42nd Annual Methow Valley Memorial Day Rodeo

Birth: Brooks Walker Nohavec

Clint and Erika Nohavec are happy to announce the birth of their son, Brooks Walker Nohavec, on March 30, 2013, at 12:54 p.m. in Seattle. He weighed 7 pounds, 15 ounces and measured 20 inches at birth.

Brooks is welcomed by grandparents Rick and Lynn Northcott of Winthrop; Curt and Carol Nohavec and Bob and Carol King, all of Kent; great-grandmother Shirley Northcott of Twisp; uncle Brian, aunt Nicki and cousin Dean of Seattle; and step-uncles Andy & Robin Button of Big Lake, Al

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Obituary: Thomas Lewis Farrow Jr.

Tom Farrow Jr., age 76, a lifelong resident of Twisp, passed away peacefully at home on May 13, 2013, surrounded by his loving family. He finally lost a long battle with COPD.

Tom was born in Renton to Adele and Thomas Farrow Sr. in 1936. He married Doris Hutson in 1956, and raised three children (Thomas, Susan and Jeff), and helped raise grandson Nathan Farrow Smith, who became like a son of their own.

Tom began running a bulldozer at a very young age, which became his lifelo

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Fourth-graders have more 'super-cool' ideas for playground improvements

By Marcy Stamper
When it comes to ideal playground activities and equipment, kids may well have a leg up in expertise.

One of the fourth-grade classes at Methow Valley Elementary has a vision to enhance the school’s existing playground, including a new trail and tire obstacle course and quiet areas for reading.

They studied pictures of playgrounds around the world and considered their own needs and preferences, as well as ways to provide activities for diff

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Obituary: Eugene Austin Lovejoy

Eugene Austin Lovejoy was born Nov. 3, 1926, to Cecil and Dorothy Lovejoy in Omak.

Gene was a well-respected man known to be honest, sincere and to have true compassion for family, friends and his country, the United States of America.

He was a dedicated family man, totally committed to providing for his family and doing whatever necessary to make certain they had a place they could call home. If you ever encountered a living encyclopedia, Gene was as close as a person could b

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Honor Flight offers a 'thank you' to Mazama WWII vets

By Bob Spiwak
Last Thursday and Friday were momentous and memorable days for Mazama residents Frank Malley and Rudy Peterson. After a night’s stay in a Spokane hotel, they boarded a plane along with 94 other World War II veterans for an Honor Flight to Washington, D.C.

Honor Flight is a nonprofit organization financed by private and corporate donors to provide a free trip with all the trimmings for a day and a half of visiting memorials in the nation’s capita

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Kudos all around at school district

By Marcy Stamper
Every year teachers and staff are asked to pick the colleagues who most deserve recognition for their contributions to students and the Methow Valley School District.

This year, Liberty Bell High School special education teacher Tiffany Surface was selected by the other faculty as teacher of the year. Liberty Bell secretary Debbie Bair was chosen as classified employee of the year.

The two were honored recently at a banquet in Tonasket, along wi

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Mazama

By Bob Spiwak
A large crowd congregated last Saturday at the Mazama Community Hall to pay final respects to Red McComb on a bright, sunny day. Jay Lucas led the way with a reading of Red’s obituary and followed this with an open invitation to the crowd to say a few words of remembrance about the loveable entomologist.

McComb spent many years chasing, analyzing and helping combat nasty insects, first for the U.S. Forest Service and then the Department of Natural Res

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Winthrop

By Ashley Lodato
It’s pomp and circumstance time and two Liberty Bell High School alumni were part of Gonzaga University’s largest-ever graduating class. At the ceremony on May 12, Remington Rohrer and Waco Budiselich both received bachelor of business administration degrees. Remington has already been accepted into Gonzaga’s Masters of Accounting program, so will stay at Gonzaga for another year.

About 200 Methow and west side guests got their groove

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Twisp

By Sally Gracie
Bill and Joni Miller are some of the nicest, down-home people to migrate to Twisp in recent years. Their local business, Community Bicycle Services, has a stall at the Farmers Market. There, Bill picks up five bikes or so each week and takes them home for repair and to return the following Saturday. “I’m not in this to make money,” Bill says. “I’m retired.”

Missing their trips to the valley for several years, the Miller

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Methow

By Joanna Bastian
There is nothing more satisfying than a steady rain just after the seedlings are nestled into the garden beds. I know it’s a little earlier than conventional wisdom to plant the garden. It’s before Memorial Day, the snow is not yet cleared from mount so-and-so, and the moon is less than full. But this warm weather was just too good to pass up. The soil temperature felt just right and the greenhouse has been a bit of a sauna lately. The seedlings see

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