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DAYTON–An alert neighbor who noticed something amiss and called police set off an hours-long standoff between two alleged burglars and the Columbia County Sheriff's Office late Saturday night and early Sunday morning, May 11 and 12. Columbia County Sheriff's Office deputies responded to 410 S. 2nd Street late last Saturday and discovered two individuals had gained access to the vacant two-story house. Following an hours-long stalemate, during which Columbia County Fire District No. 3 r...
DAYTON–Columbia County residents gathered at the steps of the courthouse on Thursday, May 2 for the National Day of Prayer led by Undersheriff and Pastor Robbie Patterson, Pastors Tony Sykes of Faith Chapel, Dewayne Ramsey of The Community Bible Church, and Jeff Hall of Abundant Life Ministries with one location in Waitsburg. The pastors led those gathered in prayer. Pastor Sykes opened with verses from 2 Samuel 22:29-31. "For you are my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord illumines my darkness. For b...
DAYTON–The School District will present Scholarship Night at the Columbia County Fairgrounds Pavilion on Thursday, June 6 at 6 p.m. The School District will honor Class of 2024 seniors receiving scholarships at a dessert reception hosted by the Junior class. The event will include a silent auction to raise money for the Class of 2025 senior banners. Private donations will also be accepted. For those who wish to present their scholarship, please contact Suzi Tasker so you are put on the e...
“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I’m afraid of widths.” – Steven Wright...
DAYTON–The School Board were advised of Hot Poetry winners; approved the CTE plan; High school English teacher Martin Surridge announced that out of five winners, three Dayton seniors, Justina Abrahamson, Solomon Brenner, and Logan Berg, won the Pacific Northwest Hot Poetry Contest. The other two winners were Washington University students. Their poems brought awareness to the cleanup efforts at the Hanford Nuclear Site. You can read their poems on page 7 of the Dayton Chronicle. Sam Korslund announced that six student athletes have q...
Pam Lewison published an opinion in The Seattle Times on April 15, 2024 sounding the alarm of diminishing farms and food producing land. By Pam Lewison Special to The Seattle Times Fourteen farms a week vanished from Washington state every week during the last five years. The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently released data from the U.S. Census of Agriculture and the numbers are shocking. Between 2017 and 2022, our state lost 3,717 farms and ranches. It also lost more than 102,000 food-prod...
WASHINGTON STATE–The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife have immediately closed spring Chinook salmon fishing on the Snake River below Little Goose Dam and Ice Harbor, until further notice. The WDFW have determined the Chinook Salmon harvest allocation has been met, therefore, marker closes all spring Chinook fishing on the Snake River. There will be no Chinook Salmon fishing is allowed below Little Goose Dam: Snake River from Texas Rapids boat launch (located on the south side of the river upstream of the mouth of Tucannon River) to t...
WASHINGTON D.C.–House Energy and Commerce Committee Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Ranking Member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) unveiled bipartisan draft legislation to sunset Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act on Sunday, May 12. As laid out in the McMorris Rodgers's opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, the legislation seeks to encourage Congress and stakeholders to work together over the next 18 months to evaluate and enact a new legal framework that will allow for free s...
WALLA WALLA–Columbia REA is currently accepting applications for its 2024 More Powerful Together Community Grant. Grant funding will be available to eligible organizations from within the Columbia REA service area. The goal of the MPT Grant program is to make a one-time donation to one or more organizations that serve our communities. The maximum grant amount will be $10,000. -Applications will be accepted between Monday, May 6, and 5:30 p.m., Friday, June 28. -Applications received after 5:30 p.m. on June 28, 2024, will not be considered. -...
To the editor, I'd like to give a shout out to Melissa Gemmell for her article on the "Stand by Me" mural. It was timely, in my opinion, to have Padraic Slattery explain what his thoughts were. He is thinking outside the box, but going in the direction of bringing more people to Dayton. There has been some talk about the mural being painted over of Historic Dayton. Painting over the mural did NOT suddenly erase Dayton's history, like a pencil eraser. The history will always be here. This will...
Timothy Patrick Donohue May 25, 1948 – January 26, 2024 Dayton farmer and thoroughbred horseman Tim Donohue died of respiratory failure on January 26 at St. Mary's Hospital in Walla Walla. Longtime friend Sharon Welch Lundgren was at his side. Tim was born in Clarkston on May 25,1948 to parents Hubert Francis Donohue and Evelyn Barclay Donohue. His paternal grandparents were Dewey Cummings Donohue and Marguerite Hopkins Donohue and maternal grandparents were Charles Edgar Barclay and Ina Mae (...
Michael George Jackson October 6, 1974–April 30, 2024 Michael George Jackson, 49, passed away on April 30, 2024, at Pullman Care. He was born October 6, 1974, to Merle and Joelle (Michaelis) Jackson in Richland, Wash. He attended school in Richland until the family moved to Idaho Falls in 1987. He graduated from Idaho Falls High School in 1994, then moved to Lewiston to attend Lewis-Clark State College. He obtained two degrees from LCSC; an associate's degree in drafting (1997) and a b...
Grace Augusta Hotson Shields October 6, 1926 - April 17, 2024 Grace Augusta Hotson Shields was born October 6, 1926, in Boston, Mass., to Clarence Paul Hotson and Cornelia Robb Hinkley Hotson. She was preceded in death by her parents and siblings, Eleanor, John Hargrove, Caroline, and Donald. Grace's early life was marked by many moves during The Great Depression, a time when her family struggled, as many did, to make ends meet. As a child, she lived in Minneapolis, Minn., Lubbock, Texas, and...
