Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – The Columbia County Commissioners held a workshop Monday to consider regulations on the growing, processing, and sale of marijuana in the county. The session was set up last week after the board voted down a motion to ban pot businesses in the county. The commissioners met with County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais and Prosecutor Rea Culwell to discuss changes to county ordinances that will address regulation of recreational marijuana businesses, along with medical marijuana in g...
WAITSBURG – Nearly two dozen parents – more than board chairman Ross Hamann said he'd seen in attendance in his 12 years on the board – showed up at the Sept. 16 Waitsburg school board meeting to voice concerns about work crews from the Washington State Penitentiary performing work on the school grounds. The public comment session of the meeting was moved from the small Preston Hall Board Room to a larger classroom to accommodate the crowd. Parent Melanie Gagnon initiated the discussion by sa...
WAITSBURG – Local attorney Julie Karl recently moved Karl Law Office from its previous Dayton location on 527 Cameron St. to a newly remodeled office in the Hubbard Law Building on Waitsburg's Main Street. Karl's practice is separate from building owner and attorney Michael V. Hubbard's practice, but the two attorneys share a receptionist. Karl said she moved to Dayton in 1999 and worked for the Columbia County Prosecutor's Office for 13 years. While employed at the prosecutor's office, Karl ear...
DAYTON – Defense Attorney Michael De Grasse petitioned Judge Scott D. Galina to dismiss all charges against archeologist Richard Lee Lyman in Columbia County Superior Court on Sept. 16. Columbia County Prosecuting Attorney Rea Culwell requested that the case proceed to trial but said charges against Lyman’s associates, Dave Schmitt and Matthew Boulanger, would be dropped. The three out-of-state professional archeologists were charged in July with theft of prehistoric artifacts from the Uma...
WAITSBURG – Karen Gleason has been happily serving up breakfasts and sandwiches at her cheery mobile unit next to the Ag Link building here since she opened shop last Mother's Day. But she was getting a bit worried about not having indoor dining facilities with cooler weather just around the corner. On Tuesday, Gleason's Galley moved to Main Street, occupying the former home of Carmen's Deli, located between the Plaza Theater and Waitsburg Grocery. Gleason is not only happy to provide her r...
Walla Walla Fair Swine: Reserve Novice Showman- Olivia Ortiz Horse: Grand Champion Pole Bending, Figure 8 Race, Barrels - Emily Adams Reserve Grand Champion Pole Bending - Megan Morrison All Around Showmanship - Emily Adams Goats: Champion Advanced Showman- Kassidy Kuykendall Overall Grand Champion Showman- Kassidy Kuykendall Grand Champion Market Goat- Kassidy Kuykendall Overall Reserve Grand Champion Market Goat- Kassidy Kuykendall Beef: Reserve Grand Champion Market - Jared Farley Reserve...
The following is a list of 4-H and FFA members who entered still life exhibits in the Youth Building and entered various activities/contests during the 2015 Columbia County Fair and the awards they received. 4-H Baked Foods Lindsey Newhouse: Sweepstakes, 3 blue Rebecca Smith: Sweepstakes, 2 Reserve Sweepstakes, 7 blue Mackena Culley: 2 blue, red Kiley Curran: blue Cayle Davis: 2 blue Samantha Davis: 2 blue McKenzie Dobbs: red Daltin Lambert: blue, red Jessika Lambert: Cloverbud Award McKenzie Lewis-Seal: red Sagelyn Kilts: red Sadie Seney:...
WAITSBURG – In honor of the City of Waitsburg's sesquicentennial, the Waitsburg Historical Society found it fitting to commemorate its own history by recognizing the two surviving members of the society's founding group as Pioneers of the Year. Bob Patton and Dona Jean Smith hold that honor. The Waitsburg Historical Society was founded in 1971 and the original board included Roberta Broom, Jan Zuger, Joe Abbey, Dorothy Kison, Bettie Chase, Dona Jean Smith and Bob Patton. Carolee Jantz joined t...
WAITSBURG – This year’s Pioneer Fall Festival on Sunday is shaping up nicely, with plenty of fun in store for all who attend. The event kicks off with a nondenominational church service on the Bruce House Lawn at 11 a.m. followed by Pioneer of the Year awards at noon. This year’s recipients are Bob Patton and Dona Jean Smith. Judging for the First Annual Pie-Oneer Fall Festival Pie Tasting contest will take place right after the awards ceremony at 12:15, as the festival officially opens. Big stage musical entertainment includes Grandma & The Bo...
Two new park-style benches were recently installed at the Smith Hollow Schoolhouse grounds in Dayton. The benches are courtesy of the Anderson family of Dayton, friends & supporters for the late Rob Anderson, and Columbia REA. They compliment the recent bike rack/hitching post memorial for Rob Anderson. The green metal benches match existing public seating on Dayton's Main Street. The concrete pad for the benches was installed by Tanner Steinhoff of Steinhoff construction. Jack Himmelberger, a...
