Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - The Dayton City Council will soon be short two members, and city officials are encourag- ing interested residents to apply for those seats. Council member Jim Cooper resigned in April because of a move to Walla Walla. Council member Arthur Hall will leave the council at the end of May, because of a move to Tri- Cities. Prospective council members must have lived in the city at least a year prior to taking office. Any- one interested in serving on Dayton City Council should contact City...
PRESCOTT - The Prescott School District has selected a new superinten- dent. After a process that began with five candidates, background checks, and site visits, Brett Cox of Walla Walla was invited to address the publicWednesday eve- ning in the Prescott Elementary School library, as the school board was approach- ing the end of their search. Cox will replace retiring Superintendent Bill Jordan, who has served in that po- sition for three years. He submitted his resignation in January and has...
DAYTON - The Dayton City Council voted Monday evening to hire a new city planner who will report only to city officials, and work in- dependently of the Columbia County planning director. The motion passed by a 5-1 margin, with council mem- ber Arthur Hall dissenting. The new planner will replace Kim Lyonnais, who was recently hired by Colum- bia County to replace retiring planner Richard Hendricksen, beginning May 1. Lyon- nais was hired by the city in October as part-time planner, but...
It is sad when the old generation goes. Even in the greatest weakness and mis- ery they give shelter from the wind, and a special world lives around them. And that kind of person will never come again. - Isak Dinesen B ettie Lloyd Chase left us on April 20, 2013. As Waitsburg has been described as "One of a kind," so we would have to characterize Bettie Lloyd Chase. She was a true Waitsburg native, born here in 1920 and lived her life as a credit to her hometown. She married Berger Chase and...
DAYTON - Rocky Miller, a Washington State Trooper who has lived in Dayton for 26 years, was appointed Columbia County Sheriff last week. He replaces Walt Hessler, who has resigned, effective June 30. The Columbia County Board of Commissioners made the appointment by unanimous vote, after interviewing Miller and Columbia County Sher- iff's Deputy Jeffery Jen- kins during a special eve- ning meeting on April 11. Miller and Jenkins were the only applicants for the position. Hessler submitted his...
DAYTON - Having de- voted 30 years working at the Dayton Memorial Library, Sue Hagfeldt quietly retired as branch manager in March, passing the torch to new manager, Amy Rosen- berg. "Sue insisted on not being honored with a retirement party, but she was so beloved by the community that we still have patrons come to the library and asking where she is," said Columbia County Rural Library Board Chair, Tanya Patton. "Sue has a wonderful way with people, especially children. She will be greatly...
WAITSBURG - Tickets are on sale for a hometown dance concert by a hometown band. The members of the popular Frog Hollow Band have agreed to perform Saturday evening, May 18, during the Waitsburg Celebration mark- ing the 100th anniversary of the Days of Real Sport racing weekend. The concert is a collaboration of the Waitsburg PEO chapter, the Waitsburg Lions Club and the band, whose members live in Waitsburg, Prescott and Walla Walla. It's a fundraiser for PEO, which promotes education for women. "When we learned noth- ing was scheduled for...
WAITSBURG - April 1 marked the voting deadline for the annual election of Waitsburg's mayor and city council. Walt Gobel ran unop- posed and was re-elected mayor, but the race for the fifth seat on the council is heated. Incumbents Martin Dunn, Kevin House, K.C. Kuykendall, and Karl Newell, all running on the "Truth and Trust" ticket, will be re-elected to their council positions. As of April 9th standings, Debra Callahan, who declared candidacy on March 8, will replace Scott Nettles, by a slim...
BOARDMAN, Ore. - The WP Lady Tigers rolled over Riverside Tuesday night in a 14-2 victory that triggered the mercy rule in the sixth inning. "Everyone got into the game in some capacity," head coach Angie Potts said. "After having a week and a half off due to spring break, we played really well, hit the ball well, ran aggressively." Chelsey Brannock and Samantha Moss scored triples, while Katie Hofer pounded out a double and Heidi Miller, Samantha Fedderson, Jessica Foxe and Jadah Stansell each had singles. Jennifer Nichols had five...
POMEROY - While the Lady Bulldogs varsity softball team was off Tuesday, the Bulldogs baseball team pounded out two wins against non-league opponent Pomeroy Tuesday. "They feel pretty good about themselves and it's fun to watch that," head coach Sal Benavides said. "Those kids are coming around." The Bulldogs are now 5-5 overall and 2-2 in league. In the Dayton boys' first game against the Pirates, the longest of the two at 2.5 hours, virtually all players' bats came alive, producing 16 hits and eight out of nine batters connecting with the bal...
