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The civil discussion at the Coulee Dam council meeting was a welcome relief from the tension building over the wastewater treatment plant issue. More than that, it was a model of how a town council meeting should be run. Kudos to all involved....

Two days earlier, people on opposite sides of a contentious issue hadn’t gotten along so well, but the regular meeting of the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday progressed with civility remarkable by contrast. The town council accepted without...

Ice climber Craig Pope, of Moscow, Idaho, makes his way to the left, looking for a path up on icicles clinging to the coulee wall at Million Dollar Mile along SR-155 Sunday. At one point, he said,...

City to get sexual harrassment training Department heads and staff at the city of Grand Coulee will attend a sexual harassment training at 4 p.m. this Friday, according to mayor Chris Christopherson. He stated that he didn’t want to comment on the...

A safe with an estimated $2,800 inside was taken from Banks Lake Golf Course during the night hours Monday. Thieves dragged the 300-pound safe out the back door after gaining entry with a crowbar, police stated. The loss was discovered by Port...

If they allow chickens in the city, they might attract snakes that would come for the eggs. That and a declaration that chickens are “filthy birds” were among comments The Electric City Council heard Jan. 22. Ken Doughty, who was against the...

Grand Coulee Dam School District board members took next year’s calendar and turned it upside down at their Monday night meeting. A printed calendar for the 2013-14 school year was given to board members at the district’s last meeting a month...

The local housing market is surviving a bumpy ride and is showing signs of improvement, real estate broker Merle Kennedy told chamber of commerce members at a Thursday luncheon last week. Kennedy said that the housing market last year looked bleak...

A Grand Coulee woman is seeking information on the whereabouts of her 14-year-old son, who was reported to police as a runaway Jan. 15. Keyana Gendron told The Star newspaper Monday that her son,...

The school board gave the Rotary Club a list of possible projects that it could take on to enhance the new K-12 school. The Rotary Club advised school officials that it had $15,000 and would like to see how far it could leverage the money toward...

• In a story last week, it was reported that Coulee Dam Mayor Quincy Snow had requested that a meeting with the Colville Tribes Community Development Committee on Tuesday be changed from 9:30 a.m. to 9 am. An agenda from the committee emailed the...

Coulee Dam has received a grant from the federal government to re-do lower Crest Drive from River Drive to the city limits, a distance of under a quarter mile. The federal grant was for for $302,750, with the state Transportation Improvement Board...

An American bald eagle perches in a tree at Crescent Bay on Lake Roosevelt Tuesday morning. — Scott Hunter photo...

In a follow-up to my Oct. 29, 2012 letter requesting handicapped access parking signs at The Eagles and Pepper Jack’s, there has been progress. The Eagles reinstalled their sign and I purchased handicapped signs at the local hardware store and...

It’s been over a month since Team USA 4th Grade did their coaches, American public school teachers, proud by coming in fourth in the world’s reading rankings. Yet, there’s been very little celebrating in this country of ours so famous for...

California and Texas are like the two biggest kids on the block going toe-to-toe for bragging rights. Who’s the biggest? Who’s the best? Bravado aside, comparing the business climate in these two...

Ten Years Ago A local woman and her family must deal with mixed emotions as the nation prepares for war. She left Sunday to assume her post in the Army for at least the next several months in western...

Laurel G. “‘Gerry” Beck, Gerry aka: “Tootie” to her family, 89, was born February 26, 1923, in Cathay, N.D., to Hjalmer “Jonie” and Hulda Stokes. She passed away from her Grand Coulee,...

Bertha Ann Mustard, 80, passed away Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She was in the arms of her daughter Mary at the time of her passing. Bertha was born...

On Saturday, Jan. 12, 2013, Clarence “Lee” Chafin II left his earthly body and flew to the heavens to join his family that went before him after a long and courageous battle with pancreatic...

Income tax time is here! Free tax preparation is being offered at the Grand Coulee Senior Center again this year. Volunteers trained in cooperation with IRS and AARP will be available every Tuesday, Feb 12 - April 9 from 9:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. This...

Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet Thursday, Jan. 31, at noon at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille. Steve Becker, marketing director at CMC, will speak about CMC marketing plans for the community. Port Dist. 7 to Meet...

Shoshannah Jordan and Uriah Palmanteer of Coulee Dam are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Milliana Vanae Palmanteer on Friday, December 21, 2012, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand...

Front - Aaliyah Cheeney, Sadie Desautel, Lucy Budravage, Nathan Garcia, Jerusalem Picard Adams Back - Raven Clark, Kiley Short, Adriana Garcia-Atchison, Jenna Cleveland, Anthony Vu. Not pictured -...

by John R. McNeil II Victories over Bridgeport and Manson last week placed the Lady Raiders solidly atop the Central Washington North with just five games left in the regular season. Against the...

The Raiders four-game win streak was snapped by a fourth-quarter comeback by Bridgeport on the Jan. 22. Then the Raiders dropped to second-place Manson last Friday, allowing the Trojans to tie with...

Raider Wrestlers finished the regular season last Saturday at Pateros where they wrestled in a preview of this week’s sub-regional meet in Republic. At the league mixer in Pateros, the Raiders wrestled 27 matches against all-league competition....

The Grand Coulee Dam School District board debated Monday whether to allow ACH (Almira/Coulee/Hartline) athletes to train with Lake Roosevelt track athletes. And ACH won, but only after a debate that ended with a split school board vote. Last season,...

Thurs., Jan. 31 6/7:30 p.m., Basketball at Liberty Bell. Sat., Feb. 2 **4:30/6 p.m., Basketball here with Riverside Christian. 11 a.m., Wrestling, Sub-Regionals at Republic. * 6 p.m., Girls’ varsity at high school and boys’ JV at middle school;...

Rotarian and Electric City resident Rob Hughes will travel to Guatemala with a group of Rotary volunteers from across North America to bring educational opportunities to impoverished children. The Guatemala Literacy Project (GLP) group will deliver...

Grand Coulee Police 1/18 - Dispatch advised police of a domestic violence issue on Kelso in Electric City, where they arrested a 66-year-old man who was taken to Grant County Jail. - Police checked on a report of a man trying to commit suicide. When...

REQUEST FOR STATEMENTS OF QUALIFICATIONS (RSQ) FOR PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Elmer City is inviting statements of qualifications from consulting engineering firms to provide engineering services for wastewater facility planning,...

GRAND COULEE DAM SCHOOL DISTRICT DESIGN WEST ARCHITECTS 110 Stevens Avenue 254 E. Main Street Coulee Dam, WA 99116 Pullman, WA 99163 Tel: 509-332-3113 / Fax: 509-332-3327 You are invited to bid on a General Contract for construction of the Grand...

Giving farm families the ability to protect their property and livestock from predatory wolves is a right protected by the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment, claims Sen. John Smith (R-7th District, Colville) as he testified Tuesday (Jan. 29)...

December 21, 2012, wasn’t the end of the world as we know it, but it was the end of this world for Arthur T. “Ted” Winiecki, 87, of Virginia, Minn., dying that Friday, at Virginia Regional...