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BUSINESS
Fork food truck offers fresh, healthy Sri Lankan food
Fragrant notes of spice waft from the window of Lal’s Fork, the food truck on the TwispWorks campus, the earthy steam providing a welcome contrast to the mounds of snow. Lal Sigiriya (his formal name is Sanjaya Warnakulasuriyage) and his wife, Heather McLean, bought Fork this fall and reopened in early October with an exotic […]
Kuperbergs reflect on nearly 30 years of innkeeping
Sale of Chewuch Inn completed in November By Julia Babkina It’s a new era for the Chewuch Inn, which after 28 years of local ownership was purchased by Frank Hotels in November. Frank Hotels owns 13 properties in Washington, Oregon and Florida. Their properties include the Winthrop Inn and the Methow River Lodge in Winthrop. […]
Mistletoe Madness sweeps Twisp on Friday
Twisp’s annual holiday shopping spree and seasonal celebration known as Mistletoe Madness is set for Friday (Dec. 9) from 4-7 p.m. on Glover Street and the TwispWorks campus. Businesses throughout Twisp will offer discounts, drawings, cookies, cider and adult beverages. The Outdoor Winter Market — on a closed section of Glover Street between Second and […]
New executive director aiming to reenergize The Confluence
Fetherston brings extensive gallery experience to role As Betsy Fetherston settles into her new job as executive director of The Confluence: Art in Twisp, she is looking forward to bringing back programs that the gallery put on hold due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fetherston arrived in early fall to lead The Confluence art gallery, but […]
New owners bring ingredients for success to Arrowleaf Bistro
Restaurant changes hands after 15 years The new owners of Winthrop’s Arrowleaf Bistro are anything but “new:” both Kathy Borgersen and Sophia Boesenberg are familiar faces in the Methow Valley food scene. And like the namesake flower of their restaurant — the Arrowleaf balsamroot — both Boesenberg and Borgersen have deep roots in the area. […]
Names & Faces
Brianna Hartzell is the new office manager at TwispWorks and Amanda Chapman has been named facilities manager for the campus. Joe Bastian has been named to the business manager position Sheah Ellis has been named operations manager at Methow Recycles. She will oversee all recycling operations and help run waste-prevention programs on campus — the […]
Methow At Home names Gracie as its new executive director
Salyna Gracie has been named executive director of Methow At Home, the local nonprofit that provides support and services for its members who want to age in place. Gracie, a 30-year resident of the Methow Valley, is familiar to many as the executive director of The Confluence: Art in Twisp from 2014-2018, and then as […]
True North Letterpress moves to Glover Street
Artist and designer Robin Doggett recently relocated her print studio and stationery shop, True North Letterpress, to Glover Street, adding a new retail storefront to Twisp. The new space, formerly Rod Weagant’s painting studio and gallery, features a wide selection of paper and stationery goods alongside hand-printed greeting cards of the artists’ design and printed […]
Mid-Valley Hospital names John White as new CEO
Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak has named new chief executive officer, John R. White, who was selected after a nationwide search. White has been a chief executive officer for 18 years at Pend Oreille County Public Hospital District No. 1 (Newport, Washington), Grant County Public Hospital District No. 1 (Moses Lake, Washington.), North Hawaii Community Hospital […]
