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DAYTON–A Columbia County Court Commissioner has granted an injunction, ordering County Auditor Will Hutchens to withhold a ballot initiative which would have dissolved the Columbia County Rural...

DAYTON–Three members of a Clarkston, Wash., family were injured in a single-car rollover accident on State Route 12, 10 miles east of Dayton Sunday, September 24. Driver Amanda J. Greene, 28, and pa...

The attorney for the Neighbors United for Progress, Ric Jacobs, and Prosecuting Attorney C. Dale Slack both gave statements in the Sepember 20 hearing before Court Commissioner Julie Karl. "We're...

DAYTON–The Lady Bulldogs are in the hunt for some wins as the young squad works and battles its way through the first half of the 2023 1B volleyball season. Last week, Columbia-Burbank downed the...

WAITSBURG–Fumbles and interceptions plagued the Bulldogs while Waitsburg's Cardinals made big play after big play on its way to a 48-0 S.E. B-8 win here September 15. Waitsburg's stingy defense...

DAYTON–The Lady Bulldogs dove into the 2023 regular season with a pair of losses last week, a home-court, three-set defeat by Tekoa-Rosalia on Thursday, Sept. 14, and a road loss to Colton the...

By Loyal Baker DAYTON–Following a hearing here on September 6, plaintiff Neighbors United for Progress, a Columbia County political action committee, obtained a temporary restraining order from...

DAYTON–The Dayton Bulldogs overcame a deficit in the first half to tie the score, then went on to register a seismic 62-38 win over the Yakama Nation Tribal Eagles, winning the first home game for...

DAYTON–The 135th edition of the Columbia County Fair will highlight those "Fair Dreams in a Small Town," celebrating all that is good about rural living when it gets underway this weekend, Friday...

DAYTON–A local political action organization and two associated individuals have sued Dayton resident Jessica Ruffcorn, organizer of a petition to dissolve the Columbia County Rural Library...

DAYTON–Taking the field as the Dayton Bulldogs for the first time in eight years, youth and inexperience played a role in the Dawgs' 46-14 loss to Sunnyside Christian here September 1, but first-yea...

DAYTON–An accidentally started fire in the 900 block of North Touchet Road was contained to around three or four acres with some vehicles, fencing and trees sustaining damage on Monday, August 28,...

DAYTON–After seven years of a combined football program and four years of a full athletic partnership with Waitsburg High School, the Dayton Bulldog sports teams are readying for the upcoming fall...

DAYTON–The Dayton Bulldog Football Program kicked off its fall season with a jamboree in Pomeroy last Saturday and new Head Coach Lucas Collier saw both some good thing and some things the team...

DAYTON–Local folks know the advantages of living here...quiet streets, friendly faces, how relatively more relaxed the pace of life is here compared to the big city. Late last year, the Washington...

POMEROY––With the demise of Columbia Pulp, the concept of finding a use for the plentiful wheat straw produced in southeastern Washington may be continued by a local entrepreneur who, if...

DAYTON–A dearth of moisture is the culprit in the 2023 small grains harvest being below average, according to Jacob Forsman, Northwest Grain Growers Dayton office manager, said this week, but the...

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...

DAYTON–The Missoula Children's Theatre is bringing "The Secret Garden" to the Liberty Theater stage this coming Friday and Saturday. A cast of 46 local young people have been intensely rehearsing...

DAYTON–The works of art created by local fine art painter Steve Henderson was the topic of a ten-minute segment on "Everyday Northwest" hosted by Staci Nelson, broadcast by KSPS-Spokane last May....

DAYTON–Craig and Kathy Mitchell of Greenwood, Ind., overnighted here on June 19, 2023, 100 years to the day that his grandfather, grandmother, great grandfather and grand aunt came through driving a...

DAYTON–Patrick Francis Donohue and his two brothers arrived in New York City from Ireland circa 1870-80 while in their late twenties or early thirties, with six cents between them. According to...

DAYTON–Town was abuzz with laughter, smiles and deep-rooted Bulldog camaraderie by alumni of Our Fair City's Pietrzycki High School – aka Dayton High School – with fantastic weather, a sunshiny...