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OLYMPIA – Registered voters in Washington state will soon receive their ballots for the General Election, Tuesday, Nov. 3. Ballots must be sent to registered voters no later than Friday, Oct. 16. Voters have until 8 p.m. Nov. 3 to place their marked ballots in one of over 500 drop boxes statewide. Drop-box locations can be found at VoteWA.gov, Washington’s online voter portal. People who choose to return their ballots by U.S. mail can use the provided postage-paid envelope. The U.S. Postal Service recommends that ballots should be returned by...
Grand Coulee Police 10/4 - A man told police that while turning into the Safeway parking lot, a silver colored truck leaving the lot in the wrong exit lane struck his vehicle. The two men talked about money compensation for the damage rather than using insurance, and the driver of the truck didn’t agree to the amount the man wanted and left without providing any info. Safeway said they would review security footage but that the collision seemed to occur out of view of their cameras. 10/6 - Police were unable to locate a suspicious person r...
OLYMPIA – Oct. 13, 2020 – Washington State Parks today announced its 2020-21 winter schedule, with more than 100 parks remaining open for camping or day-use activities. The winter schedule is available online. More than 100 parks will remain open during the winter, while about 22 parks are closed until dates in March, April or May. State parks offer ample opportunities for those who enjoy camping in the winter months. Campgrounds that remain open are less crowded, and more campsites are available on a first-come, first-served basis. In add...
So far, 180 businesses in Grant County have received grants amounting up to $10,000 for economic relief during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grant County’s Economic Development Council doled out the awards in three phases. Phase one awards totaled $438,000; phase two awards totaled $910,000, and phase three awards totaled $339,000 for a total of $1,687,000. The money comes from $2.5 million set aside from the county’s $5 million total they received in federal Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Economic Security (CARES) Act funds the county received. Local bus...
Despite a large amount of opposition from the public, the swim dock at Spring Canyon will be removed under a new management plan at the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area. The National Park Service released a Finding of No Significant Impact for the Environmental Assessment of the Visitor Use Site Management Plan for the park, which includes Spring Canyon among eight other sites. An Oct. 2 statement from the NPS says that "as funding is available," the NPS will implement proposed actions...
Coulee Dam is offering grants to local businesses funded with money from the CARES Act, and applications must be turned in by Oct. 30. The application, first distributed Monday, says businesses are eligible if they: • are a small businesses located in and doing business in Coulee Dam, • have 20 or fewer full-time employees, • had been in business for a minimum of one year as of March 1, 2020 • have a valid UBI number, and • have a Coulee Dam Business License. The business must have been directly impacted by Governor Inslee’s Stay-Home,...
Voting by mail in Washington is safe and secure, Kim Wyman, the secretary of state and the state's top election official has said repeatedly over the last several months. But President Trump's insistence that it's not, as well as changes happening in the U.S. Postal Service lengthening delivery times have concerned the public. That's had Wyman, a Republican seeking her third term in office, also touting the state's system of ballot drop-off boxes. "Our experience in Washington," she wrote in...
Citizens can register to vote by mail or online up until Oct. 26, or in person up until election night on Nov. 3. A Sept 17 news release from the office of Washington Secretary of State Kim Wyman explains how to register to vote. Eligible citizens can register to vote online at VoteWA.gov, using either a Washington state driver’s license or I.D. VoteWA.gov is Washington’s online voter portal that also offers ballot drop box and election office locations, a personalized voter guide, and more. People also have the option of downloading and pri...
Grand Coulee Police 9/29 - A woman reported her iPhone stolen from her vehicle parked at Safeway. - A 93-year-old woman was accidentally locked out of her Second Street home. - Someone “egged” a Pontiac Grand Prix on Sunset Drive. 9/30 - Police responded to a report of squatters at a King Street trailer. They found no one at the residence, but plywood covering the back entrance had been removed. - Police were unable to locate a woman said to have been in an abandoned residence on Grand Avenue and had gone “in the face” of a city employe...
