DAYTON – Columbia Pulp is now well on the way to having the employment impact in the area that community leaders have been hoping for for nearly five years. In an interview with The Times last week, Columbia Pulp CEO John Begley said that his firm r...

WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Commercial Club and the Waitsburg Town Hall board of directors will host a candidates’ forum on Wednesday, June 27 from 6 to 8 p.m. at Town Hall. Candidates for Walla Walla County Sheriff and for two state rep...

Ten Years Ago-June 26, 2008 Organizers have mobilized and are calling all former students of the Huntsville School or Huntsville residents to gather for a reunion in August. Photo caption: The Huntsville Grade School students for the 1946-47 school...

DAYTON - A large scale restoration project on the theater’s marquee and façade begins on Thursday, June 21, however the theater will remain open through the duration of the work. More information can be found at www.libertytheater...

DAYTON – The Sherwood Trust of Walla Walla announced that it has awarded a $65,000 grant to the Dayton Development Task Force. The funds will be used for development of a park in the area near the caboose and playground west of the Dayton Historic D...

DAYTON – The Walla Walla Chamber Music Festival will hold a rehearsal, open to the public, on Monday at 10 a.m. at the Liberty Theater on Dayton’s Main Street. Monday’s rehearsal will feature Strauss’ Metamorphosen String Septet. The rehears...

STARBUCK – The Starbuck Community Church is offering a vacation bible school Monday through Thursday next week at the church, on Main Street. Kids age 4 through 6th grade are invited to attend. The VBS will run from 9 to 11:45 each day. The theme f...

WALLA WALLA – The Frenchtown Historical Foundation will hold its seventh annual Saint-Jean Baptiste Day Celebration on Saturday. It will be held at the Frenchtown Historic Site on Old Highway 12, two miles west of the Whitman Mission. This y...

June 22: Andy Winnett, Michael Spidell and Paul Cook. June 23: James Lehr, Teresa McConnell, Debbie Shaeffer, Delbert Porter, Michelle Bergevin, Lynn Savage, Jon Gibson and Heather Havens. June 24: Kathleen Seaton, Donna Surry, Rod Bailey, Suzanne...

Dear Editor, In my ministry, I’ve always tried to stay out of politics and publicly voicing my personal political inclinations. Why? Because I feel that my main job is to bring people together and to share the love of Jesus. The political arena c...

Dear Editor, I’m writing to express my ardent support for Matt Stroe as a candidate for sheriff of Walla Walla County. I met Matt as a student at Whitman College while working for the Security Department in a work study position. Matt is an o...

WAITSBURG – While the Dayton city pool is closed for this summer, facilities in Waitsburg and Prescott are stepping up to meet the area’s demand for chlorinated summer fun. Both the Waitsburg pool (across Coppei Avenue from Preston Park, open Mon...

DAYTON – A selection committee appointed by the Dayton School Board will interview four candidates on Thursday for the Dayton Middle School/High School principal position. Two applicants will be selected from that pool for a final interview p...