BY ASHLEY LODATO Even though it was the last week before spring vacation and everyone was antsy for a break, lots of things were going on at the elementary school. The week began with a visit from author and artist Betsy Bowen, whose woodcut art is well-known. (In fact, when my oldest daughter was […]
Winthrop
March 27, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO I overheard a couple of funny things in the valley this week. The first was at a performance that the Colombian band Cimarròn did for local schoolchildren. When the translator was introducing the different instruments to the students, he held up a bandola – an unmistakably pear-shaped guitar – and asked, […]
Feb. 20, 2013
BY ASHLEY LODATO About 165 skiers tackled one or more sections of the Tour of the Methow last Saturday, skiing anywhere from 5K to 80K on this non-competitive Nordic event that starts at Cub Creek and ends in Winthrop. With mixed weather ranging from sun to silver dollar-sized snowflakes to rain, the conditions made for […]
