The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

It's a fact of life that many of the services we often take for granted in our communities actually involve choices. There's no rule that says school staffs can't be cut further, or that emergency service providers can't get by with less modern equipment. We get to choose whether or not those things happen.

Waitsburg area residents will face two of these choices on the ballot that is due back February 11.

One involves the Waitsburg School District. The district is asking voters to approve a $1.08 million maintenance and operations replace­ment levy for 2015 and 2016. This is a pretty stiff...