Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WALLA WALLA COUNTY - The Waitsburg and Prescott School Districts are starting the 2025-26 school year with changes in leadership. Monty Sabin has stepped into the roles of superintendent and elementary school principal at the Waitsburg School District. Prescott's K-12 principal, Jeff Foertsch, was selected by the school board to replace Justin Bradford as superintendent. Sabin, a Washington native, brings 26 years of administrative experience to the district, last serving as superintendent for...
WAITSBURG - The Waitsburg School Board held its regular business meeting on Wednesday, August 20, at 6 p.m. Superintendent Monty Sabin, Board Chair Christy House, and board members Charlie Barron, Julie Karl, and Abby Grende were present. After adopting the agenda, the board entered an executive session to discuss candidate interviews for the open board seat. The session ended, and the board voted unanimously to appoint Tylor Abel as School Board Director for position 3. Secondary Principal Joe...
DAYTON —“Freakier Friday” is a sequel to the 2003 film with a multigenerational twist starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. In the film, Curtis and Lohan reprise their roles as Tess and Anna Coleman. The story picks up years after their identity crisis. Tess and Anna discover lightning can strike twice. The Rotten Tomato audience gave “Freakier Friday” a 92% rating, saying it is steeped in nostalgia and bursting with good, clean fun. The critics’ consensus was that Lohan and Curtis slip back into roles that fit like matched gloves—rate...
Theodore (Ted) John Collins, beloved husband, father, grandfather, sibling, uncle, and friend, passed away on Sunday, August 3, 2025 at the age of 88 in the presence of family. He had an incredible life, and he will be deeply missed. Ted was born on October 2, 1936, in Walla Walla, Washington. He spent his childhood on the family wheat farm in Waitsburg, Washington, surrounded by his six lively siblings: Colleen, Roselle, Suzanne, Robert, Janet, and Thomas. Ted was the first of his siblings to l...
DAYTON — The Dayton School Board met in the high school library at 6:30 p.m. on August 20, 2025. Superintendent Jeremy Wheatley, the Board Chair Jeffrey McCowen, board members Pat Davidson, Grant Griffin, and Ryan Paulson were in attendance; Aneesha Dieu was not present. The board passed the consent agenda, which included the new student handbooks. There was discussion on the implementation of the new no-cellphone policy, which Principal Cox described as a “zero tolerance” policy. Cox said an assembly would be held at the start of school on Tu...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg High School football is in full swing again. Gabe Kiefel is in his third year as head coach for the Cardinals. This season, Kiefel will be assisted by Lash LaRue, who has been promoted to offensive coordinator, and Dane Kiefel as the defensive coordinator. Greg Crenshaw, Matt Hamilton, and Marco Reyes will coach the offensive and defensive line. Hamilton will also coach special teams, and Josh Gonzales joins this year, helping with running backs and linebackers. Kiefel...
DAYTON - You need only one kidney to live a long, healthy life, and Dayton resident Lisa Naylor needs one. In 2011, as Lisa and her husband Paul were planning to celebrate her retirement after 30 years of service with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease. The disease is progressive, with only two treatment options: dialysis or a kidney transplant. In 2022, Naylor reached End Stage Renal Failure and began dialysis in 2023. She receives daily peritoneal...
Cheerleading Coach Vickie Hamann has eight returning cheerleaders to lead the crowd in cheers at football games. The squad's first game is the season opener on Friday, September 5, when the Cardinals host DeSales (l-r): Chloe McCaw, Hope Adkins, Ava Childers, Madison Strickland, Victoria Whitmore, Matti Carter, Carissa Potts (not pictured: Sarah Daves)...
Fifteen Years Ago August 26, 2010 Kim Hamann has presented pigs at local fairs before, but her favorite animal to raise and show is a sheep. One of the reasons is that the 14-year-old Future Farmers of America member has raised sheep on her family farm since she was five. The other reason is that she feels "the best connection" with sheep from the time they're still lambs to well beyond the yearling stage. This year for instance, she brought her 1.5-year-old sheep Todd to the Junior Livestock...
