The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Some say they prefer not to wake up to this smell of coffee.

Most Waitsburgers are familiar with it. It comes in the form of smoke billowing from a stack at the anony- mous storefront between the old La Monarca Mexican restaurant and the Waits- burg Grocery store on Main Street.

Local residents have put up with the emissions from Dyer Straits Coffee for years, but it has begun to affect other businesses downtown and some of the business owners want some- thing done about it.

Before I get further into the details, I want our read- ers to know that I tried to locate a phone number for David and...