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It’s more than a year away, but already the Town of Winthrop and the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT) are planning how to make a repaving project through the middle of town less disruptive.
WSDOT will repave about two miles of the state highway, which carries traffic through the town and is known as Riverside Avenue in downtown Winthrop.
Two local residents who witnessed potential turning points in the fight against the Twisp River Fire expressed gratitude and admiration this week for the professionalism and hard work of firefighters who saved homes, property and perhaps the town of Twisp. Firefighters from Okanogan County Fire District 6 drew praise along with firefighters from around the nation who arrived to …
Aloysius (Al) Joseph Kominak, 87, a resident of Twisp, and longtime resident of Ohio, passed away peacefully on Thursday, Jan. 2, 2014, at Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak from complications due to pneumonia. He was born on April 27, 1926 in Campbell, Ohio, the son of Andrew and Anna Kominak, who emigrated from Austria-Hungary, now Slovakia. […]
