Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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LYONS FERRY - Time to swim, paddle, or kayak across the Snake River from Lyon's Ferry State Park to Lyon's Ferry Marina. Competitive and non-competitive swimmers and paddlers can now register for the 11th Annual Swim the Snake, which will take place on August 10, 2024 A non-refundable entry fee of $35 includes a commemorative T-shirt, event insurance, bottled water, and melon bites. Proceeds benefit the Blue Mountain Resource Conservation and Development Council, a regional non-profit that suppo...
STARBUCK—The Town of Starbuck in Columbia County, Washington recently completed an interior restoration of the Historic City Hall Building following an almost year-long shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. City Hall was the former Bank of Starbuck, originally built in 1904 at the corner of Main and McNeil Streets. It closed as a bank in 1931 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. The closure of the building in 2020 and into early 2021 created maintenance issues for the interior of the building. Leaking from o...
STARBUCK—Columbia Pulp LLC and Ag Energy Solutions, Inc have announced an agreement to partner in processing wheat straw from the Columbia Pulp facility through the Ag Energy Solutions biomass processing platform. The output from this processing is a form of high-quality biochar, branded Carbon Logic, to be utilized as a soil amendment proven to increase crop yields in some varietals by up to 60% and for carbon-sequestering initiatives. “Sustainably utilizing residual wheat straw in the production of innovative, natural products that imp...
STARBUCK—Columbia Pulp, LLC Vice President Mike Schock informed The Times that the straw-fiber pulp mill in Starbuck has brought back twenty employees since the company let go 93 workers in March 2020 at the start of the COVID-19 crisis. “We are bringing back people in maintenance, operations and at the office,” Said Schock. Eight employees with the mill were kept on at that time, and Shock reports they have 28 people currently working at the mill, with plans to bring more back each week. Columbia Pulp suspended operations on Tuesday, March...
STARBUCK, Wash.—Columbia County Public Health, Blue Mountain Counseling and Aging and Long Term Care (ALTC) will host a special event, focusing on the health of the aging population, in Starbuck, on Aug. 15 from 1-2:30 p.m. at the Starbuck Community Church (110 Main St.). The event will showcase: Blood pressure checks Aging and Long Term Care Services Basic Food Assistance Washington Health Plan Finder Insurance Mental Health and Substance Abuse The event is free to the citizens and community members of Starbuck and surrounding areas. This m...
STARBUCK—The Texas Rapids recreational area, located four miles from Little Goose Dam on the lower Snake River near Starbuck, will be closed Aug. 5-11 while Natural Resource Management maintenance staff sweeps and seal coats the parking lot and access road. “This work is meant to keep this resource area operational since budgetary constraints prevent complete repaving. This work will be followed by line striping to improve safety and efficiency of this highly visited site,” Maintenance Supervisor Mark Poirier stated....
