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DAYTON–With the impending receipt of over $2 million in back taxes just around the corner, the effect of several years of unpaid taxes by Columbia Pulp I, LLC, did have an adverse effect on Columbia County, says Carla Rowe, County Treasurer. “Budgets were short,” Rowe said of the impact the now-defunct company’s lack of tax payments, “especially for smaller districts, like Fire District No. 1.” The uncollected tax for the fire district which serves the Starbuck area was shy 36.57%, Rowe noted. “We only collected 63% of the taxes – that’s pret...
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 Family Festival kicks off at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 7, at the 700 Artisan Way location. Gather there for Oktoberfest food and drink, live music and family-oriented activities. This year's event features Oktoberfest fare at the Co-op as well as food and drink from Smash Tacos, R&B BBQ, Cedar Rain Spirits, R...
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 at the Fairground Pavilion. The annual celebration in honor of the sixteenth president of the United States will also feature updates from local legislators Rep. Mary Dye (R-9-Pomeroy) and Rep. Joe Schmick (R-9-Colfax), a representative of the Washington State Republican Party, National Republican Co...
TOUCHET–The Redhawks didn't have much of an answer for the Pomeroy Pirates, who counted four first-quarter touchdowns and another four in the second quarter to speed through the second half for a S.E. 1B win by 46-6. Pomeroy is 4-1 overall, 3-1 in conference. The Pirate defense held Touchet to four first downs and a total offense of 87 yards while amassing 494 yards of offense, 314 on the ground, 180 via the airwaves. Next up for the Pirates are the Dayton Bulldogs this Friday at Lybecker F...
WALLA WALLA–The Lady Irish led the third set 23-8 but the Lady Pirates rallied to take a 2-1 lead before dropping the next two sets and the match to DeSales here Sept. 28, one of two road-trip, five-set losses last week. "We made the biggest comeback that I could remember coaching in over 20 years [of volleyball]" said Head Coach Adam Van Vogt. "Colton had played really good ball this year and DeSales is in first in their league so we got to play quality opponents and almost won both on the r...
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 passenger seven-year-old Kiera L Greene, are at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, and passenger Ayden K. Greene, 10, was treated at Dayton General Hospital following the 12:51 p.m. accident. The driver is reported to be in satisfactory condition, a Sacred Heart spokeswoman informs the C...
LACROSSE–Other than the 6-6 first-quarter tie, the Pirates soon put the game away, going on to a 50-6 win over St. John-Endicott/LaCrosse here Sept. 22. The Pirates are now 2-1 in league, 3-1 overall. The Pirates travel to Touchet for a 3 p.m. game against the Redhawks this Friday. "Defensively the Pirates were solid," observed Head Coach Kyle Kimble, "only allowing six points in the game. Jacob Reisinger had two interceptions and Braxton McKeirnan had one as the Pirate secondary held SJEL to 28...
ROSALIA–The Lady Pirates are improving week by week, says Head Coach Adam Van Vogt, coming off a pair of wins last week against Dayton and Tekoa-Rosalia. Pomeory won 25-14, 25-11, 25-14 over Dayton, then won in five sets against the T-R, 25-15, 25-23, 16-25, 12-25, 15-13. Games this week are on the road, leading to this Saturday's Regional Rumble here. Pomeroy played at Colton last Tuesday and visits DeSales tonight. Next Tuesday's match is at Garfield-Palouse. The team is 3-2 in league, 3-3 o...
POMEROY–Ollie Severs's back-of-the-end zone catch for the two-point conversion in double overtime lifted the Pirates over the Charlo Vikings 42-40 in a game Head Coach Kyle Kimble dubbed "for the ages." "Both teams gave tremendous effort and battled the entire game," Kimble commented. "The Pirates had to turn to the air because Charlo stuffed our run game and Jett Slusser came through with five touchdown passes and 397 yards. "Boone Schmidt caught three touchdown passes and had 123 yards r...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates split matches last week, capitalizing on fewer unforced errors to defeat Garfield-Palouse Sept. 12, then struggling against a strong Oakesdale serving game, falling in three sets to the Lady Nighthawks. Pomeroy visited Dayton in this week's Tuesday match (results next week) and travels to Rosalia tonight, Sept. 21, to face the Lady Timberwolves. The Lady Bucs defeated Gar-Pal 25-18, 25-18, 25-21. Oakesdale didn't give Pomeroy's offense much room and downed them 9-2...
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 Court Commissioner Julie Karl, who found cause to enjoin Auditor Will Hutchens from placing the Proposition 2 on the General Election ballot. The measure would dissolve the library district, if approved by voters. It was authorized following a petition effort by defendant Jessica Ruffcorn and others in protest of the l...
