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Park levy info coming Electric City councilmembers Brian Buche and Cheryl Hoffman volunteered to work on getting information out to residents explaining a $10,000 levy for maintenance of the city’s proposed Ice Age Park. The levy will be on the ballot for the Nov. 3 election. A flier and a public online meeting about the levy are possibilities for getting the information out to the public. The pair will work with the park committee as well, which includes Councilmember Cate Slater. “I’m not telling you to tell them yes or no, but to have the i...
The incidence rates for COVID-19 have gone down significantly in Grant, Okanogan, and Douglas counties, while Lincoln County’s rate surged last week, and two additional cases have popped up in both Elmer City and Nespelem. Counties need an incidence rate of 25 cases or fewer per population of 100,000 in the past 14 days to move forward a phase in the Washington Safe Start Recovery plan. And to partially open in-person schooling locally, that rate must not exceed 75. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and D...
Oscar Osborne had a pure-black, well-trained cattle horse he named Tommy. One hundred years ago Oscar ran the largest, arguably oldest, cattle ranches in the Grand Coulee, selling beef to far away places like Seattle and Spokane. His beef was featured at the Davenport Hotel in Spokane, where a huge portrait of him herding cattle around the horn of Steamboat Rock hung. Word is that Texas Jack had stolen and attempted to sell his trained stallion Tommy, and the horse was nowhere to be found. Oscar gathered up a posse and waited for Texas Jack to...
City of Grand Coulee CITY COUNCIL MEETING CHANGE NOTICE The Council of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington has moved the regular council meeting for the month of September from September 15th to September 22, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. The reason for the change is that there is currently no internet access at city hall to conduct the meeting electronically. The meeting scheduled for September 22, 2020 at 6:00pm will be conducted via ZOOM. Information to join the meeting will be available Monday, September 21, 2020. Please contact (509) 633-1105.... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 9/7 - A shed door had been blown open from the wind and damaged. Police secured the door the best they could. A neighbor said they would tell the owner. 9/8 - Police checked on an open door on the second floor of Pepper Jack’s and found nothing of note. - The owner of property on Electric Boulevard said he didn’t want a woman staying there. The woman was banned from the property. 9/9 - Police assisted in getting an intoxicated man on Federal Avenue to his home. - A woman’s infant was locked inside of her SUV at The Coule...
William "Bill" Robert Trefry, age 75, of Selah, Washington, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Bill was born to, Cecil and Eleanor Trefry, on January 19, 1945, in Grand Coulee, Washington. He was raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in Del Rio, Washington. Bill graduated from Grand Coulee High School in 1963. During his freshman year, his basketball team won the state championship. After high school he attended CWU. Bill had an entrepreneurial spirit, and was a... Full story
Lawrence J. "Larry" Whalawitsa, 68, born Monday, August 11, 1952, in Nespelem, Washington, to Lawrence E. and Sophie Dick-Whalawitsa, passed away Monday morning, August 31, 2020, in Spokane, Washington. A proud member of the Colville Confederated Tribes, Larry bravely served in the US Army, during which time he was awarded "The Purple Heart" after being wounded by an instrument of war in the hands of the enemy. He was then employed for many years with "Ethel M Chocolates" in Las Vegas, Nevada,... Full story
Ashley and Warren Conway of Wilbur, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Jaxson Theodore Conway, born Monday, August 24, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 8 lbs., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Delaney and Aydan Conway. Maternal grandparents are Debra and Ted Anderson and Kevin Borden. Paternal grandparents are Ron and Nicole Conway.... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam area residents may dispose of household hazardous waste for free on Friday, September 25 from 12 pm to 4 pm at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. Only hazardous waste generated by households will be accepted. To minimize the risk of transmitting Covid-19, additional requirements are in place. Do not attend if you are exhibiting any of the following symptoms: shortness of breath, fever, chills, headache, muscle pain, sore throat, or loss of smell or taste. To implement social distancing, all waste must be located in the car...
The 2nd Harvest Mobile Market that had been scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed because of the smoke. It has been rescheduled it for Oct 6. Since 2006, the Mobile Market has provided fresh produce and other groceries at no cost to families, children and seniors experiencing food insecurity. Thanks to community organizations who sponsored and hosted the events and volunteers who helped distribute the food, the Mobile Market provided food for 1.4 million meals throughout Eastern Washington... Full story
Small businesses that operate in Electric City will be receiving some financial relief from the economically distressed times caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The Electric City council voted at their Sept. 8 meeting to approve distributing $24,000 in federal relief money to local businesses through a grant application process they held during the summer. The money comes from a grant program set up using some of the city’s $30,900 the city is qualified for in total in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act funds. The 12 b...
Cases of COVID-19 continue to accumulate in local counties, but the rate at which they occur has decreased for some. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and Douglas (GOLD) counties. Counties need an incident rate of 25 cases or fewer per population of 100,000 in the past 14 days to move forward a phase in the Washington Safe Start Recovery plan, and most local counties are far from that goal. As of Sept. 6: As of Sept. 8, Grant County has: 2,497 total cases, including 16 deaths; seven cases in the Grand Coulee Dam... Full story
Sometimes it is strange the things that draw you back to your childhood. While driving the other day, I looked down at my left hand that was grasping the steering wheel. My hand looked exactly like my father’s. I often think of my parents, even though they have been gone for a very long time. My dad was a lifelong Democrat. The New Deal worked for our family, and making a negative comment about FDR would put you in peril around our house. There were many arguments around the house between my dad and two of his brothers. But one stern look f...
