Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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Friday, May 22: 9 a.m. installing flags and crosses on over 800 graves at the Dayton Cemetery. Everyone is welcome to help. Saturday, May 23: American Legion Post #42 Color Guard will lead the Dayton Days Parade on Main Street at 10 a.m. Monday, May 25: 7-10 a.m. veterans and friends invited to breakfast at Legion Hall, 211 E. Clay St. 11 a.m. Memorial Day ceremony at Dayton Cemetery. Tuesday, May 26: 9 a.m. Pick up crosses and flags from graves at the Dayton Cemetery. Again everyone is welcome...
DAYTON – Local youth leaders are asking community members and other supporters to help save the Dayton Summer Youth Program (Summer Rec.). All supporters must do is go online to: https://www.state-assist.com/cause/1502697/sos-save-our-summer. Those who vote for SOS (Save Our Summer) will help Blue Mountain Counseling and the Coalition for Youth and Families win a $25,000 grant from State Farm Insurance. Projects that receive the most community support (the top 40 projects) through voting will b...
Waitsburg farmer Jack McCaw took a seat at "The Game Table" during Saturday's art dedication ceremony. . ....
WAITSBURG – A visit from their neighbors, Mayor Walt Gobel and his wife Gwen, threw a happy kink into Jack and Nancy Otterson's Waitsburg Celebration Days plans this year. When the Ottersons told the Gobels that Eastern Star would be riding in their convertible and that Jack would be driving his red truck for the Alumni Association float, the Gobels informed them that they would need to reconsider that plan because they had been selected as 2015 Waitsburg Celebration Days parade marshals. (...
WAITSBURG – A horse with an empty saddle will walk in Saturday's Waitsburg Celebration Days parade in honor of Karen (Huwe) Mohney, who has been selected as parade co-marshal, posthumously. Mohney, a lifelong, active member of the community, passed away unexpectedly on March 15 at age 53, following a dog handler's event in Heppner, Ore. Mohney was born to Waitsburg residents Pete and Meredith (Hulce) Huwe on September 5, 1961 and attended school in Waitsburg, graduating with the Class of '80. I...
Light dances off Jeffrey Hill's "Founding Fathers" sculpture . . ....
STARBUCK – Columbia Pulp, the 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, has now been issued its six required building permits and is "ready to go," Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais reported on Tuesday. "Just last week they received their shoreline exemption to temporarily pump water out of the Snake River for dust control as they grade the site," Lyonnais said. "I think they're shooting for early June t...
DAYTON – A final count of votes on Tuesday confirmed the failure of Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital-improvement levy. It was a close vote, but just 48.9 percent of residents voted to approve the measure. A 50-percent approval was required. A majority of voters inside city limits approved the levy, according to the election results posted online, but voter turnout was lower in the city than in previous years where support for the district had been strong, according to Dayton Sch...
Top: Winners for the Waitsburg Elementary School 2014-15 Chess and Checkers Tournament . . ....
WAITSBURG - The annual Waitsburg High School alumni banquet will be held on May 23, 2015 at the Waitsburg Elementary School multipurpose room. A meet-and-greet will take place at 5 p.m. with dinner at 6 p.m. A social gathering will follow at the Waitsburg Town Hall. The Bruce and Wilson-Phillips houses will be open from 2-4 p.m. and the high school will be open from 4-6 p.m. Dinner is $15/person and dues are $10. The event is sponsored by the Waitsburg High School Alumni Association and is open to all graduates of the high school, their spouses...
DAYTON – Directors of the Columbia County Health System are wrestling with a tough decision: What will the community need from its hospital in the next five to 10 years? "With legislative changes to Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements and the rapid technology changes going on, this is hard to figure out," CCHS Chief Operations Officer Shane McGuire said. "There is so much going on in healthcare right now, I feel bad for the board coming in once a month and trying to keep up with everything g...
Dayton seniors Matthew Warren and Sarah Phillips are recipients of this year's P.E.O. Citizenship Award for possessing good qualities of character (honesty, courtesy, amiability, morality and punctuality), achieving high scholarship, and participating in a number of community and school activities. They are pictured here with Susie Payne, a member of the P.E.O. Citizenship Award Committee. P.E.O., which stands for Philanthropic Educational Organization, is an international group whose mission...
Dayton High School students, including many in the Students Helping Each Other (SHEO) club, helped clean the alleys and other out-of-the-way places near Steve's Grocery, around the high school and along the Touchet River dike in April. . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners are moving forward with repairs to the Columbia County Senior Center on E. Washington in Dayton. "This is a good, functional and well-used building," said Commissioner Merle Jackson. Jackson met Tuesday morning at the center with Zella Powers and Barbara Gibson, members of the Senior Center Board, as well as County Engineer Andrew Woods and Courthouse Maintenance Supervisor Dave Finney, to decide on maintenance projects. New flooring and a leaky roof w...