Unsung Hero is the true story of what happened after David Smallbone's successful music company collapses and he moves his family from Australia to the States, searching for a brighter future. With nothing more than their seven children, suitcases, and their love of music, David (Joel Smallbone) and his pregnant wife Helen (Daisy Betts) set out to rebuild their lives. Based on a remarkable true story, Helen's faith stands against all odds and inspires her husband and children to hold onto...
Ten Years Ago May 16, 2014 Will Hutchens, a 1995 graduate of Dayton High School, penned a book about Portland's coffee culture. In Caffeinated PDX, Hutchens outlines what he describes as the unique coffee culture of the Portland area coffee houses and what has been labeled as the third wave of the coffee industry. Twenty-Five Years Ago May 12, 1999 Four Dayton Elementary School EXPRO math teams attended the fourth annual competition Mathematics Olympiad held at Eastern Washington University....
DAYTON–The Port of Columbia Board will move forward with applications for Lyons Ferry and Mainstream Malt. The Recreation and Conservation Funding Board (RCO) application for funding to upgrade Lyons Ferry was turned in. There will be a chance for the Port to give a presentation for review to make their application stronger, before filing a final application. Director Jennie Dickinson stated that the concessionaires did a good job finding match funding for this project, and she feels good about the application she submitted. “I felt really goo...
One of the most exciting adventures God has led us to embark on is establishing the Victory Baptist Church here in Dayton. Almost one year ago we held our first service at 166 E Main Street, formerly the Chamber of Commerce building. The hand of the Lord has been evident as the Lord has provided all we needed to get a good start. One of my favorite historical Bible characters is found in the Book of Joshua chapters 14 and 15. Caleb and Joshua were the only spies (of 12 sent) who came back with...
DAYTON–The local FFA Trap Shooting Team compete against 47 teams, takes 6th place at the State Trap Invitational in April. The six members of Dayton's FFA Trap Team, High School students Byron Collier, Andrew Wertz, and Sawyer Brenner; and Middle School members Luke Collier, Lyam Donohue, and Rozlyn Magill, participated in the Washington State FFA Trap Shooting Invitational on April 19-20. Trap teams are generally comprised of high school aged members only. However, Dayton's team has three m...
By Charlotte Baker DAYTON–Three of the five Pacific Northwest 2024 Hot Poetry contest winners, Justina Abrahamson, Solomon Brenner, and Logan Berg, are local High School seniors. The Pacific Northwest Hot Poetry contest is in coordination with the non-profit "Hanford Challenge" based in Seattle and Tri-Cities. Poem topics focused on nuclear waste, and the history of atomic energy and weapons in Richland. Each winner received a $100 check from the organization for their winning verses. "I'm r...
DAYTON–The Class of 2024 has four weeks of school left until they officially end their high school careers! What a year it has been so far! The following are critical dates for seniors to remember. May 22 and 29 graduation cap decorating/outline to be approved by the principal during Advisory. June 3 final grade check at 3 p.m.; those passing to graduate will receive caps and gowns. June 3-4 check-out papers and fines from Angie in the officer. June 5 the bus leaves at 8 a.m. for the Senior T...
The 2024 Dayton Bulldog Baseball Team was named Team of the Month by the Washington Interscholastic Activities Association (WIAA). The citation reads: "Despite being a young team with just three juniors, two sophomores, and nine freshmen, the Dayton Bulldogs' baseball squad has defied expectations, securing a spot in the District 9 playoffs as a 2 Seed and earning the impressive distinction of being the eighth-ranked team in the State RPI rankings. Their success transcends the field, as they...
Dayton hosted a Middle School Track Meet for 4 teams on May 13th. Below are the results for the Bulldogs: Brooklyn Pounds: 10th – 200m (36.5) Cambrie Clemens: 22nd – 100m (16.9) 15th – long jump (9' 1.5") Ellie Sabin: 3rd – 100m (14.7) 1st – 200 (31.9) 11th – long jump (9' 6.25") 1st – 4x100m relay (57.5) Emma Wyant: 19th – 100m (16.6) 9th – 200m (36.3) 13th – long jump (9' 4") McKenna McCowen: 2nd – 200m (32.8) 2nd – javelin (69' 7") 3rd – triple jump (23' 10") 1st – 4x100m relay (57.5) Ril...
RITZVILLE–Four Bulldog track and field competitors will be vying for berths at the state meet at the District 7/9 Regional Track and Field Championships here Wednesday, May 15 and Friday, May 17. From this meet, the top five boys and top six girls advance to the state championships May 23, 24, and 25 in Yakima. Hikaru Iwamoto will compete in two events, the 100m. and 200m. dash preliminaries on Wednesday. If Iwamoto does well, he'll compete in the finals on Friday. He's ranked second to P...
WARDEN–A challenging course put Dayton Bulldog golfers to the test at the District match on Sage Hills Golf Course here Monday, May 13. Dayton Bulldog senior golfer Cayle Davis finished out of the money in 11th place with a 115. "He had difficulty finding the fairway and reading the greens," commented Head Coach Mike McGhan. "Sage Hills was a rough course," McGhan continued, "especially for inexperienced golfers. It has thick, knee-high grass just off the fairways and the kids had to deal with a...
WALLA WALLA–It was a tight 1-1 ballgame between the Dayton Lady Bulldogs and the Colton Lady Wildcats here Monday, May 13, but in the bottom of the fifth, Colton counted up a handful of runs to end the 2024 spring campaign at the District Tournament level as the Dayton Lady Bulldog Fast Pitch program returned for the first time in several years. The Lady Dawgs finish the season 13-5 and were second in the SE 1B Wheat Division. "This was a really tough loss," commented Head Coach Carly Fabian. "W...
