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The Grand Coulee Dam School District will get its opportunity, a bit late, to comment on how the Bureau of Reclamation’s Third Powerhouse remodeling project could affect schools in the area. The...

Chinook salmon eggs were delivered Wednesday to the Grand Coulee Dam Middle School, which had received special equipment to support them before winter break, donated by Grant County PUD. Bob Tuck, of...

The conviction of a Spokane woman, Maya Michelle Campbell, 29, who was convicted for having 750 Ecstasy pills in her purse, was upheld last week in appellate court in Spokane. The woman was arrested, along with Jeffrey Vernon Joseph, Nespelem, who...

A 22-year-old Grand Coulee man was cited and released by Grant County sheriff’s deputies Tuesday for possession of marijuana on the front lawn of the Grant County Courthouse in Ephrata. Around 1:30 p.m. Jan.10, citizens notified sheriff’s...

The four local municipalities passed their salary ordinances in the past several days. Clerks, public works directors and police chiefs have a wide range of salaries.  Most have the same benefits. Grand Coulee Police Chief Mel Hunt is paid $45.93...

More calls for help answered Grand Coulee Police Chief Mel Hunt told the city council last Tuesday that his officers had handled nearly 1,600 calls during 2011.  It was an increase of about 8 percent over the prior year. Rick Paris, fire chief of...

(Editor’s note: This article is edited from submissions from Coulee Medical Center Director of Customer Relations Parkes Tanner and SaDonna Heathman) Ten years ago, a young mother’s concern for...

A pass for entry into state-owned lands, such as Steamboat Rock State Park, could be good in more than one car if a bill moving in the state Senate becomes law. The Washington State Senate Energy, Natural Resources and Marine Waters Committee on...

A bill in the state Senate would take a small step toward correcting a major gaffe embraced by the Legislature last year, the Discover Pass. The wrongheaded attempt to close budget gaps by making...

Thank you, one and all, for celebrating the season with 212 children this Christmas. You are appreciated because you filled out tags, cut out ornaments, purchased gifts, made generous cash donations or gave store discounts, shopped to fill wishes...

Often we hear (and repeat) only the negative on our area police officers, so I would like to give a positive word to one of our officers. I am sorry I didn’t get Officer Gary’s last name, but it is a small town, so hopefully he knows who I am spe...

December left only 1.3 inches of new snow here at the home weather station; a real disappointment. December 2010 we had 7.8 inches of snow (2009: 2.6 and 2008: 21.1). Temperatures were mild as well. O...

Ten Years Ago It’s a late winter afternoon, the water is cold and Don Miller is stepping carefully on two boards inches above the frigid water of Banks Lake. Miller, a senior, signed up to help a local group feed thousands of fish they’re...

Gretchen Stinson, age 97, passed away peacefully Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012, in Kennewick, Wash. She was born in Halliday, N.D., on September 12, 1914, to Dorothea and Clifford Barrows. She was the first...

David C. Doppler son of Alice and the late Edward Doppler, Coulee Dam, died December 23, 2011, in the Maldive Islands where he was an underwater welder. He had resided there most of his adult life. A private memorial service will be held in the...

YAKIMA – Sharon K. Tillman, 68, died December 24, 2011, at Yakima Regional Hospital. She was born November 8, 1943, in Hampton, Iowa, to Sanford and Lena Christian (Johnson). At a very young age,...

Ann Thomas and Kerry Green Jr., of Nespelem are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Sage Helen-Gayle Green on Monday, Jan. 2, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 7...

Chamber to Meet The GCD Chamber of Commerce will hold its regular meeting this Thursday, Jan. 12, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar and Grille in Grand Coulee. OES to Meet Order of Eastern Star Grand Coulee Dam Chapter will meet Thursday, Jan. 12. This...

WSU Ferry County Extension’s Colville Reservation Extension Program, through  promotion of the 4-H National Youth Science Day event, Wired for Wind, has earned a $3,000 award. The 2011 Toyota Innovation Award for Promotion and Media Outreach...

The Raiders opened league basketball play last week with three wins over Liberty Bell, Brewster, and Pateros. At Liberty Bell Jan. 3, LR took it to the Mountain Lions, taking a 39-13 lead at the half...

LR Wrestling returned from winter break with a mix-and-match at Chelan last Thursday against the Goats, Brewster and Pateros. The Raiders wrestled tough and competitive against all the teams present,...

Lake Roosevelt students will be locked in battle next week as the boys try to outdo the girls in a fundraiser for ASB funds and school spirit. The stakes are high, with sacrificial representatives of...

Family Science Nights on Thursday, Jan. 19, at 6 p.m. at the Coulee Dam Community Church. “’Tis the Seasons” will answer the question as to “why we’re walking in a winter wonderland in December... but sizzling in the summer sun in July,”...

Tues., Jan. 10 Basketball here with Manson. 6 p.m., girls’ varsity, 7:30 p.m., boys’ varsity; Middle School - 6 p.m. boys’ JV/7:30 girls’ JV. Fri., Jan. 13 Basketball here with Oroville. 6 p.m., girls’ varsity, 7:30 p.m., boys’ varsity;...

It seems to me that as our world has changed from the hunter-gatherers we once were to the high-paced technological world we are today one thing hasn’t changed, and that’s the way a story can...

An osprey’s nest on the tip of a high-voltage tower will be gone by this time next year, along with that tower in the park below the Visitor Center at Grand Coulee Dam, a casualty of planned...