DAYTON - The Columbia County Commis- sioners have scheduled a special meeting Thurs- day evening to interview and allow the public to meet the two candidates being considered to replace to replace retiring sheriff Walt Hessler. Rocky Miller and Jeffrey Jenkins will take questions from the commissioners and the public at 7 p.m. in the main courtroom on the second floor of the Columbia County Courthouse. Miller has been a trooper with the Washing- ton State Patrol for more than 25 years. He has lived in Columbia County and Served in South- east W...
DAYTON - The Dayton School Board has begun the search for a new elementary school principal. Current Principal Katie Leid, who has served for nine years, has an- nounced her retirement. Dayton School Superintendent Doug Johnson says the school board has authorized him to begin the search for Leid's replacement, and also for two elementary school teachers. Long- time first- grade teacher Julie Howard has also announced her retirement at the end of the school year. The school is also looking to...
DAYTON - When Charles Lindbergh was helping design the airplane in which he would make the first-ever trans-Atlantic flight in 1927, he knew it would need a lot of fuel. Af- ter all, he would be in the air for nearly 34 straight hours. To make sure made it from London to Paris with fuel to spare (which he did), Lindbergh had a giant fuel tank mounted directly behind the engine - and directly in front of the cockpit. This meant the plane would have no windshield. Forward visibility would be...
SEATTLE - Until last week, Joseph Linder had never heard of Waitsburg. The Austrian-born som- melier from the Fairmount Olympic in downtown Se- attle had been to Walla Walla many times to taste and or- der wines for his diners at the upscale historic 450-room hotel. But it wasn't until he attended the launch of Paul Gregutt's new "Waitsburg Cellars" that the little town in the Touchet Valley got on his radar. Now he's not only plan- ning a stay in Waitsburg dur- ing his next trip to the Walla...
WAITSBURG - It may be too close to call. But with two votes ahead of current council member Scott Nettles, Deb Callahan may become the newest member of the Waitsburg City Council later this month. For the most part, the Truth & Trust slate of canidates headed by Mayor Walt Gobel returned to office in the city's annual elections. Gobel received 216 votes as mayor, while Kevin House got the highest number of votes as councilman with 228, followed by Carl Newell with 216, and Marty Dunn and KC Kuykendahl each with 207. Callahan received 156...
The Columbia County Board of Commissioners received the names of two candidates to replace outgoing Columbia County Sheriff Walt Hessler. The names were presented by the Columbia County Republican Party. Rocky Miller, who is a Washington State Pa- trol officer and Dayton resident was listed by the party as its "first preferred candidate". The party's "second preferred candidate" is Jeffrey Jenkins, who serves as a Columbia County Sheriff's Deputy. In a letter to the commissioners, party chair Tom Bensel said, "The committee believes they have...
Former Columbia County Planner Kim Lyonnais has been hired once again by the County as its planner. Last week Lyonnais accepted the position, replacing Richard Hendricksen, who is retiring at the end of April. In October, Lyonnais was hired by the City of Dayton as its part time planner. On March 26, he submitted his resignation to the city, effec- tive April 24. In his new position, Ly- onnais will be director of planning for both Columbia County and the City of Dayton. Under an agreement that...
At the launch of Paul Gregutt's Waitsburg Cel- lars, tasters were offered a small ribbon-bound booklet describing the elements of the new wine label's logo. The image contains many symbols - all elements of what inspires winemaker and critic Gregutt and his wife, filmmaker Karen Stanton Gregutt, about being artists in Waitsburg. "Our sense of time both slowed and expanded," Gre- gutt wrote about the couple's transition to life in Waitsburg, which started about eight years ago. "The century-old...
DAYTON -Touchet Val- ley Television in Dayton will soon offer internet service with blazing speed, equal to that in the big cities. Accord- ing to owner David Klingen- stein, the firm's customers in Dayton will be able to sign up for service at speeds as high as 50-60 megabits per minute. The higher speeds are made possible because of a new fiber optic line installed by a firm called NoaNet. It is part of a project was made possible by federal stimulus grants of $140 million, for expansion of...
DAYTON - While teen cigarette smoking and drink- ing is down state-wide ac- cording to a recent Healthy Use Survey, Columbia County teens have stagnated and increased in these risky behaviors. The recent Healthy Use Survey distributed by the Department of Social and Health Services measured substance abuse along with risk factors in youth across the state and the re- sults in Columbia County are cause for a refocus in local communities. The bi-annual survey was administered across the state to m...
WAITSBURG - The cen- tennial celebration of Waits- burg's Days of Real Sport will not have the traditional pari-mutuel races for which the third weekend in May became so famous over the decades. But the big weekend that organizers are now calling Waitsburg Celebration Days on May 17-19 is shaping up to be action-packed for lo- cal families and visitors. It will have everything from a Cowboy Dance on Friday to court races Saturday, and plenty of kids activities on Sunday, according to mem- bers of the committee that met on Monday night to firm...