Friday, May 15 6:30 p.m. Antique Auto Cruise Cruise begins at Preston Park. Saturday, May 16 6:30 – 10:30 a.m. American Legion Breakfast Waitsburg Town Hall All-you-can-eat pancakes, eggs, sausage, coffee and juice for $5. Proceeds support American Legion projects. 9 a.m. - Noon Cancellation Stamps Waitsburg Post Office Purchase special Waitsburg Celebration Days envelopes for $1 and take them inside the post office to be stamped with a commemorative cancellation stamp. 9:30 a.m. Kiddie Parade Main Streeet Children in grades five and below l...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg resident Kevin Blair and longtime friend Paul Baumgart, of Hayden, Ida., have spent the last seven months working on a detailed replica of Wait's Mill. The partially completed model will be on display behind the Wilson-Phillips House museum following Saturday's Celebration Days parade. Blair (who wants no recognition and required major prodding before he would allow his name to be used) has traveled to Hayden regularly since November, to work with Baumgarten on the mill r...
WAITSBURG – The Waitsburg Post Office will be open from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturday, May 16 to cancel stamped envelopes with a commemorative Waitsburg Celebration Days stamp. Stamped envelopes containing a double-sided document with the city ordinance approving the seal on one side and the Walla Walla County Commissioners' proclamation on the other will be sold in the post office lobby for $1. Those envelopes may then be addressed and taken into the post office where they will be stamped with t...
WAITSBURG – Campsites will be available at the Waitsburg Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday nights during Waitsburg Celebration Days weekend, May 15 and 16. Camping is available on a first-come, first-serve basis. Bring an ATV and spend the night or enjoy the Burgers, Band and Brew without having to worry about driving home. Campers should enter the rear of the fairgrounds via College Street, the dirt road between the track and the City Cemetery, off East 8th Street. Travel past the pig barns to where the ATV’s will unload for the Poker Run...
Squire Broel's "Founding Fathers -- The Waitsburg Monument" was placed in front of Waitsburg's Town Hall this morning, May 13. Wayne Chabre's piece followed shortly after. Jeffrey Hill has expressed a desire to keep his piece under wraps until the dedication ceremony. A dedication for all three pieces will take place at noon on Saturday....
Superintendent wonders how to engage community in school-upkeep conversation DAYTON – The Columbia County Auditor's Office counted 61 additional ballots last Friday, but the new results don't show much change for the Dayton School District's $800,000 capital improvement levy. The proposal now trails by 23 votes out of 1,160 cast, a slightly larger difference than was reported after the initial count last Tuesday when results trailed by 21 votes. This election requires a simple majority, or 50 pe...
Gregutt recalls club's history, including giving daisies spot of honor as city flower WAITSBURG – A good-sized group of ladies from the Waitsburg Garden Club spent a recent sunny Saturday morning beautifying the town in preparation for Waitsburg's Celebration Days weekend. Club members filled planters with posies from one end of Main Street to the other. As they worked, Garden Club founder Karen Gregutt chatted with The Times about the club's history. Gregutt, who is celebrating her 10th anniver...
DAYTON – This little community was abuzz with activity Saturday, both at the annual street sale on South 3rd Street as well as all along Main Street and beyond, where Dayton sixth graders hollered and coaxed passersby to support their cause and buy a glass of lemonade. One grinning young man pedaled about in the Weinhard Hotel's surrey with a tray of full lemonade cups in the front basket, his digital device playing music and a sign on the back reading, "Musical Lemonade Taxi." In front of C...
Bargain hunters lined South 3rd Street in Dayton on Saturday morning . . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County road projects old and new were presented in April to county commissioners. To assist with one major new project, the county road department has hired two engineering interns for the summer to inventory and prioritize roads with clear-zone issues. The Federal Highway Administration defines a clear zone as the total roadside border area, starting at the edge of the traveled way, available for safe use by errant vehicles. This area may consist of a shoulder, a r...
DAYTON – Columbia County signed an interlocal agreement with the city of Walla Walla in April to share in the purchase and installation of a new computer-aided dispatch and records management system for the county dispatch center and sheriff’s office. The new system replaces an 18-year-old program that has reached “end of life,” according to Columbia County Emergency Manager Lisa Caldwell. For roughly $236,000 and a few thousand dollars per year in fees, Columbia County will gain access to a top...
