Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG -- Waitsburg Elementary will hold kindergarten registration for the fall of 2014 during the week of March 31 - April 3. Registration will be in the Elementary office from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Monday and Tuesday and from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday. All children who turn five, on or before August 31 are eligible to enter kindergarten in the fall of 2014. A current immunization record and an official State birth certificate will be needed to register. Official Washington State birth certificates can be obtained at yo...
Prescott March 19 Malicious mischief to a residence on E. 1st Street. Waitsburg March 20 Attenpt to elude on Preston & Coppei. Resulted in arrest for DUI. Dayton March 18 Lost firearm reported on Highway 261. Report of assault on S. 4th Street, unfounded. Lost wallet reported on S. 5th Street. Speeding citation on Highway 12. Found property at Dayton City Park returned to owner. Residential burglary on Gwinn Road. Commercial burglary on Seneca Way; broken windows, nothing taken. March 19 Lost purse reported on S. 2nd Street. Abandoned vehicle...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg 7-8th grade band traveled to Asotin on March 21 where they earned a Superior (I) rating in the Mass Band Festival. The band performed three songs: "It Don't Mean a Thing if it Ain't Got that Swing," "Tunbridge Overture," and "Forge of Vulcan." All 38 band members were in attendance. "The judges and the audience really liked them. They were outstanding!" said Band Director Brad Green. "We'll perform those songs at our Spring Concert in May so the community can hear them, too."...
PRESCOTT - The 7th Annual Cowboy Poetry Celebration (in honor of Cowboy Poetry Week), will take place Monday, April 21 at 7 p.m. at the Prescott Lions Hall. The event features cowboy music by Nevada Slim & Cimarron Sue and winners of the Cowboy Poetry Contest will be announced. The contest is open to all ages in Walla Walla County and surrounding communities. Entries are due at the Prescott Library by April 15, 2014. Pick up contest rules and entry forms from the Prescott Community Library or visit their Facebook page Prescott Com...
Ten Years Ago April 1, 2004 Preston Hall Sixth Graders gave cancer patient Cathy Eastwood $400 they had raised through a quilt raffle to help defray the expenses of her eight-week stay in Southern California. Eastwood will receive proton beam radiation treatments at Loma Linda University Medical Center to attack tumors in her brain. Opened in the midst of America's "Noble Experiment" - Prohibition - "The Service Station," at 235 Main Street, may have been a local source for booze during the years between 1920 and 1933 when the sale, manufactu...
WAITSBURG - After listing former Citizen of the Year recipients, Tom Baker asked attendees at the March 18 Commercial Club meeting to rise. "If your name doesn't start with 'J', sit down . . . If you've already won the award, sit down . . . Look who's left!" Enthusiastic applause erupted and the audience laughed as still-standing Larry and Deanne Johnson eyed one another in surprise. "We were under the pretense that we knew who was receiving the award, and it wasn't us!" said Larry later. The...
DAYTON - A Dayton man who has been charged with first degree rape of a child appeared in court last week. According to the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office, Walter Hartwell is scheduled to go to trial April 22 and 23. Hartwell was arrested last month and charged with initiating sexual contact with an 11-year-old child. He is being held in the Columbia County jail, with bond set at $100,000. A hearing to set a trial date for Levi Helgerson, who is charged with first degree assault of a child, is scheduled for April 3. Helgerson was arrested...
DAYTON - Residents of Columbia County will soon have several safe and secure places to dispose of unwanted prescription drugs. Blue Mountain Counseling, working with the Columbia County Sheriff's Office, is preparing to install prescription drug drop boxes in three locations in Dayton. According to Laura Tolman, who is prevention coordinator at Blue Mountain Counseling in Dayton, the county has received a grant of $16,000 to help reduce substance abuse in the county. The money is bein...
PRESCOTT - In a swift six minutes, Prescott's School Board discussed and passed a motion to continue, status quo, in the WP Athletic Combine agreement through the 2014-15 school year. The vote took place during a March 19 Special Meeting. During the meeting, members expressed a desire to communicate and work cooperatively with Waitsburg, using the coming year to address issues that have been raised before reassessing the combine. Earlier this month, Prescott had presented Waitsburg's Sc...
