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DAYTON–Columbia County voters will be receiving their vote-by-mail ballots from their friendly neighborhood mail carrier at the end of this week in advance of the 2021 General Election on November 2...

DAYTON–Last week's volleyball matches were both three-set losses for the Dayton-Waitsburg Lady Wolfpack volleyball squad. DW is now 0-6 overall, 0-5 in league, and has a break in the schedule this...

WAITSBURG–The Warden Cougars came to town and went home with a 54-0 win over the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack in a game that started out looking to be a fairly even contest. The game was played here Th...

DAYTON–Local members of Dayton Eagles Aerie No. 2618 continue to work inside the water- and smoke-damaged structure at 222 East Main while awaiting resolution of inspections by a realtor adjustor...

ANATONE–Columbia County Undersheriff Robbie Patterson is recovering at home this week after spending a few days in a Lewiston, Id., hospital following a motorcycle accident on State Route 129, 25...

DAYTON–The 2021 Columbia County Fair was unfazed by a spell of rain showers on Friday, September 10 as local residents and visitors from out of town converged on the Fairgrounds to enjoy animals,...

DAYTON–In the Lady Wolfpack's first three matches of the 2021 2B volleyball season, they've had a bit of an uphill battle and have dropped each of the matches in three sets. Dayton-Waitsburg hosted...

COWICHE, WASH.–After numerous pandemic-based disruptions, including athletes from Dayton and Waitsburg being prohibited from practicing as a group, the DW Wolfpack finally climbed on a bus and came...

WAITSBURG–Due to a variety of circumstances, the Dayton-Waitsburg Wolfpack football home game with Warden will be this Thursday at 6 p.m., DW Athletic Director Sam Korslund reports. The game will...

PENDLETON–As the 2021 Pendleton Round Up gets underway this week, its mounted royalty–Queen Josilyn Fullerton and Princesses Kaleigh White, Kayla Fossek, Lyla Lindquist and Lauren Makin–are...

DAYTON–The 133rd edition of the Columbia County Fair is ready for the public to enjoy when it gets underway this weekend, Friday, September 10-12. Following 2020's COVID-altered event, the theme of...

DAYTON–The 2021 Columbia County Fair is "back in the saddle again" and its Fair Hostess Kiley Curran, is looking forward to greeting everyone and everybody who come through the turnstyles during...

DAYTON–Medical complications are attributed to the "untimely" death of Port of Columbia Commissioner Earle Marvin. "Commissioner Marvin passed away unexpectedly on August 30 at a Portland hospital...

DAYTON–Bluewood General Manager Kim Clark died Tuesday, August 31, of an apparent heart attack. Clark was working at the ski area at the time, and significant rescue efforts were attempted but were...

DAYTON–Pandemic-affected workforce, vaccination, housing shortages, childcare unavailability, forest fires and forest management, rural broadband and Snake River dams were topics touched on by...

DAYTON–Have you noticed how well the hanging flower baskets in downtown Dayton have weathered the midsummer heat—especially those days of 110°+ temperatures a few weeks ago? The credit all goes...

DAYTON–Incumbent Port Commissioner Sean C. Milligan bowed out of the race for Port of Columbia Commissioner in District 3, according to unofficial results from the August 3 Primary Election....

DAYTON–The Green Ridge Fire continues to burn and expand to 6,799 acres with containment of 15% in the Blue Mountains, about 18 miles southeast of Dayton as the crow flies, as of press deadline...

DAYTON–Small grain producers in the Columbia County area are in full swing bringing in the 2021 crop, according to Jacob Forsman, Northwest Grain Growers' General Manager of Columbia County,...

DAYTON–There is only one office on the 2021 Primary Election ballot in Columbia County, with ballots due to be delivered or mailed to the County Auditor's Office by Tuesday, August 3. Three...

DAYTON–Another step toward a labor-saving irrigation system at the Touchet Valley Golf Course was taken when $18,000 was raised during the Third Annual Gene Crothers Memorial Golf Tournament to bene...