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COVID-19 incidents are down slightly in Grant and Douglas counties while incidents are up in Okanogan and Lincoln counties, as well as in Washington State as a whole. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and Douglas (GOLD) counties. As of Oct. 6: Okanogan County had 1,082 total cases, including 13 deaths.There have been 11 cases in Coulee Dam, five in Elmer City, and 25 in Nespelem. The county has had 17 new cases in the past 14 days, making for an incidence rate of 39.8,, up from 28.1 since Sept. 29. Grant County... Full story
A poker run begins on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m. at the Jess Ford Detail Shop in Grand Coulee. "We all need some order from all this chaos," a website for the event states. "Join us for a day of fun." The poker run welcomes all types of vehicles to participate in a five-stop 80-mile drive spanning from Coulee Dam to Crown Point to Coulee City to Wilbur and back to Grand Coulee, and includes a barbecue fundraiser at Coulee Plaza (on the corner of Main Street and Spokane Way) at 3 p.m. when the winner, the one with the best poker hand of cards... Full story
School district directors did not rush into a decision Monday to reopen Lake Roosevelt Schools sooner than the start of the second quarter, but students who need to will be able to start using the computer labs this week. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors held a Zoom meeting Sept. 28 that included a discussion on reopening school to a hybrid model of distance learning and classroom learning, in which some students would be in the school on Mondays and Tuesdays and others...
The rate of COVID-19 cases has gone down in the state of Washington, and in Grant and Douglas counties, but has gone slightly up in Okanogan and Lincoln counties over the last week. 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, that rate must not exceed 75. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and Douglas (GOLD) counties. As of Sept. 29, Okanogan County...
Moses Lake’s Stratford Road bridge crossing will be completely closed to all traffic from 6:30 pm to 6:30 a.m. nightly this week, the city of Moses Lake said Tuesday when construction work closed it. Construction should be completed Friday night, Oct. 2. The work is closing Stratford Road between Broadway Avenue and Valley Road, so drivers should allow extra travel time and plan to use an alternate route. Stratford is a popular route from for people from the Grand Coulee area heading to Moses Lake....
Although the area got some badly needed rain last week, local firefighters found out firsthand it wasn’t enough. Volunteers from the Grand Coulee and Electric City fire departments fought a 100-acre wildfire for four hours along the Columbia River with Douglas County Fire District 3 firefighters Sept. 24. Crews from Douglas Okanogan Fire Dist. 15, Douglas County #5 and the Bureau of Land Management also sent fire trucks and personnel. “The fire burnt well considering the rain we received yesterday, but the winds dried out the (grain) and shr... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 9/18 - A Kent Street man said he didn’t want to press charges against a man he said had come to his home to collect on a debt but punched him the face and threatened him with a hammer when he only paid him $20. The report didn’t specify what the total debt was. - An officer spoke with a woman from Grand Coulee on the phone. The woman was difficult to talk to and slurred her words, and the officer found himself repeating himself to her quite often. The woman said she loaned her credit card to a man who hadn’t returned it. T...
Rebecca Miles and Levi Redd of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son, Ajani Jerry-Lee Redd, born Wednesday, September 9, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. He weighed 6 lbs., 10 oz., and was 18 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Jackson and Chayla Redd. Maternal grandmother is Chay Heilman of Grand Coulee.... Full story
Ashley and Gabe Moses of Nespelem, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Remmi Rein Moses, born Thursday, September 10, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz., and was 20.5 inches in length at birth. Grandparents include Pamela Ludwig and Ralph Moses of Nespelem; Jerald Palmer Sr., Grand Coulee. Great-grandparents are Linda and Mike Palmer of Nespelem.... Full story
Barney and Nicole Ferguson of Electric City, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Tanner Gene Ferguson born Monday, September 14, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz., and was 21 inches in length. Siblings include Bradley age 2 and Colton age 1. Maternal grandparents are Jerry and Linda Novotney. Paternal grandparents are Jack Ferguson and Robin Peoples. Great-grandparents are JoAnn Graham and Betty Ferguson.... Full story
Karl and Michelle Minor of Grand Coulee, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Elissyia Llynn Minor, born Wednesday, September 16, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee. She weighed 6 lbs., 11 oz., and was 18 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Ricky Lee 13, Kyra Lianne 7, and Eli Louis 3. Maternal grandparents are Walter and Angel New. Paternal grandparents are Hubert and Marline Minor. Great-grandparents are Ron and Joanne Breeze.... Full story
Local science teacher Derrick Johnson launched a helium weather balloon that went up in the sky over 87,000 feet to "near space," a place "where you and I would not survive, no matter how much oxygen we would breathe or how many coats we would put on," Johnson told The Star in an email. A video on YouTube shows the flight as the balloon goes up and up, showing Lake Roosevelt and Banks Lake, as well as other surrounding areas from a greater and greater distance, eventually showing the curvature...
