Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley
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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...
Thanks to its tumultuous history and unique geography, America's culinary fabric is dense with an overwhelming variety of cultural threads. Today, we are both an indigenous population and waves of immigrants, each group with its own cooking traditions. With such a diverse pantry and confluence of peoples, the result is a complex tapestry, food weaving its self into our culture. Most food and wine historians agree that trends in food and wine have no limit to mimicking current events of the day. At this very moment, while U.S. politicians eye...
Ten Years Ago December 27, 2001 From the renovation of Waitsburg High School to Sept. 11, The Times cites the many changes that marked 2001. Pat Mohney's being in the right place at the right time to rescue Alexis Nordman from a pair of attacking Rottweilers, Glynn Davis was honored as Snowmobiler of the Year by the Blue Mountain SnoMo Club, Touchet Valley Communications, a new Internet service provider was introduced, Bill Thompson was named Lion of the Year, Brad Green joined The Times as an Educatorin Residence, and other accomplishments...
DISTRICT LEVY TO GO ON BALLOT WAITSBURG - Last Wednesday night, the Waitsburg School Board approved a maintenance and operations levy resolution. The levy will be before voters on the ballot for the Feb. 14 Special Election. If approved by voters, in 2013 the district would collect $435,000 ($3.62 per $1000 assessed valuation). For collection in 2014, the district would receive $447,000 ($3.72 per $1000 assessed valuation). The money would help maintain school programs and athletics, employees and the district's facilities. CITY GETS GRANT FOR...
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...
Driving out to Abeja winery is a pleasure, winemaker John Abbott is always a joy to visit and who wouldn't love to taste the Abeja 2011 wine releases with the winemaker? Pronounced, "Ah-BAY-Ha," Spanish for "Bee," I carried the consistently delicious, Abeja Syrah wine on the list at Wildberries Café a Vin, for nine years. However, today what has brought me to the source of concentrated flavanoids isn't a fine Merlot, but the 2010 Abeja 100 percent Chardonnay, a voluptuous white wine of valley superiority. I knew John Abbott in Napa Valley while...
Friends and family are invited to share in celebrating the 60th wedding anniversary of Tom and Anita Baker at 8 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 18, in the Waitsburg Presbyterian Church. The couple were married in Denver, Colorado and moved to Waitsburg in 1963 where Tom started his career as publisher and editor of The Times. The couple has been members of the Presbyterian Church for many years. Over the years, Tom has been an active member of the Masonic Lodge, the Lions Club, Commercial Club, Inquiry...
Ten Years Ago December 20, 2001 Inspired by the "Weston Shoetree," the Coffee Connection Café in Walla Walla, which opened in February, 2001, spread the Christmas spirit - collecting shoes to be donated to charity. Donators were treated to a cup of coffee for their contributions. Christmas is in the air with the Waitsburg band's Christmas Concert last Thursday. Members of the Sixth Grade Band featured in this paper include Kevin Steffanson, Jessie Farnsworth, Kellen Gerke and Shawny Ingle. The concert was directed by Brad Green. Featured in...
WAITSBURG -- Parents with children in Grades 5-12 are invited to attend the Waitsburg School District HIV/ AIDS Parent Preview Night on Wednesday, Jan. 4, 2012, from 6:30-7:30 p.m. in the school library located in the Waitsburg Elementary Building at 184 Academy Street. Following a preview of the materials, parents who wish to have their child excluded from participation in the HIV/AIDS Prevention Program may sign a release form. State law requires that parents or guardians attend such a meeting before they can have their child or legal ward...
WAITSBURG - A community staple that has played host to the daily "coffee club" for years is up for sale. The White Stallion Restaurant on Preston Avenue was put on the market by the Blanc Family on Nov. 24, said Tarah McCaw with Williams Team Homes. The restaurant is listed for $139,000 and includes a little more than an acre of land, the building and all of the furnishings. McCaw said there have not yet been any offers on the property, but the real estate office has receive a handful of phone calls from interested parties. The Times was...
