Karen and Imbert Matthee traded their waterfront home on Bainbridge for an old Victorian home in Waitsburg and jobs owning and running the newspaper there.
A Waitsburg home was destroyed by fire this morning, officials said. Firefighers were dispatched to the home at 317 Dewitt Road about 8:15 a.m. with reports of a wood stove flue on fire, said Fire Chief Justin Gagnon of Columbia County Fire District 2. His crews were assisted by firefighters from Dixie, Dayton and Prescott with about 12 fire trucks ...
A fire has destroyed a mill that gave the city of Waitsburg its name. The fire early Sunday burned the Preston-Shaffer Mill, also known as Wait's Mill.