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Grand Coulee Dam School District’s board of directors hired Menehune Consultants, LLC, of Electric City, Monday night, to help with the transition of changing superintendents in the district. Principal party in the firm is Dr. Dennis Carlson, the present superintendent. Board member Ken Stanger said it would be very helpful for Carlson to assist in the changing of administrations and that the new superintendent, Paul Turner, welcomed the decision, providing a mentor for the initial changeover period. “I want to utilize Dr. Carlson’s contacts, a... Full story
COULEE DAM — Average attendance in Grand Coulee Dam School District for the month of May was 679.24, the school board learned last Monday night. The district budgeted for 680 students and this is the first month since September last year that the attendance has been below budget. The high month was in December, when the average was 689.97. The Grand Coulee Dam School District has renewed its contract with the Keller District to provide maintenance of its bus fleet. The cost of the service is $850 a month plus cost of parts and tires. N... Full story
Nespelem School District #14 NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING 2015-2016 Budget Extension & Hearing Notice is hereby given that Nespelem School District No. 14 is preparing to change the 2015-16 Capital Projects Budgets. The Directors will meet on May 23, 2016, at 4:30 p.m., in the district office for the purpose of fixing and adopting these changes for the current fiscal year. Any person may appear at this time and be heard for or against any change. The regular monthly board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m., following the budget hearing. By order of the... Full story
Grand Coulee 5/7 - An Electric City man was banned from an Electric City tavern when he refused to leave after being asked. He had brought a couple of guitars and an amplifier into the bar and then used some of the equipment that belonged to the band playing. He gave Conrad Hilton as a reference. His equipment was returned to his car and he was told to leave and not come back. 5/8 - Police responded to a threat report at Jack’s Four Corner Service and found that the person making the threat had left. - A man in Electric City told police that h... Full story
The school board meeting for the Grand Coulee Dam School District scheduled for Monday night, May 9, has been rescheduled to Tuesday, May 17, beginning at 6:30 p.m. The delay is due to a lack of a quorum. The town of Coulee Dam council meeting that was scheduled for tonight (Wednesday, May 11) has been canceled. The next meeting of the council will be Wednesday, May 25.... Full story
The Lady Raiders’ season came to an end May 3 in Tonasket as the Tigers took both games of a doubleheader by the scores of 11-10 and 13-7. Because of losses earlier in the season, the Lady Raiders finished fifth in the Central Washington North, one place short of qualifying for districts. The final overall win-loss record for the Lady Raiders was 10-10. In league play, the Lady Raiders posted a 7-9 record, the team’s best record in years, better than in 2013 when LR qualified for the state tournament. LR was also in more games against qua... Full story
Nespelem School District #14 NOTICE OF BUDGET HEARING 2015-2016 Budget Extension & Hearing Notice is hereby given that Nespelem School District No. 14 is preparing to change the 2015-16 Capital Projects Budgets. The Directors will meet on May 23, 2016, at 4:30 p.m., in the district office for the purpose of fixing and adopting these changes for the current fiscal year. Any person may appear at this time and be heard for or against any change. The regular monthly board meeting will be at 5:30 p.m., following the budget hearing. By order of the... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved two student trips at its meeting April 25, and put a hold on another. The board approved a trip by three students and advisors to “Imagine Tomorrow,” a science event at Washington State University at Pullman. The students will present a biofuel education project. The event is scheduled for May 20-22. Eleven students and two advisors were approved to take part in a project at Silverwood Theme Park, in Athol, Idaho. The project challenges students to apply physics principles to park rides. Tha... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 4/24 - Safeway reported to police that a woman came into the store and placed three bottles of liquor — Jameson Whiskey, Smirnoff Twist, and Captain Morgan Run — into her white purse, along with some beef jerky, and walked out without paying for it. One of the clerks followed her out and got her license plate number. The entire episode was on video and police are trying to identify the woman. 4/25 - Plant Protection asked police to check on a vehicle parked in the lower Visitor Center parking lot. The officer found a wom... Full story
A Coulee Dam man arrested in February on charges related to his alleged relationship with a 14-year-old girl in Wisconsin found himself in federal court Monday in Spokane, not a state court in Okanogan. Nate Piturachsatit, 37, pleaded not guilty to one count of producing child pornography. The girl’s mother contacted Wisconsin police when she found a package containing a T-shirt mailed to her from Piturachsatit from a Spokane address. He is suspected of sending and receiving sexually-explicit pictures with the girl via an Instagram account. A... Full story
State Sen. Linda Evans Parlette visited the community last week to fill in schools Superintendent Dennis Carlson on changes in the capital budget staff in Olympia, which could affect the Grand Coulee Dam School District. Parlette spoke at the Rotary Club on Wednesday. Parlette, who has served on the Senate Ways and Means Committee for 20 years, managed to get the state to fund the district's new school complex, which it could not do on its own because of the high amount of non-taxable federal... Full story
Park pickup scheduled for Saturday A big community asset needs some springtime sprucing, and parks commissioners picked this Saturday to do it, hoping you’ll help. The Coulee Area Parks and Recreation District will host the Annual Spring Fix & Clean event at North Dam Park, beginning at 9 a.m. To help, meet at the picnic shelter. Wear work clothes and bring gloves and water. On outsourcing juvenile care A presentation on the possible outsourcing the housing of juvenile detainees to Medical Lake or elsewhere from Okanogan County will take p... Full story
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet at noon this Thursday, April 21, at the Moose Lodge in Grand Coulee. Amy Glover, Grand Coulee USPS Postmaster, will be speaking about their upcoming food drive. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, April 25 at 7 p.m., at the Electric City fire station. Okanogan County 4-H New Leader Training A training and orientation for all new 4-H leaders, and current leaders who would like a refresher, is... Full story
