Articles from the March 18, 2020 edition
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You can attend school board meeting tonight using your computer, phone, or tablet
You can attend tonight's school board meeting from the comfort of your own home. The Grand Coulee Dam School District's board meeting, scheduled for tonight at 5:30 p.m., will be... — Updated 3/23/2020 Full story
Organizations scramble, adjust to check virus spread
Local institutions are rapidly adjusting on the fly after a series of cascading emergency announcements from state and national authorities mandating increasingly harsh measures to stop the spread of the new virus that has infected... — Updated 3/23/2020 Full story
Grant County COVID-19 cases surge
Grant County Health District issued three advisories Saturday — a day when the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 jumped from 11 to 18 — urging people in high risk groups to “she... — Updated 3/21/2020 Full story
School districts delivers over 200 meals
Students in the Grand Coulee Dam School got their first taste of bus-delivered meals Friday with 215 of them picking up meals delivered by bus two hours after their normal bus pickup time. Superintendent Paul Turner said the... — Updated 3/20/2020 Full story
Grand Coulee won't shut off utilities during COVID-19 epidemic
The Grand Coulee council voted at their March 17 meeting not to shut off anyone's utilities for non-payment during the COVID-19, coronavirus epidemic. The council decided to review late fees for non-payment on a case by case... — Updated 3/20/2020 Full story
COVID-19 delays tours at Grand Coulee Dam
The Grand Coulee Dam will continue to operate as usual, but its visitor center will be closed to the public, and tours of the dam, which had been scheduled to start April 1, will be delayed until further notice. “Today, the B... — Updated 3/20/2020 Full story
School meals being delivered on Friday
School meals will be delivered Friday morning to students who meet the bus at their regular bus stops two hours later than they would normally meet it on a regular school day. “Understand that we do not have any way to know how m... — Updated 3/20/2020 Full story
Studded tire removal deadline extended to April 30
OLYMPIA – The arrival of spring typically means drivers in Washington have until March 31 to remove studded tires. However, this year the Washington State Department of Transportation is extending the deadline to Thursday, April 3... — Updated 3/20/2020 Full story
Star is closed except by appointment
Effective Monday, March 16, The Star is closed except by appointment in keeping with official requests to limit social interaction to address the coronovirus outbreak. Our office doesn’t have to be open to the public for most of o... — Updated 3/18/2020 Full story
No Chamber Meeting
Chamber will not meet until further notice, due to the COVID19 precautions.... — Updated 3/18/2020
Raiders, Lady Raiders receive all-league honors
Several Lake Roosevelt basketball players and wrestlers received Central Washington 2B “All League” honors for their performance in the 2019-20 season. Raider basketball players Sam Wapato and Soarin’ Marchand were named to the A... — Updated 3/18/2020
Isaac Leo Palmer
Isaac Leo Palmer, 52, of Coulee Dam, Washington, passed away Thursday evening, March 4th, 2020, in Wilbur, Washington. Born August 3, 1967, in Omak, Washington, to Dorland and... — Updated 3/18/2020 Full story
Coulee Cops
Grand Coulee Police 3/10 - A man on Kelso Avenue said his air compressor, which he built himself, had been stolen, valued between $375-$500. An officer had him draw the air compressor. The man said two other men he saw in the area... — Updated 3/18/2020
Legals for March 18, 2020
Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Environmental Trust Department Request for Proposal (RFP) and Scope of Work Environmental Engineering & Consulting Services, 2020-2022 The CTCR intends to award a single professional... — Updated 3/18/2020 Full story
1948 Coulee Dam Theater Fire
The Coulee Dam Service Station at the southeast corner of what is now Roosevelt Way and River Drive had been a Standard Oil station; but after my parents, Henry and Margaret... — Updated 3/18/2020
TP shortage is tip of iceberg
If you think the run on toilet paper is just an American thing, think again. On March 10, Business Insider (BI) reported: “The spread of the coronavirus has brought with it p... — Updated 3/18/2020
What is a flash drought?
I spend some time looking over weather and climate research sites. Generally, there’s something interesting that captures my attention. These are things that I like to share with y... — Updated 3/18/2020
It's about us
Honestly, it’s not you, it’s us. As these extremely inconvenient — no, let’s call them what they are — horrid, restrictions on our social freedom clamp down on society and commerce in favor of health, that’s a concept some either d... — Updated 3/18/2020 Full story
Census 2020: Why rural counts
By now, you have most likely received a postcard or letter in your mailbox inviting you to participate in the 2020 Census. Set forth as an effort to count everyone in the U.S., the data collected as part of the census impacts... — Updated 3/18/2020
Ongoing street construction discussed in Electric City
Construction may resume soon on controversial street projects in Electric City, and city council members spoke on the topic at their March 10 meeting. A parking lot in front of city hall was built over what had been a stretch of... — Updated 3/18/2020
Hall appointed to council
Larry Hall is sworn in to his new duties as a member of the city council in Coulee Dam. Hall served the city for many years as a police seargent until his retirement, was appointed... — Updated 3/18/2020
Trying something new
Ted Piccolo walks on a concrete pad outside the master beadroom of a new house in Elmer City just built on speculation by the Northwest Native Development Fund in an effort to... — Updated 3/18/2020
School updates community in response to COVID-19 epidemic
Lake Roosevelt Schools will continue to feed and teach students, just not in the school. Following Gov. Jay Inslee’s announcment March 13 that schools statewide would close, the Grand Coulee Dam School District released a parent a... — Updated 3/18/2020 Full story
Electric City requests extension on park timeline
Electric City will seek an extension for their Ice Age Park grant through the state’s Recreation & Conservation Office. At the March 10 city council meeting, Mayor Diane Kohout told the council that the city received a letter from... — Updated 3/18/2020
