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Ten Years Ago

April 5, 2007

Should Markeeta Little Wolf’s preliminary 15-vote-lead over Mayor Marty Dunn in the 2007 Waitsburg City Election hold, the election will go down in the history books for its number of firsts: Waitsburg’s first female mayor, Waitsburg’s first mayor of Native American heritage, Waitsburg’s first African-American Councilman, and it would be the first time that an incumbent mayor seeking re-election was unseated.

Spring is in the air this week and along with the sunshine, breezes and sounds of farming operations coming back to life is one of Waitsburg’s ann...