From the archives of The Wenatchee World
“I want to see the Eiffel Tower, then die,” replies Frances when a customs officer asks what she plans to do in Paris in “French Exit.”
The Wenatchee Valley College is inviting two writers for a virtual reading in honor of Earth Day and Poetry Month.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
Those looking to get a head start on their Mother’s Day presents can take home a virtual earring workshop hosted by the Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center come Saturday.
From the archives of The Wenatchee World
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines. Both earned Best of Class status.
CASHMERE — Stepping down as Cashmere Pioneer Village & Museum’s director is bittersweet for Lexie Palmer-Gapper, who hugged friends and supporters at a farewell gathering Friday in Cashmere.
The Wenatchee Chapter of the Washington Native Plant Society is celebrating native plant appreciation month with a series of virtual events.
LEAVENWORTH — A group of musicians have started a fundraiser to create a nonprofit community radio station to be based in the Upper Wenatchee Valley.
The Wenatchee Valley Erratics Chapter is beginning a series of programs starting with a Zoom lecture on ice age floodscapes.
LEAVENWORTH — The popular Oktoberfest in Leavenworth will not happen in 2021 but if city officials have their way it will return in 2022, perhaps with a new organization leading the way.
Ian Dunn
Education Reporter
WENATCHEE — Write on the River has announced the six winners of its 2021 Writers Competition. Winning writers will be invited to Write on River’s next Four Minutes of Fame open mic event and will be given $1,200 in awards to share.
GOLDENDALE — The newly renovated Goldendale Observatory State Park Heritage Site will reopen on April 24 with a limited schedule.
LEAVENWORTH — The Icicle Fund has awarded $2 million through a series of grant programs in the arts, environment, and cultural and natural history.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
A Wenatchee Valley duo has made a documentary film in an attempt to expand what people see as being outdoorsy.
The Icicle Fund has quietly made a profound impact on conservation, the arts as well as the cultural and natural history of North Central Washington over the last two decades by investing more than $45 million to support more than 100 nonprofits.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
WENATCHEE — Organizers are planning to host a full day of gathered events July 4 in Wenatchee, including a fireworks display.
Pete O'Cain
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Nick’s Bricks, the annual Lego event at Pybus Public Market, returns this spring and will look a little different than past years.
Valentine’s Day has been in the rear-view mirror for more than a month now, but love remains in the air. Right?
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
Berklee College of Music students Téa Renee and Joseph Nehring first thought the nationwide shutdowns in 2020 would only mean a longer spring break. One year later on March 21, the music duo released “Tell Me,” a song about distance, loneliness and struggles faced in isolation during the COV…
In the midst of tremendous loss and difficulty, we often discover wisdom and beauty that serves to remind us of the resilience of the human spirit.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Inspirations Ceramic & Art Cafe is starting a new children’s program, Paint Me A Story, bringing local guest readers to bi-weekly workshops.
Wenatchee-based writer Jamie Thomas’ book “Asperfell” has been selected as a finalist for the INDIES Awards fantasy book of the year.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
Two Rivers Art Gallery is celebrating its 12th anniversary this month with a mixed collection of artwork at a Members Show.
Kaitlyn Kennedy walked across stage last week wearing a face mask glimmering from set lights. The audience was packed, but quiet.
Wenatchee High School will stream its spring play, Disney’s “Descendants,” starting Friday.
WENATCHEE — The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will soon renovate its community space after receiving $283,000 in funding from the state Legislature in 2020.
LEAVENWORTH — The summer theater season in Leavenworth, canceled last year because of COVID-19 restrictions, is moving ahead this year.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
WENATCHEE — Printed programs for “Disenchanted!” sit boxed and waiting for distribution in the Numerica Performing Arts Center’s back office.
Nevonne McDaniels
Reporter
NCW — Gov. Jay Inslee’s Phase 3 of Washington’s “Healthy Washington” recovery plan will lift restrictions on spectators at outdoor sporting events and increase capacity in indoor public spaces.
Tony Buhr
Environment, county and health reporter
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines. Each wine also earned Best of Class status in its category.
Write on the River is accepting entries for its writing competition open to high schoolers across North Central Washington.
When Dua Lipa was 15 years old, she left her parents and two younger siblings behind in the family’s native Kosovo and moved more or less on her own to London.
A state arts and heritage program is accepting applications for apprenticeships created to encourage people to learn a traditional trade, craft or skill.
The chief antagonist in “Raya and the Last Dragon,” an enjoyable new adventure from Walt Disney Animation Studios, is something called the Druun, a shrieking, sludgy purple monster that turns people to stone. It’s an archetypal formless villain, a distant cousin of supernatural scourges like…
Arts and Humanities of Stehekin is opening its first new online art exhibit of the year on Friday.
Icicle Creek Center for the Arts will be hosting a reading of “Three Viewings” by Wenatchee Valley’s Full Circle Theatre Company.
LOS ANGELES — "Tom & Jerry," the rambunctious cat and mouse duo that has entertained audiences since 1940, will appear in a new feature film that finds the cartoon characters threatening to disrupt a celebrity wedding at a posh New York City hotel.
The much-awaited evening is almost here for 10 excited candidates at this year’s Apple Blossom Royalty Selection Pageant. Friends and families will attend Saturday’s festivities in the hundreds, though most — over 250 — in cardboard cutout form.
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
A Wenatchee author is being featured in a chapter of a newly released book on self-care. Writer Jeanne Zornes shares a story about donating over 1,000 baby quilts in the book, “Making Me Time: 101 Stories About Self-Care and Balance.”
The pandemic is really putting the financial hurt on nonprofit organizations as well as ordinary businesses. I was reminded of this in a recent conversation with Ron Bermingham, the managing director of the Wenatchee Valley Symphony.
Rufus Woods
Publisher Emeritus
Editor’s note: Judges for the 2020 North Central Washington Wine Awards competition awarded Gold Medal status to these wines.
Thirteen years ago, Taylor Swift opened her song "Love Story" with a memory: "We were both young when I first saw you," the precocious country star, then 18, sang in the lead single from her 2008 "Fearless" album, "I close my eyes and the flashback starts."
OTHELLO — The Othello Sandhill Crane Festival will return to Othello for 2021, at least in virtual form.
Wenatchee film producer Jeff Ostenson will be sharing what drives him to make films at a virtual event hosted by the Icicle Creek Center for the Arts.
The Wenatchee Valley Museum & Cultural Center will host a virtual presentation about exploring the Arctic as a part of its Environmental Film and Speaker Series.
Disney+ has become the streaming destination for all things Muppets, the beloved puppet characters created by Jim Henson back in 1955. These characters have had an outsize impact on pop culture for all ages for nearly seven decades. They’ve got relatives down on “Sesame Street” (premiering i…
On the quiet streets of Firefly Lane, two girls formed an inseparable bond, born from trauma and loneliness.
