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  • Grant County Fire Dist. 14 meeting cancelled

    Mar 25, 2020

    Grant County Fire District 14 ill not hold its monthly meeting March 30, due to the Corona virus outbreak.... Full story

  • No Chamber Meeting

    Mar 18, 2020

    Chamber will not meet until further notice, due to the COVID19 precautions....

  • Meetings and Notices

    Mar 11, 2020

    Chamber to Meet Chamber will meet this Thursday, March 12 at Pepper Jack’s Bar & Grille in Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business is on the agenda. GCD School and Nespelem School Districts to Meet The Board of Directors of the Grand Coulee Dam School District will hold a board meeting in conjunction with the Nespelem School District Board of Directors to transact items of mutual. Business at 6 p.m., on Thursday, March 12 , at Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. The length of the meeting is expected to not exceed three h...

  • Fans appreciate great season

    Mar 11, 2020

    Fans and family reach down to the Lake Roosevelt Raiders as they emerge from the locker room and ascend the stairs at the Spokane Veterans Memorial Arena Saturday, where they had just taken the fourth-place trophy at the WIAA's Hardwood Classic state basketball tournament. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Next State Parks free day is March 19

    Mar 11, 2020

    OLYMPIA – March 9, 2020 – Washington State Parks invites visitors to help celebrate the agency’s 107th birthday on Thursday, March 19, by enjoying a state park for free that day. March 19 is the third of 12 State Parks free days in 2020, when visitors are not required to display the Discover Pass for day-use visits to a park. The free days are in keeping with legislation that created the Discover Pass, which costs $30 for an annual pass or $10 for a one-day pass and is required for vehicle access to state recreation lands managed by Washington...

  • With a spin on it

    Mar 11, 2020

    Deer in the background seem to enjoy watching a game of pickleball at Coulee Dam's tennis courts in Cole Park as Linda Zernick returns a volley to her sister, Gayle Hardin, Sunday. Zertick said they've been asking for pickleball lines to be painted on the court, and she thinks that will happen. - submitted photo...

  • Meetings & Notices

    Mar 4, 2020

    Chamber to Meet Chamber will meet this Thursday, March 5 at the Pepper Jack's Bar & Grillet, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon. Guest speaker Cassandra Haggeman, of the National Park Service, will address a potential threat from quagga mussels, a destructive invasive species of shellfish that authorities are hoping to keep out of Lake Roosevelt. American Legion Post 157 to Meet The next meeting for American Legion Post 157 will be Tuesday, March 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Vets’ Center in Electric City. Food Bank open F...

  • Community blood drive planned

    Mar 4, 2020

    Vitalant, along with the Grand Coulee community blood drive volunteers led by coordinator Penny Lewis, is planning a blood drive for Monday, March 16. Donation hours will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the community room at Coulee Medical Center. Vitalant is the sole blood provider to more than 35 hospitals across the Inland Northwest and needs an average of 200 blood donors every day. A single donation can save the lives of up to three people. For more information contact Stefanie Dunn at 425-314-3799....

  • Sixth annual Columbia Basin Eco-Gardening Symposium taking signups

    Mar 4, 2020

    To kick of the gardening season, a half-day gardening workshop will be held in Moses Lake on Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center, 900 E. Yonezawa Blvd. This event is organized jointly by the WSU Grant-Adams Master Gardeners and Grant County Conservation District. The theme for this year’s event is Best Practices for Gardening in the Columbia Basin. Speakers Mike Bush and Katie Buckley will jointly talk about plant pollinators and exotic pests. Isaac Lnenicka will be discussing the benefits of...

  • Income tax help is still available at the Senior Center

    Mar 4, 2020

    Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social s...

  • Free tax help available at the Senior Center

    Feb 26, 2020

    Just a reminder that free tax preparation is being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social security numbers for t...

  • Meetings

    Feb 26, 2020

    Chamber at La Presa Chamber will meet at noon this Thursday, February 27, at the La Presa Mexican Restaurant. General business is on the agenda. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and non-smoking. In Nespelem, the group Bound and Determined holds its meetings Monday evening at 7 p.m. at the...

  • Climatologist to speak at the library Feb. 26

    Feb 19, 2020

    Washington State Climatologist Nick Bond will talk about the impacts that warming oceans and environmental degradation have on dwindling Northwest salmon populations at 3 p.m., at the Grand Coulee Public Library on Wednesday, February 26. In his talk "Are Salmon Doomed? Hatching a Plan to Save a Northwest Icon", Bond will explore the past, present and possible future conditions for salmon. He will share lessons on how local communities have accomplished important work to support salmon runs,...

  • Meetings & Notices

    Feb 19, 2020

    Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet this Thursday, February 20, at the La Presa Mexican Restaurant, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business on the agenda. Grant County Fire Dist. 14 to Meet The Grant County Fire District 14 will hold its regular monthly meeting Monday, February 24, at 7 p.m., at the Electric City Fire Station. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or...

