Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG – Waitsburg school district physical education teacher Marc Maiuri says he is enjoying his return to full-time teaching and appreciates the community support he has received so far. Maiuri was hired on short notice in September when long-time Waitsburg physical education teacher and coach, Jeff Bartlow, accepted a counseling position at Pioneer Middle School in Walla Walla. Maiuri brings with him a lifetime of coaching and physical education experience. He was raised in the Touchet Val...
Demolition was well underway Monday at the former Seneca Activity Center, next to the county shop on the east end of Dayton. Columbia County took over ownership of the property earlier this yearand will demolish most of the aging buildings there....
DAYTON—Last week’s city council meeting agenda was so packed that the City Administrator Trina Cole, suggested holding council meetings twice a month, instead of just once a month. On the council’s agenda were five committee reports, various commission reports, nine ordinances and resolutions, public testimony about animal nuisance codes, a public right of way hearing, and a public hearing about prohibiting medical marijuana cooperatives in the city. At the meeting Briana Fulbright, Event...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg High School junior Kyle Martin spent a week last month in Washington D.C. as a participant in the 2016 National Youth Leadership Forum (NYLF) for Security, Diplomacy, Intelligence and Defense. He says experience gave him a bigger picture of government and helped solidify his plans for the future. NYLF is a career development opportunity that introduces students to firsthand experiences and career opportunities in national security and related fields. Over six days, s...
Council members KC Kuykendall, Karen Gregutt, Kevin House, Karl Newell, Kate Hockersmith ,and Mayor Marty Dunn were all present. -City Manager Randy Hinchliffe presented a snapshot of the 2017 preliminary budget. Aside from the replacement of the Main Street Bridge and significant sidewalk repairs and additions, there are no major projects planned for 2017. A narrative version of the budget will be presented during November’s council meeting. A public hearing on property taxes and a budget hearing will be held during the November meeting as w...
WAITSBURG – Crumbling terracotta sewer lines infiltrated by tree roots, brittle and cracking concrete asbestos water pipes, and leaks in waterhsed spring lines, are indicators that the city’s water and sewer system is showing its age. City Manager Randy Hinchliffe suggested that the council consider a revision to the city’s utility fees in order to begin preparing for “some pretty substantial water system needs.” Hinchliffe said the recent water line repair under the Touchet River Bridge as...
Cade Branson can't help grinning as he sneaks a peek at competitor TJ Morrison during Waitsburg's homecoming Field Night on Friday evening. The pie eaters had to find and remove plastic coins from a whipped cream pie, a tapioca pudding pie, and a mayonnaise pie. Left to right: TJ Morrison, Cade Branson, Scott Leamy, and Kevin Murphy. See more Field Night photos on Page 7....
DAYTON-Alicia Walker has accomplished everything she is required to do, and more, in order to open the doors to a new restaurant in Dayton by the end of October or the beginning of November. Walker is calling the restaurant The Noble Hunt, which is aptly named for all she hopes to accomplish in it. As if running a restaurant isn't enough, Walker said that she also plans to work as a job coach for developmentally disabled adults, with the goal of placement into gainful employment in Columbia...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Town Hall Association Board will host a Halloween spaghetti dinner to make the cost of replacing windows in the building a little less scary. The fundraising dinner will take place at Town Hall from 4:30 to 7:30 on Mon., Oct. 31, for a suggested minimum donation of $5 per person or $20 per family. "In addition to raising money for renovations, we hope that having an early dinner will help families get the kids out to trick-or-treat by saving parents from having to p...
Photo by Nick Page Dayton and Waitsburg high schools presented their homecoming courts at the Dayton vs. Mabton homecoming game Friday night in Dayton. The two schools voted to join together for their homecoming dance which took place Saturday evening in Waitsburg. Court members (l to r): Olivia Ortiz and Cade Branson (Waitsburg), Kylee Harris and Joey Mitchell-Montoya (Dayton), Kirsten Miller and Braden Kitselman (Waitsburg), Jurnee Griffen and Tayven Seney (Dayton), Devon Harshman and Brayden...
DAYTON – Brad McMasters, Economic Development Coordinator for the Port of Columbia, said the rain ended just as he was putting the finishing touches on the children's bounce house at last Saturday's Oktoberfest celebration at the Blue Mountain Station in Dayton. The Dayton Kiwanis and the Dayton Lions increased their sales of Tucannon Meats' bratwurst and Chief Springs Fire and Irons' beer over last year, McMasters said. The Blue Mountain Station Co-op Market's German potato salad and German r...
DAYTON—The Dayton School Board discussed a possible sports combine with Waitsburg schools for high school baseball and for wrestling during their regular meeting last week. “Students, coaches and parents have been working well together to support both districts and communities,” Superintendent Doug Johnson said about the football combination program with Waitsburg. Johnson told the directors that there are ten or eleven high school students in Waitsburg who would like the opportunity to play...
