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With the current jail in Grant County regularly being at maximum capacity, criminals get to roam free, an issue the sheriff says a new, larger jail could address. A measure on the Nov. 5 ballot to raise the sales tax in Grant County by 0.3% could build a new jail in Grant County and bring in over $80,000 a year to the Grand Coulee Police Department and boost other municipal police departments around the county. The city councils of Electric City and Grand Coulee have each come out in favor of Proposition 1. The estimated $5.5 million-$6 million...
I attended the Grand Coulee Council meeting, Tuesday, Aug. 20. I had forgotten about the meeting until I saw four Grant County Sheriff’s vehicles in front of City Hall. I realized then it was council night. I went to investigate, thinking all this show of force was for the drug and criminal problems that plague our community. Instead it was Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones giving a presentation and wanting support to build a new jail. “The Power of Building a Safer Grant County.” Someone has finally noticed that the existing jail is too small to...
Here we are again at the end of our sale season as we come to the community to thank everyone for a fantastic thirteen-week run at the VET Center. Our American Legion Post appreciates everybody has who stopped by and shopped with us during our sale. Although it seemed like a very long stretch for those of us who worked every week to gather and prepare all the treasures that we had for sale, the time flew by as we greeted many of the same people on a weekly basis. With all the community support, our sales set a record this year, bypassing our...
There has been a loud nationwide conversation about clean and carbon-free energy sources, and I am proud to represent Central Washington, where we are leading in renewable energy production. If you drive through our congressional district, you’re bound to see the rolling hills topped with windmills, whose turbines generate about 3,076 megawatts of renewable energy each year throughout the state. If you keep driving, you may end up in Adams County, where Washington’s largest solar farm opened north of Lind late last year. The facility is 25 tim...
No Chamber Meeting This Week Chamber will not be meeting this week. Plan to attend our Thursday, Sept. 5 meeting at Siam Palace, beginning at noon. Food Bank Closed Friday August 30 The food bank will be closed Friday, August 30. Normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of Nazarene, Hwy 174, Grand Coulee. Clients are encouraged to provide their own containers to carry groceries home in. Call Pastor Shawn for information: 633-2566. Senior Volunteers Offering Caregivers a Break Senior Center volunteers...
End of SLP party Friday, August 30, the end of SLP will be topped off with a party. It begins at 3 p.m. An afternoon with artist Keith Powell Our first event is Thursday, September 5, at 4:30p.m., an afternoon with local Artist Keith Powell. He will have several of his beautiful pieces on display and will be talking about his work and answer any art related questions. For any aspiring artists, Keith will be happy to give advice on any art project. Here’s to the Women! Singer Linda Allen’s Here’s to the Women! tour, celebrating 100 years of wo...
Josephine Lambert and Arnold Abrahamson Jr. of Disautel, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Alek GreyWolf Abrahamson, born Tuesday, August 13, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 7 lbs., 10.8 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Marvin Paul Abrahamson, age 11 months, Ava Abrahamson, age 8 years, Evenne Abrahamason, age 7 years. Maternal grandparents are Sharon Waters and Frank Lambert. Paternal grandparents are Lola Campbell and Arnold Abrahamson.... Full story
Jamie Ward and Shawn Dahlenburg of Hartline, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their daughter Virginia Lee Dahlenburg, born Saturday, August 17, 2019, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. She weighed 8 lbs., 3 oz, and was 21 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Salem age 3, Camden age 4 and Liam age 9. Maternal grandparents are Debbie Ward of Electric City, Washington, and James Ward of Alaska. Great-grandparents are Virginia Dahlenburg and Francis Reyes....
After a long process of crossing the t's and dotting i's, the sale of Center School has finally closed and its new owners are developing plans. The former school on Spokane Way in Grand Coulee was sold by the Grand Coulee Dam School District to Centerline Development, a company co-founded by local men Nic Alexander and Ian Turner, for $155,000. The 8.3-acre property has a lot of potential, Alexander told The Star. He and Turner are envisioning various kinds of quality housing. "We're super...
Attention all K-12 kids in the Coulee area who like to run: You can “Run the Dam” 5k for free on Sept 21. With the donations of many, the race organizers are offering 100 free spots to area kids to run the race, on a first-come, first-served basis. School-age kids within a 50-mile radius of Grand Coulee Dam are eligible. Parents must email for the registration form to info@runthedam.com. Or kids can pick one up at school as soon as they get back to class. “Be sure to let us know what school in the area you attend when you email your reque...
Olivia Anderson, 3, and her sister Raelynn, 4, take turns mixing paint for painting rocks at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce's Kids Nights in the Coulee at Coulee Plaza Thursday. Their grandfather, Ed Carolan, in the background painting a bird on his rock, said the children were visiting them this week from Monroe, so they took advantage of the offering after visiting the Lincoln County Fair in Davenport earlier in the day. North Cascades Bank sponsored the rock painting night....
IN THE SUPERIOR COURT OF WASHINGTON FOR OKANOGAN COUNTY In re the Estate of: LARRY EUGENE GREEN, Deceased. The Personal Representative named below has been appointed as Personal Representative of this Estate. Any person having a 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 provided in RCW 11.40.070 by serving on or mailing to the Personal Representative or the Personal Representative’s attorney at the address stated below a copy o... Full story
Coulee Dam 8/19 - Two dogs were reported running at large on Camas Street. A woman said she sprayed them with a hose and they ran off. The dogs were found on Tilmus Street, taken back to their respective owners, who were warned about the dogs running at large and told about the city’s ordinance. 8/24 - A green Kia with no license plates, only a dealer plate, was pulled over on Columbia Avenue. The driver said he just bought the car from a friend and was in the process of getting a temporary plate. The passenger, however, wanted on warrants, was...
