• Temperatures broke a record yesterday hitting 105 degrees
• Wildfire warning due to the hot weather
• Washington Butterfly Association held their annual conference in the wilderness around Dayton
• Starting tomorrow drivers must use hands-free cell phone devices or risk a fine
• Reminder to abide by fireworks laws
• Horizon Air affected by increase in fuel prices. There’ll now be a Walla Walla - Pendleton connection starting in October

The Daily Byte - June 27, 2008 from Walla Walla Union-Bulletin on Vimeo.

• Mental health coverage has to be comparable to physical coverage under a law passed in 2005 and partially implemented this year
• Owners of impromptu petting zoo in College Place have to get rid of most of their animals
• Owners of 50-acre alfalfa field near Big 5 Sporting Goods lost court appeal to stop commercial development
• Walla Walla dancers won first prize in ballet at international dance competition in Italy
• Dearth of child care in Walla Walla could be a problem for local businesses looking to recruit qualified employees
• Vance Zaegel, who volunteers at Center at the Park, is featured in Sunday’s Panorama section

• Proposed Illahee project come to a halt due to funding problems
• Fish on Land Sea Food Market will be closing after Sunday due to slow business
• Walla Walla tourism officials release results of a black box survey of visitors to the area last year
• Willow, the new art gallery and home decor business at Second and Rose opened last week
• Steaming Stripes Relay, a fund-raiser benefiting local veterans will start at Pioneer Middle School and end at Pioneer Park. Also check today’s U-B for a complete roundup of entertainment at the Fourth of July at the Park
• MacDonald Zaring Insurance took home first place at the All-City Little League Tournament yesterday

• Story on IMPACT class at Walla Walla Community College
• Milton-Freewater Health Clinic to remain open two days a week for another year
• Washington State Penitentiary gets a new library building
• Walla Walla, College Place and the county planning commission will address updating an ordinance related to building requirements.
• A Wildfire Awareness Workshop will be held Thursday at Walla Walla Community College
• This Friday brings another Girl’s Night Out hosted by the Downtown Foundation

• Walla Walla County commissioners approved changes to nuisance code
• College Place City Council to vote on a $2.4 million contract for the Commercial Drive project
• Washington State Department of Agriculture will be at had for two “listening sessions” at Walla Walla Community College
• Brittany Garton of Milton-Freewater received the President’s Senior Cup from the Oregon Institute of Technology
• Sheila Hagar writes about her experience with a Sawzall

• Forest fire season crew demonstrations
• Tourism study results
• Baskin-Robbins opens second location
• Barbara and Dan Clark  to host ecology radio show
• Check out Cynthia Selde’s column on learning a foreign language
• Plucker family farm flies flag in honor of military son
• Free swims set for Jefferson Park

The Daily Byte - June 20, 2008 from Walla Walla Union-Bulletin on Vimeo.

• Baker Boyer Bank and QualitySmith have been named among the best 100 companies in the state to work for
• Feature on Albert Killgrove who has worked for the local draft board for 20 years
• Trial for former Valley Vision optometrist Kelly Cochrane has been postponed
• Proposal to save the M-F Health Department clinic by cutting costs by reducing staff and drumming up more interest in the services the clinic provides
• Milton-Freewater resident Olivia Wigley  will appear in a film, “In Pursuit of a Dream” which is co-produced by the Oregon-California Trail Association
• retired Whitman professor Patrick Henry has a column teaching you how to be a tutor
• U-B publisher will be retiring next year and will be replaced by Rob Blethen. Larry looks back on his tenure here in a column Sunday
• Terry McConn will perform in the summer musical, “Anything Goes.” The first time he has acted in a play in nearly 30 years.

• Sales of existing homes in Walla Walla County are dropping
• Umatilla County commissioners consider ideas on how to keep the Milton-Freewater Health Dept. clinic open
• Local hypnotherapist/acupuncturist, Alfred Laggner, has been arrested on investigation of indecent liberties
• Charley Lozano to plead guilty to participating in a November shooting spree in Walla Walla
• The tales of Ryan Gary’s travels around the world as he hones his pottery making skills
• Rick Eskil reviews “The Incredible Hulk”

• T. Maccarone’s gets a news chef in Jake Crenshaw
• Burger Hut in Milton-Freewater gets new ownership
• Declining sales for the bottled water industry
• Walla Walla Little League All-City Tournament starts on Thursday
• Don and Nora the Schnauzer visit Eagle Cap Wilderness

• Due to considerable opposition, the Dept. of Natural Resources will not allow a test well to be drilled on state land
• McNary Lock and Dam will host an open house on July 19th
• The 233rd birthday of the U.S. Army was celebrated at a local party
• Lou Gates named superintendent of Columbia County School District
• Milton-Freewater public library has invited Hart’s Reptile World of Canby, Oregon
• 7-year-old Mary Bella Betts helped collect donation for the Blue Mountain Humane Society
• U-B’s Sheila Hagar took some target shooting lessons at the Waitsburg Gun club