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Twisp BY SALLY GRACIE Who will tie these beautiful June days with a ribbon? Please put them in a box for us so we can pull them out when August comes. Liberty Bell High School’s Class of 2013 held its awards ceremony last Thursday and graduated on Friday (June 7) at the school. Uh oh, […]

BY SALLY GRACIE After 30 years in the classroom, by the time a teacher retires, she has been permanently imprinted with a school calendar. After the three-day Memorial Day holiday, the working teacher begins to look forward to summer break, to three months without lesson plans and students and committee meetings and administrators. Once retired, […]

BY SALLY GRACIE Did you have trouble with your Verizon phone over Memorial Day weekend? How many tourists does it take to make the cell phone towers overload? At the Pipestone Music Days concert on Saturday evening (May 25), young violinist Keeley Brooks played Vivaldi’s Concerto in A Minor. Keeley was the first-place winner of […]

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 […]

BY SALLY GRACIE Jeff Koma’s recent talk about researching the reproduction and nesting habits of white-headed woodpeckers made me wish I’d been an ornithologist. Their nests are holes drilled most frequently in decayed Ponderosa snags. Jeff showed how he uses a neat gizmo called a “tree top peeper,” a telescopic pole with a camera on […]

BY SALLY GRACIE If you’ve ever been a teenager, raised a teenager, or taught one, you absolutely must attend the Friday (May 10) performance of Methow Voices: Teenspeak at the Twisp Valley Grange. There is a Thursday performance as well, and choosing between that and “Walking the Gobi” with Helen Thayer – even though I’m […]

BY SALLY GRACIE Covered as they are in heavy clothing, when young and pregnant valley women carry their babies through the winter, I’ve often been surprised to see their infant progeny when spring comes. I happened to know that Heidi Bard was pregnant this last winter because I frequent the pub, and she waited tables […]

March 27, 2013 BY SALLY GRACIE Last weekend was a bonanza for the arts: a dance performance, a musical, a Colombian folk music group, and an Okanogan Valley Orchestra and Chorus concert. It’s not too surprising that some of us were confused about which event(s) to attend – and where. When the Methow Dance Collective […]

BY SALLY GRACIE I was saddened to find notice of Mary Mattison’s death on the post office door. Her family had found a lovely photo of Mary, looking sweetly into the camera, cane in hand, in an outdoor setting. A service for Mary will be held on March 9, Saturday, at 2 p.m. at the […]