Entiat News

They dust. They wash. They mop and vacuum. They polish an antique pipe organ and catalog pieces of history that range from postage stamps to wheelbarrows.

Nespelema s Millpond Days honor residents of all ages who strengthen the community, through its joys and through its sorrows Rebecca Nappi I Rebeccan@Spokesman.Com, 459-5496 The Spokesman-Review Val Drywater, grand marshal honoree, leads the way in the potluck line at Millpond Days community dinner in Nespelem on June 19.

Tiny 'twister' scatters roof on Pershing Street WENATCHEE - If you're elated over the return of warm, dry weather, then you probably weren't near the corner of McKittrick and Pershing streets about 3 p.m. today June 25, 2009 AppleSox bounce back with emphatic victory WENATCHEE - The Wenatchee AppleSox scored seven runs in the fifth inning on ...

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN Crews control several lightning fires Crews control several lightning fires By Michelle McNiel and K.C. Mehaffey World staff writers EAST WENATCHEE - Firefighters today are mopping up the largest of more than a dozen wildfires sparked by lightning storms in recent days.

As often as weather and wind conditions permit over the next several years, state and federal land managers intend to start well-controlled fires in the forests west of Yakima.

Fishing for spring Chinook salmon opened today, June 12, on the Entiat River in Chelan County, the state Department of Fish and Wildlife said.

Mark Yuasa covers fishing and outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. A Seattle native, Mark is a lifelong angler who grew up near the banks of Lake Washington, and has been covering fishing and outdoors for more than 18 years for The Seattle Times.

Recent sunny, warm weather dried out grass and brush that quickly burned in a 250-acre wildfire about 10 miles north of Wenatchee.

Brush fire contained this afternoon ENTIAT - A brush fire that started late Monday night and grew to about 250 acres about 10 miles north of Wenatchee was contained at 2 p.m. today, fire officials say.

Brush fire contained this afternoon ENTIAT - A brush fire that started late Monday night and grew to about 250 acres about 10 miles north of Wenatchee was contained at 2 p.m. today, fire officials say.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN Brush fire contained this afternoon Brush fire contained this afternoon By Dee Riggs World staff writer It was expected to be controlled by 6 p.m. tonight.

A brush fire grew to about 200 acres overnight and prompted a middle-of-the-night evacuation advisory for half a dozen homes along Highway 97A about 10 miles north of Wenatchee.

A brush fire in Chelan County 10 miles north of Wenatchee grew to approximately 200 acres in size overnight and forced the closure of a state highway along the Columbia River because of heavy smoke.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN COLLEGE PRESIDENTS MEET: WVC President Dr. William Steward serves breakfast at a meeting of the Wash-ington Association of Community Colleges held in Wenatchee in 1966.

It won't be a right winger, we LOVE Owebama! We know he's doing the very best to get republicans re-elected! cowdude Cowdude may be a bit over the top but n this point he's right on.

May 26, 2009 WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN Weather brings out the rowdies Weather brings out the rowdies By Michele Mihalovich World staff writer He didn't have an exact number of incidents or arrests as of this morning, because they were still being compiled.

WENATCHEE the music LEAVENWORTH CHELAN NEW CATARACT REMOVER: Dr. C.K. Miller, eye specialist and co-founder of the Eye and Ear Hospital, inspects a new machine for treating cataracts using an ultrasonic needle, in 1973.

State Lands Commissioner Peter Goldmark looks out at Washington's unhealthy forests from a pilot's seat, flying his plane from Olympia to his family's ranch in the remote reaches of Okanogan County.

Our failed efforts at diplomacy has garnered us nothing with Iran. It is without much doubt that Iran will have a nuclear arsenal in the very near future.

WENATCHEE LEAVENWORTH CHELAN From left, Kiaya Boyce, 14, Hannah Rimes, 14, Rachel Meier, 15, and Robin Weigel, 15, get used to waders they put on to enter a slow-moving channel of the Entiat River.