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School Retirees to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a non-luncheon meeting at 11am, Friday, March 29, at the Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 Birch St S, Omak. Information: Carol Payne: 509-322-5788 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.I In Nespelem, the group Bound and...
The Coulee Dam All Class Reunion will be held the weekend of June 21 (Friday), June 22 (Saturday), and June 23 (Sunday), 2024 with catered dinners at the Lake Roosevelt High School Gym on Friday and Saturday nights, and a picnic at Spring Canyon on Sunday. The reunion is open to all attendees of Coulee Dam, Mason City, or Nespelem public schools between the years of 1935 to 1971 along with students that attended Lake Roosevelt High School between 1972 and 1976. Additionally, anyone with ties to members from these classes are welcomed and...
Notice is hereby given that the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors will be holding a Special Joint School Board Meeting with Nespelem School District Board of Directors, Tuesday, March 5th 2024 at 6:00 p.m. at Siam Palace, Main Street, Grand Coulee....
Two propositions on local ballots passed by nearly the same results Tuesday. Electric City's Proposition 1, to de-annex four large parcels of land the city annexed several years ago, passed by about 81%, 169-40. Nespelem School District 14's Proposition 1, seeking a replacement levy, also passed by a little over 81%, 62-14. Electric City sought to partially undo the annexation it achieved in 2009, shrinking its boundaries to exclude four parcels owned by state or federal governments. They are...
Voters in the Nespelem School District 14 are being asked to approve a new tax levy to replace one that will expire this year, for taxes to be collected from 2025 to 2028. The ballot question says the amount sought by the district is $40,000 for each of those years. The tax rate is estimated at $2.15 per thousand dollars of assessed valuation on real property, or $215 for a $100,000 property. Proposition 1 was approved last year by the Nespelem School Board of Directors. The levy would pay for educational programs and operational expenses not...
Sometimes a game is not just a game. That was especially true Monday night, when even as the Lake Roosevelt Lady Raiders were wrapping up a win in basketball, on the stage people were preparing hundreds of candles for afterward. Is everything made softer by candlelight, even grief? Perhaps. A community of many who cared about young Ambrose Moore experienced that when more than half the gym was ringed by those holding those candles for him after a weekend mourning the 17-year-old who ended his life Friday. The community shared its grief, and,...
Notice of February Special Election Okanogan County, State of Washington Tuesday, February 13, 2024 A Special Election will be held in the below mentioned districts for the purpose of submitting to the voters for their approval or rejection the following. Nespelem School District No. 14- Proposition No. 1- Replacement Educational Programs and operation Levy Omak School District No. 19- Proposition No. 1- Replacement Educational Programs and Operation Levy Bridgeport School District No. 75- Replacement Educational Programs and Operation Levy... Full story
CANCELLATION OF SPECIAL JOINT BOARD MEETING Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors Notice is hereby given that the Grand Coulee Dam School Board of Directors Joint School Board Meeting with Nespelem School District Board of Directors, Wednesday, January 17th 2024 at 6:00 p.m. at PK’s has been CANCELED due to the predicted weather. SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR GRANT COUNTY Estate of LAWRENCE ALLEN ACHORD, Deceased. NO. 23-4-00212-13 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS (RCW 11.40.030) PLEASE TAKE NOTICE The above Court has appointed m... Full story
The Coulee Dam All Class Reunion will be held the weekend of June 21 (Friday), June 22 (Saturday), and June 23 (Sunday), 2024 with catered dinners at the Lake Roosevelt High School Gym on Friday and Saturday nights, and a picnic at Spring Canyon on Sunday. The reunion is open to all attendees of Coulee Dam, Mason City, or Nespelem public schools between the years of 1935 to 1971 along with students that attended Lake Roosevelt High School between 1972 and 1976. Additionally, anyone with ties to members from these classes are welcomed and...
John M. Adkins, Coulee Dam, Superintendent of the Wellpinit School District, has been selected to join five other superintendents on the Board of Directors for the National Indian Impacted Schools Association. There are over 550 Indian land school districts across the United States. Adkins started working as an educator and coach with students and families on Indian lands over 40 years ago, including the Grand Coulee Dam and Nespelem School districts. He has been an athletic director, principal and for the last 24 years a superintendent. He...
Nespelem School is hoping to find extra land on which to expand with a future sports area. The board voted last week to formally inquire with the Colville Tribes about land across the street currently held in trust status that the school board members recall being acquired by the tribes for that purpose. The board met in special session Dec. 26 specifically to authorize a letter to Colville Business Council Chairman Jarred-Michael Erickson to address the topic. “It was years ago that the tribe had let us know that they had purchased the p...
Ken Stanger is retiring from the school board after 14 years and received official thanks for his service at Monday night's meeting. Rich Black, president of the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors, presented Stanger with a framed letter of commendation Monday night at their regular meeting. "Your service has had a lasting, positive impact on the local community, the Grand Coulee Dam School District staff, the parents of district students, and most importantly, the students that...
Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a luncheon meeting at 11 AM, Friday, October 27, at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 South Birch S, Omak. Brewster teacher and OCSRA grant winner, Cindy Brown, will speak. Information: Penny: 509-429-0292 Parks Committee to Meet The Electric City Parks Committee will meet on first Wednesday of each month at 6:00pm at city hall in Electric City. ‘ Planning Commission to Meet The Electric City Planning Commission will meet on the f...