  • Brad proposes to Patty

    Feb 12, 2020

    Brad Oliver proposed to Patty Davis tonight at the conclusion of Patty's (PK's Culinary's) valentines day dinner. "She makes me want to be a better human," he said before bending his knee. Watch the video. Brad proposes to Patty from The Star on Vimeo.... Full story

  • Elementary students to learn about birds

    Feb 12, 2020

    Fourth-graders from Lake Roosevelt Elementary, as well as students from other area schools, will get to learn about our feathered friends, the birds, on Feb. 19 and 20. Bird Fest, which is put on by the National Park Service, will include presentations for the students at three locations in the area. Those presentations include learning about the raptor family of birds from the West Valley Outdoor Learning Center’s HOOT Program, hosted at the Ridge Riders rodeo grounds where students will learn about raptors’ nocturnal habits and their vis...

  • Meetings & Notices

    Feb 12, 2020

    Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet this Thursday, February 13, at the Siam Palace Restaurant, Main Street, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business on the agenda. Grant County Mosquito District 2 to Meet The Grant County Mosquito District #2 will hold its monthly meeting at 5 p.m., Thursday, February 13, at 210 W. Coulee Blvd., in Electric City. Okanogan County School Retirees’ Assoc. to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association will meet 11 a.m., Friday, February 28, for a general meeting and no-...

  • Free tax help available at the Senior Center

    Feb 12, 2020

    Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social s...

  • GCHS Alumni Association to meet

    Feb 12, 2020

    The winter meeting of the Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association will take place at 1 p.m., Wednesday, February 19, 2020, at the Senior Center, 203 Main Street in Grand Coulee. The main item of business will be the All-Class Reunion coming up August 7-9, 2020. Scholarship applications will be available at the meeting, with May 1, 2020, being the deadline for mailing applications for consideration for this year’s awards. All LRHS Seniors are eligible to apply, as are other high school seniors and continuing education college students who a...

  • Auditions coming up for Masquers next play

    Feb 12, 2020

    Auditions for Masquers Theater presentation of “Present Laughter” will be held at 6 p.m., on February 18 and 19 at the Theater in Soap Lake. “Present Laughter” is Noel Coward’s 3rd best known play written in 1939. It was recently revived on Broadway. Director Justin Rowland will bring to our stage this comic story of an actor who is having a mid-life crisis, trying to cope with the young girls who want to seduce him, his secretary and an ex-wife who keep telling him to grow up, a crazed young playwright shows up to read and read his play to h...

  • Masquers to present comedy beginning next Friday

    Feb 5, 2020

    Masquers Theater is proud to present our winter show You Can't Take It With You, written by George F. Kaufman and Moss Hart. This heartwarming comedy will premiere on Friday, February 14th, 2020 and running for three weekends through March 1st. This fun and touching farce has everything you could ask for in a romantic comedy. The witty script stands the test of time with its physical, vaudevillian rhythm. The play centers on a large family of eccentric characters. The head of the family, Grandpa...

  • Meetings & Notices

    Feb 5, 2020

    Chamber to Meet at La Presa Chamber will meet at noon this Thursday, February 6, at La Presa Restaurant, Grand Coulee. Allan Peterson from Grant County EDC/SBDA will be the guest speaer. American Legion to Meet Feb. 11 The next meeting for American Legion Post 157 will be Tuesday, February 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Free Tax Help Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday February 5 through April 8 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation...

  • Spring planting is near

    Feb 5, 2020

    Joining the Arbor Day Foundation is an ideal way to get in the mood for spring planting. Anyone who joins the Foundation in February will receive 10 free Norway spruce trees or 10 free redbud trees to plant when the weather turns warm. The free trees are part of the Foundation’s Trees for America campaign. “These trees will help beautify your home for many years to come,” said Matt Harris, chief executive of the Arbor Day Foundation. “The trees will also add to the proud heritage of your state’s existing Tree City USA communities.” The Tree Ci...

  • Meetings and Notices

    Jan 29, 2020

    Chamber to Meet at Siam Chamber will meet this Thursday, January 30, at the Siam Palace Restaurant, Main Street, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon with general business is on the agenda No Meetings for American Legion Post 157 in January The next meeting for American Legion Post 157 will be Tuesday, February 11, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association to Meet Okanogan County School Retirees’ Association meets 11 a.m., Friday, January 31, for a general meeting and no-host luncheon at Cariboo Inn, 233 Queen...

  • Hot winnings

    Jan 29, 2020

    Joaquin Bustamante reacts to winning $500 for first place Saturday in the chili cook-off held by the LR Athletic Booster Club at the Vets Center in Electric City. Steve Krajic took second place and $100 among the dozen competitors who served up samples to about 90 ticket buyers who paid $15 to attend. Bustamante said he put five kinds of meat in his secret sauce. - Scott Hunter photo...

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