We’ve just added some photos from the Lake Wenatchee community to our North Central Washington Community Gallery. Most people know of the Lake Wenatchee area as a great place to head for camping, hiking, and other outdoor recreation, but it is also home to quite a few people (some year round and some only in […]
Going out of town, whether it’s for a week or just a weekend, can be an incredible stress reliever. At the same time it has just as much chance to be highly stressful. One of the most stressful parts of planning a trip is the travel methods and lodging decisions you have to […]
22 high schools in Washington State were labeled by a recent Johns Hopkins study as “dropout factories” due to their estimated graduation rate. Most of the schools were in poor urban and rural areas. Both Eisenhower and Davis high schools of Yakima made the list, and Chelan High School was the only North Central Washington […]
The Everettes Trailer Club celebrated its 45th anniversary recently, among other places they list the Wenatchee area as a popular destination.
The Tumwater Canyon Dam is located just west of Leavenworth in the Tumwater Canyon. It is just east of the popular candy store, The Alps. Thousands of motorists pass this spot daily on highway 2 heading east-west towards Stevens Pass, most never find out that for such a small dam it has quite […]
A very cool new opportunity for cell phone users is out there; well it is available at this time for only users of Virgin Mobile. Two of the more popular accessories for cell phones are ringtones (the music you can set to play when someone calls your phone) and wallpaper (the displayed image on […]
That’s right - October 29th, 2007 marks the 100th anniversary of Okanogan’s incorporation as a city.
Many local celebrations are planned including a raffle for a quilt, a community photo, a special one-day-only post office commemorative cancellation, and a community reception.
Events like these are great opportunities to look around and imagine what the towns and landscapes […]
Here is a story from the Longview Daily News which mentions that a film crew from Wenatchee has been filming the goings-on related to a cabaret show produced out of Longview, Washington.
Few things seem as hard as scraping together college tuition. It isn’t always the tuition either that seems overwhelming, often it’s the “extras”… the rent, the books, and a minor thing students seem to think they need… food.
We recently came across a very cool scholarship contest. It’s a greeting cards scholarship contest and […]
Wanapum Dam sits on the Columbia River just south of Vantage, Washington. The dam is owned and operated by the Grant County Public Utility District, and the reservoir built up behind it is named Lake Wanapum. Both the dam itself and it’s reservoir are named for the Wanapum Indians that were native to […]
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