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Grand Coulee Police 12/25 - Police responded to a Bay Area Drive home where the security alarm was going off. The homeowner was there and explained that he forgot the passcode for the alarm. 12/26 - Police went to Continental Heights where a woman had reported that a man was intoxicated and needed to be escorted away. When police arrived, she explained the man had already left as had another man whom he had been arguing with, wanting to fight him. Police weren’t able to find either of the men. - Police were unable to find any evidence of a w...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA 9913...
With temperatures near 0 last Thursday, two leaks on one drum gate on top of Grand Coulee Dam build ice formations as they spray. Ice built up on much of the dam during recent frigid weather but was crashing to the river below on Monday when temperatures were in the high 30s. See our upcoming weather chart on page 2. - Scott Hunter photo...
Grand Coulee’s city council passed its budget reluctantly last week, with one council member warning that the city would need to find another $50,000 by year’s end or layoffs would be necessary. “I wanted to have a balanced budget that we could vote on,” said Councilmember Tom Poplawski at the council’s meeting Dec. 20. “But after all the discussions and all of the meetings, looking at numbers and analysis of it all, we can’t get there unless we were to lay people off. That’s the bottom line. We’ve chosen not to do that.” The city’s 2023 bud...
Utility crews for Grant County PUD worked through the extreme weather last week as power outages affected their customers from Royal City to Grand Coulee. With temperatures plunging to the well-below-zero range, then frozen rain falling across the region, the National Weather Service warned people to prepare for power outages. One hit the Electric City-Grand Coulee area on Christmas night, apparently around 8 p.m. and took until morning to repair. Customers on the PUD Facebook page asked for...
Sara "Rosalie" Scallan was born June 26, 1937 in Coulee Dam, Washington to Carlisle "Bill" and Elizabeth "Betty" Beery. She passed away on Monday, December 19, 2022, at home in Coulee Dam, surrounded by her daughters. In her younger years, Rosalie was an avid horsewoman and a gifted trainer, spending many days horseback riding with the Moore girls and catching wild horses on the reservation. She graduated from Coulee Dam High School as Salutatorian in 1955. On July 30, 1955, she married David...
Grand Coulee Police 12/20 - Police checked on a situation at a Burdin Boulevard home where a man said his mother ripped the phone cord out of an Xbox while trying to make a call related to food stamps. The man was also concerned about his mother’s health after a friend said she was having trouble breathing. Medical personnel were allowed to come to the residence to check on her. - Police went to Kelsey Avenue to investigate a report of someone getting hit with a shovel. The man and woman at the residence said that they had argued but nothing p...
The City of Grand Coulee seeks community applicants for AWC Center for Quality Communities Scholarship Applications are due by December 31, 2022. The City of Grand Coulee is now accepting community applications for the AWC Center for Quality Communities scholarship. The scholarship is available through a statewide competitive process for students who are active in leadership through their city government, community, or school. CQC will award up to ten$2,500 scholarships in March 2023. One applicant will be submitted to CQC by each city after...
Care and Share Food Bank Closed Care & Share Food Bank will be closed, Dec 30 for the Holidays. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 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 Saturday at noon at the Grand...
TOWN OF COULEE DAM, WASHINGTON ADVERTISEMENT FOR BIDS PEDESTRIAN SAFETY improvement PROJECT Ferry Avenue Sidewalk Improvements Contract No. TA-7243 Federal Aid No. TAP 0280(003) Sealed bids will be received by the Town of Coulee Dam, Washington, at Town Hall located at 300 Lincoln Ave., Coulee Dam, WA 99116 until 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, January 26, 2023, and will then and there be opened and publicly read aloud. The project is located within the Town of Coulee Dam between Grant Avenue and the Fiddle Creek Pathway. The project is funded by the Fe...
Ninety-four children in 43 households had wrapped Christmas packages delivered to their homes Saturday, Dec. 17 thanks to Trees of Sharing 2022 volunteers who supported the project by making cash donations or purchasing gifts for children who might not have otherwise received one this season. Trees of Sharing began in the Coulee in the mid-1980s with the express objective of assuring each child enrolled in the local school district would receive a gift at Christmastime. Every year since the...
Children talk and stare at Santa and Mrs. Claus, who stopped at Mason City Memorial Park in Coulee Dam Dec. 14 in an event arranged by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. It also featured other characters popular during the season, such as Elsa. Cocoa around the fire was popular too. Firefighters helped by making the place look like daylight with big lights on their fire trucks. - Scott Hunter photo...
