PIONEER PORTRAITS

Ten Years Ago

August 1, 2013

[Photo Caption] Firefighters mop up a harvest fire that began Saturday afternoon south of Dixie and spread quickly across the hills off Spring Road east of Highway 12. The three-alarm was the fourth mutual aid call in six days to which Waitsburg firefighters responded.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

August 6, 1998

Thanks to a lot of pantomime and extensive employment of an English-Japanese dictionary, communications between two Sasayama, Japan high school students and Waitsburg’s Bruce Abbey family, their hosts while visiting Walla Walla County the past two weeks, made the...