburg from thrown rocks. Extra patrol requested. 5-31: Suscpious. The Fire Station reports an on-going problem with the po...

 

Wine & Country Living

Let's talk about Washington state's wine industry and it's playing a significant role in rural economic diversification efforts. I find this to be invaluable information today because we still have people who are misinformed about the value of our...

 

PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago June 14, 2001 After 50 years of serving the heating oil, fuel and petroleum product needs of Touchet Valley, the Roy Leid family announced the merging of Leid-Ford Distributing Co. with R.E. Powell Distributing of Grandview. The first...

 

BRIEFS

HERMANNS TRIAL DELAYED WALLA WALLA - The trial of Waitsburg resident Adam Hermanns, one of two suspects in a home invasion in College Place in April, is now set to begin July 13. Hermanns and fellow defendant Antonio Contreras of Walla Walla, who...

 

Strings Return To Valley

DAYTON - Violinist Timothy Christie, flutist Sarah Brady and harpist Amy Ley apologized as they walked through the door at Sky Book & Brew in Dayton Monday morning. A small audience had gathered...

 

Say It With Pride

Editor's Note: Waitsburg eighth grader Troy Anderson is one of two winners of this year's American Legion Auxiliary Americanism essay contest. He placed first in the state for grades 7-8. The other winner, Jacob Dunn, was featured on this page last...

 

Dream Your Greatest Dream

Editor's Note: This is the last of our profiles about the winners of this year's Times $500 Community Service scholarships to students from Prescott, Dayton and Waitsburg. Senior Christy Poirier is th...

 

And Stay In Touch!

You don't have to be related to a senior to be moved by one of the graduation ceremonies in the valley this past weekend. You don't even have to be a longtime local resident. Graduation, regardless of its place, its year or its class, is a timeless...

 

Touchet Valley Pools Open Letter to the Editor

PRESCOTT- Summer vacation starts Friday for hundreds of kids in the Touchet Valley. It will be a time filled with family outings, youth programs, sports camps and many other activities, but one summer...

 

Class Of 2011: “Live The Life You Imagined”

WHS WAITSBURG - It may seem ironic that Waitsburg Valedictorian Austin Beasley chose a quote from a famous high school dropout to inspire his fellow high school graduates. But the saying from Mc-...

 

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