Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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WAITSBURG - Joanna Lanning is getting ready to take the plunge. Last year, Lanning, and two Waitsburgers, Patty Hazelwood and Vicki Hamann, took a dip in the Columbia River to raise money for Special Olympics of Washington. Lanning is the WP cross country coach, Hazelwood is a special education teacher and cheerleading coach Hamann is a paraprofessional at the high school. Lanning raised $800 last year. This year her goal is $1,000. "The majority of the funds stay right here," Lanning said of th...
JANUARY BILL TO REFLECT SURCHARGE WAITSBURG - The city of Waitsburg would like to let the citizens know the fuel surcharge approved as a part of the new solid waste agreement with Basin Disposal will be present on the utility bills that will be arriving in January. For more information about your bill, call 509-337-6371. CHRISTIAN WOMEN'S LUNCHEON DAYTON - The Christian Women's Connection (CWC) Luncheon will be held at the Seneca Activity Center in Dayton on Wednesday, Jan. 11 from 11:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m. The cost is $10.00 and will be catered...
Weylan Thatcher Folsom was born Dec. 9, 2011, at Wood River St. Luke's in Ketchum, Idaho to parents Jennifer and Tony Folsom. He was 8 pounds, 8 ounces. The Folsoms reside in Stanley, Idaho. Grandparents are Tom and Mary J. Mathews, Stan and Rose Folsom of Sangerville, Maine, and the late Robert T. Jameson....
WAITSBURG - Where did the holiday music go? The Christmas music that resounded from a speaker on top of Waitsburg City Hall for years was silenced in 2008, said City Manager Randy Hinchliffe. Hinchliffe said the speaker that emitted the holiday tunes is in poor condition and does not do the music justice. The music was controlled by a CD player that would get stuck on one song, resulting in a specific song, like "Frosty the Snowman" being played over and over again for hours. Unfortunately, Hinchliffe said, some community members did not find...
WAITSBURG - Waitsburg resident Clyde Burdine is offering a reward of $200 for prosecution or to fine the person who has been dumping animal carcasses in a drainage ditch near Whoop Em Up Hollow about a half-mile outside of city limits. Burdine has lived need the hollow since 1984 and he said the offender has been dumping carcasses in this area over the past two years. Burdine drives by that area about five or six times a day and has seen two deer carcasses a sturgeon carcass, and most recently, the carcass of a hog, head and all. The land is fa...
1 One Of The Best Years For Harvest Despite numerous challenges, including fires and rust, 2011 yields and crop prices went up and up. It was a great year for growers in the Touchet Valley. 2 Pot Busts Local, state and federal law enforcement officials took 37,000 marijuana plants worth $37 million this summer from several grows in Columbia County. They arrested three suspects who were later charged with manufacturing marijuana and being aliens in possession of firearms. 3 Triple Grand Opening I...
Going into the New Year celebration, instead of champagne, what about a red wine of superlative taste and a delicious pairing? For instance; the 2009 Gramercy Cellars, Montoya Temparnillo, a Spanish-style red wine, aged 15 months in American oak. This flamenco dance in a glass bangs in complex black fruits, swooshing the cheeks in swaths of earthen strawberries and cream, scattered in rubbed sage, cayenne pepper and a long truffled tongue. Hosting 97 percent Temparnillo and 3 percent succulent Syara Mourvedre, this wine is best served with...
Ten Years Ago January 3, 2002 The new Walla Walla County Public Safety Building improves efficiency for the Walla Walla County Sheriff's Department and Prosecuting Attorney. Sheriff Mike Humphreys demonstrated some of the improvements to The Times publisher. Twelve-year-old Kolby Weston, son of Tim and ZoAnn Pettichord, kept his wits about him and remembered what his mother had told him in case of a dog attack, curl up in a ball and protect your head. As Weston returned home he was attacked on Main Street by a vicious Rottweiler. Weston...
JANUARY BILL SHOWS SURCHARGE WAITSBURG - The city of Waitsburg would like to let the citizens know the fuel surcharge approved as a part of the new solid waste agreement with Basin Disposal will be present on the utility bills that will be arriving in January. For more information about your bill, call 509-337-6371. LOCALS RUN TRI CITIES RACE TRI CITIES - Waitsburger Joanna Lanning and her daughter, Marci Jo (a former W-P cross country and track athlete) participate in the Cable Bridge Run in Pasco each December. It's the largest annual race...
SKI BLUEWOOD -- I resisted it last year, miraculously. But my 14-year-old son was relentless at the outset of this year's ski season. I had to try it. I promised (in a moment of weakness) that I would give it a go. So, last week on a quiet day just before Christmas, I finally did it.I walked into the lodge at Ski Bluewood and signed up for a lesson in snowboarding . Of course my reluctance to "boost" on a "stick" was somewhat generational. When I first stood on skis at the age of 9, the Beatles...
WAITSBURG - Salmon in Walla Walla and Columbia counties will be very happy to know some local conservation groups have received millions in funding to improve fish passage and fish habitat. On Dec. 12, the Washington State Recreation and Conservation Office announced it was giving $30 million in grant money to different organizations across the state to help recover the salmon population. The grant money will provide more than 300 jobs over the next four years, according to the organization's website. Columbia County will receive $265,720 for...
Silas McClurg, a second grade student, is the Starbuck School District Elementary Student of the Month for November 2011. Silas is in his first year at Starbuck, and he is a superstar! He is excelling in all of his work in class and loving to learn. His Abraham Lincoln report was very well written, his reading skills are improving (he just finished a "Magic Treehouse" book) and he learned all about balancing and weighing objects in science. At recess and lunch times Silas is always helpful and...
cousins Austin, Ashley, and Avery played Dance Central Two on the X-Box Connect. We had a lot of fun! dad ate all the things that were on the table and I said that is not fair. Then the next day my mom cooked Thanksgiving dinner again. a hill. As he picked it up he looked at it and it started to get bigger and bigger. He was frightened. He didn't know what to say so he just stood there and he was never seen again....
The Times presents its 2011 version of the Christmas Special Section,a long-standing tradition in Waitsburg. Thanks to the generous assistance and efforts of the staff and students of the Waitsburg School District, we publish the children's poems, stories and letters to Santa with the Christmas season as a backdrop. The special section would not be possible without the support of the many local businesses, whose advertising helps make these pages a community gathering. Please take a moment to...
DAYTON - There is something unusual hanging around in Dumas Station's tasting room outside of Dayton - petroglyphs. Dayton artist Monica Stobie was hanging out with fans and wine tasters last Saturday at her gallery showing. Her work is on display through Dec. 17. "I was thrilled to (show my work) locally," Stobie said. The framed art was hung on wine barrels and brought earthy browns and bright turquoises into the space. The art features recreations of petroglyphs, a drawing or carving on...
DAYTON - Skyler Glasby, of Dayton, pleaded not guilty to three counts of forgery and one count of third degree theft at the Walla Walla County Courthouse Monday. Glasby is in custody in Walla Walla County for allegedly using counterfeit $20 bills. Glasby was arrested Wednesday, Nov. 30, at a mobile home on Plaza Way in Walla Walla after a 21- hour standoff with police. The standoff began at about 4 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 29 when Glasby and Joseph Dejesus, 20, fled arrest by the police and retreated into the mobile home. Police said both Glasby...
