Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Sorted by date Results 1378 - 1402 of 1905
DAYTON – Last week the Washington State Department of Natural Resources presented to several county residents at a public hearing its plan to sell 640 acres of land it owns in Columbia County to the Bonneville Power Administration in exchange for land deemed of equal value that BPA owns in King County. All three county residents in attendance were unhappy with DNR. Merle Jackson, a county commissioner and land owner in the rural northern part of the county where this land exchange is planned, s...
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners agreed last week to sign an interlocal agreement with the Houston-Galveston Area Council, a government services organization based in Texas, through which the county may purchase product and services from other government agencies. Lisa Caldwell, emergency management director for the county, presented the agreement to commissioners last week. She hopes that joining the council will assist the county in purchasing a new 911 phone system for the Columbia Coun...
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. . ....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Dayton's horticulture class and members of FFA worked with the Columbia County Soil Conservation District in April taking . . ....
Dayton's FFA Agronomy Team placed 8th in the state this year and will be receiving recognition on stage at the state convention this month. In other Dayton FFA news, the robotics team did not rank high enough to compete in the Regional Event in Cheney, but FFA advisor Kristina Knebel said, "We were still very happy with how we did in the district events. Being placed 8th at Ellensburg was a high achievement for us!" At the state convention in May the following DHS seniors will be competing and...
DAYTON - Tuesday’s preliminary election results showed that the Dayton School District’s $800,000 capital improvement levy proposal was trailing by 21 votes out of 1,099 cast. The Columbia County Auditor’s Office said 29 ballots remained to be counted. Addition ballots mailed by Tuesday may be added to that total. The remaining ballots will be counted and the election certified on May 12. The Times will have more election coverage soon on its website: www.waitsburgtimes.com....
DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System Board of Directors agreed last week at their monthly meeting that they need to move forward with a decision on how to spend the $5.5 million hospital levy approved by voters last fall. “One way or another, we need to make a decision tonight or by the next meeting on how we’re going to move forward,” said Ted Patterson, board president. “We promised the community we were going to do something with this money and we need to do it.” In February the board h...
Dayton High School FFA students prepared last week for the annual FFA plant sale. The sale continues this weekend during the 12th annual 3rd Street Sale in Dayton on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local churches and community organizations will participate in the blocks-long sale. Meanwhile Dayton sixth graders will sell lemonade at their own stands all along Main Street in Dayton on this day. The Blue Mountain Station Artisan Food Market is open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. The FFA plant sale will...
DAYTON – Dayton man Andrew J. Churchill, 43, pleaded guilty to multiple domestic violence assault charges last Friday in Columbia County Superior Court and was sentenced to seven months in county jail. Churchill was arrested in January after witnesses at Blue Mountain Station stated he’d pulled a gun on an adult male family member in the back parking lot where he and his wife operated a business selling items at the Port of Columbia facility just west of Dayton. According to the arresting doc...
DAYTON – The Columbia County Health System has hired Dr. Kurt Frauenpreis as the newest member of its team. Dr. Frauenpreis has just signed the contract and will begin seeing patients at Columbia Family Clinic, in Dayton, and at Dayton General Hospital in mid-July, according to CCHS interim CEO Jon Smiley. Dr. Frauenpreis, who received his MD from the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine in 1988, comes to Columbia County from the Pinedale Medical Clinic in Pinedale, Wyoming. He completed his residency at the University of O...
Local children celebrated Earth Day last week at Best Western Plus of Dayton . . ....
