Entiat adds a cherry on top: BLS partnership

Nicknamed “The Gateway to Recreation,” the city of Entiat is the newest member of the Department of Revenue’s Business Licensing Service (BLS) today. Later this month, the city of Chelan will also join– bringing all Chelan County cities together in the service.

The cities are boosting local commerce with a link to BLS, the state’s one-stop service for business that connects state and city licensing processes. The Lake Chelan Valley entertains more than two million visitors annually visiting resorts, wineries, parks and other attractions.

Home to 1,200 residents, Entiat was incorporated in 1944 as regional agriculture blossomed by planting bountiful cherry, apple, and pear orchards. Today, the world’s largest shipper of fresh cherries grows its much of its fruit in orchards between Entiat and Chelan.

On July 28, the city of Chelan joins BLS. It is home to 5,000 residents at the southern tip of glacier-fed Lake Chelan. At 52-square-miles, it is the largest natural lake in Washington and one of the Northwest’s most popular vacation destinations.

BLS supports about 600 different types of regulatory licenses with its free service to benefit public agencies and local governments. A list of partner cities is on the city license endorsements page of https://dor.wa.gov.