DAYTON--Mike Talbot is seeking reelection to the Columbia County Board of Commissioners in District 2. He is running unopposed.

Talbot was born and raised in Columbia County, and he and his family have farmed on the Whetstone all of his life, he said.

After graduating from Dayton High School in 1969, Talbot studied business administration at Walla Walla Community College.

"My dad was going to retire from farming, and he said that if I wanted the farm I had to do it at that time," Talbot said.

Neither his brother, Jerry, nor his brother, Elmer, wanted the farm, and so it fell to Mike Talbot to...