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Grant County Fire District #14 to Meet Grant County Fire District #14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, December 8, 2025, at 6:00pm at the Electric City Fire Station. Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group now holds its meetings Monday thru Friday @ 6 pm every night, at the Vets Center in Electric cCty. Wa. Need more info? Call Betty at 509-429-7817 . In Nespelem, the group Bound and Detemined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Food Bank Hours The food bank...
Grand Coulee Police 11/17 - Police went to the former middle school in Grand Coulee where a lock had been cut off of a storage locker near the sports announcement booth along the track there. The lock had been cut sometime within the prior two days. It was unclear if anything had been taken. 11/18 - A driver told police she had been in a collision on private property on Fortuyn Road, the collision occurring with a car leaving a parking spot while she was pulling in to park. She didn’t think the damage was substantial at first, but an e...
Trees decorated with ornament tags with children’s wishes will be available now through December 13 at these area businesses: Wheatland Bank, Safeway Pharmacy, Spokane Teachers Credit Union, and Harvest Foods. Please pick up a tag & fill the wish....
Alyssa Bolyard from Elk, Wa will take over the rein from the current Queen Faith Jensen January 1. The official coronation will be at the Annual Ridge Rider Dinner/Auction in March. - Submitted photo...
Trees decorated with ornament tags with children’s wishes will be available November 25 through December 13 at these area businesses: Wheatland Bank, Safeway Pharmacy, Spokane Teachers Credit Union, and Harvest Foods. Please pick up a tag & fill the wish....
Food Bank Closed Friday, Nov. 28 Care and Share Food Bank will be closed on Friday, Nov 28 for Thanksgiving. Reopening Dec 5, 1-3. The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group now holds its meetings Monday thru Friday @ 6 pm every night, at the Vets Center in Electric cCty. Wa. Need more info? Call Betty at 509-429-7817 . In Nespelem, the group Bound and Detemined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact...
Coulee Dam Police 11/18 - Police went to the area of Lincoln and Jackson Avenue in Electric City after receiving a report of a young male in the area possibly holding a gun and attempting to shoot at turkeys. No such person was found in the area. 11/20 - Police checked on a Ford Fiesta to see if it was a stolen vehicle. It was not stolen, but it was uninsured, and was towed in accordance with city code. - Police served papers to a man on Washington Place. 11/22-11/23 - Five separate speeding citations were issued for violations ranging from...
There wasn't much extra room in the Grand Coulee post office Monday as postal workers dealt with a crush of Amazon boxes to be delivered locally. USPS delivered an average of 23.9 million packages per day in 2024, controlling about 30% of the market, according to industry watchers. - Gwen Hilson photo...
Grand Coulee Mayor Ruth Dalton will stay in office for a new four-year term, having survived a challenge from Chantell Crowe, 124-106 votes through Grant County’s final vote tally Nov. 19. For the city’s council member 2 position, Andrew Dobson was the final winner over Cameron Whitney, 89-81. Dobson will take the seat currently held by Tom Poplawski, who opted not to seek another term....
The City of Grand Coulee is now accepting applications for the Association of Washington Cities (AW) Center for Quality Communities (CQC) scholarship. The scholarship is available through a statewide competitive process for high school seniors who are active in leadership in their city government, community or school and plan to pursue college or trade school in fall 2026. The CQC is awarding four $3,000 scholarships in 2026. Scholarship recipients will also receive a travel stipend to attend AWC’s Annual Conference in Spokane Juen 2026. To b...
Grand Coulee Police 11/10 - Police spoke to people on Grand Coulee Avenue about a child custody issue. The father had sole custody of his children but didn’t have the paperwork on him at the time, and the mother of one of the children said she had a right to see her child. The police determined it was a civil issue for courts to decide. 11/10 - 11/15 - Multiple reports were filed without additional details, including cases related to: a citizen assist at Safeway; a traffic offense on Dill Avenue; trespassing on Roosevelt Drive; an agency a...
Trees decorated with ornament tags with children’s wishes will be available November 25 through December 13 at these area businesses: Wheatland Bank, Safeway Pharmacy, Spokane Teachers Credit Union, and Harvest Foods. Please pick up a tag & fill the wish....
The Ridge Riders are hosting their first Colorama Pro Rodeo Pageant this Sunday, November 23 beginning at 9:00am at the Ridge Riders rodeo grounds. Our contestants will be judged on their horsemanship, personal interviews, modeling in Western Elegance attire & speeches. Professionalism and sportsmanship are also part of the overall judging process. The public is welcome to attend. Who will be the 2026 Miss Colorama Pro Rodeo Queen?...
Food Bank Closed Friday, Nov. 28 Care and Share Food Bank will be closed on Friday, Nov 28 for Thanksgiving. Reopening Dec 5, 1-3. The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566....
