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DAYTON–The City Council was advised of $50,000 improvement grant recipients; the Main Street tree project; Water Waste Treatment Project (WWTP) progress; review of National Night Out; approved employment agreements with city staff, and other business at the meeting August 8. The Dayton Development Task Force acquired $50,000 in grants that went to making improvements for Main Street businesses. Belinda Larsen, Dayton Chamber of Commerce Director, told Council that the recipients included My D...
About a dozen and a half local youngsters turned out for "Soaked! Kids' Night Out At the City Park" Wednesday evening and by all indications, they had a wet blast. The wet and wild event was planned and sponsored by United Churches for Children of Columbia County and included the ever-popular Slip N Slide, water balloons, bubble-making stations, Tug-O-War over a sprinkler, a Splash Pad and more. The hour-long play session concluded with hot dogs and refreshments, a perfect conclusion to the...
DAYTON-The Port of Columbia discussed budget; approved broadband contract; approved a sale advocation letter; and other Port business during the meeting August 9. Budget talks began with Port Director Jennie Dickinson advising the board the Port will need to budget $1500 to insure their fiber network. However, the Port will begin to receive revenue from broadband operations. She suggested with the added revenue a salary increase or at least Cost-of-Living Adjustment (COLA) considered in line...
“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” – Michelangelo... Full story
BURBANK–A 65-year-old Burbank man is dead after a police standoff here August 13, 2023, according to Undersheriff Joe Klundt of the Walla Walla Sheriff’s Office. At approximately 10:43 p.m., the Pasco Police Department requested assistance from the Walla Walla Sheriff’s Office in checking a residence in Burbank to see if a particular vehicle was present. Due to deputies being tied up with a DUI arrest, Pasco Police sent one of their officers to Burbank to check the residence. Finding the vehicle they were inquiring about at the Burbank resid...
To the editor, One does not admire the person who attends the Community Picnic and spits in the spaghetti sauce. It reminds us of the pesky kid we all knew who would play Monopoly until it was clear that winning was not a possibility for him, and who would violently upend the board sending the game pieces tumbling to the ground and run home, crying. The Dayton Library opened in October of 1937, the same year as San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Hood's Timberline Lodge For 86 years,...
A popular song entitled "The Cat Came Back" is about a Mr. Johnson who had personal troubles and desired to give his cat to a new home. He gave it to someone who lived far, far, away, but the cat came back the very next day. He then gave it to a woman who went up in a balloon and landed 90 miles away but the cat came back the very next day. After that he tried sending it out west but the train crashed, and yet the cat came back the very next day. Each time the cat came back the lyrics contain th...
Rosalla Neal Crook 79, passed July 28, 2023 at Salina, Kas....
Thursday: Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 104. South wind 7 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 22 mph. Thursday Night: Partly cloudy, with a low around 69. Southwest wind 14 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Friday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 94. Breezy. Friday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 59. Saturday: Sunny, with a high near 89. Saturday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight, then a slight chance of showers....
WAITSBURG–"Not too many kids from Prescott are able to say they spent their nineteenth birthday in Tokyo, Japan," Jack McCaw, 96, said recently in recalling where he was and what he was doing during those events at the conclusion of World War II in August, 1945. McCaw joined the service upon reaching his eighteenth birthday in March, 1945, and found himself aboard an LSM (landing ship, medium), in the Pacific Theater. He and a couple classmates from the Prescott High School Class of 1945 missed...
PENDLETON–The Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman (Blue Mountains) National Forests have initiated the process to revise the Land Management Plans (Forest Plans), which provide the overall strategic management direction and guidance for the Blue Mountains National Forests. Revising these Forest Plans represents a commitment to managing productive and sustainable forests for the American people. Today's publication in the Federal Register initiates the assessment phase, which is the first p...
STARBUCK–The Tenth Annual Swim the Snake noncompetitive swimming and paddle boarding event splashed off over the weekend on August 12. The Swim the Snake was participated in by 37 swimmers and six paddle boarders at Lyons Ferry State Park and Lyons Ferry KOA Marina. Contestants gathered at the shore located at Lyons Ferry Park to swim the 0.7-mile stretch of Lake Sacajawea after paddle boarders arrived from the KOA Marina. At the finish, competitors enjoyed a slice of watermelon, a bottle of w...
DAYTON–No one was injured in a fire which totaled a camper van at the recreational vehicle park at 101 Hogeye Road Sunday night at about 7:50. Fire District No. 3 units responded and quickly extinguished the vehicle fire, which appeared to have started in the engine compartment of the vehicle then spread to the passenger compartment, according to Chief Jeromy Phinney of District 3. Fire personnel at right were readying the fire hose to extinguish the blaze....
DAYTON–Columbia County Fire District 3 responded to an equipment-caused field fire just west of the Lewis and Clark Trail State Park last Saturday, assisting District No. 2 from Waitsburg in quickly extinguishing the fire, which burned about an acre of stubble and very little standing grain, Jeromy Phinney, chief of District 3, said. The timely response kept the flames from jumping to surrounding standing grain....
Barbie. To live in Barbie Land is to be a perfect being in a perfect place. Unless you have a full-on existential crisis. Or you're a Ken (Ryan Gosling). Margot Robbie is Barbie (plus others), and the cast of this comedy includes many well-known actors. The Rotten Tomatoes "tomatometer" has this movie at 88% favorable from the critics, and the audience agrees with an 84%. That website's summary from critics is that "Barbie is a visually dazzling comedy whose meta humor is smartly complemented...
Ten Years Ago August 14, 2013 Portland General Electric Company (PGE) renamed a portion of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm as The Tucannon River Wind Farm, located in the north area of Columbia County, spanning across an area of more the 20,000 acres. PGE officially purchased the development rights to Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm from Puget Sound Energy. Twenty-Five Years Ago August 12, 1998 Eight Dayton High School students, Cara Hudson, Claudia Martinez, Megan Jagelski, Makaela...
