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Ten Years Ago October 16, 2013 Concessionaires at KOA Lyons Ferry Marina Jim and Angela MacArthur provided an overview of the recreation season for Port of Columbia County Commissioners. The MacArthurs reported the facility is not meeting the...

Ten Years Ago October 9, 2013 Water "banking" could impact junior water right users. A lease agreement for a water management program that is currently in process could have consequence for local junior water right holders. Recently, the Walla Walla...

Ten Years Ago Four local World War II veterans, USMC veteran Bob Budig, U.S. Army veterans Lowell Richter and Fred Gritman of Dayton, and US Navy veteran Jack McCaw of Waitsburg, flew to Washington D.C. through Inland Northwest Honor Flight to view m...

Ten Years Ago September 25, 2013 Morgan Breland accepted a donation from President Gary Schroeder of the Kiwanis Organization, to help finance her dancing to London. Public comment was heard regarding a moratorium on the recreational use of...

Ten Years Ago September 18, 2013 A tour up the North Touchet will give visitors and locals the view of the Indian Head Shadow that is visible above the Warren Orchards for most of the year. Dayton's Mayor Craig George, Mule Mania chairman Les Teel...

Ten Years Ago September 11, 2013 Students at Dayton Elementary School have a new piece of equipment on the playground. To help purchase the piece of new play equipment, students participated in a Read-A-Thon fundraiser. Other financial assistance...

Ten Years Ago September 4, 2013 Hostesses Heidi Miller and Emma Philbrook invite you to the 2013 Columbia County Fair. New bleachers have been installed in the Dayton High School Gymnasium. Taxpayers approved a maintenance and operation levy during...

Ten Years Ago August 28, 2013 Local officials learned of late approval of a state budget bill granting a sales and use tax exemption to wind energy. As a result, Columbia County will lose 75% of the projected sales tax revenue anticipated from...

Ten Years Ago August 21, 2013 Port of Columbia commissioners awarded the sewer project for the Blue Mountain Station East Lift Station sewer project on the Artisan Food Center to ML Albright & Sons of Lewiston for $182,591.08. The construction of...

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...

Ten Years Ago August 7, 2013 Wheat, The Economic lifeblood of Columbia County Agribusiness. Our rural population is currently in harvest, bringing in cereal grains to the local elevators. The largest variety grown in the area is soft white...

Ten Years Ago July 31, 2013 How many communities can say that 100% of their banks are managed by women? All four Dayton banks currently have a lady at the helm. Barb Miller of Sterling Savings, Bev Rising of Banner Bank; Judi Brooks of Bank of...

Ten Years Ago July 24, 2013 Washington Federal, Inc. announced it has entered into agreements with Bank of America to acquire 51 retail branches, including the Dayton branch. Amy Schlenz, Jordan Saranto, Melissa McCowen, Nicole Abel and Dustin...

Ten Years Ago July 3, 2013 Interviews were held for two vacant City Council positions with Mike Paris and Byron Kaczmarski. They both expressed support of employment opportunities for residents and the opportunity to give back to the community as...

Ten Years Ago July 17, 2013 Dayton General Hospital is upgrading its CT scanner. When Providence St. Mary's Hospital was upgrading, they arranged for Dayton General to get their retiring Seimens unit. The new installation is four times faster in its...

Ten Years Ago July 10, 2013 Parade Marshals graduated in the early to mid-1940s, giving honor to the Classes of 1944 and 1945, the Dayton Alumni Association selected two long-time Alumni supporters to be co-Parade Marshals for the 2013 Dayton Alumni...

Ten Years Ago June 26, 2013 Wesley Hoskins, who graduated from Dayton High School in 1940, went off to college then served in the military in WWII, became a practicing physician and surgeon then retired. Hoskins wrote a book "An Organic Childhood,"...

Ten Years Ago June 17, 2013 Construction of the Artisan Food Center at Blue Mountain Station is underway with the foundation complete and the plumbing needs to be addressed. A receipt of $109,000 in grant funds and $109,000 in loan funds at 2.55 inte...

Ten Years Ago June 12, 2013 Portland General Electric Company has signed an asset purchase agreement with Puget Sound Energy to acquire the development rights to Phase II of the Lower Snake River Wind Farm. PGE plans to proceed with construction of...

Ten Years Ago June 5, 2013 Jessica Tate, president of Dayton High School's chapter of National Honor Society, presented a check for $507 to Barbara Gibson for the Dayton Senior Center. Jessica appreciated all the community members that supported the...

Ten Years Ago May 29, 2013 The Dayton School District has four people, Katie Leid, Elementary Principal; Julie Howard, Teacher, John Hutchens, Maintenance & Grounds Supervisor and Dallas Dickinson, Elementary Secretary, who will be retiring with a co...

Ten Years Ago May 22, 2013 Veterans march through Dayton to raise awareness of WWII vets in hospitals. Their journey is simple – to march 100 miles from the Walla Walla Veterans Hospital over Memorial Day Weekend to shake hands and to say thanks t...

Ten Years Ago May 16, 2013 Learning how to aid the feathered, Dayton veterinarian Kennie Reeves, D.V.M, and local falconer Anne Dowdy joined participants from Washington, Oregon and Boise, Idaho to take part in a special raptor seminar at the Blue...

Ten Years Ago April, 2013 Life-long model and flight enthusiast completes scale model of Spirit of St. Louis. Jim Edwards crafted a full scale model replica of the Spirit of St. Louis, the plane to make the first non-stop flight over the ocean from N...

Ten Years Ago April, 2013 "Fire-Grab some iron!" inspires the name of Spring's brew pub. Mike and Ann Spring would have such a theme, and so Chief Spring's Fire and Irons Brew Pub has ignited. The Springs relocated to Dayton last October and purchase...