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Coulee Medical Center (CMC) received $3,020,475 in the federal appropriations legislation signed into law by President Trump on Nov. 13, 2025. This funding, which was secured by Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA, 4), Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-WA) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA), will enhance on-site housing accommodations at CMC for healthcare staff serving Grand Coulee and surrounding communities. In recent years, CMC has explored potential projects to increase the safety and accessibility of housing accommodations the hospital provides to healthcare...
An enterprise seeking to convert the old Center School into the "Center Senior Living" assisted living project has made significant progress. In fact, they now own the building. The project, driven by a dedicated board including local professionals and community members, aims to address the lack of local assisted living facilities, which forces seniors to move far away. The project has secured a $1 million federal grant for hazmat abatement and demolition, and they've raised $291,000 in local...
• November 4 – November 15: Children’s names may be submitted on ‘need/wish’ slips and placed in decorated collection boxes at Safeway Pharmacy, Coulee Medical Center, or Harvest Foods....
Trunk or Treat held on Main Street Grand Coulee Halloween turned out to be a great success. The event was organized by the chamber of commerce with support from local businesses....
Christmas is coming soon! Trees of Sharing 2025 is beginning this week so we’ll be ready to give a hand up to families by providing a Christmas gift for their children. Beginning in the 1980’s, the Trees of Sharing program has been a pathway for Grand Coulee Dam Area residents to be a blessing to needy local children. If you are a parent or guardian in a family or know a family with children under age 18 living in the Coulee as far north as Belvedere that could use the encouragement of having Christmas gifts provided, please fill out Trees of...
Public Notice Change of Regular Meeting Date Public Hospital District No. 6 Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, & Okanogan Counties, Washington Please be advised that Public Hospital District No. 6, serving Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, and Okanogan Counties and operating Coulee Medical Center and Coulee City Medical Clinic, has rescheduled its regular October Board meeting. The next regular board meeting will now be held on: Monday, November 3rd, 2025, at 6:00 PM (Publish October 22, 2025)... Full story
Coulee Dam Police 10/5 - Police went to Tilmus Avenue where a man who had previously been in an argument with a woman’s son at a bar in Electric City and was reportedly going to sleep in a trailer on the property, but instead had allegedly threatened her son, locked himself in the bathroom and dumped out her perfumes and beauty products into a tub of water. The case was turned over to tribal police. The Coulee Dam officer remained on scene while tribal police finished the investigation on the case. 10/7 - A female was reported as pulling a m...
Grand Coulee Police 9/8 - Police were unable to locate a patient who had been admitted to the hospital by law enforcement under the Involuntary Treatment Act but had run from the facility. 9/9 - A Grand Coulee teenager went to Chelan County Juvenile Detention Center on charges of assault and malicious mischief after an argument related to a living situation and food in the fridge escalated to the point of him allegedly kicking a door and hitting his mother. 9/9-9/21 - Reports were filed without additional details related to: a traffic accident...
Daniel Eugene "Dan" Cox Passed away peacefully Wednesday night August 27, 2025, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, WA. Dan was born on August 1, 1960, in Spokane, to Ira Jay and Bertha Ann (Mustard) Cox. He was raised on a ranch in Owhi Flats, Nespelem, during that time he attended schools in Nespelem, Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee. Dan graduated from Lake Roosevelt High School as a 12-year vet in 1978. Upon graduating Dan began his employment career working for various construction... Full story
Coulee Medical Center has received a Critical Access Hospital Achievement of Quality Excellence award from the Washington State Hospital Association for its Quality Excellence Program. The Association presented the award to Coulee Medical Center during its Rural Hospital Leadership Conference in Chelan on June 25. WSHA represents more than 100 hospitals and health systems in the state, including those that are non-profit, investor-owned, and county, state, and military hospitals. CMC, a 25-bed Trauma Level IV Critical Access hospital, earned...
Coulee Medical Center (CMC) is assuring patients, staff, and the community that its operations remain stable and its future secure, following the release of a recent report that listed the hospital among rural facilities “at risk of closure.” The hospital issued a press release on the matter Tuesday, following a story published in The Star and other papers last week that drew on an analysis report by a research firm. The report, from the Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research, is based on projections tied to Medicaid funding changes...
Aug 11, 2025 North Central Washington’s rural hospitals from Quincy to Omak, Brewster to Grand Coulee, are staring down an uncertain future after Congress approved sweeping federal health care cuts that could gut Medicaid funding. The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBA), passed by the House and Senate and signed by President Donald Trump in July, makes deep reductions to Medicaid and Affordable Care Act programs. Health experts and state officials warn the fallout could be devastating in rural areas. According to a study from the University of N...
Charles Francis Morrow, lovingly known as Chuck, of Electric City, WA, passed away on July 24, 2025, at the age of 70. He leaves behind a legacy of strength, love, laughter, and unwavering dedication to family and friends. Chuck shared 29 wonderful years with his beloved partner, Megan Reyes, with whom he built a life full of joy and love. He proudly raised her daughters, Emily and Chelsea, as his own, and was a devoted grandfather (Boppa) to Levi and Noah. He is also survived by his daughter... Full story
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...
