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CITY OF GRAND COULEE NOTICE OF TOWN HALL MEETING The Grand Coulee City Council will hold a town hall meeting to discuss the implementation of an ordinance pertaining to vacant business buildings. The special meeting will be held Tuesday, May 20, 2025, beginning at 5:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers at City Hall, 306 Midway Avenue. Business owners are strongly encouraged to attend. The regular council meeting will immediately follow. The city hall is accessible to persons with disabilities. The city will make arrangements to reasonably... Full story
The Colorama buttons offered at local businesses help support and promote the Colorama Festival. They are available for purchase at local businesses, including Voltage Coffee House, Coulee Hardware, Cafe Espresso, Coulee Wall Variety Store, MPH HI Dam, The Eagles, on B Street, and the local motels. Buttons cost $3.50....
A small pile of significant tax bills is getting delivered to Gov. Bob Ferguson. Collectively, they form the financial linchpin to the state’s next budget and would generate the revenue needed to erase a chunk of a shortfall Ferguson has pegged at $16 billion over the next four fiscal years. The tax package is expected to net around $9.4 billion over that time. Democrats drew up the bills. They used their majorities in the House and Senate to pass them over the opposition of Republicans and a few moderate Democrats. It is not known if the first...
All are invited to community clean-up days at Spring Canyon Cemetery Saturday, May 3 and Saturday May 17 from 9:00 am until noon. It will be a good time to clean around your family's headstones or stones of those who do not have family living here anymore. Bring gloves, shovels, weed eaters, brooms, brushes, etc. Lion's Club members, military veterans and cemetery supporters will be there to work with you and haul away debris. It will be a fun time. If you have questions, call 509 633-0182 or 509 631-0551....
Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group holds its meetings Monday through Friday evenings at 6pm at the Vets Center. There is also a noon meeting every Wednesday. These meetings are open and non-smoking. For more information, contact Paul 631-4551 or Phyllis 631-1187. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Attention...
Jaxon made no room for Jackson at the Raiders' in-league tennis match with Pateros Thursday in Coulee Dam, as the Lake Roosevelt boys' team bested their guests 4-1. Raider Jaxon Krohn beat Jackson Newman 6-0, 6-0 in #1 singles, and Noah Hunt clobbered Kinden Hook by the same scores at #2. Tor Chaffee won his #3 by 6-1, 6-1. The #2 Boys' Doubles team of Carter Senator and Tommy Tynan won their sets 6-0, 6-1. The #1 doubles team, Gavin Senator and Zane Chaffee, lost 5-7, 3-6. For the girls' team,...
Little People Dummy Roping Annabelle Roberson 5 ft.6pts Wilder Feist 4 ft. 10pts Hadley Brewer 4 ft 3 pts Skylen Pakootas 3 ft. 2 pts. MUTTON BUSTIN Stoney Stacy 61 Boone Carden 61 McCall Smith 58 Wilder Feist 51 GOAT UNDECORATING McCall Smith 11.19 Rhyder Hammer 11.96 Stella Streeter 12.74 Wilder Feist 17.03 STAKE RACE Stella Streeter 11.27 Rhyder Hammer 11.7 Wilder Feist 16.8 Hardy Kuhlman 19.48 BARRELS Rhyder Hammer 33.82 Rowely Marchand 35.52 Wilder Feist 38.97 Leroy Frederick 42.8 ALL AROUND RESERVE Wilder Feist ALL AROUND GRAND CHAMPION...
TOWN OF ALMIRA REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Almira will accept Statements of Qualifications from firms interested in providing professional municipal engineering services during the 2025-2027calendar years. The Town will be selecting a consulting engineering firm for municipal engineering services for sewer, projects, comprehensive plans, municipal planning, studies, capital facilities plans, rate studies, technical engineering reports, cost estimates, environmental reviews, plans,... Full story
Democratic state lawmakers dropped their bid Monday to repeal a voter-approved limit on property tax growth in Washington, excising one of the most controversial revenue-raising ideas they’ve pursued in this year’s legislative session. The proposal, embedded in House Bill 2049, sought to allow an increase in the growth factor from the current 1% cap to as much as 3%. It would have applied to a state levy that supports schools, and for cities and counties, as well as special purpose districts. But Rep. Steve Bergquist, D-Renton, the bil...
April 18, 1906, an earthquake struck near San Francisco, the then largest city on the West Coast. The earthquake occurred offshore at an outcropping called Mussel Rock just after 5:00a.m. Tremors were felt from Oregon to Los Angeles. The land on the eastern side of San Andreas Fault, the city and bay, moved southward. The land on the west side of fault, was pushed northward. The displacement was more than six meters (20 feet). The exact magnitude of the earthquake is disputed, most common estimate is about 7.9 – a very damaging event. Fires i...
Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group holds its meetings Monday through Friday evenings at 6pm at the Vets Center. There is also a noon meeting every Wednesday. These meetings are open and non-smoking. For more information, contact Paul 631-4551 or Phyllis 631-1187. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Attention...
The Lady Raiders' first loss of the season had to sting, coming from the Inchelium Hornets, who gave the previously unbeaten LR girls their first stiff competition this year April 16 in Grand Coulee. Inchelium won both games of the doubleheader, 9-7, 14-9. LR regained their groove with two 15-0 shutouts of Bridgeport Saturday, then soundly beating Okanogan 11-4 Tuesday night in Okanogan. Lake Roosevelt sits at the top of the league with 7-0 win-loss record in league, 10-2 overall. They'll host...
