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Heavy machinery was working near the confluence of Patit Creek and the Touchet River last week, part of the first phase of work in the streambed being directed by the Columbia County Flood Control Zone District. Two county trac hoes and a bulldozer were busy removing river rock deposited during high-water episodes over the past couple winters. The goal, according to County Engineer Chuck Eaton, is to remove material to give additional capacity to the waterway during spring runoff. The second...
DAYTON–The Port of Columbia will conduct a public information meeting about the Touchet Valley Trail via Zoom webinar on Monday, April 26 at 5:30-7:30 p.m. The meeting is to share research findings with the public and review the thirty percent design drawings. It is not a public hearing, and no decisions will be made at the meeting. Beginning April 13, the 30% design drawings can be previewed, questions and comments can be submitted, and the live webinar link will be posted on the Port's w...
DAYTON–Sunday, April 18, will be Pastor Marj Johnston's final Sunday in the pulpit at the Dayton First Congregational Church UCC. "I'm taking a break from parish-based ministry," Johnston, who has pastored the Dayton church since 2011. "I have no particular plans except to spend time with family. "I came to Dayton on Thanksgiving weekend, 2011," Johnston said. "That first weekend was Christmas Kick Off and the first Sunday of Advent. It was a wild way to start my time here!" Pastor Marj is c...
DAYTON-Columbia County Commissioners adopted an ordinance which includes the intent to possess as a requirement and includes a provision for the City, unless the Council decides to draft their own. Columbia County Prosecutor, Dale Slack presented the Board of County Commissioners (BOCC) on April 12 with a proposed county-wide ordinance for controlled substance possession. This action came as a result of the state law being struck down as being unconstitutional in State vs. Blake in February....
DAYTON – Weinhard Hotel owners, Sev Jones and Christina Dingman are coming up on the completion of their first year of business at the end of next month. They opened last year over Memorial Weekend when many businesses were first allowed to open up after the initial shutdown due to COVID-19. Jones and Dingman bought the business from Gary and Shellie McLeod in March of 2020. Jones shared, "Considering stepping right into a full-blown pandemic, we've been very fortunate with our new endeavor." T...
“They’re on our right, they’re on our left, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us; they can’t get away from us this time.” –USMC Lt. Gen. Lewis B. “Chesty” Puller... Full story
OLYMPIA–I want to give my Democratic colleagues in the state Legislature credit. In a year when state coffers are overflowing and there is no financial emergency–still they have managed to break the bank. This couldn't have been easy, and it warrants special recognition. In a year when our majority colleagues in the House and Senate are pushing extreme legislation designed to turn the state into a Seattle-styled progressive utopia, their budget proposals wrap all the worst ideas into a sin...
A while back I was asked who has had the greatest influence on my life. I hadn’t ever given it much thought, like most folks, I guess. After considerin’ for a while, I came up with five people that I could say actually affected the direction of my thinkin’. My dad, Doc Brimhall, John Basabe, Red Steagall, Patrick Gottsch and Rupert Mansell. Mr. Mansell was my vo ag teacher in Las Cruces, New Mexico, from 1961-1962. “Here by the owl. The owl is the symbol of wisdom...” It’s hard for a 16-year-o...
OLYMPIA–After Senate Democrats passed a pair of bills Thursday night that would cause gas and diesel prices to skyrocket, Sen. Perry Dozier is warning food costs would rise and small farmers would be driven out of the business. Dozier, R-Waitsburg, a life-long wheat grower, called the measures “a poison pill for agriculture” and said they would have the most profound effect on farming of any legislation passed in the last 40 years. The steep increases in fuel costs are a top priority for major...
DAYTON–Seven area nonprofits in Walla Walla, Milton-Freewater and here will receive Sherwood Trust Spring Impact Awards totaling $80,000, according to CEO Brian Hunt. Sherwood Trust Impact Grants are designed to support smaller-budget projects of $20,000 or less that advance Sherwood Trust’s mission that everyone in the Walla Walla Valley has a sense of belonging and contributes to a thriving region. Impact Grants are awarded in the spring and the fall. Up to $120,000 will be available for this year’s Fall Impact Grant cycle, Hunt said. Sherw...
