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Grand Coulee Police 8/19 - After doing some research, police determined that barriers blocking access to private property near E Street and First on a dead end street were legal because they were only blocking off private property. - An officer responded to a report of someone overdosing in an alleyway near Grand Coulee Avenue but found the person had just been lying down while upset about something. The person didn’t show signs of drug use and walked off. 8/20 - A woman on Third Street was upset that her neighbor who lives in the same d...
A couple in a pontoon boat at Crescent Bay on Lake Roosevelt at the end of the launch dock view the backside of Grand Coulee Dam as a low Lake Roosevelt exposes the drum gates that hold it back Aug. 24. The telephoto effect draws the sandhill in the background in closer in the image. - Scott Hunter photo...
Electric City wants to move ahead with discussions on forming a regional fire authority, an option proposed last fall in an all-community meeting called to discuss the future of local emergency services. The city council agreed last week to send a letter stating the city is in favor of moving ahead with talks to pursue the establishment of a regional fire authority with five other entities: Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, Grant County Fire District 14, Lincoln County Fire District 9, and Okanogan...
A celebration of life will be held August 23, 2025, at the Coulee Dam City Hall at 1:00 for Gary G Haugen & Steven J Haugen. Gary passed away July 7, 2025, with one final wish to be laid to rest with his son Steven. Steven passed away December 31, 2021. Steven was born October 27, 1960, to Gary & Gloria (Friedlander) Haugen. He attended elementary school in Moses Lake, Junior High in Grand Coulee and graduated from Port Angeles High School. He then enlisted in the Army. Upon leaving the Army he worked in Spokane and eventually found Canby,... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 8/11 - 8/17 - Reports were filed without additional details on the situations including reports related to: lost and found property on F Street; a traffic accident on E Street; a traffic accident on Grand Coulee Avenue; a traffic accident on Spokane Way and Grand Coulee Avenue; theft on King Street; trespassing on Cardinal Road; theft on Main Street; suspicious or wanted on Burdin Boulevard; two separate citizen assists at Safeway; and another theft on Main Street. 8/12 - A man told police he thought he had lost an envelope...
City of Grand Coulee NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING 2026–2031 SIX YEAR STREET PLAN NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held by the city council in the council chambers, 306 Midway Avenue, on August 26, 2025, at 6:00pm. The purpose of the public hearing is to review and receive comments regarding the proposed City of Grand Coulee Six Year Street Transportation program. Comments may also be submitted in writing to City of Grand Coulee, PO Box 180, Grand Coulee WA 99133, by 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, August 21, 2025. (Publish August 20, 2... Full story
A wildland fire put Electric City on evacuation alerts Aug. 6 as firefighters from many agencies helped local firefighters in the steep terrain. The Silver Fire ignited in the rocky, wooded hillsides outside the southeast corner of the city where a small forest rises on cliffs overlooking houses and pastures Wednesday afternoon. By 2:30 a large, blackened area dwarfed firefighters with brush trucks hosing the perimeter closest to homes just off the corner of Sunset Drive and Electric Boulevard....
Coulee Dam Police 8/4 - An officer spoke separately to a man and his father on Birch Street following an argument. The father said he wanted the son off the property and said that he could get his stuff the next day. The son was fine with that and left the area. 8/5 - A man reported finding large scuffs and marks on his vehicle which he parks near the grocery store in Electric City on Coulee Boulevard. 8/6 - A fire outside of Electric City’s limits near Electric Boulevard was possibly set by children lighting fireworks. The case was f...
Coulee Dam Police 7/27 - Someone reported seeing drugs being sold on Cedar Street and showed police video and photos showing people outside a car and someone inside a car. A tribal police drug dog was used and didn’t alert to any substances and so there was no crime at the time for police to further investigate. 7/28 - A driver was cited for driving with a suspended license after being pulled over for going 50 miles per hour in the 30 mph zone near Pole Park. The driver admitted to knowing she was speeding and told the officer she didn’t have a...
Flanked by his crew, Larry Hernandez cuts a ribbon to formally declare the Village Cinema open July 19 as about a dozen patrons applauded. Hernandez has spent the last year getting the old theater into shape, upgrading it, adding equipment, cleaning and refurbishing it, investing heavily in time and money, and most recently, hiring people. The cinema has been open since May, and even before, for several special events and recently started a regular schedule of movie runs. Hernandez got together...
Two local school districts passed budgets for the next school year on Monday after a Friday when the Trump Administration relented on withholding billions that were supposed to have been transferred to states by July 1. In Coulee Dam, school district directors OK’d a budget that plans to spend $416,000 less than in the 2024-25 year just ended, but still will end up next summer with less than a quarter of what it will start the 2025-26 year with amid declining student enrollment. The district will start with just under $2.5 million next month, a...
Superintendent Rod Broadnax said student from Nespelem who want to attend Grand Coulee Dam schools must again “choice in,” that is, formally choose to come to the district, by Aug. 21. The process changed last year as the two districts bumped into regulations on teaching students from other districts. Now, students wanting to transfer to a district not serviing the place where they live must complete some paperwork, either at the school they will attend or online at https://eds.ospi.k12. wa.us/choicetransferrequest. Broadnax told the sch...
As salmon restoration ramps up on the Columbia River above Chief Joseph Dam, it is important to establish balances between those fish already in reservoirs behind dams and salmon being introduced. Completed in 1942, Grand Coulee Dam became the largest U.S. hydropower plant. It generates enough power to supply about 2 million households with electricity for one year. Water stored in Lake Roosevelt, which is 150 miles long and as deep as 375 feet, reduced downstream flooding. Grand Coulee and Chief Joseph dams blocked salmon from migrating...
