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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Members of the Sanzar Dance Company, of Wenatchee, pose for a photo by Banks Lake before performing at Friday Market at North Dam Park. The girls, all between 12 and 16 years old, performed in two sets for an enthusiastic crowd at the event, sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce. - Scott Hunter photo...
Rep. Dan Newhouse announced Sunday that he’d secured over $3 million in federal funds to build “safe, dependable living space for health professionals working at … Coulee Medical Center,” a goal hospital officials have been pursuing for a couple years. CMC relies on traveling professionals to staff various positions, and housing them is a challenge locally. The hospital actually owns several houses for this reason, which also makes the local housing market even tighter. But the professionals, who, hospital leaders point out, pass several other...
A non-profit organization that is all about getting kids involved in active recreation pitched Grand Coulee's city council June 17 on a vision for a "community center" on city land with a great view. Nic Alexander, president of Reel Rec, is a local builder and developer who looks at the city's vacant land overlooking Crescent Bay Lake and Lake Roosevelt as a great place for a center with a view. The vision is still a little vague. Would it include a pool, batting cage, archery range, golf simula...
A group working to inject the skills and abilities of thoughtful leadership into communities is offering training to do that in Grant County, and north county residents can even get some pay to offset mileage. The Leadership Institute of NCW is all about "Educating and Empowering Community Members for Civic Leadership in NCW." It was a hit in Chelan County last year; this year it's concentrating on Grant County, with plans to do it again in Okanogan County in the next year or so. Nancy Boord is...
A neighborhood in Coulee Dam will get an upgrade its residents likely didn’t know they needed: their main sewer pipes will be lined. The area to have the work done runs along River Drive and nearby streets, where the sewer pipe is good enough to warrant the CIPP (cured in place pipe) treatment, which requires no trenching, with a liner injected into existing pipe. The city council awarded the project June 11 to Allied Plumbing and Pumps for its winning bid of $243,042.66. The project will be funded through a combination of a grant and loan f...
The next town council members in Coulee Dam will get paid on a different scale than council currently does, following a vote of the council earlier this month. Council members are currently paid $50 a month. The new scale changes that to $50 per regular council meeting attended. Two council meetings are normally scheduled per month, but the town often cancels one for lack of agenda items, which is the case this week. Tonight’s regular council meeting was canceled. Council could have changed the pay to add in compensation for extra meetings s...
With signs quoting the wisdom of Isaiah and The Lorax, a group of protesters bring down the median age of those walking along Midway Avenue Saturdays. With warmer days coming, they're now starting their weekly one-hour Trump Administration policy protests at 11 a.m. instead of noon. - Scott Hunter photo...
June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb, assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife Sofia of Austria. The killings set off a chain of events that culminated in World War One. Following the killings, an elaborate network of treaties among the nations of Europe led to a rapid escalation in the war between the Central Powers - Germany, Austro-Hungarian Empire, Ottoman Empire, and the Allied nations of Britain, France, Italy and Russia. On April 6, 1917, the United States entered the war with the Allies. Source(s): Library of...
Painted faces on these kids reflect some success with filling out their passports, like the one the boy on the right is holding up. The chamber of commerce enlisted the participation of 28 businesses and organizations to put on something for the kids to do during the annual Koulee Kids Fest, such as face painting, done by Faith Community Church. The kids get their passports stamped at several spots, then qualify for a drawing. This year, Reel Rec donated a drone, which was won by a 6-year-old...
Coulee Dam is mulling an inquiry as to whether the city would allow a Level 3 electric vehicle charging station on its electric grid. Such a 180-kilowatt station would be capable of adding 100-250 miles of range in 30-45 minutes. That capability could be an added attraction for customers of the 12 Tribes Casino. Mayor Bob Poch told the city council last month that the Colville Tribes had approached the city on the question. The city owns its own electric utility, but Poch wants to be careful to not add something that would jeopardize a...
The use of fire is restricted in 20 Eastern Washington counties by one federal agency, and along Lake Roosevelt by the National Park Service, even after two local counties started their annual fire restrictions earlier than normal. Federal Bureau of Land Management officials have restricted activities on public lands to reduce the risk of human-caused wildfires in Adams, Asotin, Benton, Chelan, Columbia, Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield, Grant, Kittitas, Klickitat, Lincoln, Okanogan, Pend Oreille, Spokane, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman, and...
(Nespelem, WA) The Colville Tribes Natural Resources Field Day was held Friday, June 5, 2025, in a rural field near Nespelem, WA. Two hundred twenty-eight Kindergarten - third grade students from Lake Roosevelt and Nespelem schools traveled to participate in hands-on learning out in the environment. Youth learned about a variety of natural resource topics, and of course, the day would not have been complete without a visit from Mt Tolman and Smokey Bear! This year's line-up boasted fifteen...
Local people turn out on No Kings Day, a nationwide day to protest the policies of the Trump Administration June 14 in Grand Coulee. About 60 people paraded with signs expressing their opinions, about twice their usual crowd. A group walks with signs along the sidewalk on Midway Avenue in Grand Coulee every Saturday from noon to 1 p.m. - Scott Hunter photo...