To the editor The silent majority. The silent majority must raise its voice in protest to the radical left that has surreptitiously taken over the Democrat party and is attempting to take over our nation. We are losing the Liberties that have made our Christian/capitalist country successful. Here in Dayton, we have been relatively untouched, but it’s coming. Tim Quade Dayton, Wash....
DAYTON–The annual Blue Mountain Artisan Guild Gallery Show “My Happy Place” is now open to the public. Featured artists are Laurie Nichols, Bev Startin, Ellen Heath, Kris Takemura, Sylvia Beulher, Michele Smith and Lorna Barth. Their art is available to enjoy at the beautifully new remodeled Dayton Memorial Library in the Delany Room. The video is available for viewing and sharing via link the guild’s gallery show on YouTube at My Happy Place 2021 or on the guild’s Facebook Page for Blue Mountain Artisan Guild. This marks the one-year... 
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OLYMPIA–The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is asking the public for assistance in identifying the person in the photograph at right who is being investigated for an assault that occurred on March 20, 2021. The suspect allegedly threw a water bottle that struck a female in the head during a protest at the Capitol. The WSP continues to investigate this and other incidents on the campus in an effort to ensure persons responsible for criminal acts on the campus are identified and their cases f...
Douglas, Franklin, Kittitas, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Skamania, Whitman, and Yakima counties experienced wildfires and straight-line winds from September 1 to 19, 2020. In addition to these primary counties, Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Clark, Columbia, Cowlitz, Ferry, Garfield, Grant, King, Klickitat, Lewis, Pierce, Skagit, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, and Whatcom counties were declared a contiguous disaster due to these wildfires and straight-line winds that occurred. Under this designation, producers with operations in any...
DAYTON–Chaos Walking, from Carnegie Award-winning author Patrick Ness and directed by Doug Liman, was released in the U.S. in early March, 2021. With a cast of Tom Holland, Daisy Ridley, Mads Mikkelsen, Demian Bichir, David Oyelowo, Cynthia Erivo, Nick Jonas, Chaos Walking comes as a bold cinematic experience beyond imagination. Todd Hewitt lives on the distant planet of New World--a new hope for humanity until struck by 'The Noise,' a virus which inflicts immersive visions of ones' every t...
Ten Years Ago April 13, 2011 Madeline Jensen, Dayton High School senior, daughter of Melissa Jensen of Dayton and Pat Jensen of Dixie, was recently selected as Queen of Walla Walla Fair and Frontier Days along with Princesses Amanda Quintal and Brittney Cutlip. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 10, 1996 Elissa Thorn, Dayton, has been recognized nationally by the American Angus Association for having registered one Angus cow included in the American Angus Association’s 1996 Pathfinder Report. Only 1,647 of the more than 29,000 members of the A...
Betty Lorraine Turner May 21, 1931–April 8, 2021 Betty Lorraine Turner, age 89 years old, passed away at Dayton General Hospital April 8, 2021. Betty was born in Dayton to parents Marvin Laughery and Christine (Hatfield) Laughery on May 21, 1931. She attended grade school and high school at Dayton and graduated in 1949. She married Lawrence (Lulu) Turner July 17, 1948, in Dayton. They enjoyed 71 years of marriage. In December of 1951, they welcomed their only child Richard (Rick) Turner. They a...
Renovation work underway at 211 E. Main Street, formerly Frontier Too Tavern, has been a treasure trove of mysterious photos, this glass plate appearing to be a portrait of a young woman wearing spectacles. The 1896 building, under renovation by Kim Lyonnais and Blaine Bickelhaupt, was once a pharmacy with a photo studio involved somehow. Anyone in the audience recognize the person? -Submitted photo...
PASCO–Two Dayton-Waitsburg golfers recently gave their first high-school golf match their best shot. DW's Caleb Barron finished a respectable fourth place in the 18-hole, par 72 match at Sun Willows Golf Course here April 8, and teammate Cayle Davis shot 131 to round out the Wolfpack golf effort. Barron's score was 104, behind third-place Evan Stubbs of Cle Elum with 101, Will Neylon of Columbia-Burbank at 90 and leader Sergio Sanchez, Cle Elum, at seven over par, 79. "The field was small due t...
