News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
Sorted by date Results 2331 - 2355 of 8300
Jordanna Munson and Raymond Atchison Jr., of Electric City, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter River Michelle Munson-Atchison, born Wednesday, August 5, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 4 lbs., 6 oz. Maternal grandparents are Stephanie Stead and Dennis Munson. Paternal grandparents are Raymond Atchison Sr. and Joyce Atchison. Great grandparents are Linda Clark and Michael Stead Sr. (deceased), Lloyd Atchison and Harriet Atchison.... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 8/2 - Damage reported at the Ridge Riders Rodeo Grounds included broken stable walls and a broken stop sign. 8/11 - A man was banned from the Trail West Motel after harassing tenants there. - A woman on Second Street reported that while doing yard work she had been threatened by another woman who accused her of selling drugs and who said she would beat her up. - A man driving a grey vehicle allegedly intentionally hit a man on a bike in the alleyway behind Jack’s Spring Canyon gas station. A witness estimated the v...
We are now accepting school supply donations for Lake Roosevelt Schools! Although the decision was recently announced for classes to resume via a virtual school year, many students still need help getting their supplies. You can drop off supplies at our Grand Coulee Branch before September 8th or if it is easier, we will do the shopping for you with your cash donation. Thank you for helping our local students! Modified virtual learning supply list: K-6: Headphones, pencils, small pencil sharpener, scissors, glue sticks, 2 spiral notebooks or... Full story
City of Grand Coulee NOTICE OF SALE OF SURPLUS ITEMS The City of Grand Coulee will sell by sealed bids, two used fuel tanks, 1 approx. 520-gallon diesel tank, 1 approx. 1900-gallon gasoline tank. There is a minimum bid requirement of $500.00, this is for both tanks. The City may accept the highest bid under $500.00 Items may be viewed at the City Shop by appointment, please contact City Hall (509)633-1150. All items are sold as is, no warranty or guarantee. Sealed bids should be delivered to the City Clerk’s Office, 306 Midway Ave., PO Box 1... Full story
All students in the Grand Coulee Dam School District will start the year with online-only classes, according to a plan laid out Monday night to school board directors by Superintendent Paul Turner. In a Zoom board meeting with the directors and 26 other people Monday evening, Turner said the Okanogan County Health officer wouldn’t grant a waiver for the district to allow it to open with kids in physical classrooms. Okanogan County Public Health Officer John McCarthy isn’t alone in that stance. He and his counterparts in Grant, Chelan, Dou...
Grand Coulee Dam’s Third Powerhouse will be renamed, the secretary of Interior announced, according to the following press release from the office of Rep. Dan Newhouse, who represents the state’s 4th District in Congress. Press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On August 12, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam would be renamed as the "Nathaniel 'Nat' Washington Power Plant," in honor of the father-son duo who were instr...
The next Grand Coulee city council meeting will be held Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020 at 6 p.m. via ZOOM. Information to join will be available on Monday, Aug. 17th by calling city hall at 509-633-1150.... Full story
John Terry McKissen, 87, of Grand Coulee passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 in Grand Coulee.... Full story
Chester Lee Hamilton, born in October of 1953 in Sugar Creek Missouri, passed away peacefully at his home in Grand Coulee, Washington on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Chester grew up in Buckner, Missouri, where he enjoyed his childhood on the farm with his brother, Chuck and parents Glenn and Delores. He went to college at University of Central Missouri where he achieved a bachelor's degree in Industrial Safety and made several life-long friends. After college he headed west and spent time in... Full story
The City of Grand Coulee will sell by sealed bids, two used fuel tanks, 1 approx. 520-gallon diesel tank, 1 approx. 1900-gallon gasoline tank. There is a minimum bid requirement of $500.00, this is for both tanks. The City may accept the highest bid under $500.00 Items may be viewed at the City Shop by appointment, please contact City Hall (509)633-1150. All items are sold as is, no warranty or guarantee. Sealed bids should be delivered to the City Clerk’s Office, 306 Midway Ave., PO Box 180, Grand Coulee, WA 99133 no later than 4:00 p.m. F...
Grand Coulee Police 7/27 - Police checked on a report of a boy dangling his feet over the water on the bridge over the canal on SR-174. He was gone on arrival at 1:20 p.m. 7/28 - An officer checked on a report of two dogs overheating in a vehicle on Snyder Hill Road at 11:15 a.m. The vehicle was gone on arrival. - Police spoke with an apartment renter on Hill Avenue, who wanted police intervention with a neighbor who was parking a car near his in the common parking lot. Police advised him to take it up with the landlord. - At the request of...
I once moved twice on the same day. We have moved 14 times, but only once in the past 56 years. Our first move was to Palouse from southern Idaho. We were so recently married that it only took a couple of boxes, and those fit neatly in the trunk of our 1946 Ford. We spent the winter there. Trained as a lumber grader, I answered an ad in the Spokesman Review for a position at Lincoln Lumber Company. We interviewed, got the position and found an apartment in Wilbur. The apartment belonged to the school district there, and we got it with the...
Grand Coulee creates an image in our minds - the Grand Coulee Dam or the City of Grand Coulee, maybe the general area around the dam. Of course, the Grand Coulee, as well. However, where is Grand Coulee National Park? Well, the story of what could have been a national park goes back some 108 years to1912. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the American Geographical Society of New York, an organized excursion was planned and implemented — The Transcontinental Excursion of 1912. Geologists and ge...
