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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...
GRANT COUNTY, WA — Grant County Health District (GCHD) is accepting applications for primary and alternate members on the Grant County Board of Health. This is a valuable opportunity to support public health in your community by helping shape health policies and services that impact all Grant County residents. “The Grant County Board of Health is a diverse group of people who share a commitment to protecting the health and safety of our communities,” said Tom Harris, Board Chair. “As a member for over a decade, I’ve seen the Board take on s...
Coulee Dam Police 10/20 -10/23 - Police arrested a man for allegedly violating a no-contact order following a series of events including him dropping kids off at the school while a woman protected in the order was there, and his son contacting her to retrieve belongings when the no-contact order stipulates no third-party contact. Allegedly, the man’s shed lock had also been cut by the woman’s son to retrieve a gas can. A civil standby performed by police for the retrieval of belongings was also noted in the report. 10/25 - A driver was pul...
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...
Open Seats: Consumer of Public Health, Healthcare, and Community Stakeholder GRANT COUNTY, WA — Grant County Health District (GCHD) is accepting applications for primary and alternate members on the Grant County Board of Health. This is a valuable opportunity to support public health in your community by helping shape health policies and services that impact all Grant County residents. “The Grant County Board of Health is a diverse group of people who share a commitment to protecting the health and safety of our communities,” said Tom Harris, B...
It's National Friends of Libraries Week, and a local group has been busy. Friends of the Grand Coulee Area Public Library (FGCAL) often work behind the scenes or find ways to support the local library. Although the Grand Coulee Library is one of 30 in the vast NCW Libraries district that serves five counties over an area the size Massachusetts and Connecticut combined with a population of 278,000 people, the local Friends group is not affiliated with the district. But the Friends support...
Luncheon to Feature Grant Winner, Interactive Art Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a general luncheon meeting 11 AM, Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 Birch St. S. Fall Grant winners will be chosen. T Lewis, newspaper comic artist of Over the Hedge and educational storybook illustrator, will lead attendees in an interactive artistic program. Information: (509)-945-3401. Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 6...
Grand Coulee Police 10/13-10/20 - Reports were filed without additional details on the situations including reports related to: burglary on Burdin Boulevard; an abandoned vehicle on D Street; shots heard on Section Place; a disturbance at the hospital; a traffic accident on Spokane Way; fraud on 2nd Street; burglary on Main Street; a disturbance on Alcan Road; suspicious circumstances at the post office; theft on Section Place; disorderly conduct on Cardinal Road; and Burglary on Section Place. 10/18 - An alarm at CR Lumber was determined to...
Luncheon to Feature Grant Winner, Interactive Art Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will hold a general luncheon meeting 11 AM, Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at Community Presbyterian Church of Omak, 9 Birch St. S. Fall Grant winners will be chosen. T Lewis, newspaper comic artist of Over the Hedge and educational storybook illustrator, will lead attendees in an interactive artistic program. Information: (509)-945-3401. Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566. Area A...
Soap Lake, WA — Masquers Theater invites audiences to feed the need for live theater this fall with Little Shop of Horrors, the hit horror-comedy-rock musical that has been delighting audiences for decades. Performances run October 16 through November 2, 2025. Set in a struggling flower shop on Skid Row, Little Shop of Horrors follows Seymour Krelborn, a meek and lonely floral assistant who discovers a mysterious plant unlike any other. Naming it “Audrey II” after his co-worker and crush, Seymour quickly learns this strange and unusual plant...
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...
Local Moose lodge has been keeping busy....
Coulee Dam Police 10/5 - Police went to Tilmus Avenue where a man who had previously been in an argument with a woman’s son at a bar in Electric City and was reportedly going to sleep in a trailer on the property, but instead had allegedly threatened her son, locked himself in the bathroom and dumped out her perfumes and beauty products into a tub of water. The case was turned over to tribal police. The Coulee Dam officer remained on scene while tribal police finished the investigation on the case. 10/7 - A female was reported as pulling a m...
(10/8/2025) WSU Colville Reservation Extension collaborated with Colville Confederated Tribes (CCT) Headstart program and CCT Diabetes program to celebrate National 4-H Week and Taste Washington Day. This group collaboratively hosted Story Walks to provide educational and fun hands-on activities for Nespelem & Inchelium Headstart students and families. A Story Walk combines reading with physical movement so that students can have fun and learn in an outdoor setting, The books used were Planting...
Midway walkers feel the cooler weather as they object to Trump Administration policies along Midway Avenue in Grand Coulee Saturday about noon. The group will be out again this coming Saturday for a longer walk than usual - 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. - as they join in a nationwide (at least) No Kings protest that is expected to involve groups across other nations as well. National organizers expect up to 10 million. - Scott Hunter photo...
Mosquito District #2 to Meet Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting this Thursday, October 9th, 2025 at 5:00pm at 210 W. Coulee Blvd. in Electric City. Food Bank Hours The food bank regular hours are Fridays from, 1-3 p.m. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566....
Grand Coulee Police 9/27 - A vehicle backed directly into another vehicle that was parked at Safeway. 9/30 - At about 3:30 a.m. the hospital reported a woman had come into the emergency room stating she had a gunshot victim in their vehicle, but no one was in the vehicle and she drove off. Police spoke to her about an hour later and she said she was having a mental issue and there was no gunshot victim. - Police checked on the well-being of a child on Federal Avenue at the request of a parent. The child was fine. 9/27 - 10/4 - Reports were...