Students at Lake Roosevelt will soon be able to use the computer labs at the school. A Sept. 24 update from Superintendent Paul Turner says that beginning Oct. 1, because Okanogan county is at about 18 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 populations, meeting requirements from county health directors to open the school further, that students will be able to take advantage of the schools computer labs. The four labs in the high school and one lab in the elementary school will be able to accommodate 50 students total at a time, Turner's update says. A... Full story
The Grand Coulee City Council meeting that was cancelled on Tuesday has been rescheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m., to be conducted via ZOOM at https://zoom.us/j/96190557159?pwd=MmtnWS91SUJuOU9pNVMwZFI4VzVtUT09 . Items on the agenda include: A discussion on the wastewater agreement with Electric City; a Chamber of Commerce fundraiser discussion; fire awareness/risk management; a discussion about using federal COVID relief dollars to help small businesses; and more.... Full story
Operating a public school during the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t easy, but optimism remains with the COVID incidence rate in Okanogan County being low right now. As if to underscore the challenges, regional internet service for many went down Tuesday night, right before the Grand Coulee Dam School Board was to meet, via Zoom, to consider whether to partially open in-school teaching. “Everybody’s totally stressed out, it’s been totally nuts,” Superintendent Paul Turner had said Monday over the phone about the new, currently online-only school ye...
In 1933, people of all denominations were flocking to the area and it was soon realized that the people, especially the children, needed Christian guidance. A worship center was set up in the school in 1933, but the people knew a church building would soon be needed. The Washington Council of Churches was notified, and a collection taken from several Council of Churches denominations who thought it a worthy endeavor, although after the construction project was ended, it was thought, "the town...
Grand Coulee Police 9/12 - A Cardinal Road man was punched after he told another man walking down the street not to kick a dog, which angered that man, leading to a fight that was about even, according to the first man. 9/15 - Police went to a Section Place residence where yelling was reported, possibly a woman asking someone to call the police, according to the party who did call. Police arrived to find two men playing video games. The men said the noise came from them “talking trash” while playing the games. Police were allowed to look around...
The Labor Day fires that consumed hundreds of thousands of acres around Washington over the last nine days were coming under control Tuesday, but not before killing one infant, burning dozens of homes and other structures in the local region, taking out hundreds if not thousands of utility poles and hundreds of miles of ranchers' fencing. The circle of fires at the center of which the Grand Coulee Dam community found itself, burned more land by far than all other fires in the state, tallied at... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors will be holding a special meeting via Zoom today, Sept. 22, at 5:30 p.m. "to review up to date information and discuss potential school re-opening options," a notice from the district reads. The link to join the meeting is https://gcdsd.zoom.us/j/677070515... Full story
Update 9/16 11:55 a.m. The state Dept. of Ecology has extended the Air Quality Alert until noon Friday, although locally the air seems a lot less chewy (not a technical term) than it was before Tuesday. And it is only unhealthy currently, as opposed to outright hazardous. Good news: The Natonal Weather Service has co-opted the data from PurpleAir.com, which uses cheaper, but plentiful, air monitors. They've put up a useful new fire and smoke map at https://fire.airnow.gov/?la... Full story
A pedestrian/bike path along SR-155 that would connect the Coulee Playland area to Banks Lake Park is still in the works. With the path in the design phase currently, the path between the north end of Electric City and the south end of Grand Coulee would be completed in 2021. The vision for the pathway is a half-mile-long paved area less than 10 feet wide on the lake side of the guardrail along Banks Lake, where pedestrians and cyclists can travel comfortably. The $707,800 project will be paid for with $672,410 from a Washington State...
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