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Volume 108 :: Issue 11 :: July 28, 2010
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Bowlin'

    Room One’s soup bowl painting festivities have begun in earnest. Here, from left, Devra Jarvis, Tamar Behl, Raffaella Jarvis and Denise Tompetrini gathered at the Winthrop park last Sunday to add their artistic touches to bowls that will be filled with soup and sold to raise money for domestic

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Birth: Nolan Smith

    Nolan Daniel Smith was born at the Brewster hospital on May 12, 2010, weighing 8 pounds, 6 ounces, and measuring 22 inches long.
    He is welcomed by his parents, Eli and Heidi


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Obituary: Mark Swenson

    Mark Harold Swenson, 55, passed away approximately July 17, 2010, while hiking to the top of Mount Cashmere, near Leavenworth. It was a trip he was looking forward to for some time.
    He was born Aug.


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Birth: Hayden Davis

    Gene and Nicole Davis of Brewster announce the birth of their son, Hayden Thomas Davis, on June 15, 2010, at 12:37 p.m. at Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces, and was 20½ inches.


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Wedding: Don Fitzpatrick, Jr. & June Bartram

    On July 19, 2010, at the Methow Valley State Airport in Winthrop, Don Fitzpatrick, Jr. and June Bartram surprised their guests at their Hangar Hoedown by announcing that they were getting “hitched” right there


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Keeping the green

    Self-described hobby rancher Ted Lindsey, along with his dog, Chep, moves a length of irrigation pipe in his alfalfa field on the Twisp River flats Monday. Lindsey raises horses and hay at the ranch, where he retired three


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Mazama

By Bob Spiwak
    Hot! Low to mid-90s. However, a friend from Philadelphia a few days ago reported 105 degrees and 80-percent humidity. Our rarified, airified moisture seems to be hovering around 18 percent, so


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Twisp

By Sally Gracie
    Ah, the  dog days have arrived. Temperatures in the high 90s and Wal-Mart’s back-to-school displays in Omak. I’ll wager that at least one of you parents of young children has said,


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Twispted Reality

Hell on fifth wheels
By Patrick Hannigan
“I might be slow, but I’m in front of you.”
–Bumper sticker on a Siesta Sprinter RV in Winthrop last weekend.


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Naked Eye

Summer meteors
By David Ward
    There is nothing like a balmy mid-summer evening for sitting out under the stars and enjoying the night sky. August is meteor month so don’t miss the celestial


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Winthrop

By Ashley Lodato
    I spoke with Frances Mishler, the matriarch of the Higbee clan, after the 30th annual Higbee family reunion this past weekend. Frances hosted a potluck for 80 members of the Higbee family


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