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An elementary school teacher was arrested Monday on a charge of “Communication with a Minor for Immoral Purposes.” Kittitas County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Ross Ashenfelter, a fourth-grade teacher at Lake Roosevelt Elementary School at 11:55 a.m. Ashenfelter, 42, of Coulee Dam, was arrested at the school, where he was doing some administrative work while the school was closed for the holiday, the sheriff’s department said in a statement. The sheriff’s office said the arrest resulted from investigations by detectives with the Washington taskf...
In a land of high voltage lines, firefighters fight a wildfire that probably started about 6 a.m. Thursday in a field of sagebrush along SR-174. But they had to wait to fight the flames directly under the wires until the Bonneville Power Administration could shut down the lines. The fire, on Bureau of Reclamation land just north of Grand Coulee near the 230 Kv Switchyard (at right), drew mutual aid support from several local departments. Firefighters walking the ground during mop-up discovered...
Chris Bulger was sworn in to a vacant seat on the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday. Bulger works at the Grand Coulee Dam, where he was hired as an employee in 2014 after first working there as a contractor in 2000, he said in his letter of interest to the city, which he sent in May. Bulger and his wife, Melissa, live on Columbia Avenue. She is the town clerk in Wilbur, and was encouraging Chris to volunteer for the town they live in. "So I was like, yeah, I don't mind helping out the town,"...
The Trump Administration on Friday reportedly fired the entire staff of an office in the Treasury Department that runs a broadly popular program that helps local loan funds in places that are typically underserved by banks, including Native American reservations. The Community Development Financial Institutions that get the funds loan them out to small businesses to help develop local economies, often for higher rates than a bank might charge if they were interested. Those CDFIs include the... Full story
Coulee Dam will not be providing a school resource officer for Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr High School this year as was earlier expected. Mayor Bob Poch said at the Oct. 8 town council meeting that the town didn’t have enough police officers to cover the duties at this point. The town just swore in a new officer last week. Police Chief Paul Bowden said there was not enough time to get everything done before sending an officer to that duty. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Rod Broadnax said the delay actually helps the district with a b...
Volunteers staff a food giveaway last week where STCU volunteers (in purple shirts) helped 190 families through the Second Harvest Mobile Market in Grand Coulee and stocked the food bank's shelves with extra fresh produce to support even more families in our community. "We're proud to be part of a community that always shows up for one another," they said on Facebook of the effort. - STCU photo on Facebook...
There is no denying that our schools face challenges. Attendance, achievement gaps, and accountability are real, and we cannot shy away from them. But it is equally true that these challenges are not being ignored. Every day, across our district, dedicated educators and staff are working tirelessly to lift up students and move us forward. Teachers are finding creative and culturally responsive ways to close learning gaps. Paraeducators are in classrooms, side by side with students, offering encouragement and academic support. Administrators...
Happy Indigenous People’s Day, friends. We need you, our allies, friends, and community, to be aware of the strategic and disheartening decision that has landed at the feet of many organizations like NNDF. The current administration has decided to abolish the CDFI Fund. To dismantle the CDFI Fund will have a disastrous domino effect for all of us ... not just for Indian Country, but for small businesses, aspiring and established, on and around Reservations, as well as families that benefit from financial resources provided by organizations like...
Even politically engaged constituents of our Republican US Representative Michael Baumgartner may have been puzzled by his abrupt referral to the “Working Family Tax Cuts” bill in his recent Friday Emails. Weekly since September 19, identical sections began with “As part of the Working Family Tax Cuts bill, applications are now open for states to apply for funding through the Rural Health Transformation Program, a historic $50 billion investment aimed at strengthening rural health care across America.” If you’ve never heard about the “Working...
When Trump ran into trouble during his first term, he reportedly cried out, “Where’s my Roy Cohn?!” Alas, his favorite thug-fixer-lawyer had been dead since 1986 (having perished just six weeks after he was disbarred for fraud). Nobody in Trump’s embattled orbit was qualified to pick up the torch and run with Cohn’s credo, which, was quite simple: If they hit ya hard, hit ‘em back twice as hard. Back in the day, Trump told the press, “If you need someone to get vicious toward an opponent, you get Roy.” Now he has Cohn 2.0, courtesy of slavish s...