The area around where Grand Coulee sits today was sparsely populated around the turn of the 20th Century, and the few settlers and ranchers all knew each other. They also knew Texas Jack, a loner who lived down in the bottom of Rattlesnake Canyon, in a cave. One day, Texas Jack returned home with a young mixed-race woman. He never called her by name in public and referred to her as 'Woman" as if that was her name. She dressed rugged and in men's clothes. Some people in the community took pity...
Two Coulee Medical Center employees have tested positive for COVID-19 and are now isolated and recovering at home, the hospital announced Monday as the coronavirus continues to spread across the state, including in Grant and Okanogan counties. CMC began investigating the outbreak on Sunday, the hospital said, and Grant County Health District began investigating Monday. All staff exposed are being tested and quarantined at home, and patients who may have been exposed are being contacted, said Ram... Full story
The Grand Coulee City Council is looking into upgrading their tech with federal coronavirus relief money. At their July 21 council meeting held via Zoom, City Clerk Lorna Pearce presented the idea of using some of the city’s qualified amount of $31,650 in Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) funds to buy tablets for council members, which they could use for their council meetings now held electronically because of the COVID-19 pandemic, relieving them of having to use their own personal devices to conduct city b...
The local area has now seen more than 20 cases of COVID-19, according to statistics offered by local county health authorities. Okanogan Public Health reports two in Coulee Dam and 11 in Nespelem. Grant County Health District reports seven cases in the Grand Coulee area, plus one in Coulee City they have not been able to confirm is a resident. Okanogan County has seen a total of 782 cases, 297 of them in the last 14 days, including eight deaths. Grant County has seen 1,343 cases, including 10 who have died. GCHD counts 688 of those as... Full story
Kaitlyn and Andrew Fluke of Coulee Dam, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Luna Rose Fluke born Wednesday, July 1, 2020, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 7 lbs., 12 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Sibling includes Raven. Maternal grandparents are Shawn and Shawn P. Traxler. Paternal grandfather is Miles Fluke. Great-grandparents are Mike and Nancy Merrill, Betty Beale, Harry and Robin Traxler and Don and Dora McGuire....
To the Grand Coulee City Council and mayor: Why do you hate our community? We are in the middle of the worst pandemic in our history! Businesses closed, people out of work, and mask shave to be worn at all times, and you pass an ordinance that lets anyone from anywhere rent our neighbors’ houses for weekends or vacations! (“Short-term rentals will be allowed in Grand Coulee” Star, July 29). Are you crazy!? You let an out-of-towner run our town, people who don’t even live here! We have to say enough! Did you ever check with the CDC? Did you eve... Full story
The first locomotives to haul construction material for the dam were old and tired. Two were on hand in 1935 and had been bought by MWAK to get trains moving. For the section from Electric City down to below the dam, an old logging locomotive, built in 1926, was purchased. It was of the Shay type of geared steamer, in that it was designed to move via pistons turning a common shaft via gearing attached to the wheels. The speed wasn't high, nor was the pulling power great, but it was perfect for...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District is asking for more money as they enter the uncharted territory of beginning a new school year during the COVID-19 pandemic. The district board of directors Monday night approved a budget for the 2020-21 school year, as well as a resolution authorizing a new enrichment levy that will ask property owners for an additional dollar per $1,000 of assessed value on their property. Voters will decide in the November general election whether the district gets that extra dollar. The history of local school levies in...
A fire that started Thursday afternoon near the tribal greenhouses near the Columbia River east of the Colville Indian Agency moved rapidly over dry hills to Schoolhouse Loop Road about two miles away, burned the tribal recycling center and threatened the correctional facility, the school, the tribal archives and the town itself, the Mt. Tolman Fire Center said. By evening, the blaze had burned about 1,200 acres of grass, sage and bitter brush as winds pushed it quickly across steep slopes...
The superintendent of the Grand Coulee Dam School District will answer your questions related to reopening school for the 2020-21 school year during the COVID-19 pandemic in weekly question-and-answer sessions held online. Superintendent Paul Turner sent an email on July 22 to parents, staff, and community members detailing the meetings. “In light of all the COVID-19 uncertainty about school reopening, I would like to schedule weekly Q&A sessions online,” Turner said. “At this point the district has developed some re-opening strategies with mor...
Even cities have to deal with electronics becoming obsolete. The cities of Grand Coulee and Electric City need to buy a new computer for their arsenic treatment plant, which treats the water that comes from Electric City wells and is used by both cities. Both city councils discussed the issue at their respective council meetings held earlier this month. The computer is not your average at-home computer. It may cost in the vicinity of $20,000, unless a cheaper option is found. Electric City Mayor Diane Kohout threw some numbers out to the Electr...
A Grand Coulee woman died last week when the car she was driving crashed in Douglas County. Maureen K. Horrobin, 63, was found deceased at the scene of the collision when local emergency personnel responded to a reported injury accident on Pendell Road, about seven tenths of a mile off Crown Point Vista Road. Her vehicle had rolled about 200 yards off the roadway, Douglas County Undersheriff Tyler I. Caille reported. The crash occurred about 8:19 p.m. July 21. The preliminary investigation showed speed was a contributing factor to the...