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

May 27, 2008

Memorial Day celebration at Mount Hope Cemetery
Army Corps of Engineers commander being replaced
Starbuck man involved in two-vehicle crash on SR-261
Forklift driving competition heading to Lampson Stadium
Local National Guard members headed for Iraq
13-year-old Garrison Middle School student Jamie Martinez arrested for Friday’s bomb threat
Check out Sasquatch Music Festival coverage

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.