Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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DAYTON - In just over a week, the Missoula Children’s Theatre (MCT) will arrive at Dayton’s Liberty Theater for a one-week residency. The summer theater program runs Aug. 14-19, giving approximately 50-60 local students roles in an original MCT production. First graders through seniors are encouraged to register. Actors have fun while learning how to present themselves in front of an audience, memorize lines and improvise, and draw on their creativity. The week ends with two public performances on the Liberty stage. This year’s produ...
DAYTON-At last week's hospital board meeting the commissioners approved a request from CEO Shane McGuire to proceed with the development of a hyperbaric wound suite at the hospital, which will be the first of its kind in the local community, he said. "I feel confident we can make a run at this. This is a new service line. It is not offered in the region. It would be exclusive to us, for whatever time we could maintain it exclusively," McGuire said. Hyperbaric oxygen therapy is used to treat a...
DAYTON - Dayton hosted league opponents St. John-Endicott-LaCrosse-Washtucna (one combined team) and Colfax on July 25. The meet started with the first heats taking place at 4 p.m., and ended shortly before 8 p.m. Dayton finished third in the overall and women’s standings, while taking second in the men’s rankings on the day. This meet saw more competitors overall present than the first meet, and the day started off with freestyle events. Dayton scored points in the first race, the girls 12 and under freestyle, with Mallory Dowdy and Grace Tru...
DAYTON—The Board of County Commissioners has adopted two taxation propositions which will go before voters in the November 2017 election. Resolution 2017-16 is a proposition to fix and impose a sales and use tax at the rate of one-tenth of one percent, to be used solely for the purpose of providing funds for costs associated with financing, design, acquisition, construction, equipping, operating, maintaining, remodeling repairing, re-equipping, and improvements of the Columbia County E911 public safety emergency communications systems and f...
DAYTON--One of the topics discussed at last week’s BOCC meeting is what impact the state legislature’s budget will have on individual departments in the county. With the exception of the Public Works Department, and Planning and Building Department, most agreed the effects will be either positive, or negligible. While the state has passed transportation and operating budgets, it has not adopted the capital budget for the current biennium, because of a dispute over a measure relating to water rights, said Public Works Director Andrew Woods. As...
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DAYTON – Two bodies were discovered in a mobile home that was consumed by fire in the early morning hours of July 20, in Dayton. The bodies have been identified as Tami Jo Spring, 47, and Mike Hankins, 29. Columbia County Sheriff's Office and the Columbia County Fire Department responded to the fire, located at 603 Country Village mobile home park, at approximately 3:44 a.m. on Thurs., July 20. According to a Sheriff's Office press release, the home was fully engulfed when emergency personnel a...
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DAYTON – The Dayton Swim Team competed in their first home swim meet on July 18 against league rivals Pullman and Pomeroy. The meet began with the first heats at 4 p.m. and concluded with final relays around 7:30 p.m. Dayton, which has slightly less team members compared to previous seasons, did not let the drop in numbers take away from their competitiveness, placing second behind a strong Pomeroy team and ahead of the Pullman team. The first races of the day were the 12-and-under 100 meter f...
DAYTON - At approximately, 1:30 a.m. on Tues., July 18, Columbia County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Matt Wiens observed two juvenile females walking on east Main Street. Weins realized that the girls matched the descriptions of two runaways from Pendleton, Ore. that he had read about on Facebook earlier that day. Deputy Wiens made contact with the girls and confirmed that they were the runaways in questions. He transported the girls to the Columbia County Sheriff’s Office where they warmed themselves while waiting for one of the girl’s mothe...
DAYTON- A special meeting has been scheduled by the Dayton School District Board of Directors on Aug. 1, to reveal the district's choice for the position of elementary principal. At a meeting held on July 18 in the high school auditorium, the three candidates spoke to the public about their education, experience, hopes, and aspirations for the position. All three of the candidates emphasized the importance of building relationships, team building and collaboration, and achieving a safe,...
DAYTON – The Dayton High School Alumni Association held their 41st Annual Alumni Weekend festivities last weekend. While official events are only held on Saturday, alumni are in town reminiscing with their classmates beginning Friday and into Sunday. "Friday night, classes usually gather to put their floats together," Alumni Association President Roseann Groom said. "On Saturday, we had the parade, the annual meeting, the open house at the high school, and then in the evening the classes p...
DAYTON-The City of Dayton has received a certificate of appreciation from the National Park Service, marking the 50-year anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act. The city is one of 1,966 Certified Local Governments nationally, said Dayton Historic Preservation Commission Chairman Mike Smith at last week's council meeting. Mayor Craig George said there were 952 towns and cities in the state of Iowa, alone, who received this award, and that being recognized is an honor for the City...