Lake Roosevelt boys remained undefeated as a team Friday after beating the 1A Cascade Kodiaks at Leavenworth, 3-2. It was the Raiders’ closest victory of the week that started with a 4-1 defeat of Manson on Monday, then tipping over Tonasket on Wednesday, also 4-1. Coach Emily Tillman said the girls’ team is also doing well but forfeits games due to not having enough players to fill all them. The girls’ team lost each match this week against the same teams, 1-4. The Raiders will host Pateros Thursday at 4 p.m. Tillman said their last home...
The Raider boys as a team took third place at a 17-team track-and-field meet Saturday in Kittitas at the K-Valley Rally. Lake Roosevelt track and field athletes competed well as dozens set personal or seasonal records or placed in their events. “Our teams set almost 40 season or personal records at this meet,” Coach Lori Adkins said. “There was much to celebrate, everyone performed exceedingly well. It was definitely a meet to remember!” John Cooley took the championship in the 300-meter hurdles in 42.4 seconds, a PR. Cooley also took the top s...
The Raiders continued winning Saturday in a doubleheader at home with Bridgeport. LR won each game, 2-0, to complete a five-game streak. Okanogan interrupted that in Coulee Dam Tuesday night when they slipped by the Raiders, 3-2. The Raiders will head to Tonasket Friday for a doubleheader starting at 3:30 p.m. The regular season concludes with LR facing Liberty Bell, there, at 11 a.m. Saturday, May 3. The Raiders have a win-loss record in league of 2-7, 5-10 overall....
TOWN OF ALMIRA REQUEST FOR STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS MUNICIPAL ENGINEERING SERVICES The Town of Almira will accept Statements of Qualifications from firms interested in providing professional municipal engineering services during the 2025-2027calendar years. The Town will be selecting a consulting engineering firm for municipal engineering services for sewer, projects, comprehensive plans, municipal planning, studies, capital facilities plans, rate studies, technical engineering reports, cost estimates, environmental reviews, plans,...
April 18, 1906, an earthquake struck near San Francisco, the then largest city on the West Coast. The earthquake occurred offshore at an outcropping called Mussel Rock just after 5:00a.m. Tremors were felt from Oregon to Los Angeles. The land on the eastern side of San Andreas Fault, the city and bay, moved southward. The land on the west side of fault, was pushed northward. The displacement was more than six meters (20 feet). The exact magnitude of the earthquake is disputed, most common estimate is about 7.9 – a very damaging event. Fires i...
Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group holds its meetings Monday through Friday evenings at 6pm at the Vets Center. There is also a noon meeting every Wednesday. These meetings are open and non-smoking. For more information, contact Paul 631-4551 or Phyllis 631-1187. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Food Bank Open Care & Share Food Bank regular hours are Fridays 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Attention...
Grand Coulee Police 4/3 - At the Continental Heights apartments, a man explained he had let another resident into his room who was drunk and began threatening him. Police learned while on the way there that the man was still threatening people. Police arrived and spoke to him and noted he was very intoxicated and hard to understand. Asking him how to spell his name, the man said, “What? You don’t know how to spell?” to which the officer replied that there were numerous ways to spell the name. The man who originally reported being threa...
Wenatchee Valley College Running Start Program is having a presentation for the 2025/26 school year. Parents and Students interested are encouraged to attend on Thursday April 24th at 3:30 PM at Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr High School. Students interested need to be a Junior or Senior during the 2025/26 school year with a Grade Point Average of at least a 2.6...
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Local cities and towns will help get the community cleaned up in the next couple weeks with the annual Spring Clean-up program. Local residents can take organic yard waste to the Delano Transfer Station free of charge on Tuesday through Friday, April 22-25, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., and on Saturday, May 3. No household waste is allowed on these days, just yard waste like grass, leaves and tree limbs and other woody waste, but no stumps. The chipper Loads must be covered for transport. ID is required to show you live in the area. The areawide...
This story was updated at 10:24 a.m. EDT, April 8 WASHINGTON — The U.S. Supreme Court Monday said the Trump administration could continue for now to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out rapid deportations of Venezuelans suspected of being gang members — but they must be given a chance to challenge their deportations in court. The 5-4 decision, which lifted a temporary restraining order by a District of Columbia federal judge, will allow the Trump administration to deport Venezuelans 14 and older who are suspected of Tren de Ara... Full story
Coulee Dam Police 3/31-4/6 - Reports were filed without details about several situations: one for a verbal disturbance on Birch Street in Coulee Dam, one for a public service/citizen assist on Jackson Avenue in Electric City, one for a past disturbance on Continental Heights in Grand Coulee, one related to a theft on Camas Street, one related to trespassing at the hospital in Grand Coulee, and one related to a vehicle prowl and theft from a vehicle on Washington Place in Electric City. 4/2 - A woman was “walking funny” on the bridge in Cou...
Mosquito Dist. 2 Meets Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting this Thursday, April 10, 2025 at 5:00pm at 210 W. Coulee Blvs. in Electric City Fire Dist. 14 Meets Grant County Fire District #14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, April 14, 2025, at 6:00pm at the Electric City Fire Station. Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group holds its meetings Monday through Friday evenings at 6pm at the Vets Center. There is also a noon meeting every Wednesday. These meetings are open and non-smoking. For...