Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Sorted by date Results 1403 - 1427 of 1905
DAYTON – Azure Mountain made a subtle entrance to downtown Dayton retail this spring, opening a handcrafted, artisan soap shop next door to Manila Bay Café on East Main Street. No grand opening or "loud" signs or displays in the window have alerted visitors and locals to the new shop, which is just how Art and Brenda Hall want it. "We want people to see our sign and be curious enough to come inside and see what we have to offer," Brenda said. And the couple both work full time, so the shop is on...
DAYTON – Jeannie Lyonnais has joined the team in the Dayton Elementary School office this month as full-time secretary. Her smiling face is new to the front desk but not to the district. She has worked at the school for the last 28 years on and off. Jeannie and her husband, Kim Lyonnais, moved to Dayton in 1986. They were both born and raised in Spokane. Kim is now the Columbia County Planning Director, a department he has managed in the past but took a short break from to work in planning in W...
DAYTON – Anna Steinhoff is determined to find beauty even in everyday life. She makes rings and necklaces out of bullet casings and Swarovski crystals and crafts bracelets out of leather and metal. This Dayton mother and wife, though not, she insists, a "girly girl," has carved a niche in the local jewelry business – and her pieces are on sale now at Azure Mountain on East Main Street. "It's awesome to see something I made on a complete stranger," she said. Like Art and Brenda Hall, who hav...
Dayton High School FBLA received awards in a number of events at the state Business Leadership Conference in Spokane earlier this month. Two Dayton members are serving as state officers: Taylor Frame serves as state parliamentarian, and Keelin Hovrud is the southeast region vice president. Taylor Frame placed first in Local Chapter Annual Business Report, and her work in this area lead to DHS receiving a chapter Gold Seal recognition. Frame and Keelin Hovrud placed first in Desktop Publishing....
This year's Columbia County Fair Hostesses, in the center not wearing hats (l to r) Katie White and Mary McHaffie, were joined by fair royalty . . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies arrested two of Washington's most-wanted criminals here last Wednesday night during a traffic stop in the 800 block of East Main Street. The couple, 29-year-old Jose Isidro Cisneros of Pasco and 22-year-old Breanne Nicole Rutherford of Walla Walla, were part of a Washington's Most Wanted report posted April 11 online. U.S. Marshals in the Tri-Cities, Pasco police and Department of Corrections officers out of Walla Walla were hunting for this w...
STARBUCK – The Washington Economic Development Finance Authority has approved issuance of $110 million in non-recourse revenue bonds to Columbia Pulp, LLC. The bonds will cover construction costs for the planned 449-acre wheat straw refuse recovery and paper pulp manufacturing facility to be located on Highway 261 near Starbuck, according to Columbia Pulp President John Begley. “It still has to go through a fairly detailed process, which will probably take about eight weeks,” Begley told The T...
DAYTON – After months of deliberation, Columbia County Commissioners decided on April 15 to switch power providers for the county courthouse and the county public works building from Pacific Power & Light to Columbia Rural Electric Association. Representatives from both utility providers were present at the board meeting, but relatively little discussion took place. Commissioners Mike Talbott and Dwight Robanske voted in favor of the switch; Commissioner Merle Jackson was opposed. “My tho...
First Appearance/Arraignment: Michael A. West, 37, Dayton; entered not-guilty plea on charges of residential burglary – domestic violence with sexual motivation, a Class B felony, and violation of a no-contact order – domestic violence with sexual motivation, a gross misdemeanor. These crimes allegedly occurred on Sept. 30, 2014, while West was on a court-granted 24-hour furlough from Columbia County Jail. West is currently incarcerated in Columbia County Jail without bail. Zachary T. Koehler, 27, College Place; first appearance on charge of...
DAYTON – Columbia County has its eye on Seneca property neighboring the county public works office on North Guernsey Avenue, including the much-used activity center and well-known "Labor Camp" on Green Giant Camp Road. This information was revealed during last week's county commissioner meeting when Ginny Butler, with the Dayton Historical Depot Society, requested that her organization have access to the site to document and record the long history present there before the county made any c...
DAYTON – Columbia County jumped from 24th in state health rankings to 12th between last year’s assessment and now, Public Health Director Martha Lanman reported to county commissioners last week. The county’s biggest improvements were in access to exercise opportunities, mental health providers and diabetic monitoring, according to the report provided by County Health Rankings – many of these were community health areas targeted by local wellness programs in the last year. “It shows that all...
