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DAYTON–Local D.H.S. student Wyntr McCauley received the Inspiring Teens Magazine Cover Contest award and scholarship recently. McCauley was nominated by her photographer, Sydney O'Brien (Sydney Nicole Photography) to the Inspiring Teens Magazine Cover Contest for Issue 74 and $1,000 scholarship. McCauley then informed family, friends and others that she had been nominated for this contest and posted links for people to vote for her. The contestant with the highest voting numbers by December 20 w...
DAYTON–Ballots for a February 13 Special Election will be in the mail this week. The Dayton School District is asking voters to weigh in on two replacement levies that will replace levies approved four years prior. In Proposition No. 1, the school district seeks voter approval for a Replacement Educational Programs and Operation Levy. The proposition, if approved, would re-authorize taxation to finance educational programs and operation expenses not funded by the State. The levy would collect $...
DAYTON–Newly elected Parks and Rec Board members Dianne McKinley, Lisa Naylor, Terri Hessler, and Ted Lowe, took their oath of office at a special board meeting on January 18. Board member Katie Leid was absent. The special meeting initialized the new Parks and Recreation Board, McKinley as the Chairperson and Naylor as the Secretary/Public Records Officer. and established their regular meeting date for the last Thursday of each month held at Fire District No. 3 conference room at 5 p.m. They d...
“You can’t help getting older, but you don’t have to get old.” – George Burns...
"The possibility of a global environmental apocalypse has been dominating headlines and exercises a powerful hold on the imaginations of millions of people," according to optimist and author Marion L. Tupy. Headlines of imminent catastrophe are resulting in public policy driving our nation and our state as well as many other western economies to the brink. OLYMPIA–The Clean Energy Transformation Act (CETA), passed in 2019, and the Climate Commitment Act (CCA) of 2021 form the architecture for t...
DAYTON–Whether a co-ed group of students should utilize an AirBNB rental for overnight accommodations was discussed by the Dayton School Board during its January 17 meeting, and the decision tabled until the next meeting. School directors had reservations about the FFA Trap Team's proposed overnight stay when it attends a future Idaho meet. "I have a little bit of a reservation myself with the proposed day," said Board Chairman Jeff McCowen. "Information is a little bit limited. I am not 100 p...
To the editor, The Dayton School District is putting forth two tax levy measures, an Educational Programs and Operations Levy (EP&O) and a Capital Levy, on Election Day Tuesday, February 13. Both are replacement levies. The prior levies were voted in 2020 and are now expiring. These are not new taxes. Both levies would run for four years, to be collected in 2025-2028. I am sure none of us enjoy paying taxes, however there are several issues I am rationally considering, and I encourage other...
Thursday: Rain likely, mainly between 10am and 4pm. Patchy fog before 7am. Otherwise, partly sunny, with a high near 45. Light and variable wind becoming southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible. Thursday Night: A 40 percent chance of rain, mainly before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 33. South wind 5 to 10 mph becoming light after midnight. Friday: A 30 percent chance of rain, mainly after 4...
OLYMPIA–The main event during the opening week of this year’s legislative session was Gov. Jay Inslee’s annual state of the state address. I was surprised he did not pull a muscle from patting himself on the back so often as he addressed legislators, statewide elected officials, and Supreme Court justices. Inslee said, “I’m happy to report we have been, we are, and we will always be the strongest state in the nation,” adding “in fact, the state of our state is stronger than ever.” Not to rain on the governor’s self-congratulato...
Ten Years Ago January 22, 2014 Grant Griffen, Bob Budig's grandson installed the final work, to adorn the Dayton Veteran's Memorial. The half bronze silhouette of a solider kneeling at the boots of a fallen comrade, holding the dog tags of the deceased with a bowed head, connecting the two. The silhouette is positioned just inside the memorial upon the main rocks inside, with lights to highlight the memorial at night. Jennifer Warren, a freshman at Dayton High School, will spend a week...
DAYTON–A magical romantic comedy, Seniors of the Saraha, hits the stage this weekend at Dayton's Liberty Theater for three shows Friday, Saturday and Sunday. The curtain rises for both Friday and Saturday performances at 7 p.m. and Sunday's show is a 3 p.m. matinee. Headlining the two-act comedy is Kim Boggs as Sylvia Goldberg, Deb Fortner as Mabel Millstein and Kris Takemura as Fannie. Others on the cast are Roz Edwards as Thelma Wachter, Dale Slack as Eugene, Fred Crowe as Savalis, Dave M...
DAYTON–The Lady Bulldogs finally counted their first win during this re-building year for Dayton Bulldog Athletics, a 47-12 tilt over the Prescott Tigers here January 16. The Lady Dawgs lost to DeSales 55-29 Monday at home, and then won on the road at River View, 38-27. Friday the team travels to Oakesdale and hosts Colton Saturday, the first of three homestands that will wrap the 2023-24 season. Gar-Pal visits next Tuesday and Senior Night will be February 2 against Tekoa-Rosalia. "Our c...
DAYTON–The Bulldogs battled a tough St. John/Endicott/LaCrosse team, suffering through several single-digit quarters to sustain a 67-21 loss last weekend after registering a victory over Prescott by 57-39. In the Prescott contest, the Bulldogs lost their 6-1 sophomore Colton Steinhoff with an injured wrist. Dayton wraps the regular season with home games against Colton, Gar-Pal and Tekoa-Rosalia. "Saturday was a tough one given we thought going in we would be able to compete," commented Hech C...
DAYTON–The Special Meeting of the Dayton City Council, set for January 31, has been canceled, according to Deputy City Clerk Misty Yost. The cancelation was at the request of Mayor Roger Trump....
