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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Residents pressed Grand Coulee city leaders last week to crack down on long-running nuisance and drug problems they say are driving away tenants, scaring off potential homebuyers and damaging the town's reputation. During a council meeting Thursday night, multiple speakers focused on a cluster of problem properties - especially on Dill Street - where people are living in RVs and tents without utilities, dumping waste outdoors and attracting steady drug activity. "I have numerous rentals in...
Lake Roosevelt’s alternative education program has a new name and, soon, a new home. The district is moving ahead with a disputed plan to relocate the ALE program from the old middle school campus miles away to a controlled classroom in the CTE building on the main Lake Roosevelt campus, even as staff raise safety and supervision concerns. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board on Aug. 24 unanimously approved renaming the district’s ALE program the Lake Roosevelt Alternative Learning and Online Alternative Learning Experience, a change req...
Dust rises from sandblasting on the west end of the Columbia River Bridge in Coulee Dam as the repair crew works at 6:15 p.m. Tuesday. The construction crew finished a week of night work Saturday that had closed the bridge for an hour at a time late at night so they could ensure the installation of steel plates on the deck, which had been clamped in place side by side one lane at time as planned, was done evenly across the bridge. Communications Consultant Sebastian Moraga with the North Central...
A great horned owl watching over Crescent Bay on Aug. 3....
We don’t have all the comforts of city life in this community, but we don’t always realize what we do love about life here. When we lose one little aspect of it, even temporarily, we can get cranky. That’s been the experience of many since the emergency repair work began on the SR-155 bridge over the Columbia River as our little region has suffered the absolute injustice of the addition of traffic lights. The horror! Probably, when engineers were faced with an emergent need to specify the deck repairs on the bouncy, clanking bridge surfa...
Why do people vote against their best interests? This age-old question is relevant for many Michael Baumgartner voters. My father many years ago opined that people so dreamt of joining the rich that they closely related to them and voted with them. But economic mobility has greatly diminished, including by the billionaire-friendly “One Big Beautiful Bill” championed by Baumgartner, so those dreams should be rudely awakened by reality. Hard work now may not ensure economic security. Vowing to make Democrat Barack Obama a one-term president, lon...
The recent news that our national debt has swollen to $40 trillion should be the “bucket of ice water” America needs to finally address our financial woes. Our nation is on an unsustainable borrowing trajectory, and it is getting much worse! If left unattended, we will drown in red ink. The federal debt is larger than the entire value of the goods and services produced in our country. Our economy, as measured by gross domestic product, was valued at over $32 trillion in the second quarter of this year, according to the Bureau of Economic Ana...
August 27, 1900, U.S. Army physician James Carroll purposefully infected himself with Yellow Fever using a single mosquito. Carroll developed a severe case of Yellow Fever. This selflessness allowed his colleague, Army pathologist Water Reed, prove that mosquitoes transmitted this deadly disease. Prior to the findings of Drs. Carroll and Reed, yellow fever epidemics were common in the American South. Unknown was how the disease was transmitted. Large numbers of people would leave the South for the entire summer when the epidemics were common....
Janet Doughty passed away August 20, 2026. She was born in Gothenburg, Nebraska January 28, 1934, to John and Martha Sobotka. Janet was raised in the coal camps of Monarch and Acme Wyoming, along with sister Virginia and brothers Burton and Dwight. A bonus sister, Toots May, joined the family as a means to further her schooling and helping with young Janet and Burton. Toots remained a lifelong constant in family life. Janet graduated from Sheridan High School in 1952. With her love for horses,...
Grand Coulee High School All - Class Reunion will be held August 28, 29 and 30 at North Dam Park, Grand Coulee. Friday gathering begins at 6pm with a noon picnic on Saturday. Please bring your classmates, stories & lawn chairs ....
Mosquito Dist. to Meet The Grant County Mosquito District #2 Monthly Meeting for September will be held Thursday, September 3rd instead of Thursday, September 10th at 5:00pm at 210 W. Coulee Blvd. in Electric City. Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group now holds its meetings Monday thru Friday @ 6 pm every night, at the Vets Center in Electric cCty. Wa. Need more info? Call Betty at 509-429-7817 . In Nespelem, the...
Grand Coulee Police 8/17 - An officer was asked to perform a welfare check on a man who said his daughter was holding him against his will. The caller described an old school bus on a dirt road leading toward Omak, which did not match any known location in Grand Coulee. Dispatch later determined the call was coming from Twisp. A Grand Coulee officer responded to a reported domestic assault outside the city limits because a Grant County deputy was about an hour away. A woman admitted pushing and slapping her boyfriend and breaking a bong. Grant...
FOR SALE SURPLUS SCHOOL BUS Grand Coulee Dam School District is offering the following school bus for sale: Bus #112 Capacity: 72 passengers VIN: 1BABJCPA9CF283600 Mileage: 131,854 miles The vehicle is being declared surplus by the Grand Coulee Dam School District. Interested parties may contact Wade with the Grand Coulee Dam School District Transportation Department @ 631-3210 for additional information, inspection arrangements, and bidding. Please state “bid” on the envelope All bids due to the District Office by Thursday Sep 3rd by 3:00 p.m...
There is a $50 charge for obituaries published in the Star. This includes a photo and up to 500 words. Reminders for Celebrations of Life and Death Notices are $25. Articles must be either e-mailed, faxed or dropped off at the Star office. They will not be accepted over the phone. The deadline to submit an article is Monday by 5 p.m. For more information, call 509.633.1350 or visit our website at grandcoulee.com....