DAYTON – Cherokee Purple, Black Krim, Green Zebra, Brandywine. One of these or a dozen other heirloom tomato varieties could be this year's winner at the Third Annual Heirloom Tomato Tasting Competition and Dinner event this weekend in Dayton. The main event begins Sunday at 4 p.m. at TamiJoyFarm, near the south end of S. Fourth St. Guests will be able to taste up to 15 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, entered by local area growers. Heirloom tomatoes are grown from non-hybrid seeds, and come i...
WAITSBURG – If asked, Waitsburg High senior Trey Potts would have no trouble writing a typical "How I Spent my Summer Vacation" essay. His summer was anything but dull, though it may not qualify as a vacation. The 18-year-old spent his entire summer fighting fires for the Clearwater-Potlatch Timber Protective Association (C-PTPA). That was aside from the one week he attended the Kiwanis Youth Law Enforcement Career Camp in Shelton, Wash. Both experiences had a significant impact on his plans f...
WAITSBURG – The Board of Directors of the Waitsburg School District will hold two 'Envision the Future' Community Forums on Wed., Sept. 23 at 4:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. in the elementary school library. Everyone interested in the future of Waitsburg schools is encouraged to attend. Superintendent Carol Clarke will provide background information on the 1999 voter-approved Capital Projects Bond as well as the current maintenance and operations levy – both of which expire at the end of the 2016 cal...
WAITSBURG – On Tuesday night, local songbird Makenna Barron, performed at the Pendleton Round-Up, completing her goal of singing at an event at all of the Big 4 Rodeo Association rodeos in one year. As The Times went to press Makenna was also still in the running to hit another big goal – singing at the Wrangler NFR Las Vegas rodeo. Through the months of Aug. and Sept. Makenna sang the National Anthem at the Benton-Franklin Horse County Heaven Round-Up, the Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days, the...
PENPALS 4-H Walla Walla Fair Swine Jasper Morrow: Blue Market, First in Fitting & Showing his class Columbia County Fair Swine Peyton Struckmeier: Blue Educational Display, Blue Market, Blue Fitting & Showing Garrett Palmer: Blue Educational Display, Blue Market, Red Fitting & Showing Swine Swaggers 4-H Columbia County Fair Swine Devon Harshman: Blue Market, Blue and Reserve Champion in Showmanship Colsey Brooks: Blue Market, Blue Showmanship Mya Wood: Blue Market, Blue Showmanship Zack Wood: Blue Market, Blue Showmanship Cason Nichols: Blue...
The Grizzly Bear Complex Fire mostly stopped growing a couple of weeks ago, but it still covers about 116 square miles of the Wenaha Tucannon Wilderness and surrounding lands. While many areas in the interior of the fire still smolder away, fire crews from around the country, and even the world, are keeping the perimeter from growing. Last Thursday I got a close-up look at the efforts of some of the more than 1,000 people who were either fighting the fire then, or supporting the firefighting...
Luke Alexenko, of Waitsburg, spends some quality time with "Missy" at the 2015 Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days last weekend. This is Luke's final year to show pigs with the Waitsburg FFA Chapter. See story on Page 7 to read about a "first-timer's" exeprience showing at the fair....
Elgin, Ore. – While recent weather has been useful in stopping the growth of Grizzly Bear Complex fires in the short run, fire managers know that it has just slowed the fire down for now. Firefighters are mindful of the extended forecast, which includes warm fall days, and the fact that large fuel that burn for a long time are extremely dry from the extended drought that has affected the Inland Northwest. With these factors in mind, the southern portions will continue mop-up, and containment lines along the south and west will continue to be re...
WAITSBURG – "When I thought of all the things that could possibly go wrong with growing a giant pumpkin, this is the last thing I would have expected," said Gayle Broom. Her group's pumpkin was the largest at the Walla Walla fair, weighing in at 195 ½ pounds, but failed to bring home a ribbon because of a (disputed) late entry. Broom grew her first giant pumpkin, weighing 114 pounds, in 2013 and took first place in the weight class at the Walla Walla County fair. In 2014, Rebecca W...
DAYTON – The Columbia County Transfer Station (500 Cottonwood St.) re-opened, following a recent fire at the facility, on Thursday, Sept. 3. The station is operating regular business hours but users will find the entrance and exit to the dump have changed during the temporary set-up. Normal business hours are Tues. and Thurs. from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. and Sat. from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. The transfer station accepts appliances, tires, oil, paint, paper, glass, aluminum, and cardboard. Green waste items are accepted through Oct. and should not be l...
