Local have mixed feelings about Canis lupis

Camel's Hump Fire moves into demobilization

By John Hanron

    Mop-up operations are winding down on the 96-acre Camel’s Hump Fire, started July 23 in the War Creek drainage by a Forest Service trail crew.
    Up to seven helicopters and 82 people have been working on the blaze, which burned inside the boundaries of the 1994 War Creek burn, within the Lake Chelan-Sawtooth Wilderness.
    Twenty North Cascades smokejumpers and Wenatchee Valley rappel

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Fuel costs affect agency budgets but work carries on with few cuts

By Marcy Stamper

    Reports of individuals trading in their large pick-ups and SUVs for more fuel-efficient vehicles, biking, walking, carpooling and – where it exists – discovering public transportation, are increasingly common as gas prices set new records.
    Yet what about government agencies whose personnel drive thousands – or even millions – of miles each year in trucks and heavy equipment that get onl

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Experience the Western landscape through art

Confluence Gallery co-curators Michael Caldwell and Pearl Cherrington asked artists to contemplate their experience of the Western landscape – in all its grand majesty and minute detail.

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Chamber Music festivities continue

    The 13th annual Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival has been enthralling audiences with adagios and etudes throughout the week.
  There are several events to come: The Sun Mountain Dinner Ride tonight (July 30) with music by the Biava Quartet (this requires reservations); open rehearsals at Eagle Acres Ranch, 308 Twin Lakes Road in Winthrop on Friday and Saturday (Aug. 1 and 2) at 10 a.m.; and a special concert at Sheri’s Sweet Shoppe in Winthrop on Frida

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Defending the shire

Photo by John Hanron

Darius thorne, right, of the Okanogan Valley, moves in on Sanon Fharnham of Twisp during a demonstration of medieval fighting techniques at the methow Commons Saturday. Memvers of the Shire of Dregate, a chapter of the Society for Creative Anachronism, meet weekly in the Okanogan Valley to studyand recreate pre-17th century dress, food and warfare. "We pretty much do everything they did except die of the plague," said Okanogan memver Nora Waller.<

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Get to know your new neighbor

By Joyce Campbell

Gray wolves have been gone so long from Washington state that most people are unfamiliar with them and may rely on impressions from stories like Little Red Riding Hood or The Three Little Pigs.

“Wolves are different from any other animal,” said Ed Bangs, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist who coordinated the recovery of wolves in the Northern Rockies. “It’s most interesting why people give supernatural powers to the wo

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