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DAYTON–The Port of Columbia held a much-anticipated Touchet Valley Trail (TVT) Public Information Webinar, presenting the 30% design by Anderson•Perry & Associates on April 26. The 9.7-mile, 10-foot-wide paved multi-use trail spanning from Waitsburg to Dayton is projected to cost $10.38 million. As the Webinar prepared to begin via ZOOM, opponents of the trail gathered outside the Port office in a peaceful protest of the meeting being held by Zoom. One participant, Columbia County resident Jud... Full story
DAYTON–Following the webinar presentations, a question-and-answer period of about 25 minutes was moderated by Tim Barrett, Assistant Planner at Walla Walla Valley Metropolitan Planning Organization/Sub-Regional Transportation Planning Organization (WWVMPO/SRTPO), the federally designated and state-recognized agency responsible for coordinating transportation planning activities and investments in accordance with federal surface transportation law and state statutes on growth management. While t... Full story
DAYTON–Citing personal reasons, Dayton School Board Chair Katie Leid submitted a letter of resignation to Superintendent Guy Strot, effective immediately. Leid has served the Board since 2016, and has dedicated 17 years to the school, including serving as the Dayton Elementary Principal from 2004-2013, according to Strot. School District Board Co-Chair David Bailey opened the April 21 meeting with an announcement from Strot regarding Leid's letter of resignation. In other news from the m...
STARBUCK–A residential fire, suspected to be started by an electrical malfunction, gutted 104 W. Main here Wednesday night. Columbia County Fire District No. 1 units responded and called for mutual aid from District 3 at about 9 p.m. The house was occupied by a renter, Phillip Clayburn, who is working on the natural gas facility nearby. Clayburn said he had retired for the night and had a box fan running in the bedroom. It stopped and then he heard popping and an electrical buzzing sound. G...
“Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.” – Mahatma Gandhi... Full story
By Rep. Skyler Rude, Rep. Mark Klicker and Sen. Perry Dozier OLYMPIA–The final gavel has dropped, and it's been a long and often difficult process because of such an unusual year created by COVID 19. We have enjoyed representing and serving the people of the 16 district and we worked hard to represent it the best we could. Although there were some good bills this year the legislature passed some very problematic bills that will hurt Washington families. Unnecessary taxes. Despite our o...
I grew up in a county that was 65% Spanish-speaking. The biggest distinction between races was not color, it was Catholics and Baptists. My first experience with prejudice was the summer I spent on a job in Kansas City…1978… the year after the city burned itself down. Years ago in Kansas City, I set out one night to find one of them ‘down home’ guitar blues pickers that I had read about in the Sunday paper. I was drivin’ around Saturday night lookin’ for Walter’s Crescendo Lounge. I had some rib...
By David Boze ABC News opened up its story on the Snake River dams by parroting a line from an environmental group that "the salmon population [is] near extinction." That claim is demonstrably false. While we're glad ABC News reached out to WPC Center for the Environment Director Todd Myers for comment, it's frustrating to see the report framed in an alarmist narrative despite hard data to the contrary. Todd sent them the Washington State of the Salmon Report 2020 - Adult Salmon Abundance |...
To the editor, The taxpaying citizens of Columbia County have approved and are paying for bonds supporting Education and schools, Hospital and Health Care and Fire Department and Ambulance Services, all which support our quality of life. We are now being asked to soon support and help pay for a decades overdue new Justice Center and Jail, also which affects our quality of life. Very limited tax dollars are available in Columbia County to pay for these essential quality of life services. With COVID’s impact it will take months if not years to r...
WALLA WALLA–The Dayton-Columbia County Fund and Warren Community Action funds are currently accepting grant applications from nonprofit and charitable organizations serving Columbia County and the surrounding area, including Waitsburg. The deadline for applications is May 1, 2021. The Dayton-Columbia County Fund was created at Blue Mountain Community Foundation in 2004 by seventeen community leaders to establish the largest source of charitable grant money dedicated to capital projects and improving the wellbeing of Dayton and Columbia C...
WALLA WALLA–The Wild & Scenic Film Festival for school age children have just arrived online in the Blue Mountain Region and videos are on demand April 26–May 3. This is the seventh year in which the Blue Mountain Land Trust (BMLT) has partnered with the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) to share these films to inspire and ignite solutions and possibilities to restore the earth and our communities while creating a positive future for the next generation. Festival-goers can expect award-winning films about nature, community activism, adv...