The senior class walked away winners of Friday night's homecoming field night in Waitsburg, but they faced some stiff competition....
WAITSBURG – The Friends of the Waitsburg Fairgrounds met Oct. 6 with discussions centering around how to best solicit input from everyone using the fairgrounds, and the possibility of using the Don Thomas building as a riding arena. Citizen Survey The board opened by discussing an online survey they developed to help pinpoint all of the groups and individuals who use, or would like to use, the fairgrounds facilities. The information will be used to gain an understanding of all the ways the f...
Dayton artist Martha Mason (right) sketches a portrait in the Wenaha Gallery during Saturday's Dayton On Tour celebration. Mason was one of several artists showing their work in venues throughout downtown Dayton....
WAITSBURG – Plans for a massive Make A Difference Day clean-up and renovation of the Waitsburg fairgrounds in preparation for the creation of an equestrian center were discarded when Waitsburg’s City Council failed to approve the center’s master plan at their Sept. 20 regular meeting. Instead, a scaled down work day will take place on Oct. 22, from 8 a.m. to noon, with a focus on the elderly and disabled. Citizens may contact the Waitsburg Commercial Club at (509) 539-8773 or email waits...
DAYTON--On Sept. 28, the City of Dayton asked Superior Court Judge Jackie Shea-Brown to accept the withdrawal of its request for a temporary restraining order against Columbia County, and its Prosecuting Attorney, Rea Culwell, requiring them to restore prosecutorial services to the city. Quinn Plant, attorney for the City of Dayton, said that Culwell has agreed to restore services to the city for a period of 90 days, if the court allows. Plant said that because the nature of the situation is no...
WAITSBURG – After spending nearly three decades spraying crops for Touchet Valley farmers, Kevin Winger is passing the keys of Wing-Air to six-year employee Seth Murdock of Dayton. Murdock and his wife Paula, took over ownership on Monday, renaming the business Maco Aviation, Inc. after their two sons, Max and Connor. Murdock grew up in Alaska and learned to fly under the tutelage of his father, who was an airline pilot. He moved to Canada as a teen, but after graduating high school, he r...
Weller Public Library 212 Main Street, Waitsburg Hours: Mon. and Thurs. 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. Storytime: Mon., 10:30 a. m. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” by J.K. Rowling, John Tiffany, and Jack Thorne (Fiction): The eighth story. Nineteen years later. “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and...
DAYTON-The Columbia County Health System Board of Commissioners formally adopted a new District Compliance Plan at their monthly meeting on Sept. 29. CCHS Chief Executive Officer Shane McGuire publically thanked Chief Compliance Officer Cheryl Skiffington for all the work that went into the plan. "This is a milestone moment. We are excited to get it out to our staff," McGuire told the commissioners. In a separate interview Skiffington said, "We had been operating with a previous plan that...
Home Grown Go Wild 4-H group leader Cindy Daves puts the finishing touches on a window display created by her club members in the Ten Ton Press building on Waitsburg's Main Street. The display is in recognition of National 4-H Week which is the first full week in October and will be judged against competing displays in Walla Walla. Daves said her group does "a little bit of everything" including canning, baking, art, rocketry and science. To learn more about her 4-H group visit the group's Home...
WALLA WALLA – Twenty-somethings Cody Clark, David Brock, and Jennifer Nichols agree that it's a shared drive, focus, and goal that make their band, Framing Fables, something special. "I've been in a lot of bands, but I've never been in one that works together this well," Clark said. With their first album, Away From Home, released in September, the group is one step closer to their dream of making a living through their shared passion of music. The trio began singing together last November, a...
Pacific Power recently awarded Waitsburg a $2,000 check toward the purchase of Celebration Days banners to line Main Street. The check will help purchase 22 street banners, six entry banners, and one large banner to go across Main Street. Pacific Power also recently awarded $2,500 to the Prescott Parks & Recreation District to go toward the purchase of new playground equipment. Above: Waitsburg City Manager Randy Hinchliffe (l) receives a check for $2,000 from Pacific Power Regional Manager...
People came from far and near to attend the Waitsburg Lions Club annual Salmon Bake last Saturday. The event went off without a hitch and the weather was the best it's been in recent years, according to one club member. The Salmon Bake, along with the Rib Feed, are the main fundraisers for the local club that provides strong support for the community. Club treasurer Kevin House said attendance was close to the same as last year, with approximately 630 tickets sold. He said the fish was more...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg City Council was encouraging but said there was no way they could approve the 17-page Equestrian Use Proposal and corresponding community work day presented by the Friends of the Waitsburg Fairgrounds Committee at the council’s regular Sept. 20 meeting. Council members were impressed with the proposal, but called it conceptual and said there were many questions that still needed to be addressed, especially legally and contractually between the city and the proposed fairgrounds co-op entity. Equestrian Committee Cha...
