Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Sorted by date Results 1428 - 1452 of 1905
DAYTON – An attempted traffic stop at the intersection of West Main Street and Wagon Road in Dayton at 2 a.m. last Wednesday, April 1, led to a high-speed car chase westbound on Highway 12 through Waitsburg and Dixie, in Walla Walla County, before the driver and two passengers were apprehended. Columbia County Deputy Jason DeVoir planned to pull the driver over on the western outskirts of Dayton to speak to him about his yellow headlights, which are illegal per state law. Instead the driver, 1...
Third graders from Touchet Elementary visited the Fish & Wildlife acclimation pond and dam . . ....
DAYTON – The search for two overdue hikers from Portland ended happily last week after search groups spent two days in the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness, near Panjab Trailhead south of Dayton, attempting to locate the men. Chris Warden, 20, and Harrison Salton, 23, both students of Portland's Reed College, found their own way out of the woods late Wednesday morning, March 25; they left Portland on Saturday and had been expected home on Monday, March 23. Warden and Salton, though experienced h...
DAYTON – More than 26 residents sat – or stood when they ran out of chairs – in the small space for audience members at Dayton City Council Chambers March 25, at a Dayton Historic Preservation Commission meeting that lasted late into the evening. For more than three hours, members of the commission, along with city planning director Karen Scharer, listened and responded to a stream of negative public comments regarding Dayton’s two locally registered residential historic districts – Washingto...
Dayton High School 2015 Prom Court......
DAYTON – Installation has already begun on eight solar panel systems that will adorn the roof of the Port of Columbia's Blue Mountain Station just west of Dayton city limits. The panels should be in place and operational by the end of this month. The Port of Columbia, which owns the 6,912-square-foot building, has partnered with Walla Walla Flat Roof Educational Energy (WW-FREE) to install the panels. The solar array should generate 35.4 kilowatts of energy and provide Blue Mountain Station w...
Dave Finney, Columbia County Courthouse maintenance supervisor, planted all new roses on the courthouse grounds on March 16. Seven-year-old Dayton resident Moriah Hagg and her family helped Finney install the 20 plants where roses have been tended on the grounds for many years......
DAYTON – Columbia County has not yet moved forward in its plan to switch power providers for the courthouse and county public works office from Pacific Power & Light to Columbia Rural Electric Association. The county commissioners, on former Commissioner Chuck Reeves’s last day on the board, voted unanimously Dec. 31 to “begin the process” of changing power providers for these two county buildings for reasons of reliability, better quality of power, and the potential for lower utility rates....
DAYTON – The Dayton School Board last week approved the hiring of Paul Shaber as middle school/high school principal beginning in the 2015-2016 school year. The vote was unanimous, with board member Joe Heuther not in attendance. The vote was taken during the board's regular meeting, last Wednesday evening, after an executive session lasting approximately 90 minutes. Shaber, an Idaho math and science teacher, was one of four finalists for the position, all of whom met with the community, t...
Dayton photographer Nick Page admires the heavens as he stands on a hilltop outside of Dayton . . ....
DAYTON – Robert E. Bridwell, 65, of Dayton, was sentenced to 41 months in prison last week in Columbia County Superior Court after pleading guilty to sexual exploitation of a minor, a Class B felony. Bridwell was arrested on Sept. 16, 2013, at his home in Country Village Courts after a lengthy investigation led the Columbia County Sheriff's Office to suspect he was guilty of misconduct with at least one underage female. He was charged with 35 felonies upon his arrest, including sexual e...
DAYTON – Sixty-eight-year-old Robert G. Klingenstein, of Dayton, will serve six months in the Columbia County Jail after pleading guilty in January to possession of marijuana with intent to manufacture or deliver, a Class C felony. His sentence, which was within the standard range of zero to six months for this type offense, was handed down by Columbia County Superior Court Judge Scott Gallina last week. Sentencing was delayed for several weeks while Klingenstein attempted to find inpatient t...