Grand Coulee Police 10/16 - After he called asking about them, police relayed over the phone that a man’s boat and truck had been towed. 10/17 - Police checked on an alarm activation on Dill Avenue and found all doors secured at the address and no signs of forced entry. - Police spoke to a Midway Avenue business owner who said that a delivery driver delivering beer to a neighboring business has on multiple times parked in front of her business, this time blocking access to a handicap parking stall. Police spoke to an owner of the neighboring b...
I’ve lived in the Nespelem area most of my life and am a graduate of Lake Roosevelt High School. My children were raised here too and are graduates of LRHS. Now my grandkids, grandnieces and grandnephews are being raised here on their way to being graduates of LR. I came from a traditionally Native home that was riddled with alcoholism and, unfortunately, so were my children. Now our families are living alcohol free, some of us 6-plus years in, and are doing our best to raise our children and grandchildren without that dysfunction of a...
Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a luncheon meeting at 11 AM, Friday, October 27, at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 South Birch S, Omak. Brewster teacher and OCSRA grant winner, Cindy Brown, will speak. Information: Penny: 509-429-0292 Parks Committee to Meet The Electric City Parks Committee will meet on first Wednesday of each month at 6:00pm at city hall in Electric City. ‘ Planning Commission to Meet The Electric City Planning Commission will meet on the f...
A discussion on a persistent problem with vaping at school turned into an opening conversation on how to solve that and other discipline problems for some students at Lake Roosevelt Schools. Layla Flett, a student representative on the board of directors for the Grand Coulee Dam Area School District, cautioned the board and superintendent Tuesday night that some measures may not work as intended. The subject came up when Superintendent Rod Broadnax asked Flett how she thought the school year was going so far. Flett said the only real issue she...
Lawrence Allen Achord, 46, of Electric City, Washington, left us on Friday, September 29. He was born December 24, 1976 to Blanche Achord. Lawrence grew up in Nespelem, was active in the Boy Scouts and ran cross country. He was also proficient in school. He found his true passions early. There were few things Lawrence coveted in life: racing horses, hunting, cribbage, cutting wood, all rounded out his life perfectly. No one ever questioned his card count, chainsaw skills or the wrap he put on a... Full story
Howard Andrew Mills passed away on September 26, 2023, in Grand Coulee, Washington. He was born on July 6, 1939, in Almira, Washington to Donald E. Mills and Rachel (Pierce) Mills. He had two older siblings: sister Julia (Mills) Munson, and Davis Mills. He had one younger brother, Norman who died of pneumonia at the age of 6 months in 1947. Howard grew up on a ranch just outside of Grand Coulee feeding chickens, goats, cows, picking and selling berries. Putting up miles of fence lines with his... Full story
A month into the new school year, the school district in Grand Coulee Dam is teaching 23 fewer students than a year ago, the superintendent reported Monday night, but the Nespelem district has gained more than expected in its new, limited high school program. Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Rod Broadnax told the school board 10 specific students had not yet shown up but may yet. He did not say which grades those students would be in. Broadnax reminded the board that enrollment numbers affect the budget. In Nespelem Tuesday night...
Steve F. Marchand, 67 of Nespelem, Washington, lost his battle with cirrhosis on Tuesday, Aug. 29, at CMC in Grand Coulee, WA. He was born on June 24, 1956 to Earl Marchand & Sherry (Orr) Marchand in Coulee Dam, WA. He returned to Nespelem from Port Angeles, WA the summer of 1975 and found an old school mate and his forever love, Dalene (Nissen) Marchand. They returned to Port Angeles so he could finish his college stint. He then decided to come home to his Rez and start working. They married... Full story
Retirees’ Association to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a $5 Soup and Sandwich lunch and general meeting on Friday, September 29 at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 Birch St. S, Omak at 11 AM. Carol Payne, Omak, will demonstrate an Art Docent lesson. Information: Carol: 509-322-5788. 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 mor...
From left, Nespelem School District Superintendent Effie Dean, Nespelem Directors Nancy Armstrong-Montes and Jarae Cate, Grand Coulee Dam Director Shannon Nicholson, GCD Superintendent Rod Broadnax, GCD Directors Rich Black and Alex Tufts, Nespelem Directors Anna Vargas and Jolene Marchand, and GCD Director Ken Stanger, pause for a photo during their joint meeting of the two school boards of directors August 30 at Siam Palace. Once a promised practice, the two board haven't met together since...
1 years ago Cheerleaders for this year’s football team at Lake Roosevelt High School include Sierra Townsend, Jennifer Reichlin, Tanya Ang, Natasha French and Brandin Smith. Port district officials recognize the value of volunteers praised for volunteers that cropped up at the port district’s monthly meeting last week when commissioner Dennis Lorman told how it would have been virtually impossible to run the Banks Lake golf course this year without them. Coulee Medical Center reported a net gain for the month of July of $124,899. 20 years ago...
Grand Coulee Police 8/20 - A woman told police that while driving toward the Four Corners intersection, her ex-boyfriend was driving in front of her. She realized her brakes didn’t work and was unable to stop at the stop sign. She said that her ex swerved in an attempt to cause a collision. Police spoke to the boyfriend who explained he had swerved to avoid a collision, and that he had been aware there was an issue with the brakes on the woman’s car. Police determined that there was insufficient evidence a crime had occurred. The woman was tol...
