Articles from the December 18, 2014 edition
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Christmas Special Edition
The Times presents our 2014 Christmas Special Edition, a longstanding Times tradition. As we do each year, we offer up the poems, stories and letters to Santa from students at Waitsburg Elementary...
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
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Lady Cards Fall to Touchet and Pomeroy
WAITSBURG - The Lady Cards basketball team lost two non-conference road games last week, falling to Touchet, 22-68, on Dec. 9 and Pomeroy, 17-63, on Dec. 12. Despite the losses, coach JT Elsey is...
Dayton Girls Cruise Past Pomeroy, 41-22
DAYTON - The Dayton girls' basketball team woke up at halftime and cruised to any easy win over Pomeroy at home on Dec. 9, 41-22. The win gives the Lady 'Dogs a 4-0 record with four more games to play...
WEIGHT WOES CHALLENGE WP WRESTLERS
SPANGLE - The WP wrestling team traveled to Spangle Saturday to compete against 14 teams in the Liberty Invite, their first meet of the season. Of the four WP wrestlers eligible to compete at the meet...
Cards Get Even With Pirates
POMEROY - The WP boys basketball team took a hard-earned road win in overtime here Friday, 63-60. The victory gave the 2-1 Cardinals a split in their series with Pirates, after losing at home a week...
Greens, Handmade Foods Draw Kids
DAYTON - How many of us recall fondly the hot lunches of our early school days? Movies and television shows depicting lukewarm mystery meat and grayish slop dashed onto plastic trays might be a touch...
The Q Finds a Home in Waitsburg
WAITSBURG - If you're in Waitsburg and in the mood for a great cup of coffee, a tri-tip steak breakfast burrito, a bowl of gourmet soup or a freshly-baked treat, there's just one place to look: The Q...
I’m Photo-Phobic
Dear Editor, I am writing to protest the shooting of candid photographs of local citizenry by the Times staff. A photo of me appeared in this week's issue and it has become an uncomfortable issue, indeed. The local heathen had, at some time past,...
CHRISTMAS SPECIAL
[Editor's note: Following is one of the most famous newspaper editorials ever written. It was written in response to a letter to the editor, and was published in the September 21, 1897 edition of the New York Sun.] We take pleasure in answering thus...
EMMA PHILBROOK: STUDENT LIFE
Dear Santa. OK, so it's been a few years since I've written. And, yes, I know about the rising cost of reindeer feed due to the effect of an expanding ethanol market, and the detrimental effect that...
KEN GRAHAM: FROM THE PUBLISHER
This week we have the privilege of presenting the writing of nearly 150 young contributors. Students at Waitsburg Elementary School have written Christmas poems or stories, or even letters to Santa...
BIRTHDAYS
December 19: Lexus Ann Benson, Jack Maxwell, Shirley Cummings. December 20: Kellie Rarick, Margaret Naumann, Melanie Land, Jeff Gusse, Nathaniel Abel, Bitsey Harshman, Christy House. December 21: Jamie Kibler, Katy Hofer, Loren Davis, Jenny Devine,...
POLICE NOTES
Waitsburg Dec. 11 WWCSO deputies were dispatched to a report of a potential self-inflicted gunshot wound on Coppei Avenue at 11:51 p.m. Upon arriving at the scene they found the deceased body of Sonny J. Morrow. No indications of foul play have been...
WEEKLY CALENDAR
9 Waitsburg Resource Center 106 Preston Avenue 2-4 p.m. The Center provides food and resources to families in the Waitsburg and Prescott School Districts. 20 Saturday Market Blue Mountain Station, Dayton 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Karoake Night Tuxedo Bar &...
Legion Christmas Party
DAYTON - Dayton and Waitsburg American Legion members will join together to celebrate the holidays with a Christmas party at the Dayton American Legion building on Sunday, Dec. 28 at 3 p.m. The party is for Legion members and active duty service...
Free Event at Liberty Theater
DAYTON - The Liberty Theater will host its annual Christmas Cookies & Classics event on Thursday at 6:30 p.m. Enjoy Christmas carols with Jim Thorn, a live auction of Christmas cookies and treats and a free showing of the 1985 film Santa Claus...
PIONEER PORTRAITS
Ten Years Ago December 23, 2004 Gabe Kiefel, senior fullback for the Waitsburg Cardinals in 2004 and a Blue Mountain League All Conference runningback, has been named one of the top 11 Scholar-Athletesfor 2004 by the Inland Northwest Chapter of the...
Action on Development Delayed
WAITSBURG - At least 25 people gathered at the Lions Building in Waitsburg Monday evening to attend a public hearing on a planned new housing development in the city called Whoopemup Meadows. While ma...