DAYTON – John Garrett Waltermire, 24, pleaded not guilty last week to all charges associated with the March 2 break-in at Inland Cellular in downtown Dayton. He was arrested March 7 after a short foot pursuit by Columbia County Sheriff's deputies and Washington State Patrol troopers. The Dayton man was arraigned last Wednesday in Columbia County Superior Court on the charges of second-degree burglary, a Class B felony; second-degree theft, a Class C felony; malicious mischief, a gross m...
First Appearance: Desiree D. Klein, 36; entered not guilty plea on charges of possession of a controlled substance (methamphetamine) and three counts of endangerment with a controlled substance. Klein was living with Monty N. Dunn at 721 S. 3rd Street in February where deputies served a search warrant and allegedly recovered drugs. Klein’s three children were also living in the home. Sentencing: Michael A. Cameron, 30; sentenced to 90 days following guilty plea on charge of possession of a controlled substance (meth). Trials Set: William H. R...
DAYTON – Rachel Cortez may be new to Columbia County and her profession in public defense, but she's determined, she loves her new home, and she's known for nearly 20 years that she wants to dedicate her life to just such a job. Effective April 1, former public defender Dale Slack will join the Columbia County Prosecutor's office as deputy prosecutor. And although Cortez, who is 29, just arrived in Dayton as Slack's associate in January of last year – she will take Slack's place as the cou...
DAYTON – The March-December museum season is underway for Dayton's Smith Hollow School and the Palus Museum, but both are suffering the loss of local advocate Elizabeth Thorn, who passed away in February. Thorn helped make both local museums possible. "Elizabeth is missed, but we carry on," said friend and fellow history lover Diane Longanecker. However, with Thorn gone the museums now lack a cadre of docents to fill all the shifts. Longanecker said the Blue Mountain Heritage Society is h...
DAYTON – Dayton School District and the Columbia County Health District each received $77,000 this month from the William W. and Jessie B. Day Charitable Trust. Representatives from the U.S. Trust Bank of America presented the checks, along with an update on the status of the Day Estate farming operation and the trust’s investment portfolio, to school and hospital directors at an annual luncheon on March 10. “It’s a little higher than we budgeted for,” Dayton Superintendent Doug Johnson s...
Columbia County Commissioner Dwight Robanske (l) presents longtime Dayton resident Ron Groom with a plaque on March 18 commemorating 25 years . . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners met on Monday with the Washington State Liquor Control Board and two dozen citizens to discuss the issue of allowing recreational marijuana businesses in the county. After many hours of discussion, the three county leaders voted unanimously to extend the moratorium for another six months. “The easy thing would be to ban it,” Commissioner Mike Talbott stated before the vote on Monday. “But I’m not sure I’m ready to say ‘ban it,’ because I think the peopl...
Both Waitsburg and Dayton high schools inducted sophomores into National Honor Society last week. . ....
The event center at the Running T Ranch just outside of Dayton was filled with philanthropists Friday night during the Dayton Chamber's annual Blue Mountain Brix & Brew Benefit Auction. . ....
DAYTON – Dayton FFA students in the robotics program are gearing up for their second competition later this week. They ranked 19th out of 29 teams earlier this month in Spokane. "They had a great time, and they've really been committed to giving as much time to the project as they need to," said teacher Kristina Knebel (formerly Peterschick), who teaches ag classes at Dayton High School. The students, 18 total in the class, came up with the design and helped work on the robot. But nine s...
DAYTON – They say that only a planner understands what goes on in the planning office. Columbia County Planning Director Kim Lyonnais has managed planning and building departments most of his life. But this month he’s really learning the ins and outs of daily management of his department. He’s had to – he’s been running the office on his own. “I’ve really been enjoying it actually,” he said in an interview with The Times last week. “I like getting in and doing the work, being hands on. I’m rea...
DAYTON – It's hard to find the right person to ask about the juvenile fish pond at the Dayton City Park. Technically the city owns the pond and the water right that allows it to exist. The Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife operates the pond because it's stocked by the state with trout annually. And Steven Martin, with the Snake River Salmon Recovery Board, has sometimes had a hand in managing it because his agency seeks to ensure we always have fish in our waterways. When citizens...
Dayton senior Bonnie Laib goes in for another of her many layups during Saturday's donkey basketball match in the Dayton . . ....