POMEROY––Pirate football kept the defense guessing as it rebounded from last week's loss with a solid 46-22 win over the Waitsburg Cardinals here Friday. This Friday's contest is a non-league matchup against the Charlo (Mont.) High School Vikings, a community north of Missoula, Mont. The Pirates jumped to a sound 20-6 first-quarter lead on touchdown runs by Kyzer Herres, Walker Flynn and Jacob Reisinger. Herres's touchdown was a breakaway 55-yard scamper for six. Flynn swept in from the 23 yar...
POMEROY––The Lady Pirates are off to a bit of a rough start, and Head Coach Adam VanVogt sees potential in his squad, confident that this relatively young team–only three seniors and three juniors return from last year's team–will build skills and experience as the season progresses. The Bucs, after playing in Dayton's Jamboree, visited St. John/Endicott-LaCrosse Sept. 5, losing in three sets 14-25, 11-25, 6-25, then hosted Asotin's Lady Panthers on Sept. 7, falling in a more competitive three s...
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 District, also naming Columbia County, County Auditor Will Hutchens and Director of Elections Cathy Abel, seeking an injunction to prevent Proposition 2 from appearing on the November, 2023 General Election Ballot, and fees. The complaint was filed Tuesday, August 29. The complaint asserts that the proposition to dissolve the Columbia County Rural Library D...
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, but the flames were literally seconds from breaking out and erupting into a major fire incident, says Fire District 3 Chief Jeromy Phinney. The fire was accidentally started by homeowner Tom Konen, who was treating ground around his residence with gopher gasser, which caught on dry vegetation in the e...
PASCO–After getting hammered in the third quarter, a fourth-quarter rally fell short and the Pomeroy Pirates fell 38-26 to the Liberty Christian Patriots in the first game of the season here Sept. 1. Pomeroy hosts Waitsburg at Lybecker Field on Friday. "We just had too many turnovers and couldn't capitalize on some good opportunities that LC gave us," commented Head Coach Kyle Kimble. " I was very proud of our guys as they went toe to toe with a 1B powerhouse with only 13 healthy players a...
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 investment capital is raised and plans come to fruition, could bring a new industry and 30 full-time jobs to Garfield County. If all goes as planned, molded four-cup carriers made from locally produced wheat and barley straw may be manufactured in Pomeroy, says Kyler Lovgren, CEO of Palouse Fiber Holdings, LLC...
POMEROY––With a majority of the 2023 crop in the bin, this year's small grains harvest turned out "better than expected," according to Pomeroy Grain Growers Manager Derek Teal. "Overall, yields were better than expected and above average," Teal summarized. "Everyone was expecting a wreck and when they got out there, it was better than they thought it would be," he said. Weights averaged about 60 lbs., Teal said, and protein readings started high then came down as cutting progressed. "Fa...
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 those events at the conclusion of World War II in August, 1945. McCaw joined the service upon reaching his eighteenth birthday in March, 1945, and found himself aboard an LSM (landing ship, medium), in the Pacific Theater. He and a couple classmates from the Prescott High School Class of 1945 missed...
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. The award-winning artist and his wife Carolyn, an author and business partner with Steve, make their home a few miles out of Dayton where Steve paints in his farmstead studio. The first thing viewers of the program see is Nelson with the venerable Columbia County Courthouse in the background as she i...
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 1919 Ford Model T. In October, 1922, Iliff Mitchell, 29, and his wife Oma, 27, along with Iliff's sister Roxie, 27, and Iliff's and Roxie's father James Mitchell, with their crops in the ground and rushing to beat wintertime snows, departed Trafalgar, Ind., destination: Redlands, Calif. Their intent...
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 family lore, they divided the money, wished each other well and struck out to seek their fortunes. One brother, name lost in the mists of time, reached Galveston, Tex., where he was killed by a tidal wave caused by an earthquake. The other brother was never heard from again. Patrick Francis, through g...
SEATTLE–The receiver for Columbia Pulp I, LLC has filed motions to reject unexpired leases and a hearing is set for August 15, 2023, in King County Superior Court. Two leases were to HYG Financial Services, Inc., which operates under the names Hyster Capital and Yale Financial Services, according the HYG Financial Services website. Hyster and Yale are national brands of forklift equipment, according to the website. Five leases were to Pacific Office Automation, (POA) a company which leases o...
DAYTON–Two Dayton High School Alumni from the early Fifties will marshal the 2023 Dayton High School Alumni Parade, 10 a.m. this Saturday. Janice Hall Davis, Class of 1952, and Betty Eaton Keller, Class of '53, share the honors this year in recognition of their longevity and contributions to the association. It has been 71 years since Davis's class graduated, and Keller's class has been out of high school 70 years. There are about three members of Davis's Class of 1952 living locally and in 2...
DAYTON–Voters in Columbia County and the City of Dayton will see a proposition on the General Election ballot asking for approval to form a pool-only Park and Recreation District that will encompass the rural portions of the county and the City of Dayton, save the town of Starbuck and a handful of northwestern residences that are in the Prescott P & R District, County Commissioners unanimously approved July 3. After hearing public comment and board discussion, Commissioner Marty Hall's motion t...