Mark Herndon was selected by the school board Monday night to become vice principal at Lake Roosevelt Junior and Senior High School. Herndon is currently principal of Clallam Bay, a K-12 school in the Cape Flattery School District at Sekiu, Washington, and will take over his new duties here next fall. He replaces Paul Turner who will become superintendent of the Grand Coulee Dam School District July 1. Herndon has been in his present position for three years. Before that he was assistant principal at Neah Bay, where he also taught shop and scie... Full story
WENATCHEE - The longtime state legislator who made it possible to build a new school complex in Coulee Dam has announced her decision to retire. Sen. Linda Evans Parlette announced Monday that she intends to bring her legislative career to a close after 20 years of service to the 12th Legislative District. Parlette plans to step away when her fourth Senate term ends in early 2017. "My mom will be 90 in June. The legislative schedule does not allow me to spend as much time as I want with her or... Full story
I would like to respond to the Grand Coulee alumni group fund raising article that appeared in The Star newspaper March 30, 2016, and thank them for getting this fund raising started. I want to correct the information of only three high schools being involved; there were actually four high schools. When the Grand Coulee Dam was started in 1932-33, there were four main towns in the area, including the city of Grand Coulee, with the Grand Coulee High School Tigers, and the town of Coulee Dam, which was originally only on the west side of the... Full story
Beyond the call A Grand Coulee police officer, Thomas L. Johnson, performed an act well beyond the normal activity of an officer on March 31. He responded to a call of a stranded vehicle on SR-155 near milepost 7, where he found a vehicle with the left front tire entirely flat. Since the motorist wasn’t strong enough to loosen the lug nuts, Johnson did, and then put the spare on for the driver. Student count down February’s average full-time attendance at Grand Coulee Dam School District schools was 684.11 students. This compares with 709... Full story
Exercise equipment has been taken from a gym that has been open to community use for years, and school district officials are hoping someone will bring it back. “It is disturbing and frustrating to think that people would take valuable equipment that is available to everyone, at no charge,” noted Grand Coulee Dam School District Athletic Director Rich Black. Black said the equipment still housed at the former middle school in Grand Coulee was noticed missing last Monday, March 21, apparently taken over the weekend. There was no sign of forced e... Full story
Dates for a getaway that brings together students from Nespelem and Lake Roosevelt schools are set for May and a fundraiser is planned for April. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board set dates for the Tall Timber Ranch trip for sixth-graders from Nespelem Elementary and from Lake Roosevelt Elementary at its meeting Monday night. The sixth graders will go to the Leavenworth retreat for three days and two nights of adventure and physical testing. The trip, May 18-20, is later than usual this year, and is funded in part by the districts, the... Full story
Educators to be honored Carrie Derr and Susan Duclos will be honored at the Grant County Excellence in Education Banquet, May 5, at Big Bend Community College. Derr, a teacher, will be honored as an outstanding certificated educator, and Duclos for her contribution to education as a classified employee of the Grand Coulee Dam School District. Each year the North Central Washington Educational Service District honors outstanding educators from each district at its banquet. Hearing postponed A court hearing has been postponed for an Electric... Full story
An alumni group that wants past mascots memorialized at the new school in Coulee Dam is working toward a new sculpture and collecting money to have it made. The Grand Coulee Alumni Association has opened an account at North Cascades Bank in Grand Coulee to collect funds for such a statue commemorating the three school districts of the past that comprise the current system. The association is encouraging participation from Coulee Dam, Grand Coulee, and Nespelem alumni. Local artist Keith Powell... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District school board approved the purchase of a 2001 Suburban at its meeting Monday night. The vehicle has 71,000 miles on it and the purchase price is $9,386. Prior to the decision to purchase the nine-passenger vehicle, the district rented it from Practical Rent a Car, in Grand Coulee, when school officials were scheduled to go to education meetings around the state. It was pointed out by school officials that trips scheduled for this spring would cost the district nearly $1,000, so it made good sense to purchase... Full story
We are missing some fitness equipment from the middle school gym fitness area. The following equipment was noticed missing after the weekend of March 19-20: two 20-pound dumbbells; two 25-pound dumbbells; two 30-pound dumbbells; two 35-pound dumbbells; two 50-pound dumbbells, and an inclined workout board. As we all know, this equipment was purchased to support our middle school kids, but has been made available to the public at no cost, except for a key deposit of $25 that is returned when the keys are returned. It is disturbing and frustratin... Full story
COULEE DAM—The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved a number of personnel changes at its meeting Monday night. New hires include Alissa Mansker, assistant leader of fourth- and fifth-grade SHARP Kids programs; Jaron Trotter, morning leader of first- through sixth-grade SHARP Kids programs; Hope Hansen, eighth-grade track coach; Jess Cavender, seventh-grade track coach; and Lisa Carlson, seventh-grade track coach. The school board granted a leave request for Jennifer Hare, who is a specialist programs paraprofessional at Lake Roosevel... Full story
Ambulance runs reported Grand Coulee’s ambulance crew responded to 19 calls during February, city council members learned last Tuesday night. Six calls were to Coulee Dam (32 percent), three were transports out of the area and 10 calls were in the Grand Coulee area. There were no fire calls, but there was one mutual aid call, and firefighters responded to Coulee Medical Center, where a bad sensor set off an alarm. Three-event Easter for church The Grand Coulee Community Church (Methodist) will hold a number of special events on Easter S... Full story