Mazama

BY BOB SPIWAK Coming back from Omak on the Twisp-Winthrop Eastside Road, we had a look at the paving project on Castle Avenue in Winthrop/Heckendorn. It has been something like the last Ice Age in its glacial progress, but features have been coming to view over the months. There are curbs and sidewalks visible now. […]

BY BOB SPIWAK Well, as a movie critic I have failed “Titles 101.” Last week a wonderful British flick was here erroneously given the name Titfield Cannonball.  Librarian Sally Portman read the report and sought to get it for the library, but the name never came up. Ever diligent, she discovered the correct title is […]

BY BOB SPIWAK It’s been a slow news week in the Mazama environs, but we can begin at the West Boesel-East Boesel boundary. A few feet short of the line is the Dripping Springs Road, which goes past a private residence and ends at the car park for the Big Valley recreation area – a […]

BY BOB SPIWAK Of course, it does not seem like an ordinary Monday morning. The Mazama Store was pretty well packed at the 7 a.m. opening and people just kept coming. There were about 16 big RVs and a few tents at the Edelweiss campground en route. Saturday’s Pancake Breakfast was a booming success and […]

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 […]

BOB SPIWAK Last Saturday, bright and sunny, produced what may well be a record crowd in downtown Mazama. Even on the southern outskirts of downtown, cars were parked almost to the bridge over the river. As early as 8 a.m. the parking lot behind the Community Hall was mostly full and the Mazama Store parking […]

BY BOB SPIWAK Last Saturday produced the annual clean-up convocation at the Mazama Community Building, in and out. Gale Bair, a regular cleaner-upper, was impressed with the number of volunteers who showed up for the task, estimating the group at two to three times more than those that usually partake. Midge Cross offered the following […]

BY BOB SPIWAK It’s Monday morning, there is broken sunshine but still on the cool side, a radical departure from last week’s 60-plus heated days. The changeable weather was even more apparent Sunday with the snow falling most of the morning. We got over an inch down here and in the upper reaches of Mazama […]

BY BOB SPIWAK Welcome to spring and warm weather that has begun to verge on hot. Easter Sunday got into the mid-70s, and planting stuff in the direct sunshine it was probably even hotter than the thermometer recorded. The river has begun to come up and our ponds are slowly rising. The frogs are now […]

BY BOB SPIWAK Two bald eagles flew over the Winthrop cemetery last Saturday. Their flight could be taken as a farewell to Red McComb, as a pair of U.S. Marines in full dress uniform rehearsed the folding of the American flag that covered the cedar coffin. It was a sunny day that brought well over […]