The presidential election campaign is topping the national news all the time these days, with Hillary Clinton gaining and Donald Trump slipping in the polls.

But that election is still more than a year away. You’ll probably be reading about it in this space next October.

Right now, it’s time to pull our heads out of our TVs for a few minutes and take a look at the election that’s directly in front of us.

Touchet Valley voters have a number of important choices to make in the next week. In Waitsburg, residents in the city will be deciding whether to annex the city fire department into...