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DAYTON–Director of Public Works Charles Eaton presented the Six-year Transportation Improvement plan for 2020-2025 during the Board of Commissioners of Columbia County (BOCC) meeting on Monday, December 16, 2019. The plan includes three sections: Bridge Inventory, Road Revenue vs. Expenditure Analysis, and the Six-Year Plan that is submitted to Washington State Department of Transportation. Three bridges, Vernon Smith, Starbuck and Baileysburg, have been deemed structurally deficient. Funding has been received for Vernon Smith and Starbuck. T...
OLYMPIA–Reps. Joe Schmick and Mary Dye, from Columbia County's neighboring 9th Legislative District, are urging citizens to attend workshops being held this January in Clarkston, Vancouver and the Tri-Cities on the governor's Lower Snake River Dams Stakeholder Engagement Report. "This report and whatever public input is provided could have a profound effect on the future of our lower Snake River dams," said Schmick, R-Colfax. "These dams provide essential electrical power generation to our s...
DAYTON–The Columbia County Sheriff's Office (CCSO) is updating training, gear and equipment in an effort to prepare for unexpected situations in and around the county, according to Columbia County Sheriff Joe Helm, in a news release this week. Each CCSO officer is being provided with active shooter response gear that will give rifle-rated protection, medical response bags and other updated gear to help handle a situation that hopefully never finds its way to this beloved community, according t...
WASHINGTON, D.C.–Eastern Washington Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and Congressman Dan Newhouse (WA-04) blasted a $750,000, year-long study of the Snake River Dams as a waste of taxpayers' funds and time. Gov. Jay Inslee's Lower Snake River Dams Stakeholder Engagement Report was recently released and is now seeking public comment. In a joint statement, Reps. McMorris Rodgers and Newhouse reiterated their displeasure with the study, a $750,000 state-funded study on breaching the f...
DAYTON–Columbia County Public Health will receive funds from two grants, and the Friends of the Golf Course is applying for a grant to fund improvements to the Touchet Valley Golf Course, County Commissioners heard this week. Walla Walla County Department of Community Health applied for and received a grant of $80,000 from Washington State Health Care Authority. This grant will be shared with Columbia County Public Health and will be used for Mental Health Promotion and Suicide Prevention. Martha Lanman, Administrator for Columbia County P...
Elizabeth Gibson's "Outlaw Tales of Washington" (available at Dingle's of Dayton) includes a chapter "The Great Nude Bathing Case." It's about little Home, Washington, a Pierce County settlement near Van Geldern Cove, now populated with get-away beach homes. But in 1897, three men bought 26 acres for $7 an acre on terms: $20 down and money raised by digging clams and selling timber. The three men, George Allen, O. A. Verity and F. F. Odell, established the Mutual Home Colony Association, an...
This Week's Political Cartoon by Michael Ramirez...
I confess to not owning a tractor. I have plenty of friends nearby with tractors. But in a lapse of good judgment I borrowed one to brush hog a patch of weeds. Experienced farmers, even an 8 year-old farm kid knows that you always drive a tractor thumbs up. I didn’t remember. As I was farming around I managed to hit a post with the front wheel. The steering wheel spun like a helicopter blade and jammed my protruding thumb! It swelled up so big it wouldn’t fit through the neck of a quart jar...
To the editor, Life in these United States–2019. We sit in our comfortable living rooms or dens, watching TV. We read the sports pages and enjoy drinking and partying at tailgate parties. We overeat and try to lose weight by buying weight-watcher’s subscriptions and enrolling in well-equipped gyms. We drive our gas-guzzling SUV’s from one store to another to shop. We love to call, text and search on our smart phones. Wow. What a hard life we have. In the meantime, our country, supported by our tax dollars, has rounded up over 70,000 child...
By Sarah Reser Library Board of Trustees My middle son was a reluctant reader when he was younger, it was all I could do to get him to crack a book open. Even when the book was open, it was a fight to finish the book. That changed the summer after 2nd grade; he was so interested in history that I suggested we read Unbroken by Lauren Hillenbrand. I knew that it was way above his level, but the content was so appealing to him, I thought we would give it a try. It took us ALL summer to read the book; we stopped often to sound out words and talk...
