Articles from the May 12, 2011 edition
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Dayton Parks Floats Pool Fee Hike, Again
DAYTON - The City of Dayton's Board of Parks Commissioners Monday night floated the idea of raising entry fees for the city's popular swimming pool by a third, an initiative that failed last year. Concerned about the cost of maintenance, wages and...
Spring (And Music) Is In The Air
WAITSBURG - Three Waitsburg ensembles performed in Tuesday night's " Under My Umbrel la" Spring Concert. The Wai tsburg High School Chorus opened the evening with a harmonious rendition of "Star-Spang...
Our Veterans Invited To Waitsburg Parade
A merican Legion Auxiliary are honor ing our Veterans, Past, Present, and Future, by asking our Veterans to be in the Waitsburg Community Parade, to be held May 21, 2011, Armed Forces Day. We plan to meet behind the American West Bank to get lined...
BIRTHDAYS
The Times extends congratulations and best wishes to the following whose birthday anniversaries fall on this week: May 12: Katy Leid, Erin Dutton, Jonathan Abbey. May 13: Lola Spirotas, Terry Bloor, Kevin Moormann, Jack Gawith and Lavina Meyer. May...
Irish Win Doubleheader
PRESCOTT- The WP Tigers lost a double header to the Desales Irish last Tuesday in Prescott. The Irish held a two run lead until the bottom of the fourth when Tre Brannock hit an RBI double scoring...
Loss Ends Dayton’s Season
DAYTON - After struggling all season, the Dayton Bulldogs baseball team was knocked out of contention for further playoffs Tuesday by the Asotin Panthers, who beat them 10-0. The loss followed two def...
Lady Bulldogs Pound Patriots
DAYTON - The Lady Bulldogs handily beat the Liberty Christian Patriots in a doubleheader Tuesday afternoon 10-0 and 14-3. Already in second place in the league just behind the WP Tigers, the Bulldogs face Asotin in a doubleheader on Wednesday at 3...
Cardinals Making Sure They Stay On Track
WAITSBURG - You may have the best team in the state when it comes to speed, endurance and agility, but if your athletes don't manage to perform within the tight rules for track and field, you're going to get knocked out of the competition. That was t...
Season Ends For Tigers Baseball Team
RICHLAND-- The Tigers' season came to an end Tuesday night, as they lost by 14-6 to the Patriots of Liberty Christian in loser-go-home district tournament game. The loss ended a season that held...
Lady Tigers Seeded No. 1 In League
TOUCHET - The Lady Tigers suffered a 9-2 nonleague defeat against the Touchet Indians Monday, but it didn't matter from a playoff perspective. After splitting a double header with the De- Sales Irish...
Wine & Country Living
Wine weekend is over and done for another year and I have some information to share with those who didn't make this year's event: IT WAS WONDERFUL! Of course, you can always get down to your favorite wineries any weekend through the coming months...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago May 17, 2001 As the community anticipates the 88th Days of Real Sport this weekend, another "One of A Kind" story comes to light. Waitsburg's Days of Real Sport holds the distinction as being the track where the photo finish camera was...
Boating & Fishing, Rain Or Shine
LYONS FERRY - The weather in the Snake River area may still have rain and chill in the air, but the recreational boating and fishing season is under way. "The catfish are biting like crazy," said Jim...
BRIEFS
PRESCOTT CEMETERY THEFT PRESCOTT - Two benches at the Prescott Cemetery were stolen recently and areas of the cemetery have been vandalized, according to Mayor Libby McCaw. "I'm really saddened by the theft because the generous families who donated...
Help Is On The Way
Every time a transport convoy with wind mill parts passes through Dayton, we can imagine some Columbia County residents might find the sight bittersweet. The components - giant blades, nacelles, cones and tower sections - are on their way to...
The Can-can Do-do Man
WALLA WALLA - The line stretched out the door outside Charles Smith's wine tasting room on Spokane Street Saturday night. The 20s, 30s and 40s somethings who came for the weekend's hottest spring...
Murals Found At Legion Hall
WAITSBURG - In a complex as old as the store front bays that now make up the former American Legion building, you'd expect to find some treasures. Nat Farnam and the crew from his Living Space...
Touchet Valley On “Budget Travel” Itinerary
WAITSBURG - Another 675,000 magazine subscribers have a chance to read about Waitsburg and Dayton this month. The May issue of Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel publication has a three-page story that features attractions in Walla Walla and the Touchet...
Hermanns To Go On Trial June 7
WALLA WALLA - Cuffed and shackled in front of Walla Walla Superior Court Judge Donald Schacht on Monday, Waitsburg resident Adam Hermanns pleaded not guilty to five counts of criminal charges and now faces trial in early June. Hermanns, who had a...
