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DAYTON–An unidentified Dayton individual has died due to the COVID-19 virus on August 1, 2020, Martha Lanman, administrator of Columbia County Public Health announced Monday, August 3. The victim was a male over 50, Lanman said, who succumbed in the Holy Family Hospital in Spokane. Lanman did not have further details such as where or when he contracted the virus, other than to provide a gender, an age range and place of death. Due to the small number of residents in the county, information released by Lanman categorizes people diagnosed as p...
JOHN DAY, PENDLETON, BAKER CITY, LA GRANDE, PRINEVILLE, Ore. - Fire crews in northeast Oregon and southeast Washington are responding to multiple reports of smoke and fire following passing thunderstorms Wednesday afternoon and overnight. Approximately 34 confirmed incidents have been reported to the Blue Mountain Interagency Dispatch Center, John Day Interagency Dispatch Center and Burns Interagency Communication Center. Of these confirmed incidents, most of them are staffed and being actively... Full story
DAYTON–A pair of three-way races were winnowed down to two candidates in this week's Primary Election. Advancing to the 2020 General Election will be 16th District Senate candidates Danielle Garbe Reser (D) and Perry Dozier (R), and Asotin, Columbia and Garfield Superior Court Judge candidates Brooke J. Burns and G. Scott Marinella. In statewide contests, county voters followed the state trend with Democrat incumbent Jay Inslee (312 votes) and Republican Loren Culp (311), so facing off in Novemb...
DAYTON–School District Superintendent Guy Strot is working diligently with the local Public Health Department and staff to form a safety plan for school opening later this month. The plan will also include a response protocol for when COVID is contracted by someone in the school. The plan is set to be released to the public August 6. Strot says that it will likely be adjusted, as needed, in the weeks leading up to school opening in respond to the latest developments of the virus in and around t...
DAYTON–Kristie Korslund has been named Interim Library Director of the Columbia County Rural Library District for a period of six months effective August 1. The appointment was made at the Board's regular meeting held July 20 in response to Director Dusty Waltner's resignation as of July 31, 2020. Korslund has been involved in the Library's response to the COVID 19 pandemic and the Board of Trustees is confident in her ability to assume the Director's duties during this time. The Library will c...
DAYTON–The Port of Columbia has announced they have been promised $229,639 in additional grant money from four different funding sources for small businesses that did not previously qualify, such as newer and start-ups. According to information released by the Port, "Four different funding sources have provided or promised a total of $229,639 in financial aid to be allocated through a grant program coordinated by the Port. "My intentions with the additional money are to give it to those who d...
“There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism – by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide.” – Ayn Rand...
Residents of Our Fair City were saddened to learn this week that the coronavirus has taken one of our own. The subject of nearly everyone for the past several months, which seemed to—so far—be bypassing our neck of the woods, has hit with devastation for one of our families. For the past months, it’s been COVID-19 this and coronavirus that in the news and on everyone’s lips. Last week, there was some good news that seems to have slipped by with nearly no notice. A few federal agencies dealt a blow to radical efforts that have been underwa...
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“The farmer has always been a peasant.” – Richard Blinco Idaho When the market crashed in 1975, Richard had a ranch, feedlot, dairy, potatoes, alfalfa and a packing house. Here we sit 45 years later and not much has changed. Today less than 1.3% of the American population, (and 7% in Canada), is involved in production agriculture. We, who are left with the responsibility of feeding the ever-growing population that now stands at 331 million people. We do it. It is lots of work. We have an enorm...
knew on May 1st that the Employment Trust Fund balance would be eventually depleted but did not admit this publicly until June 30th. Prompted by an article published by Washington Policy Center (WPC) on May 1st, Senator Christine Rolfes, who serves as Chair on the Senate Ways and Means committee responsible for overseeing the state budget, forwarded the WPC article to the Governor’s office for clarification on the fund balance situation. Understandably, the Senator was concerned about the r...
