Photo courtesy of Methow Valley Trails Collaborative Trail crews — staff and volunteers — have cleared trails throughout the backcountry, making many accessible for the first time in years. Work ...

Photos courtesy of state Recreation and Conservation Office The Cougar Lake area was damaged by landslides after the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire. The state Recreation and Conservation Office (RCO) has ...

Photos by Rick Lewis Mountain Lion goalkeeper Lilly Belcher snared another save as Lucy Collier (No. 3) and Clara Ramsay-George (No. 26) looked on. Liberty Bell High School’s girls’ soccer team fell ...

People always ask what you’re going to do with all your free time after you retire from working. People do that. Apparently, my plan was to spend all day digging rocks out of the ground. I only ...

“Our Town” ostensibly focuses on the triviality of daily life, but it is anything but banal. Far from it, in fact. It celebrates ordinary existence — the mundane magic of simply being alive — which is ...

Photo by Rick Lewis Jim Hynd teed off in the rain on Sunday morning. After a year being dethroned, Andrew Carr returned to the top of the heap at the 2025 Bear Creek Men’s Club Championship as the ...

At the 10-year mark, Give Methow is celebrating its success story. The monthlong fundraising campaign orchestrated by the Community Foundation of North Central Washington is bigger than ever.

“Moondust,” sophomore Alice Esmioll reported of her first 5K experience. “It was hot, smoky and like running in moondust.” Most of the Connell course is run over dirt road and trail creating those ...

Photos courtesy of Peter Polson About 100 people attended a fundraiser, “Music to Feed Gaza,” featuring local band Family Dog, at a private home on Sept. 19. Earlier this year, Mazama resident Suzanne ...

File photo The hydros are back for another year at the Pearrygin Lake Regatta. The roar, or high-pitched whine, of outboard hydroplanes will fill the Pearrygin Lake basin this coming Saturday and ...

Photos by Rick Lewis Helaina Remsburg loaded up one of her 14 straight service points in the second set win over Brewster. The Liberty Bell High School volleyball squad extended its regular season ...

TwispFest weekend started Friday with a free concert (top left) and community potluck (lower left), and continued on Saturday with a multi-block party along Glover Street. Games, food, scarecrows and ...