The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

It’s hard to believe that summer’s over for kids and their teachers (though not for the rest of us – September will, no doubt, bring more warm, sunny weather to the Touchet Valley.)

School’s already up and running in Dayton and Prescott, and kids head back to school next week in Waitsburg.

Every year at about this time, newspaper editorialists throughout the land write optimistically about the excitement of the upcoming new school year. They also, without fail, give a stern warning to all of us cars drivers: “Watch out for kids, and drive safe.”

Let me add my enthusiastic voice...