Luncheon to Feature Grant Winner, Interactive Art Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a general luncheon meeting 11 AM, Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 Birch St. S. Fall Grant winners will be chosen. T Lewis, newspaper comic artist of Over the Hedge and educational storybook illustrator, will lead attendees in an interactive artistic program. Information: (509)-945-3401. Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Area A...
Soap Lake, WA — Masquers Theater invites audiences to feed the need for live theater this fall with Little Shop of Horrors, the hit horror-comedy-rock musical that has been delighting audiences for decades. Performances run October 16 through November 2, 2025. Set in a struggling flower shop on Skid Row, Little Shop of Horrors follows Seymour Krelborn, a meek and lonely floral assistant who discovers a mysterious plant unlike any other. Naming it “Audrey II” after his co-worker and crush, Seymour quickly learns this strange and unusual plant...
Local Scout Troops 24 and 52 are gearing up for this year’s Scouting for Food drive, and they need your help to make it another record-breaking year. A week before the event, scouts will deliver flyers to homes throughout the area. Then on Saturday, Nov. 8, you can participate in two ways: • Leave your food donations out by 9 a.m. for scouts to collect. • Or drop them off at one of our convenient community collection sites: Harvest Foods, Auntie Dannee’s, or Jess Ford. All donations will be gathered from those locations by 12:30 p.m. Last ye...
Local Moose lodge has been keeping busy....
Coulee Dam Police 10/5 - Police went to Tilmus Avenue where a man who had previously been in an argument with a woman’s son at a bar in Electric City and was reportedly going to sleep in a trailer on the property, but instead had allegedly threatened her son, locked himself in the bathroom and dumped out her perfumes and beauty products into a tub of water. The case was turned over to tribal police. The Coulee Dam officer remained on scene while tribal police finished the investigation on the case. 10/7 - A female was reported as pulling a m...
(10/8/2025) WSU Colville Reservation Extension collaborated with Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) Headstart program and CCT Diabetes program to celebrate National 4-H Week and Taste Washington Day. This group collaboratively hosted Story Walks to provide educational and fun hands-on activities for Nespelem & Inchelium Headstart students and families. A Story Walk combines reading with physical movement so that students can have fun and learn in an outdoor setting, The books used were Planting...
Midway walkers feel the cooler weather as they object to Trump Administration policies along Midway Avenue in Grand Coulee Saturday about noon. The group will be out again this coming Saturday for a longer walk than usual - 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - as they join in a nationwide (at least) No Kings protest that is expected to involve groups across other nations as well. National organizers expect up to 10 million. - Scott Hunter photo...
Trump floats plan to deny back pay to furloughed federal workers after shutdown by Jennifer Shutt, Washington State Standard October 7, 2025 This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may try to interpret a law enacted during his first term in office differently than it did following the last government shutdown, potentially denying back pay to hundreds of thousands of furloughed federal workers. The change in stance, outlined in a memo from the Office of Management and Budget that was first reported by Axios on T... Full story
by Scott Hunter The Lake Roosevelt Raiders won their football game against the Chewelah Cougars 56-12 at Jenkins High School Friday in another journey into 8-man play. The team, and some opponents, has had to adjust all season to illness, injury or ineligibility, making it tough to plan on their regular 11-man game. "It has been a crazy season," Coach Geary Oliver said. "Over a third of our players are freshmen, and they have made significant progress since August. "Each game this year players...
Grant County Port District #7 NOTICE OF MEETING CHANGES Grant County Port District #7's monthly board meetings have changed for the months of October through December. Please note the new dates and times listed below: Thursday, October 23, 2025 @ 5:30 pm Thursday, November 20, 2025 @ 5:30 pm Thursday, December 18, 2025 @ 5:30 pm In 2026, beginning with January the regular scheduled Port District board meetings will commence on the last Thursday of each month @ 5:30 pm. Annette Ross, GCPD7 Secretary/Treasurer (Publish October 15, 2025) Town of... Full story
