Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON – Members of Columbia County Fire District 3 are getting excited about the new fire station on Patit Road, with its 13,500 square feet and 16 truck bays, brand new living quarters for five firefighters, and enough offices for all the command staff. General contractor Joe Christensen, with G2 Construction out of Tri-Cities, is planning to have the $850,000 remodel of the old Columbia Rural Electric Association building complete by the end of this month. New Assistant Fire Chief Jeromy P...
DAYTON – Columbia County Prosecutor Rea Culwell spoke to the Dayton School Board last week during their regular board meeting in support of interim Secondary Principal Kate Wenzl. The district is in the hiring process right now for a permanent junior high/high school principal. Wenzl is one of four candidates for the position under consideration. "For the very first time in the eight years and two months I've been here, I have no new juvenile cases on my docket," Culwell told the board. She a...
DAYTON – Rick Turner has been the face of Columbia County Fire District 3 for nearly 20 years, but as of January 1, 2017, the chief will return to full-time farming and leave firefighting to the next generation of heroes. Taking his place as chief will be lifelong Dayton resident Jeromy Phinney. Monday was Phinney's first official day as assistant fire chief. He will shadow Chief Turner for the next 22 months, learning the full-time job of running this 45-person department with its four paid sta...
WAITSBURG – Incumbent Mayor Walt Gobel and incumbent councilwoman Debra Callahan accepted the Waitsburg Commercial Club's invitation to address residents at a Community Forum during the club's March 3 dinner meeting. No new candidates were present at the Forum which precedes the upcoming April 6 city council elections. Gobel took advantage of the opportunity to sing the praises of the current council and the city staff – in a speech punctuated with good-natured comments from the audience – rathe...
WAITSBURG – Now that Marilyn Johnson is no longer operating Etcetera's gift shop on Waitsburg's Main Street, she has decided to have a bit of fun with the display window flanking the Plaza Theater. "Sophie," a mannequin Johnson received from her mother, is the vehicle for her amusements. Currently, Sophie is dressed to celebrate St. Urho's Day on March 16. According to sainturho.com, the legend of St. Urho originated in northern Minnesota in the 1950s and has grown among North Americans of F...
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Sunday was opening day for the 2015 trout fishing season, and hundreds of fishermen, fisherwomen, and fisherchildren flocked to the Tucannon River valley for the event. By sun-up, the banks of Spring Lake, Blue Lake (pictured here), Rainbow Lake, and points further south into the Blues were lined with patient guests quietly - and not so quietly - casting and reeling in their lines. At Rainbow Lake, most of the vacant sections of shore were still frozen over on this cold morning. By 9 a.m....
DAYTON – Monty N. Dunn, the 50-year-old Dayton resident arrested at his home on Wednesday, Feb. 25, will enter a plea this week on a handful of drug-related charges. Dunn was booked into Columbia County Jail after local deputies and a special team from Walla Walla executed an early morning search warrant at Dunn's residence last week at 721 S. 3rd St. Deputies were acting on information that led them to believe they might find drugs in the home. "Today's warrant is the result of hard work and d...
WAITSBURG – Last year's Waitsburg Celebration Days ATV Poker Run garnered a great deal of local interest and enthusiasm but had to be revamped to an in-town scavenger hunt at the last minute due to an inability to meet Walla Walla County ordinance requirements in a timely manner. This year organizers started the permit process in plenty of time and prospects are looking good. During their regular meeting on Feb. 23, the Walla Walla County Commissioners approved a new ordinance that will allow th...
DAYTON – Parents and community members met Monday and Tuesday evenings with all four of Dayton’s secondary school principal candidates advanced to stage two of the hiring process by the selection committee last week. The candidates included Paul Shaber, Guin Joyce, Randy Hoover, and Kate Wenzl, who is the district’s interim secondary principal. Following a brief biographical introduction, the candidates answered audience questions for approximately 45 minutes each. The community members prese...
Madison Jones was caught reading The Times . . ....
Paul Shaber Paul Shaber currently teaches high school math and science in Idaho at the Fruitland School District and has been there for 13 years. He recently earned his administrative credentials through the University of Idaho. He doesn't have a lot of administrative experience yet, he said, but he often substitutes for his current principal as needed. The principal at Fruitland High School, which has 460 students, told Dayton School Board that Shaber, "thinks outside the box to help students...
WAITSBURG – Is it a deck? Is it a stage? No, it's a massive display case! The Times (whose Waitsburg reporter happens to live next door to the Wilson-Phillips House) has kept a curious eye on the recent flurry of activity taking place in the backyard of the house/museum owned and operated by the Waitsburg Historical Society. It turns out the burgeoning structure will be a mini-house that will hold a scale model replica of Wait's Mill. The plan was to display the model inside the Wilson-Phillips...
