The Times - Serving Waitsburg, Dayton and the Touchet Valley

Dear Editor,

As the community should be aware by now, the Weller Public Library is under new management. When the new head librarian, Twila Tate, was hired she was also a Trustee of the Library. Seeing this as a conflict of interest and concerned about the future of the library, I attended the Library Board of Trustees meeting on September 20th, 2022. At the start of the meeting Twila shared that she will be voluntarily resigning as a Trustee. The fact that she wasn't given the ultimatum when offered the job to begin with is startling.

After some updates were given, the floor was opened to...