• 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

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.

• 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

The Daily Byte - May 29, 2008 from Carlos Virgen on Vimeo.

• Still no decision on proposed ban on fireworks
• Former Walla Walla police officer Ray Clayton pleads guilty to official misconduct, third-degree child molestation charge will be dismissed
• Artifacts from the 1800s or earlier unearthed at location of future Key Tech expansion
• Sen. Mike Hewitt will be running for re-election
• Marquee feature on pottery painting studio in basement of Carnegie Art Center
• Rick Eskil reviews “Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull“

• Coast Guard searches for a Walla Walla University student who didn’t surface after a scuba dive
• Update about hiker who got lost above Harris Park
• Public hearing at Waitsburg about new nuisance ordinance
• Milton-Freewater Rotary Club embarks on reforestation and beautification project
• Former manager of Dollar Tree enters guilty plea to a charge of second-degree theft
• Last year DeSales football team named team of the year at the Blue Mountain Sports awards

• Walla Walla Catholic School system changes leadership
• 1998 Wa-Hi grad Robert DeBolt was awarded an honorable medal for his help in rescuing a ship in March
• Three arrested during raids yesterday and marijuana, meth and heroin was seized
• Two men charged with robbing a 15-year-old boy on Sunday near Third Ave. and Willard St.
• M-F Drive-In will be open on Sunday after getting a new lease on life and a new screen after the windstorm earlier this year
• Don Fleming profiled by Sheila Hagar in Sunday’s Panorama
• Patti Cobb profiled by Karlene Ponti in Sunday’s Panorama
• Jim Buchan talks to Whitman College athletic director about the future of the program

• 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.

• Spring release weekend in Walla Walla
• Walla Walla optometrist Kelly Cochrane has his license restricted by state Board of Optometry
• State of The State of Washington Latinos is not very good
• Cinco de Mayo in Walla Walla and Milton-Freewater
• Profile of Walla Walla native and artist Daniel DeSiga who will be in town this weekend
• Look for the special Balloon Stampede section on Sunday
• Karlene Ponti’s story on brain fitness
• Free Comic Book Day
• World Laughter Day