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It’s almost “ooh and ah” time in the coulee, when thousands of people come to the area each year for the 4th of July Festival of America celebration, with the late evening fireworks show doubling in size this year over the top o... — Updated 6/30/2015 Full story

Chickens got their feathers ruffled at Coulee Dam at the last town council meeting. The evening started innocently enough as town officials unveiled a proposed ordinance that would allow local residents up to four chickens — o... — Updated 6/26/2015 Full story

My wife was about to leave me this week, illustrating a startling fact of modern life. She wasn’t leaving because it was over between us. No, we have a strong marriage. But a different kind of problem was about to take her away f... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Ryan Marchand and Rowena St. Pierre of Nespelem, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Jraiya Marchand, on Saturday, June 13, 2015, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 6 lbs., 12 oz., and was 20... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Helen Elisabeth Fifield, 82, resident of Coulee Dam, Washington, left this world for her heavenly home on Sunday, June 7, 2015, in Boise, Idaho (where she had been living with her daughter for the past few months). Helen was born... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Loraine M. Fox, 69, Grand Coulee, passed away in the evening of Saturday, June 9, 2015. She was born May 9, 1946. Loraine graduated from high school in Wenatchee. She was a Navy veteran, a wonderful wife and friend. She enjoyed... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

If you have watched the world news at all, you know that a lot of very troubling things are occurring across the world and in our very own country. A shooting in a church in the south, escaped convicts that could be anywhere by... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

1 years ago Sixty-five Lake Roosevelt High School students graduated at 1 p.m., Saturday, June 11 in the LRHS gym. The Class of 2005 Motto was “Nothing we do changes the past. Everthing we do changes the future.” Senior Class off... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

As you may know, we recently included a “Wastewater Treatment Project Update” with our utility bills. To the best of my knowledge and information, it is balanced and honest. During our last Council meeting (6/10/15), former May... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

I have a few thoughts on recycling in the area. One thought is that if it’s too expensive then we don’t need every individual household to have its own recycle can, which would necessitate a truck to drive up and down every str... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

To all Grand Coulee residents. The Grand Coulee City Council Meeting is July 7th (Tuesday) at 6 p.m. Recycling will be a big topic of discussion at this meeting. Whether or not recycling will be available in this area will most... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Sheryl Montgomery, the woman who found a body in Banks Lake, lives in Soap Lake. Due to incorrect information received, the spelling of her first name and her home city were incorrect in a story last week.... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

The Grand Coulee sidewalk project on Main Street and Federal Avenue is going to move forward after some change orders brought the bid in line with the Transportation Improvement Board grant that funds it. Gray & Osborne told... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Elmer City’s sidewalk project is up in the air as the lone bid for the work was far too high, council members were informed Thursday night. The bid was for $306,000, far above the engineer’s estimate of $159,000. Public works direc... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

Want an old school building sitting on about eight acres of property? Center Elementary School in Grand Coulee is on the sales block, and interested buyers have until August 5 to get their bids in. The building and property was... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

GC fire department busy Grand Coulee volunteer fire Chief Richard Paris reported to the city council last week that the fire department responded to eight calls in May, two of them structure fires. He said ambulance calls totaled 3... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

A referendum taken June 13 to guide the Colville Business Council on whether to allow marijuana on the reservation passed with 55 percent of tribal members voting yes. The total vote was 1,910, with 1,044 voting yes. The yes vote... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

The Electric City Council voted to give the chamber of commerce another $10,000 from its hotel/motel tax fund last week. The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce had asked to be on the agenda for June 9, was for a short period... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story

The two incumbents in the Inchelium District lost out in the Colville Business Council general election but all the others came through as tribal election officials finished counting absentee ballots last Thursday. In Inchelium,... — Updated 6/24/2015 Full story