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Volume 107 :: Issue 42 :: March 3, 2010

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		Champs spell their way to regionals Local students are spelling co-champions, having competed and placed in the Okanogan County Spelling Bee on Feb. 23. There were two champions from each grade (fourth through eigth) in the county-wide bee. Methow Valley Elementary School sixth-grader Claire Waichler, MORE >>
	Brainiacs go undefeated By Patrick Hannigan The Mountain Lions’ varsity team finished undefeated for the first time ever after vanquishing their foes in the final regular season meet at Omak on Feb. 22. Liberty Bell 1 beat Okanogan MORE >>		Report lists county near bottom in general health By Joyce Campbell Does where you live matter to your health? Okanogan County has ranked second to last in Washington state in overall health in a nationwide county-by-county report. The report compared how MORE >>
	Obituaries Helen Earlene Harvill Helen Earlene Harvill, 88, former Gold Creek Road, Carlton resident, died Feb. 26, 2010, at the Robertson County Health Care Facility in Mt. Olivet, Ky. She was a homemaker and retired school MORE >>		Birth: Annabelle Kathleen Emmett Ashley Fontaine Lind and Joseph Emmett of Lacey announce the birth of their daughter, Annabelle Kathleen Emmett, at home on Feb. 24, 2010, at 5:27 p.m. She weighed 8 pounds, 11 ounces and measured 20 ¾ inches. She MORE >>
	Little frog Buttercups are in bloom on Balky Hill, according to intrepid photographer Dana Visalli, who shot this one just before heading off to Afghanistan to examine plant life in a war zone. This is a sagebrush buttercup, said Visalli. MORE >>		Mazama news By Bob Spiwak Musical skis and skates. Mazama area ski people, from competitors to coaches to technicians, have been on the move. Scott Johnston is due back from Europe in a couple of days after a six-week stay on MORE >>
	Winthrop News By Ashley Lodato Musical skis and skates. Mazama area ski people, from competitors to coaches to technicians, have been on the move. Scott Johnston is due back from Europe in a couple of days after a six-week stay MORE >>		Twisp News By Sally Gracie Certainly has been a crazy winter weather-wise. Climate change deniers (politely referred to as “skeptics”) say that the blizzards and heavy snow on the East Coast prove there MORE >>
	Off the Wall By Bob Spiwak I have been very careful, ever since the man’s press conference – OK, his public confessional – careful not to read any blogs or written commentaries about his appearance nearly two MORE >>		Gravity at work Motorists had to navigate around 125 cubic yards of rock that slid onto Twisp River Road Saturday just before dusk, blocking both lanes of the roadway. Dallas Darwood, supervisor of the Methow area for the Okanogan County MORE >>

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