The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

We're carrying a story this week about an incident that occurred at Dayton High School in October and still has reverberations in the community today.

As reported on the front page, an alleged threat to at least one student and the reported subsequent discovery of a weapon on a freshman who allegedly made the threat a week earlier concerned some parents and students in the district.

Naturally so.

But how serious was it really? It might be impossible to gauge because of privacy laws that limit the district's ability to share information.

Many people inside and outside the district were left...