WAITSBURG – Waitsburg's American Legion Auxiliary hosted a Boys and Girls State Honor Night dessert at Town Hall on March 2. Students who attended the 2014 week-long mock government events shared their experiences and encouraged upcoming seniors to take advantage of the opportunity to participate in government firsthand. The American Legion Post #35 and Auxiliary sponsor Prescott and Waitsburg students to the events each year. Emma Philbrook, the only girl to attend the 2014 American Legion A...
WAITSBURG – Warren Land Company cleared hurdle number one after receiving a conditional preliminary plat approval for the proposed Whoopemup Meadows subdivision at a Feb. 19 Waitsburg City Council public record meeting. The council, with member K.C. Kuykendall absent, voted unanimously to approve the preliminary plat with conditions as recommended by City Attorney Jared Hawkins, rather than disapproving, as recommended by the Waitsburg Planning Commission. The 114-unit, 50-acre subdivision, t...
DAYTON – The Columbia County Commissioners have formally objected to the granting of a liquor license renewal to Monteillet Fromagerie, according to a letter written to the Washington State Liquor Control Board last week. The current liquor license on file with the state for the Fromagerie will expire soon. Monteillet Fromagerie is a cheese-making facility two miles west of Dayton that expanded its business to include retail sales of cheese, as well as wine and cheese tasting events. As part o...
DAYTON – In less than three weeks the Columbia County Commissioners will decide whether to extend the county moratorium on marijuana, allow marijuana operations in the county, or ban them altogether. In December, they agreed to extend the moratorium until March to allow more time to investigate the issue and make an informed decision. A public hearing regarding the county's moratorium is scheduled for 1:15 p.m. on March 16 in the commissioners' board room. The county's 15-month-long m...
WAITSBURG – In a war of wits, Waitsburg once again took first place in the 2B District 9 Regional Knowledge Bowl meet on Feb. 23, securing a spot at the state meet. This will be Waitsburg's fourth consecutive State meet and the last for senior and team leader Emma Philbrook. The WHS Knowledge Bowl team competed with strengths and smarts against 2B local rivals Dayton and DeSales High Schools. Led by senior Philbrook and junior Stuart Walsh, Waitsburg walked off with the win scoring 103 p...
WAITSBURG – When 7-year-old Jessika Lambert wanted to follow in big brother Daltin's footsteps and go into scouting, she was forced to join a Girl Scout troop in Walla Walla since there were no local troops. However, when she sold cookies in Waitsburg, she received so much interest from moms and daughters that she decided to do something about that. Jessika used the money she made from her first cookie sale to help start a troop in Waitsburg. A year later, local young ladies are busily p...
WAITSBURG – It’s time for anyone interested in a position on Waitsburg’s City Council to make their intent known while being aware of important deadlines. The top vote recipients – five for council and one for mayor – are elected to one-year terms. Candidates must submit a Declaration of Candidacy with the Waitsburg city clerk within the first ten working days of March, which means they must be filed between March 2 and March 13. Caucuses may only be held between 35 and 25 days prior to the election, which means they must take place by March...
DAYTON – What’s the best way to keep kids out of trouble after school? Give them safe, healthy activities to enjoy, says Dayton’s interim Secondary Principal Kate Wenzl. Members of Columbia Cares, the Coalition for Youth and Families, Columbia County Public Health and county commissioners agree. “The amount we have to pay for juvenile incarceration goes down when we have an afterschool program,” said Columbia County Commissioner Dwight Robanske. The county budgeted $70,000 for juvenile detention...
DAYTON – The Dayton Planning Department is offering a final workshop this Thursday from 6-8 p.m. in the Delaney Building at the Dayton Memorial Library regarding current city regulations for retail signs including permanent signs on buildings and temporary signs such as sandwich boards on sidewalks. Last week Planning Director Karen Scharer and her Whitman College intern Katie Stewart met with several downtown and "fringe" commercial business owners (such as the Port of Columbia) in two w...
Several members of the Blue Mountain Artist's Guild displayed their talent . . ....
Dozens of history supporters turned out Saturday . . ....
DAYTON – Members of Dayton School District’s technology committee are meeting this week to discuss the future of technology for the district. Dayton may consider a technology levy in February 2016 to replace the current levy in support of such equipment in the schools, according to Superintendent Doug Johnson. Capital levy funds are collected each year to support technology purchases in the district, according to Johnson. “Recently we placed an order for 48 Chromebooks. These are laptop compu...
