Twisp

By Sally Gracie Cheryl Wrangle and her two parakeets were rescued by firemen and police officers last Thursday (Aug. 22) sometime between 11 p.m. and midnight, after the storm. Cheryl’s rescue team led her over the deck and down a path into a gorge and to the highway.  Cheryl’s house sits on a ledge above […]

By Sally Gracie While some of our friends deal with insurance companies, FEMA, the Red Cross and other agencies, those of us in Twisp proper are being lulled by the sense that the worst is over. The burnt-orange sunsets of last week have disappeared along with smoke on the valley floor. This Monday, the temperature […]

By Sally Gracie Except for some unpleasant fire-related smog, the only great drama on Sunday afternoon (Aug. 10) was the final performance of William Shakespeare’s comedy Twelfth Night at The Merc Playhouse. Local fires and a lack of electricity had mandated cancelling five of the 11 previously-scheduled performances. Director Ki Gottberg gathered her troupe of actors from both […]

By Sally Gracie Alejandro and Christina Lopez kept their Twisp restaurant (on Highway 20 at Twisp Avenue) in operation while fire threatened the town and the lights were out for eight days. La Fonda Lopez was the only restaurant in town to stay open throughout except for that brief period Thursday evening, July 17, when […]

By Sally Gracie “It’s been like swimming in sand,” Kathryn Heim told me. Indeed. Those of us whose homes have been untouched by fire, each day made a list of things we had to do. We then either lost the list, as I did, or did other tasks that were not on it. The past […]

By Sally Gracie Twisp librarian Terry Dixon will continue to open the library during regular hours as long as the fire warning stays at Level I. Wireless Internet and public access computers aren’t available while the power is out, but books and other media may be checked out. Terry will write down the bar code […]

By Sally Gracie From the minute she was crowded into the shoebox with her eight sisters, Laverne knew she didn’t fit in. For the several weeks that followed her arrival at the Weagants’ place, she quietly endured her confinement to the coop. When she finally entered the yard, spending long days with her adolescent sisters, […]

By Sally Gracie Evening traffic over the Loup was much heavier than usual three nights last week when the LFW Dance recitals were going on at the Omak Performing Arts Center. Many families from the valley made the trip on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to deliver their young dancers backstage, then sit in the auditorium […]

By Sally Gracie Evening traffic over the Loup was much heavier than usual three nights last week when the LFW Dance recitals were going on at the Omak Performing Arts Center. Many families from the valley made the trip on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday to deliver their young dancers backstage, then sit in the auditorium […]

By Sally Gracie Art Walk 2014 was the best ever. All of Glover Street was closed to vehicles, freeing art lovers to walk from Twisp Avenue to the highway — from The Studio and the Glover Street Market to TwispWorks — and to visit all the attractions along the way. Lying down in the middle of Glover Street, a […]