Larry William Sanders, 85 years old, of Greenacres and Grand Coulee, WA, passed away peacefully on July 16, 2025, at home with family. He was a devoted husband to Beverly for 40 years and a loving father to his children, Troy Sanders and Trina (Sanders) Riley. Larry was born on May 9, 1940, to Bill and Ruth (Hubbard) Sanders in a house in Electric City and graduated from Coulee Dam High School. Under his senior picture it says, "Whoever blushes seems to be good." Throughout High School, he was... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 7/18 - 7/20 - An officer told a woman that a child custody situation, in which the father of the child didn’t show up for an exchange of custody, was a civil matter for the courts, not a police issue. A couple of days later the father told police that the mother didn’t meet to pick up their child and he was unable to contact her. He wanted the incident documented. 7/21 - A used drug needle was found at the lower ball field at North Dam Park. Police took the needle to be destroyed. - A woman reported being the victim of a t...
by Scott Hunter Local volunteers had at least 19 calls to emergencies last week, including four fires and 15 ambulance calls. After 18 of those, the next one came in at 11 a.m. Sunday to put out another fire: a campfire (already banned) at Jones Bay on Banks Lake. They put it out. That was after having left home almost 12 hours earlier to find a red glow near the airport in the middle of the night. The glow turned out to be on the other side Banks Lake up in Barker Canyon, to which Douglas...
Coulee Dam Police 7/7 - 7/16 - Reports were filed for different situations without further details about the situations including reports related to a family fight at Sunbanks Lake Resort; a traffic accident at Steamboat Rock State Park; disorderly conduct at a Jones Bay campground; threatening/intimidation on Central Drive; a structure fire on Camas Street; trespassing on Tilmus Street; assault at or near the grocery store in Electric City; a dangerous animal on Crest Drive; driving under the influence near River Drive and Crest Drive; and...
Okanogan County NOTICE OF BALLOTS IN MAIL Ballots for the August 5, 2025 Primary Election are in the mail. If you have not received your ballot by Friday, July 25, 2025, please contact the Auditors Office at (509) 422-7240. Remember your ballot return envelope must be signed. The Auditors Office, 149 3rd Ave N, Okanogan, is open Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM and on Election Day only from 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM for the following services. Voter Registration Drop off voted ballots Obtain replacement ballots Disability Access Voting Units Drop b...
Fire took away a family's home Monday morning in Coulee Dam. Randy Adolph's home at 1004 Camas Street, where he lived with his two grandchildren and a great grandchild, went up in flames about 10 a.m. when, a neighbor the next street over said, a very loud boom was heard. Casey Brewster was behind Lake Roosevelt Schools just down the street, taking a photo of his daughter, he said. He got in his truck and drove to the house on fire. Brewster couldn't open the front door but went around to the...
Grand Coulee’s city council voted unanimously Tuesday night to direct the city government to write to others who might wish to be part of a new “fire authority” that could combine the efforts of local volunteer fire departments. The idea was the subject of a community meeting in November 2024, when the Regional Board of Mayors sponsored a community town hall meeting to talk about options for either an emergency medical services district or a broader regional fire protection authority, which could start out initially as an EMS provider, proba...
When they wrestled with how to allocate a pay boost not all covered by extra state money last month, school directors didn’t know the federal government had just announced it would not pay far more money Congress had already promised, money that would typically be paid the next day. That was June 30 as the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors learned the $136,000 the state would pay for a 2.5% cost-of-living increase next year wouldn’t cover the $679,000 of actual cost involved, leaving a $543,000 hole in the coming year’s distri...
Grand Coulee Police 6/29 - A woman. was taken to jail for assault following an argument with her boyfriend that involved her allegedly pushing and pulling him out of her home and him getting multiple scratches in the process. 7/1-7/7 - A trailer holding equipment for a chamber of commerce 4th of July event was stolen from behind the chamber building on Midway Avenue, towed away. Police spoke to a man. He admitted to taking the trailer, which ended up parked on a street behind JC Penny’s in Wenatchee and later towed to a safe location. Some i...
Larry Lee Hall 76, passed away on Saturday, June 28, 2025 at Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center due to complications of a hip fracture, and unresolved blood issues. Larry was born on Friday August 13, 1948, in Richland, WA to Charles L. Hall, and Leta J. (Johnson) where they lived until they moved to Coulee Dam, Quincy, E. Wenatchee, and Elmer City, WA. He graduated in 1966 from Quincy High School, after which he joined the United States Army, graduating from Fort Lewis in 1968, and serving... Full story
Notice of ElectionOkanogan County, State of Washington Primary Election Tuesday, August 5, 2025 A Primary election will be held in the below mentioned districts for the purpose of submitting to the voters for their approval or rejection the following. City of Oroville, Proposition No. 1, Oroville EMS, Proposition No. 1, Tonasket EMS, Proposition No. 1, Public Hospital District No. 1, Proposition No. 1. The registration deadline for online registrations, mail-in registrations and transfers is July 28, 2025. Any qualified elector who is not... Full story
The biggest local festival of the year drew thousands to Grand Coulee Dam to celebrate Independence Day with fireworks, live music and even the original laser show on the dam. What they couldn't see were the unusual challenges that started the week for Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce officials. With the festival looming on Friday, Krystal and Jillian Fillis, executive directors in training, knew they had a lot of organizational boxes to tick off by Thursday. But Monday morning they...