Pictured from left to right: Dayton Chamber of Commerce Director Justin Nix, County Commissioner Norm Passmore, Distiller Rusty Figgins, Port Commissioner Gene Warren, and Port Manager Jennie Dickinson cut the ribbon at the grand opening for XO Alambic Craft Distillery, at the Blue Mountain Station on Friday evening....
There were 60 youth from the Summer Recreation Program, and through the Dayton Memorial Library's Wednesday program for children, at the HomeStreet Bank Parking Lot Party last Wednesday. The children made Homemade windsocks, and had an ice cream party....
DAYTON-Dayton Cut and Wrap is back in business doing mobile slaughter, and is under new ownership. Joe Nyce owned and operated the business with his brother in law Roger Trump since the 1980s, before the Westergreen family came on board with Tucannon Meats in 2006. The business became available in March of this year, and Scott Groom, a butcher from Walla Walla, bought the business from Nyce, and opened shop on June 1. Groom changed the name back to "Dayton Cut and Wrap." "I was here running it,...
DAYTON – This past Saturday saw Dayton's Blue Mountain Station play host to 20 vendors during its fourth annual FoodStock event. The event, which was originally held the same weekend as the famous Woodstock event, was moved after a conflict with a concert in Walla Walla two years ago. The day-long food, beverage, and craft festivities are now held on the same weekend as Dayton High School's Alumni Weekend, to give alumni and families another source for entertainment while in town, said Brad M...
DAYTON--Outdated telecommunication equipment is causing consternation for the staff at the county’s emergency management dispatch center, the sheriff’s office, Fire Districts No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3, and ambulance crews. It could be posing a safety issue for county residents as well. Emergency Management Director Lisa Caldwell, Public Works Director Andrew Woods, Fire Chief Jeremy Phinney, Sheriff Rocky Miller, Allan Harris from Fire Dist. No. 1, and Thor Wiegman, from Industrial Com...
DAYTON – The Dayton Swim Team is under new leadership for the first time in a decade, with new Head Coach Jamie Trump taking the reins for the 2017 summer season. The change in coaching occurred after veteran coach Rosy Nechodom retired following the 2016 season. Following many questions and receiving support from various community members and parents, Trump decided to take on the challenge. "People had been asking me if I was going to coach this year," Trump explained. "I decided to go back t...
DAYTON – The Touchet Valley Golf Course has played host to both a women's and a men's league this summer, and will also host tournaments at the end of the summer. The men's league has been held on Thursdays throughout the summer months, and will wrap up in two weeks' time. The league is made up of multiple teams of three golfers each. The women's league follows the same format, but their weekly rounds are held on Monday evenings, and will also wrap up in the coming weeks. Golfers this year h...
DAYTON—Dayton Alumni Weekend will take place the weekend of July 14-16 according to Dell Groom, who graduated from Dayton High School in 1957, and who serves on the Alumni Association Committee as Parade Chairman. On Friday, most of the classes work on their individual floats,” Groom said. On Saturday, an hour before, and during the parade, alumni will be able to register, pay dues, buy raffle tickets or visit on the corner of 2nd Street and Main Street. Money from the dues will go toward sch...
DAYTON – Things are pretty quiet around Dayton's historic Liberty Theater these days – at least when it comes to the air conditioning and heating system. Theater Manager Kirsten Schober says she is thrilled with the newly installed HVAC system that is not only ultra energy-efficient, but also "completely silent." Schober said that when the Touchet Valley Arts Council (TVAC) was formed, the organization agreed to put 5% of ticket revenues into a long-term maintenance fund for planned upg...
Arraignments: Scott E. Watkins, 38, Dayton. Charged with second degree arson, two counts of attempted residential burglary, and third degree malicious mischief. Eyewitnesses allege Watkins attempted to enter two separate residences and tried to burn down a storage tent. In another case, Watkins is charged with third degree assault – substantial pain. Watkins was booked into jail in May where he is alleged to have gotten into a physical altercation with a family member that was already incarcerated. At the time, both parties told police the i...
DAYTON – Dayton’s Blue Mountain Station will be home to a new bake shop starting July 15th when Michelle Swan opens the doors of Mama Swan’s Sweet Treats to the public during the station’s FoodStock event. The shop will feature various baked goods, including: handmade cakes, cupcakes, cookies, cheesecakes, and other specialty deserts. Swan says they will also feature her signature sugar cookies, as well as offering wedding cake services. All of the baking done for the shop will be carried out by Swan herself, and the front-of-house will be ran...
Art students from Dixie, Walla Walla and Dayton took part in a five-hour watercolor workshop held on the grounds of the Boldman House Museum last week. The instructor was Joyce Anderson, a local art teacher from Walla Walla....
