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Salmon projects will enhance river habitat
A major restoration project in the Methow River near Twisp is underway to enhance habitat for juvenile steelhead and spring Chinook salmon and to restore the flow of the river so it’s closer to natural historic conditions. Steelhead and spring Chinook are both on the federal list of endangered...
Jewelers Collective will move to Winthrop with new name, logo
The Methow Valley Jewelers Collective is moving from the TwispWorks campus to Winthrop and changing its name to “The Magpie Collective” on Aug. 29. The departure marks the business’s first move since it opened almost five years ago in late 2019. The business will move to Winthrop’s...
Twisp, Aero Methow exploring deal for portion of town well property
Aero Methow Rescue Service and the Town of Twisp are exploring a property deal that would give the valley’s emergency responders more storage space. Town council members on Aug. 13 were mostly open to the idea of selling a portion of a 0.9-acre property between Wagner and Marble streets, where a town water well is located. Council asked staff for more information at a future meeting about the potential for well contamination, if a building is added to the now-vacant lot.
Twisp Council OKs rezoning for long-vacant riverfront site
Properties would switch from commercial to residential use. By the looks of it — and the length of it — the debate in Twisp Town Council last week over whether to allow single-family homes on a piece of vacant riverfront was about much more than those 7.26 acres.
Ing-Moody advances to November election in 7th District House race
With the primary ballot count all but complete in the 7th Legislative District, former Twisp Mayor Soo Ing-Moody will advance to the November election in her bid for a seat in the state House of Representatives. Ing-Moody, who served as Twisp’s mayor from 2010 to 2023, led Tonasket City Council...
LBHS grad Liam Daily will lead Mountain Lion cross country teams
Liberty Bell Junior High School teacher, coach and alumnus Liam Daily has been appointed to the head coaching position for the Mountain Lion cross country program. Daily replaces Erik Brooks, who announced he was stepping aside last spring to focus on his passions of creating art, teaching, and having a home life, too. Daily is the seventh coach in the history of the Liberty Bell cross country program, dating back to the mid-1990s.
Survey: Nearly 40% of Washington Parents Quit Work or Got Fired after Having Kids
Jessica Heavner describes it as the hardest decision she’s ever had to make. Heavner, of Federal Way, was working in accounting at the local school district, and when it came time for her annual cost of living raise two years ago, she realized the pay bump would put her over the state’s income limit for […]
Spokane SCRAPS offering free neutering amid increase of pregnant animals
SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane County animal protection service, SCRAPS, will be offering 100 free spay/neuters for household dogs. This comes after SCRAPS says they have seen a recent spike in the number of pregnant dogs in the community. The event will take place at the SCRAPS facility on Aug....
Idaho Burns and the Environmentalists Fiddle
The federal government needs to get the hell out of Idaho! The fires currently wiping out our forests and history could’ve been minimized by some simple logic. Instead, policy is being made by tree-spiking, granola-chomping, and hemp skirt-wearing kooks like Tracy Stone-Manning at the Bureau of Land Management. Our forests won’t survive another four years of liberal madness.
Ryan Leaf Rips Kirk Herbstreit And Pat McAfee: ‘Overly Sensitive. Narcissists’
College football commentator Ryan Leaf blasted his former ESPN colleagues Kirk Herbstreit and Pat McAfee, calling them “narcissists” in an interview this week. Leaf worked for ESPN from 2019 until he was fired in the middle of last year’s season. His firing came not too long after he took issue with College GameDay host Lee […] The post Ryan Leaf Rips Kirk Herbstreit And Pat McAfee: ‘Overly Sensitive. Narcissists’ appeared first on BroBible.
Murderer's Ex-Wife Breaks Cold Case Wide Open After 35 Years in Girl on the Milk Carton Preview
Watch: 2024 True Crime Updates: Idaho Murders, LISK, Mexico Surfer Deaths. Oxygen's latest true crime special is exploring a murder case that took over three decades to solve. In 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews disappeared from her Greeley, Colo. home, and not even a nationwide missing child milk carton campaign—one of the first in U.S. history—proved successful in helping find her.
New apple created in Washington will be named next week
On Monday, Aug. 26, WSU officials decided to delay the name announcement until the end of 2024. When a contest was announced to name the new apple created by Washington State University, it created a media frenzy. News of the competition to name the apple — currently known as WA...
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