Now is the time for non-profits and government agencies that work in the Waterville community to apply for grants through the Waterville Community Fund, which is administered and managed by the Community Foundation of North Central Washington. According to the Community Foundation of NCW Exe…

I am an autumn child. I come alive when the cool, dry breezes begin, whispering of colder days. The sun glints with golden highlights and the skies are azure blue. I feel an uncontrollable anticipation bubbling over, a subtle excitement, and a deep longing for the things to come.

My love for okra surely didn't start when I was a young child, back when the grocery stores would give away excess produce to families in need rather than throw it away.

I have had an auspicious visitor to my garden! A green praying mantis was spotted in a small rhododendron bush.

I was stung by a wasp recently while watering my garden. It had crawled between my index and middle finger, unbeknownst to me. I went to switch the hose to my other hand and instantly an unbelievably immense pain saturated my hand. All of my being was focused immediately, like a flash of lig…

I like to save seeds. I am amazed at what a single seed can do. I know it's all explained scientifically, but it is still always a wonder to think how one tiny speck turns into a plant, a bush or a tree.

Five years ago, my harvest was bountiful.

Our pond was created back in 2014 from an old hot tub. That same year (my family's first year here in Waterville), I was out watering my vegetable garden next to the pond and a blue dragonfly hovered in front of me for several minutes.

My first year gardening here in Waterville, 2014, was a prosperous one. Not as good as the following year, but still excellent for a beginner.

The tree was here when we moved to Waterville in June 2014. That first year, we had little green sour apples.

With three combines, a grain cart, several grain trucks and a crew of about eight, the Thomsens were working to bring in the wheat crop from fields along Road 3 Northwest about 7 miles east of Waterville.

Bryan Thomsen, oldest son of Waterville farmers Mark and Kirsten Thomsen, remembers riding along in the combine all day as a child.

One thing a lot of us have been doing is taking more walks. At any given time of the day or evening, you will see joggers, people walking their dogs, serious athletes running for miles and miles, and moms pushing their babies in strollers.

This is the first in a series of gardening columns by Gloria.

Knemeyer’s owners Casey Smith and Candy Ludeman are excited about a new Waterville Main Street Association project to place narratives in the windows of historic buildings in town.

Sisters Valerie Smith, Natalie Marx and Jenny Wright and their families set up a row of chairs on Smith’s parking strip on Birch Street for a view of the Waterville Rollers’ classic car cruise Saturday.

Though Waterville Days is canceled this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, classic cars are still the schedule.

POLAND — When 2nd Lt. Sam Casey arrived at Torun base camp in October, he entered a world of transitioning chaos.

Waterville resident Pam Wright has a large backyard garden and has gardened for years, but when she heard about the town’s community garden opening three years ago, she jumped at the chance to get a bed.

Christina and Christopher Cabunoc have been going to the Waterville Cemetery each Memorial Day for years, and it has become a family tradition.

Arlen Rankin said he’s always been a teacher, no matter what job he was doing.

Did you know that the building that now houses Waterville Family Foods used to be a hardware emporium and harness shop and that the city pool has existed in some form since 1928?

Joyce Huber had everyone stepping, marching, twisting and turning every which way, loosening tight muscles and strengthening their balance, all to the beat of some fast-paced oldies music.

Local kids have lots of ideas for how to improve Waterville’s parks.

Eight Waterville School students arrived at Lighthouse Christian Ministries in Wenatchee Friday morning and got to work immediately.

For this week’s Youth Yak, children at the Waterville Public Library were again asked which stores they’d like to see in town and what kind of business they would start.

It's the time of year for quilt production at United Lutheran Church in Waterville.

Youth Yak, a new program, has begun at the Waterville Public Library.

Waterville Chamber of Commerce members have traditionally focused attention on the residential lights all around Waterville. We appreciate the care that our neighbors take to brighten up the town with Christmas lights.

In years past Mansfield Community Church members would assemble with brooms, dusters, mops, rakes and clippers to clean the inside and outside of the church, arriving at 9 a.m. on a Saturday ready to work.

Waterville sports fields and gyms have been busy this fall, not only with high school athletics, but with football, soccer, volleyball and cheerleading for elementary students.

WATERVILLE — Monty and Heidi Black purchased their home at 317 E. Ash St. in Waterville just over a year ago. The couple, who previously lived in Mansfield, have been working for the past year at remodeling the house and fixing up the yard.