I enjoyed the 2018 documentary film about Fred Rogers - “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” - so much that I was skeptical about bringing in the new film, “A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood,” starring Tom Hanks. Tom Hanks has played so many real-life characters (Captain Phillips and Captain Sully, to name two), that even he got tired of it. He sent out word through his managing agency that he would not look at any more scripts portraying real people. However, he had already met Director Marielle Heller, who got discovered at Sundance in 2012. So,...
BREAKFAST Wed, Jan 1: Christmas Break-New Year’s Day-No School Thur, Jan 2: Christmas Break-No School Fri, Jan 3: Christmas Break-No School Mon, Jan 6: Cheddar Omelet, Toast, Jelly Fruit, Juice, Milk Tue, Jan 7: Waffles, Sausage patty, Fruit, Juice, Milk Wed, Jan 8: Breakfast Burrito, Nacho Cheese Sauce, Fruit, Juice, Milk Thur, Jan 9: Scrambled Eggs, English Muffin, Jelly, Fruit, Juice, Milk Fri, Jan 10: Yogurt Parfait, Yogurt, Granola, Fruit, Juice, Milk LUNCH Wed, Jan 1: Christmas Break, New Year’s Day-No School Thur, Jan 2: Christmas Bre...
KENNEWICK–New polling released by Washington Policy Center shows Washingtonians are opposed to destroying the dams on the lower Snake River and are unwilling to pay higher electric rates in order to have them removed. The statewide poll of 500 Washington citizens conducted in late November and released December 17, 2019, also reveals what limited knowledge Washingtonians really have about the Snake River dams. Some of the polling highlights indicate: -Just 7% of Washingtonians knew there were four dams on the lower Snake River. -Just 5% of Wash...
Ten Years Ago December 30, 2009 The Washington State Salmon Recovery Funding Board announced the awarding of $42.8 million in grants to protect and restore salmon populations to communities across Washington. The Dayton branch of American Association of University Women will fund 85% of the cost for a Columbia County middle school girl to attend WSU”s Cougar Quest week-long academic summer camp. Twenty-Five Years Ago December 28, 1994 The Columbia County Senior Citizens’ Center will soon have new quarters. At their December 19 regular mee...
It may be hard to find good help, but at one point an unknown number of years ago, it wasn't that hard to find happy help. It appears this sunny-faced group were laboring in one of the local orchards, but where and when are question marks. This photo is among hundreds in the archives of the Historic Dayton Depot Society, published in cooperation with the Dayton Chronicle, in hope our readers might recognize the photographs and/or subjects in them....
MILTON-FREEWATER–An offensive shoot out and a defensive battle characterized two Christmas Tournament games played by Dayton-Waitsburg here last weekend. The DW Girls dropped the Friday game against Irrigon 57-47, and were in the hunt against Stanfield in Saturday’s game, which was lost 38-30. Seven Lady D-Dubs were in the scorebook in the Irrigon game, led by 5-11 junior post Sadie Seney with 22 and 5-10 freshman guard Claudia Benavides with 10. DW had a slow start out of the blocks and were outscored 19-5 in the first quarter, but picked up...
POMEROY–Dayton-Waitsburg Bulldog wrestler Carlos Norris won three matches and lost one here, finishing third in the Pomeroy Christmas Tournament Dec. 27. "Carlos Norris had a great day, finishing third after facing some stiff competition," commented Head Coach Ben Slaybaugh. "He's electric and it's fun to watch him do what he does. "It was a tough tournament and they all wrestled hard," Slaybaugh said. Norris wrestles in the 138-lb. class and pinned Tyson Tucker of Potlatch, Id., at the 2:42 m...
MILTON-FREEWATER–Dayton-Waitsburg Head Coach Roy Ramirez is patiently waiting for his patients—correction: players—to all be healthy at the same time, to see how they might do on the basketball court. Never the less, the Dayton-Waitsburg boys have put in impressive showings, especially at a Mac-Hi sponsored Christmas Tournament here last weekend. DW faced Irrigon on Friday, losing 59-52, and then placed Stanfield Saturday, getting edged 53-52. “We’ve had a lot of kids out sick,” Ramirez said, pointing out that a December 20 league game agains...
