August 19, 2008

City officials will start reminding local business what kinds of displays are acceptable on the downtown sidewalks
The Calzaretta family has completed its cross-country bicycle trip as they reached the Atlantic Ocean. They head back home later this week
Summer Daze held at Garrison Middle School was a success and organizers hope to do it again next summer
Penitentiary employees rounded up school supplies and delivered them to the Walla Walla School District office
Octavio Meza entered guilty pleas and was sentenced to 300 days for robbing and assaulting Manuel Ponce in February
Supporters lined Main Street Monday to cheer 35 members of the National Guard as their bus passed through downtown on their way to deployment to Iraq

August 1, 2008

Peach Basket Classic takes place downtown this weekend
Seizure of estimated $11,000,000 worth of marijuana plants
Milton-Freewater School District decides to demolish Freewater Elementary School
In Sunday’s paper look for “The Long Haul”; a series of gripping accounts from soldiers in Iraq
“National Night Out” is scheduled for Tuesday in Walla Walla, Columbia and Garfield counties
Shakespeare Unkcork’d production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” begins Wednesday
On Sunday, look for a feature by Karlene Ponti on Volunteer Chore Services

Couple burned in College Place fire
Last month was colder than usual and also drier
Walla Walla Police Department get a new major crime scene trailer
Edison Elementary fund-raising Big Truck Rally video
Video of Free Comic Book Day in conjunction with “Iron Man” which raked in more than $100 million over the weekend
Alfred Diaz wrote a story about National Guard members returning home from Iraq.