Winthrop

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 […]

Geva McAdow, Little Star School’s beloved Managing Director, will be moving on after a decade of service to the school. In her years at Little Star, Geva filled almost every role, from assistant teacher to lead teacher, program supervisor to high-level management and strategy, a press release said. “Many of the beautiful connections you see […]

On the Fourth of July, 2006, about a year and a half after my husband, baby daughter and I had moved to the Methow Valley, we were passing through Twisp on our way to visit friends in eastern Washington when we noticed what appeared to be a parade on Glover Street. Our daughter was then […]

Monday, June 19, was the 158th anniversary of Juneteenth, which marks day that enslaved Black people in Confederate states were finally declared free by executive decree. Although the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on Jan. 1, 1863, it couldn’t be implemented in states still under Confederate control. Nationwide, therefore, freedom for enslaved Black citizens began with […]

About 100 people enjoyed a cool, dry June evening at Brown’s Farm for the Jamie’s Place Spring Chicken Fundraiser on Sunday evening. Created to bridge the gap between the cost Medicaid pays for a Jamie’s Place resident and the true cost of living and receiving care at Jamie’s Place, the Spring Chicken Fundraiser was, according […]

Over the weekend I went for a run and as I came around a corner I saw a doe and what I assumed at first glance was a giant chipmunk. (My confusion could be attributed to the fact I am running at such a fast clip that things along the side of the trail appear […]