Winthrop

If you knew the late Little Star Montessori School founder Rayma Hayes, many of your mental images of her are probably of her sitting: cross-legged on the floor with a child working with the golden beads, on a bean bag chair with a youngster in her lap reading a book, at a table in a […]

Cinephiles, we’ve got a real dilemma on our hands here. The Barnyard Cinema has the opportunity to show the documentary of the Taylor Swift tour. Ready for It? In your Wildest Dreams, did you ever think we’d get Tay Tay on the silver screen in the Methow? I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling […]

Shoehorned amidst snow, flood, fire and smoke lurks a fifth time of year in the Methow Valley: Zucchini Season. This time period forms the backdrop of the dramatic re-enactment known as “Zucchini Season: A Play in Four Acts.” Act One brings the diligent building of mounds, as the intrepid gardener lovingly forms domes of fertilized […]

Artist Ralph Bennett is a fifth-generation woodcarver of the Haida Tribe, whose traditional territory includes parts of southern Alaska and the archipelago of Haida Gwaii (also known as the Queen Charlotte and Prince of Wales islands in British Columbia). Bennett, whose Haida name is Goo la’Slacoon (Abalone Fingers), has been creating and teaching art for […]

A couple of weeks ago I grabbed a couple of containers of ice cream at Hank’s and was chatting with Jeff as he rang me up. My purchase came to $19.92. “It’s nineteen ninety two,” he said. We paused simultaneously, both of us somehow hearing a year instead of a dollar amount. Jeff, who appears […]

The longest-running summer camp in the Methow Valley, Methow River Camp, recently wrapped up its 33rd year of operation for the summer. (If your kid isn’t one of 24 youngsters who had the chance to participate in either of the two sessions of the five-day camp, you’re not alone; registration opens in February and the […]

Some part-time residents use their visits to the Methow Valley to relax. Traci Hanes uses hers for home improvement. Homestead improvement, that is. Traci is renovating her late husband’s 100-year-old homestead in Winthrop as a labor of love and a way to “preserve what my husband’s family worked so hard for,” she says. Traci’s late […]

I don’t know how to write about last Tuesday’s car accident on Twisp River Road that resulted in the death of one local 19-year-old girl, as well as serious injuries to two other young people from our area. But I don’t know how to not write about it, either. Most of us can’t possibly understand […]

One of the longest-standing civic organizations in the Methow Valley is celebrating its 75th birthday this week. Formed in 1949, the Kiwanis Club of Winthrop was brought into the worldwide network of community service by their sponsor club, Twisp Kiwanis, which had formed years earlier. Twisp was first, but Winthrop endured, and when the Twisp […]

Many a mystery has been unscrambled on the back pages of this publication. I hope that the great Malaga missing newspaper saga will be the next one. “Ah, Málaga!” you are thinking: Spain, Pablo Picasso, Guernica, Costa del Sol. I regret to inform you that the town involved in what my editor calls “the Malaga […]