The Colville Tribes released 30 Chinook salmon at the Keller boat launch, just north of the Keller Ferry, on Aug.16, the first time salmon have been above the Grand Coulee Dam in nearly 80 years. Roughly 300 people attended the event in which people formed two parallel, single-file lines stretching from a Colville Tribes Fish and Wildlife truck containing the salmon, to the shore. The large fish were scooped out of the truck one at a time, placed into a rubber bag that was then passed along the...
Fireworks won’t be banned from Electric City, the result of a discussion last week considering such an action by the city council. Citizen and firefighter Ken Dexter told the city council Aug. 13 that he was speaking for himself and Electric City Fire Chief Mark Payne when he made a few points against a possible ordinance outright banning fireworks within city limits. “The main reason we are against this fireworks ordinance is we don’t want to drive people outside the city,” Dexter said. “My main concern is we don’t want to drive people out...
If culinary cred, zeal and creative thinking have anything to do with it, Patty Davis is about to make a mark on her home turf. Davis has studied and worked in the culinary arts from coast to coast in the United States, and in Hawaii, especially, before coming back to the coulee area, where she's starting a business to share her gift with her fellow community members. A Lake Roosevelt graduate, Davis left the state of Washington for Hawaii at the age of 21 to pursue her culinary dreams. There...
Williams Flats Fire 88% contained The Williams Flats fire, located upstream from the Keller Ferry area, is said to be 88% contained at 44,515 acres, the Northeast Washington Interagency Incident Management Team stated Tuesday. The fire, started from lightning Aug. 2., had 420 personnel assigned to the fire, down from over 1,200 at its peak. Two champs to wed World champion bull rider Shane Proctor, originally from Grand Coulee, will marry Haley Ganzel, a world champion trick rider in October, the Omak Chronicle reported Tuesday. The couple are...
My wife and I liked the coulee so much that we moved here twice. The first time was in 1954 when I accepted a job grading lumber at the planing mill above the dam. I worked for Everett Kirkpatrick and a junior partner. Old timers will remember the mill and Kirkpatrick. I had come to the area to take a position as lumber grader at Lincoln Lumber Company, a few miles upstream. I’d had earlier training at Potlatch Lumber Company in Potlatch, Idaho. At that time, they floated logs down the Columbia River to the mill site. Sad to say that the o...
Chamber Taking a Break Chamber will not be holding meetings through the month of August. They will resume in September. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet The Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, August 26, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. Food Bank Distributing Hours The food bank normal operating hours are every Friday from 2 to 4 p.m. It is located at the Church of the Nazarene, Hwy 174, Grand Coulee. Clients are encouraged to provide their own containers to carry groceries home in. Call... Full story
It's hard to go to school without school supplies. The Public School Employees union from Lake Roosevelt, joined this year by the teachers union, worked on Monday to "Stuff The Bus" with school supplies for students ranging from preschoolers to seniors in high school. PSE members stationed themselves along Midway Avenue with a school bus in Grand Coulee to collect supplies and cash donations towards supplies, while Grand Coulee Dam Education Association members stationed near Harvest Foods in...
The Bowman Electric softball team Saturday emerged the champions from this year's Grand Coulee Dam Area Adult Summer Softball League's 2019 Kenny Hearne Summer Classic Softball Tournament, following the season that spanned the summer. Bowman Electric went undefeated in the three-day tournament held at North Dam Park Aug. 15-17. They faced off against the ECT team, who, after losing in the first round, won the loser's bracket to make it to the championship. Bowman Electric won the championship...
Grand Coulee Police 8/14 - Yakima County Sheriff’s Office requested assistance from Grand Coulee Police regarding a report of a missing person from the Yakima area possibly having been spotted along Old Coulee Highway and Rosenberg Road outside of city limits about 4.5 miles. It was determined to have been a misidentification. - Coulee Medical Center reported a phone stolen from its coffee stand inside the hospital. Security footage showed a man, identifiable to an officer, approach the closed coffee stand at about 10 p.m., take something, and...
After decades of absence, the "chief of all of the rest of the fish" returned to the upper Columbia River Friday when a tribal elder slipped an adult salmon into the water of Lake Rufus Woods, followed by 29 more that had begun their journey years ago after coming into existence at a hatchery downriver. A ceremonial song to reintroduce the chinook echoed back from the Douglas County side of the river Friday morning at the Colville Tribes' campgrounds near commercial fish-raising pens along Lake...
Several local offices up for election with no one running have necessitated a special filing period. The special filing period has been set in Okanogan and Grant counties for Aug. 21-23. A four-year position for a Coulee Dam Town Council member is open, as is a four-year term on the Elmer City Council. But in Nespelem, no one has filed for a two-year mayoral term or for five council positions —three four-year terms and two two-year terms. A four-year school director position in the Grand Coulee Dam School District is still open. And a f...
Fire created thunder and lightening Scientists flew through the clouds created by the Williams Flats Fire last week to study the first incidence of a "pyrocumulonimbus" cloud in continental United States this year. The flight was one of the first ever to record data from inside such a cloud. A Seattle Times story about it is here: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-wildfire-smoke-just-triggered-a-thunderstorm-nasa-researchers-flew-through-the-middle-of-it/ The time lapse was hotographed by Keller photographer...
