Articles from the March 15, 2012 edition
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Proposal Could Mean Future Salmon Fishing
DAYTON - The community is invited to hear a proposal by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation that would revive the salmon population to the Touchet River and provide fishing in...
CROPS
The big USDA report last Friday brought only a little news for wheat markets. Ending stocks of all wheat in the U.S. are expected to total 825 million bushels, a downward revision of 20 million from the previous official monthly projection. This was...
Dogs Prep To Bite League
DAYTON -- Bulldog softball head coach Terry Robbins has a soft approach to starting the season with his team. "I don't push them too early in the season," he said. His group of girls includes a...
Button Resigns From Hospital Post
DAYTON - Community members reacted with mixed emotions to the announcement that Columbia County Health System CEO Charlie Button has resigned from his position for greener pastures in May. The...
New Year, New Faces, New Plans
PRESCOTT -- The WP Tigers baseball season is in full swing with 28 players making their bid for some diamond action. The Tigers' season may look to be an unpredictable one, but head coach Dustin...
WP Athletes Lauded
WAITSBURG -- In at least two ways, the 2012 Waitsburg Prescott winter sports season set a major milestone, coaches said at last Thursday's awards gathering for WP cheer squad, wrestling and girls basketball teams. The girls basketball team won the...
Dayton Track Team Has New Coach, A Few Great Returners
DAYTON -- The Dayton High School track coach has a small team this year, but he's dreaming big and hoping for two of his athletes to make it to state later this spring. The team has a new head coach,...
WP Track & Field Team Has Eyes On State
WAITSBURG - WP's track and field team has a big reputation to live up to this year. The men's team last year placed fifth in state, and was the second-highest placement in recent memory. The women's...
Bulldogs Strive To Contend In League
DAYTON -- Sal Benavides could be in a panic about the upcoming Bulldogs baseball season. His no. 1 pitcher, senior Colton Bickelhaupt, dislocated his shoulder during the basketball season....
WP Tigers Look To Lead
PRESCOTT - The WP Lady Tigers 2012 softball team may have lost seven seniors who were the core of last year's team, but the remaining Tigers are no strangers to the field. Seniors Hailey Goenen, Dionn...
Coppei Coffee St. Patty’s Event
WAITSBURG - Kate Hockersmith's annual St. Patty's Day party, which she started at her Waitsburg home some two decades ago, gave some of the former Blue Mountain Trouble Makers their debuts in front of friendly audiences. As young tikes, John Hockersm...
Wilma Sharpe
Wilma Sharpe of Walla Walla, Washington, beloved wife, mother, grandmother, and sister passed away March 4, 2012 at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, Washington. She was born in Tupelo, Oklahoma on February 4, 1927 to Hiram and Zelma Turner and...
Luanna Louise Kalahele
Luanna Louise Kalahele, 58, a resident of Nehalem, OR died Saturday, March 3, 2012 at the Providence St Vincent Medical Center in Portland. A celebration of life will be held on March 24, 2012....
BIRTHDAYS
March 15: Drew Farley, Arvilla Cyr, Debra Olson, Sara Dimak, Stacey Mohney, Tom K. Baker, Gage Baker, Sharon Puckett, Sara Payne Dimak, and Lolita Clayton. March 16: Edna Clough, Mike Estes, Edith Largent, Carol Heilbrun, Michael Kerry, Guy Keeney,...
Student Alcohol, Drug Use Brought To Light
WAITSBURG - Mor e Waitsburg High School students are using tobacco and drinking alcohol than the state average of their peers, Dr. Carol Clarke said Monday night in a drug and alcohol town hall meeting. Clarke and members from other health...
Judith Henderson’s Wine & Country Living
Ash Hollow Winery of Walla Walla sits on 287 acres of high desert. At the time of land discovery, winemakers Spencer Sievers and Jennifer Gregory, both wine professionals of Walla Walla, toured the property on foot and the decision was made this woul...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg 3-6 Theft of checks and forgery reported on West Fourth Street. Victim reported that several checks had been stolen and forged from August 2011 until February 2012, investigation continuing. 3-8 Theft of meat and trespassing reported on...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago March 14, 2002 Financial pressure will face new mayor and council. With city elections less than a month away, the financial struggles facing the City of Waitsburg and the possible impact and solutions were a topic of discussion at the...
Times Has New Office Manager
WAITSBURG - The Times is welcoming a new office administrator, Tawnya Richards, who will be in charge of accounting and paperwork to keep our operation running smoothly. Richards, 39, has resided in...
BRIEFS
JIM GERMAN IN MAGAZINE WAITSBURG - Waitsburg's Jim German was honored by Wine Enthusiast Magazine as Mixologist of the Month. The magazine highlighted his Main Street business, jimgermanbar, and touted the atmosphere in "One-of-a-Kind" Waitsburg....
Letters to the Editor
In 2010 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in the case called Citizens United v. FEC (federal election commission) that corporations and unions have the right to spend unlimited money influencing elections to ensure that their interests are the ones our po...
Heart BEAT
Swimming Pools Offer Services For All Families WAITSBURG - The bout of warm, sunny weather in the Touchet River Valley made us long for summer days to come and the summertime recreation involved. The...
