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Grand Coulee Police 11/3 - Multiple reports were filed without additional details, including reports related to: an animal problem on Batchelor Square, a hit-and-run traffic accident on Midway Avenue, and a citizen assist on Grand Coulee Avenue. 11/5 - A Midway Avenue building owner reported that a woman let her dog defecate on the entry area outside his building. He showed police a picture of the woman and her dog and wanted her told to pick up after her dog and that it is not to happen on that property again. 11/9 - Somewhere in the area of...
Seven Lake Roosevelt Raiders traveled to Pasco to compete in the WIAA State XC Championships last week, which has not occurred with a Raider team since this one's oldest athlete was in first grade, Coach Matthew Timentwa said. At a school assembly the day before they got on the bus for Sun Willows Golf Course outside Pasco, Timentwa praised the team. "They worked so hard this year," the coach said. "They all ... put in their best effort, every single one of them, and every single day." Timentwa...
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...
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...
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...
by Scott Hunter The Care and Share Food Bank, like many others, is getting ready to meet the needs of people who will be caught in the midst of the fight in Congress that has shut down much of the nation’s federal government, including food assistance. “Thanks to our government budget, local support and prudent management, we will be able to support all those in need with basic food support,” Shawn Neider wrote in a note to The Star about what the local food bank expects. “We may have to spread our food thinner but nobody needs to starve.” Neid...
GRANT COUNTY, WA — Grant County Health District (GCHD) is accepting applications for primary and alternate members on the Grant County Board of Health. This is a valuable opportunity to support public health in your community by helping shape health policies and services that impact all Grant County residents. “The Grant County Board of Health is a diverse group of people who share a commitment to protecting the health and safety of our communities,” said Tom Harris, Board Chair. “As a member for over a decade, I’ve seen the Board take on s...
Open Seats: Consumer of Public Health, Healthcare, and Community Stakeholder GRANT COUNTY, WA — Grant County Health District (GCHD) is accepting applications for primary and alternate members on the Grant County Board of Health. This is a valuable opportunity to support public health in your community by helping shape health policies and services that impact all Grant County residents. “The Grant County Board of Health is a diverse group of people who share a commitment to protecting the health and safety of our communities,” said Tom Harris, B...
LR ends soccer in postseason game The Liberty Bell Mountain Lions upset the Lake Roosevelt Raiders on their home field Saturday in the first game of the 2025 CWB Girls Soccer Tournament. Lake Roosevelt (9-6) beat Liberty Bell (3-9-2) in their two earlier encounters this season, stopping them 2-0 last time, but Saturday the Lions clawed the Raiders off, 4-1. The loss ends the strongest season Lake Roosevelt's soccer program has had since its 2016 inception, which they ended with a 4-11 record in...
I’m proud to share that the 501(c)(3) paperwork came in and officially established the Village Cinema Foundation, a nonprofit I started to help preserve and improve the historic Village Cinema building in Coulee Dam. The Foundation’s focus is preservation, restoration, and capital improvements as a gift to the Town of Coulee Dam and the surrounding communities. Small towns like ours don’t always have the resources for major projects, so I’m working to bring in grants and outside support at no cost to local taxpayers. My first priority is the...
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 6...
The Raiders beat the Bridgeport Fillies in three sets Thursday at home, then fell to the Tonasket Tigers there last night by the same score. The losses mean Lake Roosevelt ( 1-5, 3-11) will take on Liberty Bell (4-2, 8-3) in Winthrop Saturday at noon for their first game of the post season in the Central Washington 2B League Volleyball Tournament. If they win the loser-out game, they'll play Oct. 28 at 7:30 p.m. at Omak High against top-seeded Manson....
Caden Portch finished the 5,000-meter course at the Oroville Invite nearly 10 seconds ahead of the next runner while setting a personal record to take first place. The senior did the 3.1-mile run at Lake Osoyoos State Park in 16 minutes, 46.9 seconds to lead Lake Roosevelt High School’s nine runners in the event. Cadence Clark, a junior took ninth for the Raiders in 17:58.0. Other Raider results Boys Place Grade Name Time 25 10 Walter Leach-Owhi 19:09.1 33 10 Jack Steffler 20:02.8 39 11 Louie Frank 20:31.4 50 10 Rylie McKee 21:55.8 59. 10 K...
Lake Roosevelt’s soccer players ended their regular season and their winning streak last night with a 5-0 loss to Tonasket, but a win-loss record of 5-3 in the Central Washington 2B League and 9-5 overall. The LR team finished 15th out of 48 teams in the 2B classification in Washington with a 0.5184 RPI. Now seeded third, the Raiders will play Saturday at home at 11 a.m. in game one of the District 5 tournament for the start of postseason play in a loser-out game. They'll host sixth seed Liberty Bell. This story was updated....
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
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...
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...
The city of Grand Coulee will be able to fix a lot of dilapidated sewer lines with funding from the state of Washington’s Public Works Board for $4 million, the board said in a press release Monday. The city’s sewer improvements project will replace or rehabilitate approximately 10,200 linear feet of deteriorating sewer mains and manholes, PWB said. Planning for the project has already been started while the city engineer has been working with city leaders on updating its wastewater treatment plant, a job that will cost more than $10 mil...
Anyone following state news lately may have observed the following “bridge events”: 1) SR 165 has been closed permanently at the Fairfax bridge over the Carbon River due to bridge support failure. This has closed the northwest entry into Mt. Rainier National Park. 2) The bridge on SR 410 between Buckley and Enumclaw has been closed for bridge truss repair after a Vac Truck struck the bridge. 3) The SR 169 bridge over the Green River gorge area between Maple Valley and Enumclaw has been closed for girder repair. The latter two have resulted in...
Mosquito District #2 to Meet Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting this Thursday, October 9th, 2025 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....
Grand Coulee Police 9/27 - A vehicle backed directly into another vehicle that was parked at Safeway. 9/30 - At about 3:30 a.m. the hospital reported a woman had come into the emergency room stating she had a gunshot victim in their vehicle, but no one was in the vehicle and she drove off. Police spoke to her about an hour later and she said she was having a mental issue and there was no gunshot victim. - Police checked on the well-being of a child on Federal Avenue at the request of a parent. The child was fine. 9/27 - 10/4 - Reports were...
Soccer Raider soccer players won their match against the Oroville Hornets last night 4-1 for their third win in the last week. They beat Bridgeport Thursday at home 2-1, got skunked in Davenport 7-0 Saturday, and took out 1A Colville 3-0 Monday. Shae Crollard, Monk Marconi, and Kenzie Portch each scored a goal for LR against the Hornets Tuesday. At goal, Senior Cora Nicholson had four saves, as did Paisley Fury-Smith, a freshman. That win gives LR a 6-4 record for the season so far. They'll...
The Washington State Patrol bomb squad Monday night safely disposed of a live hand grenade that a 3-year-old boy found in his family's front yard. The boy at the 600 block of Willard Street in Hartline took the grenade inside to his parents, who called 9-1-1 around 6:45 p.m., the Grant County Sheriff's Office explained in a Facebook post Tuesday. Patrol deputies asked for the Washington State Patrol bomb squad to assist. Bomb techs determined the grenade was live, then carefully removed the...
by Jennifer Shutt, Washington State Standard September 30, 2025 WASHINGTON — A government shutdown could have significant economic consequences, though an analysis released Tuesday by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said it’s difficult to pinpoint ramifications without knowing the length of a funding lapse or how exactly the Trump administration will try to reshape the federal workforce. Director Phillip L. Swagel wrote in a four-page letter the agency projects about 750,000 federal workers would be furloughed, leading to a $40...
