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DAYTON–The proposed Columbia County Pool District made a big splash with Columbia County voters, passing with 881 votes in favor, or 69.48%, and local brew-pub businessman Mike Spring captured the m...

DAYTON–A 67-year-old Milton-Freewater, Ore., resident died following an accident near Godman in the Blue Mountains last Saturday, October 28. Bodean M. Smith was driving a 1998 Jeep Wrangler with a...

DAYTON–A 54-year-old Cheney, Wash. Resident, in the area hunting, apparently suffered a medical episode possibly related to diabetes, and collided his 2016 Ram pickup into 300 E. Dayton Avenue on O...

WALLA WALLA–The DeSales Irish had an answer for nearly every Bulldog strategy and cruised to a 78-6 win here October 27. The 2-6 Bulldogs close the 2023 team-building season this Friday with H...

DAYTON–Remember the Dayton Drive-In? Many fondly do, and one of them is Dan Mortimore, former projectionist at the Dayton Drive-In, who has lovingly kept and maintained one of the two 35-mm p...

DAYTON–The Dayton Lady Bulldogs completed the 2023 volleyball season with a losses, ending the team's season with a 0-11 league mark and 1-15 overall. The final match was against league-leading O...

DAYTON–The Timberwolves took advantage of untimely errors and defensively clamped down on the Bulldog run and pass attacks, totaling up 352 yards to Dayton's 193, to register a 34-22 win here last F...

DAYTON–Ballots for the November 7 General Election will be mailed this week. There are a few races on this ballot and a swimming pool proposition for voters to decide. Dayton and Columbia County voter...

PASCO–The Lady Bulldogs bounced over some rough road last week, dropping three matches in a row–two on the road–as they roll into the final two weeks of the regular season. TriCities Prep and Colum...

TOUCHET–The Dayton Bulldogs outplayed the Touchet Redhawks here for three quarters, but the difference was the two early touchdowns the Redhawks posted on the scoreboard in the first quarter, the t...

DAYTON–A stubble fire on the hillside overlooking Dayton to the south was ignited inadvertently by occupants of 101 Klingenstein Drive and when the smoke had cleared, some 90 acres of ground was b...

WAITSBURG–On October 17, 1923, Phil Monfort was born into the world in the kitchen of an Iola, Kansas, farmhouse, because his father Earl C. Monfort was rebuilding the family home. The kitchen, w...

POMEROY––It was a night when nothing went right for the Dayton Bulldogs-from the first play by the Pomeroy Pirates to the final buzzer as the Bulldogs suffered a 76-0 loss here Friday. Numerous Bul...

DAYTON–As the saying goes: "The days are just packed!" That's been the watchword for the Lady Bulldog Volleyball squad, which is in its second week of three where there's three back-to-back-to-back m...

SEATTLE–The sale of the assets of the defunct straw-to-pulp Columbia Pulp I, LLC is complete except for a judge's final order approving distribution of the funds, and there's good news for Columbia C...

DAYTON–It's Oktoberfest at Blue Mountain Station and a great time to visit town and tour some of Our Fair City's most stately and historic homes this weekend. The Blue Mountain Station's Fall F...

DAYTON–Four Dayton High School students spent a week last summer touring the nation's capital as part of a program called World Classrooms. The foursome, along with chaperone Kristin Frankie, saw t...

DAYTON–Former Spokane County Sheriff Ozzie Knezovich will give the keynote address when the Columbia County Republican Central Committee holds its annual Lincoln Day Dinner here Saturday, October 14 a...

DAYTON–A time-expired touchdown pass by the St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse Eagles was called back on an offensive pass-interference flag, and the Bulldog defense chased SJEL's quarterback out of bounds t...

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 L...

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 pass...

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 L...