A car with a woman and four children in it drove off SR-155 at Taylor Street in Electric City and turned over onto its side after experiencing what may have been "an alignment problem," as a witness noted. A vehicle suspension spring lay on the ground nearby. The witness, a federal employee who did not want to give her name "because of where I work," said she lives nearby and could have been hit in her home if the car had gone off the road a little sooner. Tire tracks on the road shoulder...
Nearly four dozen young adults walked across the stage and out the door Saturday after graduating from Lake Roosevelt High School having already seen some hard reality and ready to take life on. "We are proof that hard times create strong people," is the official motto of the class of 2025. They started high school in 2021 in the midst of the Covid 19 pandemic with all its health and cultural complications, steeped in a time that would teach them about the fragility of human life. In the middle...
Two people trekked across the country last week to understand a piece of their Kentucky company's history, with a major claim to fame being the Grand Coulee Dam. Now called Mason & Hanger, theirs was the lead company in the consortium of companies that built the original dam. They're the M in MWAK, the initials for Mason-Walsh-Atkinson-Kier. On Wednesday, Ben Lilly, the president of Mason & Hanger, and Holly Holt, its vice president in charge of marketing, came to town to fill in the blanks in...
People who have been walking Saturdays along Grand Coulee’s Midway Avenue to object to Trump Administration policies plan to do so on June 14 at noon, Flag Day. Their purpose: “Protect democracy from autocratic oligarchs-- protect our rights,” a information email stated Tuesday. June 14 is the date in 1775 that the Continental Congress created the U.S. Army to “stand up against a monarch who claimed absolute power,” the email noted. They’ll walk from noon to 1 p.m. on the sidewalk side of the street and ask anyone joining in to park on the...
Grand Coulee Police 5/24 - A Grand Coulee officer heard over the radio that park rangers at Steamboat Rock State Park had pulled over a vehicle for speeding and that the vehicle took off but stopped when the driver got out and ran on foot into the brush. A park ranger, Grand Coulee officer, and Coulee Dam officer looked for him while another ranger stayed with the vehicle and passengers. They spoke only Ukrainian but were able to call a friend to help translate. Some campers came by and said they’d seen a man running at the north end of the c...
by Scott Hunter It's been 69 years since Nespelem High School graduated a class of students, but that longed-for possibility finally became a reality last week. A class of nine students graduated May 29, 2025, in a commencement ceremony before a gym full of relatives and community members. Nespelem School Board Chair Jolene Marchand, in a commencement address, related the story of the dream now come true. In 1956 the state said it was consolidating schools. Nespelem's high school was closed,...
Matt Ponusky is no stranger to the city of Grand Coulee. He served it as a police officer for about seven years, then transferred to Coulee Dam's police department at the end of 2023. Now, he's back - as the chief of police. Hiring him ends a long slog for the city, which started looking for a new chief before longtime chief John Tufts retired in March, 2024. The post has been filled either by an interim chief or not at all since then. Turns out finding a chief of police is not too easy....
Parents will be able to track their kids as if they were being delivered by UPS. That’s because school bus drivers in the Grand Coulee Dam School District will log on and off each child who rides their bus, with new devices and software to help keep track of the students. And, of course, there’s an app for that. Parents can follow their kids’ buses on their phones and know what time the child will be dropped off, said Superintendent Rod Broadnax at his last “Coffee with the Superintendent” May 27 at Voltage Coffee House. “We’ve had a couple of...
The final 2025–2027 operating budget for Washington state reneges on earlier commitments made by the state in 2022. Funding to expand the Imagination Library of Washington was not included in the final budget, which could impact over 121,000 children currently enrolled in the program. Founded by Dolly Parton in 1995 in honor of her father — who could not read or write — the Imagination Library is the flagship program of The Dollywood Foundation. The program provides children from birth to age 5 with a high-quality, age- appropriate book every...
Scouts and the American Legion baseball team display the American flag before demonstrating the folding of it at the annual Isle of Flags Memorial Day ceremony Monday at Spring Canyon Cemetery, where nine more flags were dedicated to fallen veterans, adding to the more than 600 flags on display. - Scott Hunter photo...
JUNE 1, 2025 8:33 AM This article was first published by TVW. The ink is hardly dry on Washington’s new budget and already legislative leaders are anticipating more fiscal uncertainty. Democrats are focused on threats to health care access if Congress slashes Medicaid funding, while Republicans are warning of renewed legal jeopardy in education funding. In post-session interviews on TVW’s Inside Olympia, House Majority Leader Joe Fitzgibbon, D-West Seattle, warned that a U.S. House-passed budget legislation — if enacted — could force Washing...
After a threat against the school was reported, Lake Roosevelt Schools canceled Tuesday classes Monday night before reconvening after the holiday weekend. The school posted a notice on its Facebook page about 9:45 Monday night. A Snapchat between students had been reported in which one student had made threats against the school, officials said. Superintendent Rod Broadnax said Tuesday morning the Snapchat had occurred with up to 30 students on it. He said the chat text had not been recovered yet, so police had not been able to get a warrant...