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DAYTON–With monetary challenges abounding due to the coronavirus, Mike Talbott is seeking another term on the Columbia County Board of Commissioners to be able to further contribute his experience in the post to local residents and taxpayers, if re-elected. Talbott will have an opponent in the 2020 General Election as Marty Hall has also filed to seek the Columbia County District 2 Commissioner seat. "Yes, I'm running for another term," Talbott told the Dayton Chronicle recently. Talbott ran f...
DAYTON–A Tucannon district agricultural producer has thrown his ballcap into the ring by filing as a candidate for Columbia County Commissioner for District 2. Marty Hall will challenge incumbent Mike Talbott for the elected position. I’m excited about it,” Hall said. “There will be a sharp learning curve, but that’s okay, we’ll get it.” Hall is running not only because he’s interested in serving, but because a number of people he’s acquainted with have been suggesting he would make a good...
DAYTON-Graduation is set for the original date of June 6, 2020 at 1 p.m. as voted on by the seniors. The closed to the public ceremony will be held on the front lawn of the high school. To follow group size and distancing requirements, graduation will be offered through Facebook Live. Seniors will gather with their families in vehicles and the ceremony will be broadcast by speakers. Each senior will come forward to receive their diploma and before they return to their vehicle, they will have a...
DAYTON-Columbia County Commissioners (BOCC) met with Public Health Administrator Martha Lanman to start the preliminary steps to advance the area to Phase 3. Lanman is composing a letter to Governor Inslee for the commissioners to sign that she will send ahead of the application request to alert his office of Columbia County’s plans to move ahead. She anticipates the application will be available Friday, giving her the weekend to work through it and have it approved by the State Health O...
DAYTON–An alert last week to prepare for possible rising water in local streams and creeks thankfully did not occur as warned by the National Weather Service. Volunteers mobilized on May 19 to place sandbags at a number of locations along Patit Creek in the city proper. Rain in the region was heavy and some areas reported about two inches, but the high water warned of never materialized. “There was no significant flooding or damage from the City’s standpoint,” reported Dayton Mayor Zac Weatherford....
DAYTON–A 30-year-old Dayton man charged with first-degree assault and fourth-degree assault stemming from an April 26 incident has pleaded not guilty at a May 6 hearing. Reid N. Ngiraswei, 110 S. Pine Street #14, is being held on $50,000 bond following the hearing in Columbia County Superior Court with Judge G. Scott Marinella presiding. Ngiraswei is charged with first-degree assault after Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to reports of an incident in the parking lot of The Club, and discovered Kristopher Hogoboom, age and...
DAYTON—Plus Delta After School Studios in Columbia County received $15,000 from the Innovia Foundation $869,300 grant recently. The foundation awarded 82 organizations in Eastern Washington and North Idaho through the Community Grant Program. The funds go to support community needs through their mission to enable all young people, especially those who need it most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens. Due to the rapidly changing circumstances caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, most of the grants are b...
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.” – George S. Patton...
DAYTON–We are in a historic time and history has yet to write the final chapter. Hundreds of thousands have lost their jobs as a global pandemic curtails business activity as 2020, an election year, started. Nearly all political posturing and campaigning came to a screeching halt in February and March as precautions were put in place. Supporters of President Donald Trump, by all appearances, are united in re-electing him to a second term. A large field of Democratic candidates has been narrowed to one man, Vice President Joe Biden. As the U...
The sport (passion, or affliction) of team roping experienced a terrific boom in popularity years ago with the creation of an association called United States Team Roping Championships (USTRC). It established a classification system based on the roper’s skill. It is comparable to the handicapping system used in golf. The result is that ropers are able to compete with others of ‘equal ability’ therefore increasing their chances of winning. As a roper improves, his USTRC number increases. Class...
DAYTON–Earlier this month, five members of the Dayton FFA Chapter were named as recipients of the State Farmer Degree, announced Kristina Knebel, FFA Advisor for the Dayton High School chapter. Receiving the State Farmer Degree were Kira Boggs, Jurnee Griffen, Cassidy Laughery, Tayven Seney and Josiah White, The State FFA Degree is the highest degree awarded at the state level, and award recipients must fill out an application that details their SAE (Supervised Agriculture Experience P...
WALLA WALLA–Columbia REA has awarded three post high school academic scholarships to local high school seniors. This is the 21st year of Columbia REA’s scholarship program. Columbia Rural Electric Association established a four-year scholarship program which began funding three scholarships in 1999. The first of those scholarships is in the annual amount of $1,500 and the other two are in the annual amount of $1,000. Each scholarship is renewable for four consecutive years. Ethan Haugen will receive the Clark A. Brewington Memorial Sch...
WALLA WALLA–Columbia REA announces the results of its 2020 Board of Directors election. The newly elected Board members are Greg Knowles (District 1), Vic Parks (District 2) and Neil Carpenter (District 3). For the second year in a row, a record-high number of votes were cast by Columbia REA members, who chose from a total of six candidates vying for the three positions. “At this time in our history…with what is happening locally and around the world…we are truly blessed with a Board that really cares about the people who live here,” said Colu...
Thursday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. Southeast wind 6 to 8 mph becoming north in the morning. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 57. North wind 5 to 7 mph becoming east after midnight. Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 88. Friday Night: Mostly cloudy, with a low around 65. Saturday: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 11am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 90. Saturday Night: A 50 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 55. Sunday: A chance of showers,...