Toyoko Spence, 85, was born on August 21, 1937 in Fujisawa, Japan and passed away peacefully with her daughters and family by her side in Mead, Washington on Thursday, December 15, 2022. Toyoko met Dick Spence while he was overseas serving in the Navy. They married in Tokyo, Japan on December 22, 1964. Later, they were stationed in Oahu where they welcomed their first daughter, Pam. After Dick was discharged, they lived in Nespelem for several years before they moved to Coulee Dam and had...
Edwin Bernard Kendall, 89, passed away on December 19, 2022 in Spokane, Washington. He was born on July 17, 1933, to parents Joseph Kendall and Frances (Higginbotham) Kendall. The graveside service will be on December 27 at 11:00 am at Spring Canyon Cemetery in Grand Coulee, WA. The funeral will be held on December 27 at 12:00 pm at Grand Coulee Community Church, 405 Center Street with a reception to follow....
Care and Share Food Bank Closed Care & Share Food Bank will be closed Dec. 23 and 30 for the holidays. Join our Facebook Group. Questions call Pastor shawn at 633-2566. AA Meetings in the Local Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held Monday through Friday from 6 to 7 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 Saturday at noon at the Gra...
Grand Coulee Police 12/12 - A man on Schreiber Road reported that a cargo trail had been broken into and two boxes and a tool bag were taken along with various tools. Police took photographs of the crime scene as well as footprints in the snow. It seems that a lock was “defeated” by whoever stole the items, and removed to enter the trailer, according to the police report. - Police shot an injured deer near the intersection of Continental Heights and Federal Way after determining it was the most humane thing to do for it. 12/13 - Police che...
The City of Grand Coulee seeks community applicants for AWC Center for Quality Communities Scholarship Applications are due by December 31, 2022. The City of Grand Coulee is now accepting community applications for the AWC Center for Quality Communities scholarship. The scholarship is available through a statewide competitive process for students who are active in leadership through their city government, community, or school. CQC will award up to ten$2,500 scholarships in March 2023. One applicant will be submitted to CQC by each city after...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA...
NCW Libraries is planning to upgrade its facilities around its district with a $10 million investment, including the library in Grand Coulee. NCW Libraries has selected Library Forward and Forte Architects as the design lead for the "Reimagining Spaces" project. The NCW Libraries Reimagining Spaces Project represents a $10 million, multi-year redesign of 27 community libraries. In funding the project, the NCW Libraries Board of Trustees hopes to make a visible and impactful investment in...
The National Weather Service in Spokane has issued a wind chill advisory for this region warning that skin should be covered outside to avoid freezing or frostbite. Below is the complete text. URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Spokane WA 231 AM PST Mon Dec 19 2022 ...SNOW AT TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING PLUS COLD WIND CHILL VALUES... Light snow will slowly wane this morning across southeast Washington and the lower Idaho Panhandle. A second storm system will arrive... Full story
Local mayors decided against further studying whether their Regional Board of Mayors could consider taking over the Spring Canyon Cemetery. Meeting as the RBOM Dec. 7, the mayors voted to drop their research into taking over ownership of the cemetery currently owned by the local Lions Club. The club had approached the mayors about that possibility last August, and they’ve been looking into it ever since. Coulee Dam Mayor Bob Poch said his council was not in favor of it. City Clerk Stefani Bowden had asked the Municipal Research Services Corpora...
Sometimes, if it’s not one thing, it’s another when you’re dealing a federal agency that gives you money. Or takes it back. Nespelem’s school board learned Monday that some of their Impact Aid money was being clawed back. Impact Aid is a federal grant program for local educational agencies that have lost local property tax revenue due to the presence of non-taxable federal land. Superintendent Effie Dean explained that the Impact Aid agency had found the school district’s 2019-2020 school year application for Impact Aid faulty, for two years...
Grand Coulee Police 12/6 - An officer assisted tribal police with a man they had arrested for damaging a window at their police station. The Grand Coulee officer helped move the man, who was being combative, from a tribal police car to inside the hospital, and then back out to their police car after he was discharged from the hospital. - Police closed a door that was open at The Star newspaper after searching the building first. - Police collected information about a hit-and-run that may have occurred in the parking lot of the bar in Electric C...
As we near the end of 2022, I want to take a moment to look back on some of the work I’ve done in Congress for our district. From passing landmark legislation to securing critical funds for projects in our communities, we’ve accomplished a lot. And as we enter into the new Congress, I’m committed to building off these successes and continuing to fight for Central Washington’s priorities. As a member on the Appropriations Committee, I work to secure funding for much-needed projects in Central Washington while ensuring our taxpayer dollars are be...
Grand Coulee Dam's first concrete pour was 87 years ago last week. Congratulations engineers, builders and all who made the dream a reality....