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Ten Years Ago

July 28, 2011

For T. J. Hersey, running her father's grocery store in Dayton is a way for him to live on. Hersey is now a third-generation grocer in the town. Her grandfather, H. W. Stephenson, came to Dayton in 1938 from Portland, Ore., and he opened up a grocery in 1944. Hersey's father, Gail Bennet, took over in 1961 and ran the neighborhood Steve's Grocery on Fourth Street until he passed away last year.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 1, 1996

Waitsburg's Days of Real Sports Queen Stacey Wolfe placed first at the Toppenish Pow Wow Days Parade on July 4. The following weekend Sta...

 

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