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An important institution celebrated its 90th anniversary Saturday, when the Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department members gathered at the fire station on Spokane Way, which was built in the 1970s. The modern fire department was consolidated from two earlier, separate departments for the different parts of the city, Rick Paris recounted as people gathered at the station for food and drink, and to honor the department's work and role in the community. Before there was a city or an ordinance to...
Even in an election year when most races were for often uncontested local offices, several were too close to call last night when county election offices stopped counting ballots after 8 p.m. In Grand Coulee, Mayor Ruth Dalton wasn’t getting too nervous yet about barely trailing by 52-48, Chantel Crowe, the city’s deputy clerk who decided to run for the mayor’s office. Neither was Crowe, reached on her way back from a leadership class in Ephrata. She also said it was too close to call. “As of now, I’m excited and I’m certainly honored,” she sai...
Trunk or Treat held on Main Street Grand Coulee Halloween turned out to be a great success. The event was organized by the chamber of commerce with support from local businesses....
Walkers on Midway Avenue Saturday protest policies of the Trump Administration. The Wayfinders group is continuing their weekly Saturday walks on the sidewalk into the winter but changing the hours to noon to 1 p.m. Nov. 8 they'll have a theme of Signs of Fascism. - Scott Hunter photo...
Please renew my subscription to The Star. The editor has won national and local awards; the paper provides important community news and a variety of insightful perspectives that entertain and enlighten its readers. The editor prints editorials from perspectives with which I sometimes disagree and perhaps which the editor himself has reservations over as well. Yet, consistently, his belief in permitting his community to speak through The Star overrules whatever his own political perspectives might be. The community is fortunate to have such an...
Anyone who expects a newspaper’s editorial policy to exactly match their own political ideology, or is triggered by editorial cartoons, would be better off in a dictatorship. The free press should not be a safe space for those who fear their beliefs questioned. The Star’s editorial page regularly features columns by our Republican Congressman Dan Newhouse, and conservative business columnist Don Brunell, as well as local conservatives. It’s hardly a leftist, “woke” space. But apparently, it doesn’t pass some potential readers’ purity test f...
Well, well, well. It seems like your relentless pounding of your TDS “Trump Derangement Syndrome” drum has reached the ears of others too? Maybe the “Wayfinders” can find a way to convince me that open borders, illegal immigration, assault on ICE officers, and defunding the police is a good idea? America is 250 years old. Never had a monarchy, never will. Where they get this “no kings” idea? Your left-leaning, liberal rag is republishing garbage of a “cartoon syndicated editor.” No ideas of your own? Maybe so, huh? What’s wrong with the st...
We are now in the sixth week of the federal government shutdown, and Senate Democrats still refuse to vote to reopen the government. The latest victims of what will ultimately be the longest shutdown in history are recipients of benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. On November 1 funding for SNAP expired, meaning that nearly 42 million Americans — and over 900,000 here in Washington state — will not receive their full benefits. In response to a federal court order, the Trump Administration announced it would fun...
November 7, 1837, defending the site of his anti-slavery newspaper, the St. Louis Observer, Elijah Parish Lovejoy was killed by a pro-slavery mob. His death strengthened the abolition cause. Lovejoy was born in Albion, Maine, after college, he decided to head to the Midwest. His funds were low, so he walked to St. Louis, Missouri. Over time he became editor and part-owner of the St. Louis Times. In 1832, he went through a religious conversion, sold his interests in the newspaper to attend seminary. By 1834, he was editor of the St. Louis...
I learned on my first trip to Japan to go into the small shops if you want to find interesting things to purchase. I was in Tokyo and my hotel faced one of the large, wide city streets. I got a city map and decided to wander around on my own. Just off the large street was what looked like an alley. It was wide enough for a single car and was full of tiny shops. I started going from one to another and found that the small shops had a few very interesting items. I had heard that you can purchase things and have the merchant send them to you, for...
Lake Roosevelt will be hosting our annual Veterans Day Assembly on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 9:00 AM in the LRHS Gym. This special event is one of the most meaningful days of our school year as we come together to honor and celebrate the service and sacrifice of our local Veterans. If you have a Veteran you would like to honor and are unsure whether they are already included in our slideshow, please email their photo, dates of service (DOS), and branch of service to me at, aatkins@gcdsd.org Please help us spread the word by sharing the...
Christmas is coming soon! Trees of Sharing 2025 is beginning this week so we’ll be ready to give a hand up to families by providing a Christmas gift for their children. Beginning in the 1980’s, the Trees of Sharing program has been a pathway for Grand Coulee Dam Area residents to be a blessing to needy local children. If you are a parent or guardian in a family or know a family with children under age 18 living in the Coulee as far north as Belvedere that could use the encouragement of having Christmas gifts provided, please fill out Trees of...
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 group Bound and Detemined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Attention Vets A Veterans Service Officer will be at the Electric City Post every 2nd Tuesday of...
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...
Grand Coulee Police 10/20-10/25 - Tattoo equipment, a child’s school backpack, and other miscellaneous items were taken from a Section Place residence. A window on a door had been broken. There wasn’t enough evidence to say it was a man who lives in a shed on the property and is being evicted; he allegedly had later sent a text to the reporting party saying they would regret this. Police hadn’t been able to talk to the man at the time of the report. The next day, a fight broke out at the residence involving people there to collect belon...
The Raider football team capped their season Thursday night with a big win at home on senior night. Lake Roosevelt hosted the Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves in an 8-man game that took the place of an originally scheduled contest with the Okanogan Bulldogs. Head Coach Geary Oliver said the Raiders forfeited to Okanogan because it would have been a mismatch, going against one of the primary safety guidelines coaches in the state are supposed to follow: don't mismatch teams. He indicated this year's...
Led by their older peers, little cheerleaders who have participated in the LR cheer team's clinic perform at halftime of the LR Raiders vs Tekoa-Rosalia Timberwolves football game Oct 30....
Lake Roosevelt’s boys’ cross-country team took sixth place at the District 5 meet Thursday and qualified seven athletes to compete at the state meet in Pasco Nov. 8. Senior Caden Portch set a personal record to take seventh out of 93 competitors on the district’s 3-mile race at Apple Ridge last week in 16 minutes, 33.4 seconds, beating his own 3-mile time at Oroville last month by 13.5 seconds. Each Raider set a personal record on the 3-mile course. After a send-off assembly at the school on Thursday at 10:15 a.m., the team will board the b...
Town of Coulee Dam NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 2026 Final Budget Hearing Notice is hereby given that the Town of Coulee Dam will hold a Final Budget Hearing on, November 19, 2025, 5:00 p.m. at Town Hall. Copies of the 2026 Preliminary Budget are available by contacting Town Hall during normal business hours. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to provide either written or oral comments concerning the 2026 Budget at said Hearing. Stefani Bowden, Clerk/Treasurer (Publish November 5 and 12, 2025) Grant County Fire District #14... Full story