“Standing at the foot of History” were the titles of Roger Lucas Reporter’s Notebook in the Star. This is really true in the Grand Coulee Dam Area. We live under the shadow of one of the Greatest Project ever built, Grand Coulee Dam. But there is some much more history in the Grand Coulee Dam Area than Grand Coulee Dam which visitors from all over the world flock to this area to see. I am glad that Roger and his family have had to the opportunity to visit so maybe places of history around these United States. I was born in Seattle and because a...
If you live in the Coulee, it’s likely you have an inkling of glacial history and the power that can be unleashed by glaciers. The Grand Coulee is prime evidence of glacial activity. There have been about a half dozen major Ice Ages in the history of Earth over the past three billion years. The landscape we live on was, in part, created by glacial activity, cataclysmic flooding and thousands of years of lava flows. Drive the Coulee Corridor and read the new roadside exhibits, or read about t...
Grand Coulee 8/31 - A woman reported that another woman was camping in the yard of a neighbor on Electric Boulevard. Police told her no laws were being broken. The woman who was camping said she was waiting to inherit several houses in the area, and had been here about seven months, and that her attorney said he would contact her in the Grand Coulee Dam area. The officer advised her to get a new attorney. 9/1 - A woman complained about loud music on Electric Boulevard the past couple of days. Police told her to call back when the music was...
Leah Frank and Stanley Paul of Keller, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Ford Franklin Paul, born Thursday, August 20, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 6 lbs., 14 oz., and was 20 inches in length at birth. Siblings include MaryJane Frank 16, Scarlett Frank 8, Hunter Paul 6, Nevaeh Paul 5, and Dejah Paul 3. Maternal grandmother is Sally M. Frank. Paternal grandparents are Marcella Wapato and Stanley Paul Sr.... Full story
Shyleen Fulton of Nespelem, Washington, is proud to announce the birth of her daughter, Miya Elizabeth Rae Seymour-Fulton, born Sunday, August 23, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 7 lbs., 4 oz., and was 19-1/2 inches in length at birth. Maternal grandparents are Phillip and Elizabeth Fulton. Great-grandparents are Tom and Wilma Bob.... Full story
Grant County Mosquito District 2 Meeting via Conference As the result of the COVID-19 and in accordance with the Governors social distancing, Grant County Mosquito District No. 2 will be holding the monthly meeting Thursday, September 10, 2020 via phone conference at 5:00 pm. To join the meeting, call 1-425-436-6260, then enter the access code 4096451, and then press the # sign. Lincoln County Fire District 9 to Meet Lincoln County Fire District 9 will hold its regular meeting at 6 p.m., this Thursday, Sept. 10, at the Nazarene Church, just...
William "Bill" Robert Trefry, age 75, of Selah, Washington, passed away peacefully on Tuesday, September 8, 2020. Bill was born to, Cecil and Eleanor Trefry, on January 19, 1945, in Grand Coulee, Washington. He was raised on a wheat and cattle ranch in Del Rio, Washington. Bill graduated from Grand Coulee High School in 1963. During his freshman year, his basketball team won the state championship. After high school he attended CWU. Bill had an entrepreneurial spirit, and was a... Full story
Fire razed several buildings in Electric City early Tuesday morning, including an unoccupied house. When the call went out about 12:30 a.m., the fire was already well underway, said Mark Payne, fire chief in Electric City. The fire at the house at 118 Fifth Street near the edge of the city also started a small wildland fire that burned about an acre near the edge of the city on a windless night in dry brush. Payne, who could be heard asking dispatchers to call out more firefighters and brush...
Update 4:11 p.m. Bridgeport and Bridgeport Bar area is under a Level 3 evacuation, and US 97 is closed from Pateros north. #ColdSpringsCanyonPearlHillFireUpdate: Level 3 evac notices have been issued to the City of B.port and B.port Bar. Residents are being directed to leave towards Brewster and contact the Red Cross (509) 670-5331 if they require shelter assistance. — Douglas County Sheriffs Office - WA (@DoCoSheriffWA) September 7, 2020 Earlier story: Douglas County authorities just... Full story
Another step toward starting a major new hydropower project that would tunnel beneath the city of Grand Coulee happened Monday when the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation published its intent to take proposals for a lease for generating electricity using Lake Roosevelt. The Bureau published in the Federal Register that it will take applications from non-federal entities for a “lease of power privilege” (LOPP) for a “pumped storage hydroelectric” project that creates power by pumping water up to Banks Lake, then letting it back down through generators t...
The Colville Tribes is working to address the problem of students in the Nespelem area not having access to the internet while schools are switching to a distance-learning model of education during the COVID-19 pandemic. The Nespelem School District board of directors Aug. 26 approved allowing the Tribes to build an internet tower on school grounds, something that Superintendent/Principal Effie Dean said would bring internet access to the town of Nespelem. And beyond the town people could create “hotspots” using their phones, altogether bri... Full story
Brian Buche, center, is flanked by his fellow UPS workers and a supervisor from Omak, Anthony Popelier, left, Aug. 25, as Buche is inducted into the UPS Circle of Honor for 25 years of safe driving. Only 2% of drivers worldwide earn that honor. Company officials hung Buche's name on a plaque at the company's museum in Seattle as Buche and coworkers watched via Zoom from the Grand Coulee facility, a method used only because of the COVID-19 pandemic. He and his wife Kelly also got a virtual tour...