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
Rep. Dan Newhouse announced Sunday that he’d secured over $3 million in federal funds to build “safe, dependable living space for health professionals working at … Coulee Medical Center,” a goal hospital officials have been pursuing for a couple years. CMC relies on traveling professionals to staff various positions, and housing them is a challenge locally. The hospital actually owns several houses for this reason, which also makes the local housing market even tighter. But the professionals, who, hospital leaders point out, pass several other...
Marilyn Hope Goetz Button Powell Marilyn Hope Goetz Button Powell was born on August 18, 1953, in Spokane, WA. She passed peacefully with family on April 20, 2025, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee after a courageous battle with Multiple Sclerosis. Marilyn is survived by her partner of 29 years Keith Powell, sons Richard (Mandi) Button and Ted (EmmaLee) Button, and her grandchildren Luke, Lilly, Alex and Hope. Siblings Daniel Goetz and Ellen Minkes, half-sisters, Tawnya and Michelle, as w... Full story
David Louis Prince, son of Louis and Kathleen (Grant) Prince, grandson of Harry and Rose Prince, and W.E. and Susan (Fruit) Grant, was born August 24, 1935. An age-mate of Guy Nanamkin, Donna and Dorlin Palmer, Eileen Friedlander, Eunice Anthony, and Billy and Sonny Ives. As an only child, he spent his days with his cousins Patricia and Carol Grant, along with other Nespelem neighborhood kids. He attended the old Nespelem Grade School, walking across the bridge with the neighborhood pack each day. With the Great Depression, followed by WWII,... Full story
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON In the Matter of the Estate of: CLAYTON EUGENE ROSS FIELDS, Deceased. IN AND FOR THE COUNTY OF grant No. 25-4-00091-13 PROBATE NOTICE TO CREDITORS RCW 11.40.030 The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having claim against the Decedent must, before the time the claim would be barred by any otherwise applicable statute of limitations, present the claim in the manner as provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the... Full story
Coulee Dam Police 4/28 - 4/30 - Reports were filed without further details about the situations, including for a traffic accident on Section Place and Yakima Street in Grand Coulee, a family fight on Cardinal Place in the road, and harassment on 4th Street in Electric City. 4/30 - A man on Stevens Avenue in Electric City reported that his neighbor walked into his house and took his dog. He provided police with security footage showing so. The neighbor said the dog was in distress and ill and possibly at risk for parvo (a potentially...
Nobody gets out of here alive, but before the inevitable, we'd all like to keep living the best life possible. Evelyn Wright has had some success at that, but in her later years (she's 92 now) she's had to accept that she can't really go it alone. "I'm extremely healthy, but that may be not the same six months from now," Evelyn said in an interview April 24. "I don't know what's going to change for me, but it was tough for me to finally admit that I have to turn over most of my life to my...
Three hospital leaders trekked to the other Washington last week to make the case at Congress for support of Coulee Medical Center. "During our meetings with Sen. Patty Murray, Sen. Maria Cantwell, and Rep. Dan Newhouse we discussed CMC's workforce housing needs, overdose prevention efforts and recent success in increasing breast cancer screening, as well as the significance of federal Medicaid funding to maintaining accessible healthcare services in our region," Chief Executive Office Kelly...
A woman walking along SR-155 was struck by a car Wednesday night and later died at a Spokane hospital. Michelle Boord, 55, had been walking north along the shoulder of the road but moved into the roadway at milepost 22, about a half mile south of Electric City, according to the Washington State Patrol. She was struck by a northbound GMC Sierra just before 8 p.m., driven by a 73-year-old Grand Coulee woman. Alcohol was not involved in the accident, a WSP press memo indicates, and no charges were filed. Boord, who was living with relatives...
Everyone can agree that the country should reign in the debt. But then why is the Trump Administration pushing a budget that extends tax cuts for the extremely wealthy and raises the debt ceiling to four trillion dollars? Lost in all the nonsense circulating about supposed “waste, fraud and abuse” is the fact that the Trump Administration fired many of the Inspectors General (the people responsible for investigating actual waste, fraud, and abuse). All of these seemingly random cuts potentially have disastrous consequences for our com...
Seven people were involved in a two-car crash Saturday near the top of Grand Coulee Dam on SR-155. Three were injured and taken to Coulee Medical Center. According to a Washington State Patrol press memo, a 2007 Black BMW driven by Aidan Palmanteer, 18, Grand Coulee, was headed south at 4:51 p.m. when it crossed the center line into the northbound lane, striking a 2004 Nissan Armada. Both cars were totaled. The Nissan, driven by Jesus Llamas, 48, Grand Coulee, was also carrying four passengers: a 10-year-old boy, a 16-year-old girl, a...
