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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Grand Coulee 5/4 - Police collected and discarded two syringes found in the roadway near Sunny Drive and Kelso Avenue. 5/5 - A woman on F Street showed police damage to her car and her mother’s car that appeared to be caused by a BB or pellet gun. She thought it may be a neighbor she has feuded with who walks around with a gun. She isn’t sure whether it’s a real gun or a BB or pellet gun. Police told her to call police if she sees something suspicious like someone walking around with a gun. - A woman reported being a victim of fraud. A man s...
The Lady Raiders softball team has two shots at going to state following a hometown win last week against Brewster that started the postseason. The rain didn't dampen the spirits of the Lady Raiders, who hosted Brewster on May 14 in Grand Coulee, winning 12-0. LR scored three runs in the first inning, eight in the third and one in the fourth. On the mound for LR and shutting out the Brewster Bears were Presley Steffens and Aaliyah Marchand. Steffens pitched four innings, striking out two, and al...
You can see the world from a different perspective by flying a drone. Greg Behrens, a retired geologist from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, demonstrated his drone for The Star in April at his home east of Grand Coulee in the Spring Canyon area. Behrens got his drone in July of 2021 and his commercial license in October, but he didn't really need it; he just enjoyed the intellectual challenge of passing the test for certification and learning all there was to learn about it. "You have to...
Where should a new gym be and where should the baseball field be? Those are decisions coming up for the Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors. At their May 9 meeting, the group discussed with Superintendent Paul Turner, wanting to involve other people involved in athletics to find out what they’re preferences might be regarding what options they might prefer for placement of a new gym and for a baseball field. Turner told the board they would need to give some more direction to NAC Architecture. Options include building a gym a...
Firefighters from Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee, and Elmer City departments responded to a vehicle fire near the Coulee Dam Casino Tuesday. The fire burned inside the cab of a pickup truck. The cause is still under investigation. The fire, reported at 5:14 p.m., was extinguished by 5:25 p.m. Two fire extinguishers were used to put the fire out, which could have been worse, according to firefighters on the scene, who said it could have burned the truck to the ground. Firefighters at the scene of...
The next Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Blood Drive is set for Monday, May 16, noon - 5:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Electric City. All blood types are needed to ensure a safe and ready supply, especially type O blood. Advance appointments are encouraged. Visit donors.vitalant.org or call 877-258-4825 to make your appointment. Sponsor Code: grandcouleecomm... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam area residents may dispose of household hazardous waste for free on Friday, May 13 from 12 pm to 4 pm at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. This event is for waste generated by households only. Participants must remain in their vehicles and all waste must be in the trunk or the bed of a pickup. Containers will not be returned. Hazardous products have labels with words such as danger, caustic, flammable, and poison. Examples include oil-based paint, contaminated automotive oil, paint thinner, rechargeable batteries,...
GCHS Alumni Spring Meeting Set for May 18 PTA The Grand Coulee High School alumni spring meeting will be held at 1 p.m., Wednesday, May 18, at the Senior Center on Main Street in Grand Coulee. Grant County Mosquito Dist. 2 to Meet Grant County Mosquito District 2 will hold it’s regular monthly meeting at 4 p.m., Thursday, May 11 at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., Electric City. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 d...
Grand Coulee Police 4/26 - A vehicle hit the base of a light post near the Riley Point overlook just below Grand Coulee Dam. The driver stated she was distracted while looking at the dam when the accident occurred. 4/29 - Police located a vehicle stolen out of Nespelem parked at the casino and observed a puppy in the passenger seat. Police reviewed security footage at the casino and identified a man who had driven it there. Tribal police assisted in confronting the man at a slot machine. He was arrested for possession of the stolen vehicle,...
The Lady Raiders finished their regular softball season with a pair of wins, tied for league champion, and will enter the postseason beginning Saturday. LR bested Oroville twice last Saturday in a doubleheader in Grand Coulee. LR won the first game 13-3, scoring two runs in the first inning, three in the third, five in the fourth, and three in the fifth, holding Oroville to just three runs scored in the third inning. At bat for LR, Sawyer Steffens hit a double and a triple; Halle Albert and...
The hulking shell of a construction project will be revived at some as-yet-unknown date, but a tangle of legal problems has been resolved to allow the Bureau of Reclamation's fire station project to move forward. The agency announced an agreement with the insurance company April 28. The bureau said in a press release that Berkley Insurance Company has selected J.S. Held LLC to coordinate the project with National Native American Construction, Inc. "The mobilization date is unknown but is...
It's Mother's Day weekend in May, which means it's also Colorama time. If you're new to the area, it's pronounced with the word "color" in it. Some people unfamiliar with our unusual spring festival name see it in a medical context, rendering a completely different connotation. So why is the festival called Colorama; what's so colorful? When local folks first decided to have a big spring hoot, they called it Western Days, a spirit that still lives on in Colorama with the popularity of the...
