Winthrop

Three Methow Valley residents had a brush with royalty on Saturday. First, let me applaud Bev Jensen, Jocelyn Murray and Carolyn Sullivan for going public about not only watching the coronation of Charles III, but also planning an entire tea party around it. (I’ve found that one of the benefits getting older is being unabashed […]

In the fall of 2006, as I was picking up my 2-year-old from Little Star Montessori School, with my 2-week-old strapped to my chest in a baby carrier, I was asked a question. Looking me straight in the eye and promising me it wouldn’t take too much time (ignorance is bliss), Little Star founder and […]

Adding Chinese to her quiver of languages wasn’t “a very well-thought-out plan,” Liberty Bell High School Chinese teacher Eveline Wathen says, but it is something she has ended up using throughout her life so far. When Eveline entered Leiden University in the Netherlands in 1987, she knew she wanted to learn a new language, as […]

Even if poetry is not your thing, you might still find it pretty inspiring to know that the Methow Valley has a robust poetry tradition. From John Doran’s cowboy poetry, to Confluence Poets, to the Poetry Out Loud and Poetry Ourselves programs in the schools, to pop-up poetry slams, to community and school poetry workshops […]

Every year since 1984, a group of 200-ish hardy souls Nordic ski from Russia to Sweden, in the Border to Border Ski. Some of those years, including this one, Methow Valley Nordic skiers have been amongst the finishers. “It’s all Kelle’s [Ronnfeldt] fault,” says Annie Budiselich, who traveled to Lapland (Finland’s northernmost region, home to […]

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After five months of winter’s white and the only bird sounds being the descending cackle of the wild turkeys, it’s so refreshing to look skyward and see some pops of color and hear the honk of Canada Geese and the warbles and chatters of songbirds as the spring migration is underway. Every year, billions of […]

When Kyrie and Kathleen Jardin signed the Purple Sage building’s easement for the Kay Wagner Historical RiverWalk last week, another piece of Winthrop’s pedestrian walkway puzzle fell into place. The Purple Sage’s backyard is an especially important link in the RiverWalk, since it is adjacent to Confluence Park, Winthrop’s downtown pocket park. Like the RiverWalk, […]

The sound never fails to catch our attention. At home, in the office, at the library or the post office, or in the park, the scream of a siren in the Methow Valley causes us all to pause, to look and listen, to try to determine where the alarm is coming from and, more importantly, […]

The Book of Shoveling: a story told in five monthly installments. November, in which the household shoveler spends the day of the first (early, unexpected, robust) storm locating snow boots, shovels, car scrapers, snow tires, winter gloves and Yak Traks. The strategy required of the first shoveling event is critical, because it determines the outer […]

Have you ever had one of those days, or weeks, when you feel like you are constantly brushing up against a version of your former life? I had a Saturday like that recently. I was on my way up to Mazama to ski and as I passed the Winthrop Barn, I noticed that the parking […]