BREAKFAST Wed, Apr 28: Pizza Breakfast Bagel, Fruit, Milk Thur, Apr 29: Breakfast Stick, Fruit, Milk Fri, Apr 30: Maple Bar, Scrambled Eggs, Fruit, Milk Mon, May 3: Breakfast Burrito, Fruit, Milk Tue, May 4: Muffin, Cheddar Omelet, Fruit, Milk Wed, May 5: Waffles, Sausage Patty, Fruit, Milk Thur, May 6: Cheddar Omelet, Toast, Fruit, Milk Fri, May 7: Cereal, Fruit, Milk LUNCH Wed, Apr 28: Hot Ham Y Cheese on a Bun, Veggie, Fruit, Milk Thur, Apr 29: Corn Dogs, Chips, Fruit, Milk Fri, Apr 30:...
DAYTON–School has gotten back into its groove after spring break two weeks ago with renewed determination to get traditional spring plans on track. Before break, Dayton High School (DHS) had established a great footing with a successful homecoming spirit week, and since the return from spring break, some exciting events have taken place, or have begun to come together. Just two days after returning from spring break on Tuesday, April 13, the annual SAT test was held in the high school library. T...
The Courier, released in March, 2021, is the true story of an unassuming British businessman Greville Wynne (Benedict Cumberbatch) recruited into one of the greatest international conflicts in history. At the behest of the UK's MI-6 and a CIA operative (Rachel Brosnahan), he forms a covert, dangerous partnership with Soviet officer Oleg Penkovsky (Merab Ninidze) in an effort to provide crucial intelligence needed to prevent a nuclear confrontation and defuse the Cuban Missile Crisis. Some review...
CHENEY–Two Dayton High School grads were named to the Eastern Washington University Dean's List for Winter Quarter, 2021. An undergraduate student who earns 12 quality hours and receives a GPA of 3.5 or better is placed on the Dean's List. Named were Kayla Dedloff and Marisa Klein-Chavez. Tayler Jones of Waitsburg was also on the Dean's List....
Ten Years Ago April 27, 2011 Dayton Wine Works, which specializes in private-label wine production and distribution, and is a tasting room for Abacus Wine LLC, opened last fall at 507 E. Main. Gearing up for a full season of wine tasting, Carl Cramer has lined up folk, country, blues, jazz and rock performers for entertainment. Twenty-Five Years Ago April 24, 1996 When you go to the Golf Course, the new operators of the dining facility, Pearl and Merle Bickelhaupt, now provide a new ambience, new crew, new menu and a new name, Pearl’s Place. F...
With this picture from Dayton High School's 1956 Nesika Wawa yearbook, Duane Dunlap of Dayton confirmed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that the Mystery Portraits first printed April 15 and last week identified by Sue Bell and Marilyn Groom as possibly being Frances Rainwater Spoonemore, was in fact the beloved Office Secretary of many, many years. Dunlap was gratified that the person whose image was on the glass-plate negatives recovered during renovations of the former Frontier Too Tavern...
GRANGER–Pitching by Granger's Candenas was more than the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack could handle on this outing and Granger easily sliced through the double-bill with a pair of wins here April 21. DW is looking at the final few games of the season, today, April 29, journeying to plat Cle Elum at Granger's field, then hosting TriCities Prep Saturday in Dayton and finishing the season on May 3 against the Granger JV. "We had good defense," commented Head Coach Carly Benavides, of the Granger o...
DAYTON–Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack Golf hosted a match here Wednesday, April 21, and Pack golfers Teagen Larsen and Caleb Barron represented the school well, finishing third and sixth, respectively. The final match of the season was played Tuesday at Suncadia Golf Course in Cle Elem, Wash., a match which will set places of this season's top golfers who competed under truncated covid circumstances. Results from the championships will be published next week. Larsen, a senior DW golfer, carded 114 t...
BURBANK–The Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack dropped a pair of games to Columbia-Burbank here April 24, losing the first game of a twin bill 9-1, and the second by 14-2. DW played River View Junior Varsity Wednesday, April 28, at Waitsburg, and will wrap up the covid-shortened season with a home double header Friday, April 30, also on the Waitsburg diamond. Dayton-Waitsburg took the first lead of the year into the bottom of the third inning, said Head Coach Johnny Watts. "For a team solely made up with...