HEPPNER, ORE.–BEO Bancorp (OTCBB:BEOB) and its subsidiary, Bank of Eastern Oregon, announced 2nd quarter 2020 consolidated net income of $1,401,000 or $1.18 per share. Total assets were $651.6 million; Net loans of $517.0 million; Deposits were at $526.8 million. Shareholders’ equity was at $38.2 million. “In rural America, we stick together and simply do what we have always done, we help each other, our friends, neighbors and businesses get through difficult times. This event is different, it is unlike anything we have witnessed before, but t...
By Kristie Korslund Dayton Memorial Library Interim Director This is a response from Dusty Waltner to questions about her resignation from the position of Director for the Columbia County Rural Library District: I was offered an amazing opportunity that I just couldn’t pass up. It will definitely be bittersweet to leave. I have enjoyed my time here in Dayton serving the people of Columbia County. I began my journey here in March of 2015 and it has been an amazing five-plus years in which I was able to learn about this incredible rural f...
Della Rosalie Bruce-Blain November 24, 1929–July 23, 2020 Della Rosalie Bruce-Blain passed away at Washington Odd Fellows Home on July 23, 2020. Della was born to Daniel Ernest and Lillie Mae (Pruitt) Davis of Dayton Wash., on November 24, 1929 where she attended Dayton Schools, graduating in 1948 and became a lifelong resident. She moved to Walla Walla in 2002. Della was married to John Bruce in 1949 until his passing on Nov 26, 2000. She was married to Leslie Blain in 2004 until his passing i...
Rita Rae Rogers Dudley November 15, 1934–April 24, 2020 Rita Rae Rogers Dudley, who was a much-beloved sister, wife, mother, and grandmother, passed away on April 24, 2020. Rita was born on November 15, 1934, in Dayton, Washington. Some of her happiest memories were growing up along with her sister on First Street. After attending Central Washington University, she married Gene Dudley in 1957 to whom she was married for 61 years until he passed away in 2018. They settled in Richland where Rita t...
DAYTON–Wenaha Art Gallery presents an art event featuring junk journals by Des Moines, Wash., artist Trudy Love Tantalo August 11-September 4....
Rodolf Capatar Villaro, age 71 years, resident of Milton-Freewater, Ore., died August 1, 2020 at the Providence St. Mary’s Medical Center in Walla Walla. Hubbard-Rogg Funeral Home, 111 S. 2nd, Dayton, is handling arrangements....
DAYTON–Charges against a 30-year-old Dayton man alleged to have assaulted a Dayton man last April will be dismissed without prejudice, according to Columbia County Prosecuting Attorney C. Dale Slack. Reid N. Ngiraswei, 110 S. Pine Street, was arrested by Columbia County Sheriff’s Office deputies after authorities were called to the parking lot of The Club where they found Kristopher Hogoboom, age and address information unavailable, lying on the ground, bleeding from apparent stab wounds on April 26, 2020. “It was alleged that Mr. Ngira...
Ten Years Ago August 4, 2010 Medal of Honor recipient Retired Lt. Col. Bruce P. Crandall of Port Orchard, Wash., who was awarded the nation’s highest military honor for his bravery, will key note the Vietnam Veterans Remembrance Day in Chehalis. He was portrayed in the 2002 movie “We Were Soldiers”. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 2, 1995 Two 1995 Dayton High School graduates, Will Hutchens, son of Bob and Anita Hutchens, and Mardell Lockard, daughter of Dennis Lockard and Joan Lockard, been awarded $1,000 each from the Glenn Terrell Presi...
Thursday: Patchy blowing dust after 11am. Mostly sunny, with a high near 82. West wind 14 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Thursday Night: Patchy blowing dust before 11pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 52. Southwest wind 11 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 29 mph. Friday: Sunny, with a high near 81. Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 54. Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 86. Saturday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 85. Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 56. Monday:...