Come join us in Loving Remembrance of Irene M Brownfield on Saturday, May 14th. The immediate family Graveside Service will be at noon at Spring Canyon Cemetery. The Celebration of Life Service will be at 1:30 at Grand Coulee Church of the Nazarene, 45925 State Route 174N, Grand Coulee, WA.... Full story
Coulee Dam Police 4/24 - A man on Cedar Street told police that someone had gone through his pickup truck and that the glove compartment was open. The man didn’t report anything of his taken, but explained that his neighbor had had a chainsaw taken out of his pickup. The neighbor told police the chainsaw was valued at about $400-$500 and that a jacket and coat were also missing but found laying on the ground nearby. His shed had also been opened and gone through, but nothing taken. Police said they would attempt to get a search warrant to v...
The next Grand Coulee Dam Area Community Blood Drive is set for Monday, May 16, noon - 5:30 p.m. at the American Legion Hall in Electric City. All blood types are needed to ensure a safe and ready supply, especially type O blood. Advance appointments are encouraged. Visit donors.vitalant.org or call 877-258-4825 to make your appointment. Sponsor Code: grandcouleecomm...
PTA General Meeting to be Held PTA General Meeting will be held Tuesday, May 10, 6:30 p.m. in the Lake Roosevelt High School HUB. Hope to see members and non-members to find out about up-coming events and elections. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District #14 will hold it’s regular monthly meeting Monday, May 9, at 6 pm at the Electric City Fire Station. Indoor Service Resumes at Food Bank Indoor services at the Care and Share Food Bank will resume on Friday, May 6, from 1-3 p.m. Please bring bags or boxes. Masks will be r...
The Lady Raiders won three more games this past week, one against Pateros, and two against Liberty Bell. They currently boast a 7-1 league win-loss record, 16-2 overall, ranked second in the league to Okanogan (7-1, 15-1), whom LR defeated 10-0 earlier in the season. Lake Roosevelt defeated Pateros 15-0 April 26 in Grand Coulee. On April 29 at Liberty Bell High School for a doubleheader, LR defeated LB 13-1 in the first game, 8-0 in the second. In game one, batting for LR, Aaliyah Marchand hit a...
by Jacob Wagner The Grand Coulee Dam School District will offer $16,000 to a man who filed a lawsuit against them regarding a public records request, and who has reportedly made around a million dollars over the years with similar lawsuits against small school districts, towns, hospital districts and other such agencies. The GCDSD board of directors on Monday approved offering the settlement to Eric Hood, who filed suit in February of 2022 saying that the school district had not provided all documents related to a public records request he had...
Kiser Payne rounds the barrels at the Nespelem Junior Rodeo Sunday in 16.63 seconds. The rodeo includes events like goat undecorating and hay bail roping for the youngest contestants but works up to steer riding and barrels for the more seasoned athletes. Dorothy Palmer said they'd been worried their schedule might conflict with Tonasket's junior rodeo, which just changed to the same weekend this year, but the opposite effect was noticed. Attendance was up, with many of the same traveling rodeo...
You can sing your heart out and win $100 towards a local business at a karaoke contest at this year’s Colorama. The contest will be held at the beer tent at North Dam Park on Friday, May 6, at 7 p.m., and so will be limited to participants age 21 and over. Morgan Tillman, of Apothecary Salon, will be the master of ceremonies for the event, and said that if the contest goes well there could be more in the future, including for those under 21. “I was just trying to find an activity that is inexpensive and that I knew that our community would lik...
It may look different than past years, but there will be a Colorama festival this year, including a parade, a petting zoo, a rock climbing wall, a lot of giant inflatable things including a bounce house, a karaoke contest, helicopter rides, vendors, and more. Some of those features have come together in just the last month, one in the last week. Missing from the list is the carnival that people have come to know over the years, and there are other challenges, as well. "Coming into 2022, we are...
The Lady Raiders beat the top-ranked 1B fast-pitch softball team in the state last week, then shut out the top 2B team on its home field. Lake Roosevelt's girls are currently ranked fifth in the state among 2B teams with a 13-2 overall win-loss record, 5-1 in the league. They beat the top-ranked 1B Almira-Coulee-Hartline in both games of a doubleheader in Grand Coulee April 19. In the first game, LR led 3-0 after the first inning, scoring seven more in the third, one in the fourth, and three...
Food Bank Closed April 29 Care & Share Food Bank will be closed Friday, April 29. Indoor services will resume on Friday, May 6, from 1-3 p.m. Please bring bags or boxes. Masks will be required. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. A new Alcoholics Anonymous group is meeting each...
Masquers Theater is proud to present Melanie Marnich’s “These Shining Lives”. This play is based on the true story of four women who worked for the Radium Dial company during the 1920s and 30s. The play follows the ups and downs of these hardworking women in and out of work. Experience the struggles working for this watch making company and the sad side-effects of the toxic chemical radium. Come see and understand how history was made, and watch one of the first stepping stones for “employee rights” be set! We welcome back Mistya Zaleski,...
Orville John Scharbach, 99, of Liberty Lake and former Grand Coulee resident passed away on Saturday, April 23, 2022, at Guardian Angel Assisted Living surrounded by his family. He was born on July 22, 1922, on a farm in Colton, WA to John and Anna (Semler) Scharbach. He attended and graduated from Colton High School in 1940. In 1942 he enlisted in the US Navy where he spent time as a pharmacist mate in the South Pacific. He was honorably discharged in 1946. Following WWII, he attended and...