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Alissa Mansker, Grand Coulee, has been awarded a $500 scholarship by the Royal Neighbors Foundation. A one-time payment will be made to her college of choice and will be used to help fund tuition, room and board, and books. Since... — Updated 6/17/2015 Full story

Below is a slideshow of 170 photos of the community taken since September, many that have not been published. You can go to Our Photo Site to see them larger, download them or share them on social media. You can even embed the... — Updated 12/10/2014

People who would like to get involved in continual school improvement can attend the Grand Coulee Dam Area PTA this Thursday, Dec. 11, at 7 p.m. at the Lake Roosevelt cafeteria.... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Voter registration forms are available at local city halls for those just turning 18, and a school levy committee is encouraging them to do that by Jan. 12, so they are eligible to vote during the levy election set for Feb. 12.... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

The following is the first quarter for Lake Roosevelt Jr./Sr. High School HIGH HONORS 3.5 – 4.0 SENIORS Hannah Manon, Terin Hazard Clare Castrodale, Shaine Thomas, Anthony Desautel, Steven Joseph, Octavio Alejandre, John Antone, K... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Chamber Meeting at Pepper Jacks The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will hold its noon meeting Thursday, Dec. 11, at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. A recap will be held on the Vintners and Brewers event h... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

This past year the Coulee Pioneer Museum has been displaying “Wash Day in the Coulee” thanks to Coulee Recycling and Loepp’s Furniture for their loan of a vintage washing machine, to “Harvest in the Coulee”. Now the display h... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Danika Williams and Damon Day of Elmer City are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Dixie-Lyn Day, born Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 8 lbs., 6 oz., and was 20 inches in... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

While the dust is still settling from the mid-term elections and the pundits are trying to figure out what it all means, the American people have made their collective voices heard and delivered a message that they do not like the... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

I put out a request on Coulee Area Virtual Yard Sale on Facebook. I needed a free bed for a needy senior lady. Wow … were my socks knocked off. Let me first say “Angie” is beaming. She is going to bed early tonight to enjoy her n... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

By now most of you have climbed into the attic or sunk into the depths of the basement to haul out those boxes of treasured relics. No, I am not talking about the 1965 baseball card set you inherited or the prom dress from your... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

People in Electric City interested in putting up larger shops and garages, or in preventing others from doing so, can attend a couple meetings in January on that subject. Electric City has scheduled two meetings in January to... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

As Coulee Medical Center works to build up its business to a sustainable level, it’s finding success with a homegrown approach to recruiting talent, Chief of Staff Dr. Andrew Castrodale said Monday, and it needs to. The f... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

As it stands today, Electric City will be out of police coverage for its residents on Dec. 31. It’s a money issue. Electric City pays for police protection from Grand Coulee, which wants more. Council committees of the two c... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Grand Coulee Dam School District taxpayers will be asked to vote on a new maintenance and operation levy, Feb. 10. The amount and duration will be decided Dec. 15, by the school board, after it receives a recommendation from an... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Pay raises for two Elmer City employees are intact as the town’s budget process moves forward. Now it will be up to the council to pass the document, this Thursday night. In a budget workshop, the second in two weeks, the c... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Grand Coulee’s city council voted Dec. 2 night to undo its prior move, made two weeks earlier, to take the city’s police chief job out of civil service protection. The 4-1 vote was to put the police chief back under the protection... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story

Grand Coulee Mayor Chris Christopherson has filed a public records request for all activity and minutes of meetings of the city’s Civil Service Commission from July through October of this year. It seems all part of the see-saw t... — Updated 12/10/2014 Full story