DAYTON – Columbia County Fair Board members have appealed to Columbia County Commissioners several times this year, including at last week’s board meeting, to approve a plan intended to make enough improvements to the East Grandstands at the county fairgrounds that the space can be used at events where the newly repaired West Grandstands are standing room only. Commissioners and County Engineer Andrew Woods are concerned that the current plan, while proposing some critical repairs to the unu...
Dayton youth enjoy a Monday evening this week at the juvenile fishing pond at the Dayton City Park. Fish & Wildlife, with the local Salmon Recovery Board, replaced a filter at the pond this month so it could be filled and stocked....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners are considering the formation of two new special taxing districts, including a Flood Control Zone District and a Parks and Recreation Service Area. Both districts, if formed, could generate thousands of dollars annually for special – in many cases critical – projects that would otherwise be challenging to fund. County Public Works Director Andrew Woods presented a draft report to the board during its Monday workshop this week; no action was taken at the m...
DAYTON – For several years, Greg Bingaman, a La Grande, Ore. farmer and owner of Pioneer West Agricultural Solutions, has hunted for a place to set up shop in Dayton. His company already sells a large number of self-propelled sprayers to farmers in the Touchet Valley, and a local shop would serve not only those customers but new ones as well. "So I thought it was time," he said in an interview with The Times on Tuesday. "And we found the old fire department building for sale, so we bought it a...
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners along with County Risk Manager Andrew Woods and Prosecutor Rea Culwell have been working for months on a policy for screening volunteers who assist with county functions and events, such as the annual county fair. Currently such volunteers – who might help out in any department from public works (fairgrounds or golf course, for example) to public health and emergency management – are not screened through a background investigation. All county emplo...
STARBUCK – Lyons Ferry State Park, on the Franklin County side of the Snake River off Highway 261, will open this season with a grand re-opening celebration on June 5, according to a Washington State Parks representative. The state announced earlier this year that management of the park has been returned to the state park system after budget cuts demanded the state pull out of Lyons Ferry in 2002. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers owns the park; the Corps operated the day-use area seasonally, w...
Children of all ages are invited to celebrate Earth Day next Wednesday, April 22, from 3:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the Best Western Plus of Dayton. . ....
DAYTON – Columbia County Commissioners have agreed to join a group of local and Walla Walla County stakeholders in opposing a decision made last month by the Walla Walla Watershed Management Partnership that could adversely impact junior water rights holders across the Touchet Valley. The commissioners decided at their regular workshop on Monday to pledge up to $5,000 of county funds at this time in support of this opposition group, with the understanding that money donated to the cause from a...
DAYTON – The Columbia County Auditor’s Office will mail out ballots by week’s end asking voters to decide on the Dayton School District’s 2015 capital levy. The election officially takes place on Tuesday, April 28, and the measure requires a 50 percent yes vote to pass. This is the only measure on the ballot. The district is requesting $800,000 in property tax payer’s money – spread out over 2016 and 2017 – to make improvements to the district’s facilities. This amounts to approximately 6...
Children of all ages congregated at the Port of Columbia's Blue Mountain Station . . ....
Requesting: $800,000 in a two-year levy for tax year 2016 & 2017 Cost to taxpayers: 2016: 66 cents/$1,000 assessed property value = $400,000 2017: 65 cents/$1,000 assessed property value = $400,000 Example: A $200,000 home would cost the owner $132 each of the two years. Note: These are estimates. The new wind turbines will come on the tax roll during this time period and drive the cost per thousand lower – the county assessor has no estimate of how much. Timeline: Projects could begin summer o...
One-year-old Ryleigh Fabian of Dayton . . ....
First Appearance: Leonard L. Lytle, 24; entered not guilty plea on charges of 2nd degree theft of an access device (debit card), four counts of 2nd degree identity theft, and two counts of forgery; all seven of these charges are Class C felonies. He was also charged with four counts of 3rd degree theft and one count of use of drug paraphernalia, both gross misdemeanors. These crimes allegedly occurred in February and early March. Bond was reduced to $15,000 cash or surety. Joshua J. Berdar, 23; charged with obtaining a legend (prescription)...
DAYTON – Fruitland, Idaho, teacher Paul Shaber will join the Dayton School District team as middle school/high school principal in July. "This is a great opportunity for me and for my family," Shaber said in an interview with The Times last week. "I'm looking at it as a chance to go make something of myself." Shaber's wife, Angelina, currently teaches special education in Fruitland but plans to return to school and care for the couple's four children, ages 7, 5, 3 and 1. Shaber has taught m...