Nespelem, WA) Inchelium Red Garlic Revitalization Coalition (IRGRC) hosted their second annual garlic planting event at the Colville Tribes Forestry Greenhouse site in Nespelem, WA. Community members from across the reservation and from neighboring communities joined in to learn about the Inchelium Red Garlic project. Terri Williams, representing Colville Reservation Conservation District, demonstrated how to prepare garden beds for planting and how to plant garlic. She also demonstrated some...
• November 4 – November 15: Children’s names may be submitted on ‘need/wish’ slips and placed in decorated collection boxes at Safeway Pharmacy, Coulee Medical Center, or Harvest Foods....
The beloved characters of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel, Little Women return again in this charming portrait of two holiday seasons, Christmas with Little Women by PhyllisMcCallum. The initial holiday is marred by the receipt of a telegram from the War Department. Father, while serving as a chaplain in the Union Army, lies ill in Washington. Mrs. March (Jessica Stredwick) must leave to care for him. However, a year later, it is a joyous occasion for the Little Women indeed. Jo (Mary Hale) sells her first story to a newspaper. Meg (Finley W...
On Oct 18, at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo First Interstate Center in Richmond, Oregon 4 PRCA rodeos from the Columbia River Circuit were recognized and awarded for their outstanding work in the sport of rodeo plaques for the following: 2025 Small Rodeo of the Year – Colorama Rodeo, 2025 Medium Rodeo of the Year – Chief Joseph Days Rodeo, 2025 Large Rodeo of the Year – St. Paul Rodeo and 2025 overall Best Rodeo of the Year – the Pendleton Roundup. The Columbia River Circuit encompa...
Grand Coulee Police 11/3 - Multiple reports were filed without additional details, including reports related to: an animal problem on Batchelor Square, a hit-and-run traffic accident on Midway Avenue, and a citizen assist on Grand Coulee Avenue. 11/5 - A Midway Avenue building owner reported that a woman let her dog defecate on the entry area outside his building. He showed police a picture of the woman and her dog and wanted her told to pick up after her dog and that it is not to happen on that property again. 11/9 - Somewhere in the area of...
Lake Roosevelt will be hosting our annual Veterans Day Assembly on Thursday, November 6, 2025, at 9:00 AM in the LRHS Gym. This special event is one of the most meaningful days of our school year as we come together to honor and celebrate the service and sacrifice of our local Veterans. If you have a Veteran you would like to honor and are unsure whether they are already included in our slideshow, please email their photo, dates of service (DOS), and branch of service to me at, aatkins@gcdsd.org Please help us spread the word by sharing the...
Christmas is coming soon! Trees of Sharing 2025 is beginning this week so we’ll be ready to give a hand up to families by providing a Christmas gift for their children. Beginning in the 1980’s, the Trees of Sharing program has been a pathway for Grand Coulee Dam Area residents to be a blessing to needy local children. If you are a parent or guardian in a family or know a family with children under age 18 living in the Coulee as far north as Belvedere that could use the encouragement of having Christmas gifts provided, please fill out Trees of...
Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Area AA Meetings In Electric City, the New Hope group now holds its meetings Monday thru Friday @ 6 pm every night, at the Vets Center in Electric cCty. Wa. Need more info? Call Betty at 509-429-7817 . In Nespelem, the group Bound and Detemined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the Catholic Church. Contact Myrna at 634-4921. Attention Vets A Veterans Service Officer will be at the Electric City Post every 2nd Tuesday of...
Local Scout Troops 24 and 52 are gearing up for this year’s Scouting for Food drive, and they need your help to make it another record-breaking year. A week before the event, scouts will deliver flyers to homes throughout the area. Then on Saturday, Nov. 8, you can participate in two ways: • Leave your food donations out by 9 a.m. for scouts to collect. • Or drop them off at one of our convenient community collection sites: Harvest Foods, Auntie Dannee’s, or Jess Ford. All donations will be gathered from those locations by 12:30 p.m. Last ye...
Grand Coulee Police 10/20-10/25 - Tattoo equipment, a child’s school backpack, and other miscellaneous items were taken from a Section Place residence. A window on a door had been broken. There wasn’t enough evidence to say it was a man who lives in a shed on the property and is being evicted; he allegedly had later sent a text to the reporting party saying they would regret this. Police hadn’t been able to talk to the man at the time of the report. The next day, a fight broke out at the residence involving people there to collect belon...
(10/17/2025) Join NCW Libraries and the Washington Secretary of State Office in November for an interactive virtual workshop series, Civics 101, to learn more about local, state, and federal government. These workshops will cover topics like how bills become laws, how the different branches of government work and relate to each other, and how to participate in the political process. Join us for one or all three of these workshops: Civics 101: Federal Government| Monday, Nov. 10, 6-7:30 p.m. With a focus on the three branches of the federal...