BRIDGEPORT – Second semester honor roll students’ names have been released by Bridgeport High School.

Delicate wildflowers, rugged hillsides and moody, cloud-filled skies signal the end of spring and beginning of summer in the region.

OMAK – Girl Scout cookies have arrived in Okanogan County.

BRIDGEPORT – Seniors at Bridgeport High School earned dozens of scholarships and awards.

MANSFIELD – Mansfield High School announced senior scholarships and honors during its online graduation ceremony.

WENATCHEE – Several students from Okanogan County and northern Douglas County have received scholarships from the Washington Apple Education Foundation.

WENATCHEE - Wenatchee Valley College will have virtual graduations this weekend for Wenatchee and Omak campus students.

OKANOGAN – Senior scholarships and awards have been announced by Okanogan High School.

OROVILLE – Senior scholarship and award winners have been announced by Oroville High School

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 2020 Central Washington Congressional App Challenge, a national app-designing competition for kindergarten through 12th grade students, has been launched by U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-4th District.

OKANOGAN – Animal Foster Care Cat Shelter is offering adoptions on an appointment-only basis.

My first real exposure to growing and packing apples was in 1943 when I was around 14 years old.

TWISP – An online Musicians of the Methow Directory is being compiled by Cascadia.

OMAK - Judy Johnston has left the Okanogan Valley Orchestra and Chorus coordinator position.

TWISP – The Merc Playhouse is postponing one production and canceling another because of the coronavirus pandemic.

OKANOGAN – Area farmers markets are delaying their spring openings because of coronavirus concerns, but most haven’t designated definite dates yet.

OMAK – A display featuring photographs of Omak High School student leaders is featured at Pixie Salon, 23 N. Main St.

WINTHROP - Four Methow Valley students have launched a project to help other youngsters cope with isolation brought on by coronavirus-related closure of schools.

OKANOGAN - McKenna Roberts, a student at Okanogan High School, has been named eastern Washington student representative to the state Board of Education.

TONASKET – The application deadline for the Okanogan County ecology scholarship has been extended to May 15.

OKANOGAN - Omak resident Roselyn Halvorson made 35 cat toys for the residents of Animal Foster Care Cat Shelter and the organization’s Cat House.

OKANOGAN – A team from Wenatchee High School took top honors in the Sunny Okanogan Angus Livestock Judging contest March 11 at the Okanogan Livestock Market.

BREWSTER – Cherries Jubilee, a celebration of the city’s cherry crop, is being canceled for this year and planned again for 2021.

WENATCHEE - Teachers in Bridgeport and Grand Coulee Dam school districts are among a half-dozen north central Washington educators to receive grants from North Central Education Foundation and Friends of Lower Grand Coulee.

OLYMPIA - Legacy Washington’s “Ahead of the Curve” student contest submission deadline has been extended to May 31.

TONASKET – Several piano students were honored March 12 during the music artistry program of the Okanogan County Music Teachers Association.

This Easter will be devoid of public egg hunts, but parents still can give their little ones a bit of a search for eggs and goodies.

OMAK - Omak High School FFA members Kacie Vejraska and Corbin Hale designed and made “Boredom Books” for some elementary students.

“At the peak of the epidemic … public gatherings were prohibited. Theaters closed. People going to stores or the post office wore gauze masks, as did clerks and the postmaster. Errands accomplished, the masks were not discarded; they were burned.”

OMAK – Folks with sewing skills who are stuck at home during the coronavirus stay home, stay healthy order can make masks for donation to local hospitals.

OMAK – Folks in Okanogan County will have to wait a while to get their annual fix of Thin Mints, Samoas, Trefoils and other varieties of Girl Scout cookies.

Capt. Charles Bureau is known in Okanogan historical circles as operator of one of the smallest, toughest steamboats to ply the Okanogan River and as builder of the elegant Bureau Hotel, but he also had a long career on the water and in the lumber trade before and after his river exploits.

WENATCHEE – Two dozen youngsters from the region’s schools have qualified for the North Central Washington Regional Spelling Bee.

Few musical artists have the ability to capture the hearts and souls of millions of fans. And even fewer have the ability to do it for more than six decades and across a vast musical spectrum - from jazz to country, and folk to pop.

OKANOGAN - Madeline Luther, Okanogan, placed second in the statewide Poetry Out Loud championship March 7 in Tacoma.

TWISP - Registration is open for the Merc Playhouse’s summer camps in July.

OKANOGAN - “It was a bright, sunny afternoon that day in May 1906 when I climbed out of the stage at Alma, after the tiresome ride over the rocky, dusty road from Brewster. The town had all the appearance of being a real frontier settlement. Most of the buildings were of the box type, built …