Articles from the June 30, 2011 edition
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2011 Harvest At Least A Week Late
WAITSBURG - Farmers in the Touchet Valley are predicting their harvest this year will be at least a week later than usual with fields in the Prescott and Waitsburg areas ready by the third week of July and in Dayton by early August. "Almost every... Full story
WW Tranny Team Beats Lions, Falls To WW Exchange
WALLA WALLA-The Walla Walla Transmission Babe Ruth team ended its summer league season with a win and a loss in the playoff tournament. The loss left them one game shy of the championship game. Last... Full story
Cardinal Of The East Plays All State
YAKIMA- Waitsburg- Prescott graduate Kris Cady got the opportunity of a lifetime when he played in the Washington State Football Coaches Association East-West all star game in Yakima this weekend....
Art In The Garden
DAYTON- Art enthusiasts from across the Touchet Valley visited the historic Boldman House on a sunny but breezy Saturday afternoon in Dayton. They gazed at newly-painted water-color paintings, took a...
JULY CALENDAR
1 ArtWalk-Examine fifteen of Walla Walla's Arts Businesses-including art galleries, art venues, artists' studios and museums from 5 to 8 p.m. Walla Walla's ArtWalk, exhibiting works of local, national and international artists. Art Walk is free and...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg/Walla Walla County & Dayton/Columbia County June 21: Traffic Hazard. Traffic hazard reported on Timpey Road, Dayton. Theft. Theft reported on Cameron Street, Dayton. Theft. Theft reported on West Main Street, Dayton. Juvenile Problem.... Full story
Wine & Country Living
This weekend I catered and attended a friend's 60th birthday party. Filling the table with an array of appropriate wine tasting nibbles, everyone brought their own bottles of regional and local wines to share with one another. Somewhere in the first...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago July 5, 2001 When a series of dramatic storms passed through the area, thunderstorms clobbered the valley on June 27. The storms carried with them heavy rain, strong wind gusts and three-quarter to one-inch hail. The Joint Fire... Full story
BIRTHDAYS
June 30: Jeff Bartlow, Pete Kinder, Ralph Jones and Erin Mellish. July 1: Gary Hofer, Ellen Atteberry, Scott Clayton and Lynn McCaw. July 2: Melvena Carpenter, Marc Zuger, Jeannie Hurd, Corlene Scoggin, Patrick McConnell and Christianna Scudder....
BRIEFS
CHALLENGE GRANT FOR PORT DAYTON - The infrastructure is in and the marketing continues. The Port of Columbia's Blue Mountain Station project received another boost when it was awarded a Challenge Grant of $5,000 by Pacific Power for marketing the...
Streetscape Project Takes Shape
WAITSBURG - The $5,000 grant from the Oregon Community Foundation, the charitable arm of Cycle Oregon, couldn't have come at a better time for Waitsburg's Main Street. The young deciduous trees...
Waitsburg Has History As Valley Boom Town
Recently I had the opportunity to look through some interesting travel books about the state of Washington. Among them, I found "Exploring Washington's Past," written by Ruth Kirk and Carmela Alexander. Kirk and Alexander's book gives an excellent ba...
The Voices Of Hope
WAITSBURG - On one of the nights of the Salt & Light youth choir's state tour last week, the group of 23 young singers from the Touchet Valley came together in a circle to share what they felt was...
Don’t Miss Out
Here's a challenge the Times is pleased to put out there. If you or your business have been on the fence about snapping up one of four available 10-year corporate sponsorships of the Cardinals press box and sports equipment storage facility on the... Full story
HEALTH DISTRICT IN TRANSITION PART I
Editor's Note: This is the first in an occasional series about Columbia County Health System serving patients in the Dayton and Waitsburg areas. The series will focus on changes and developments... Full story
Dayton Adopts Road Plan
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council Monday moved adopted a six-year transportation plan that includes several infrastructure projects for roadways, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, storm drains and bridges. The transportation plan has 18 different projects th...
‘Saturday Market’ Drops Request For First St. Exclusive
DAYTON - The Dayton Saturday Market, the new farmer's market group which wanted exclusive use of First Street in Dayton for its stalls on Saturday mornings, has withdrawn its request to the city....