COVID-19 incidents are down slightly in Grant and Douglas counties while incidents are up in Okanogan and Lincoln counties, as well as in Washington State as a whole. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and Douglas (GOLD) counties. As of Oct. 6: Okanogan County had 1,082 total cases, including 13 deaths.There have been 11 cases in Coulee Dam, five in Elmer City, and 25 in Nespelem. The county has had 17 new cases in the past 14 days, making for an incidence rate of 39.8,, up from 28.1 since Sept. 29. Grant County...
A poker run begins on Sunday, Oct. 11, at 11 a.m. at the Jess Ford Detail Shop in Grand Coulee. "We all need some order from all this chaos," a website for the event states. "Join us for a day of fun." The poker run welcomes all types of vehicles to participate in a five-stop 80-mile drive spanning from Coulee Dam to Crown Point to Coulee City to Wilbur and back to Grand Coulee, and includes a barbecue fundraiser at Coulee Plaza (on the corner of Main Street and Spokane Way) at 3 p.m. when the winner, the one with the best poker hand of cards...
TUMWATER — A handful of businesses are facing fines for violations related to lack of mask use by customers and staff. Yet thousands of others that were the subject of complaints are following the governor’s order after numerous contacts and education about requirements from L&I, the agency says. Since mid-July, the Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) has looked into mask complaints concerning more than 4,200 retailers, restaurants and other businesses in the state. In the vast majority of cases, the businesses that were violating the rul...
School district directors did not rush into a decision Monday to reopen Lake Roosevelt Schools sooner than the start of the second quarter, but students who need to will be able to start using the computer labs this week. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors held a Zoom meeting Sept. 28 that included a discussion on reopening school to a hybrid model of distance learning and classroom learning, in which some students would be in the school on Mondays and Tuesdays and others...
In Okanogan County, voters will choose a candidate in the upcoming election for Commissioner District #2 between incumbent Andy Hover, a Republican from Winthrop, and Katie Haven, a Democrat from Twisp. Hover "I have been an Okanogan County Commissioner for almost four years now," Hover told The Star in an email. "In that time I feel proud about the state of financial affairs that I have helped bring to Okanogan County. I feel proud that I can see county government working more efficiently for t...
Coulee Dam will offer grants to city businesses to help with expenses due to the COVID-19 emergency. The town might have as much as $14,000 in its own expenses to cover with money allocated the city through the “CARES Act” passed by Congress this year for relief during the pandemic. But that sum would leave plenty left over to help local businesses. The city’s allocation of funds from the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act recently increased to $49,500 from an earlier $33,000. It can be used for many needs within the town gover...
Coulee Medical Center financial documents show a loss of just over $332,000 in August, but a huge pot of cash came through under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act Congress passed earlier this year. CMC banked some $4.4 million in CARES Act funds, Chief Financial Officer Kelly Hughes reported to hospital district commissioners Monday night over a Zoom meeting. That put the hospital in the black by $4,085,192 for the month and $988,443 for the year so far. That compares to the gain CMC had planned on, pre-pandemic, of nearly...
Washington, D.C. — The Fallen Journalists Memorial (FJM) Foundation, News Media Alliance, National Newspaper Association and National Association of Broadcasters today commended the U.S. House of Representatives on passing bipartisan legislation authorizing the FJM Foundation to establish a national memorial that honors the many reporters, editors, photographers and broadcasters who have lost their lives reporting the news. “Washington has many monuments honoring those who have sacrificed their lives to protect our freedoms — yet, there is no...
The rate of COVID-19 cases has gone down in the state of Washington, and in Grant and Douglas counties, but has gone slightly up in Okanogan and Lincoln counties over the last week. Counties need an incidence rate of 25 cases or fewer per population of 100,000 in the past 14 days to move forward a phase in the Washington Safe Start Recovery plan. And to partially open in-person schooling, that rate must not exceed 75. Here are the latest data for COVID-19 in Grant, Okanogan, Lincoln, and Douglas (GOLD) counties. As of Sept. 29, Okanogan County...
Moses Lake’s Stratford Road bridge crossing will be completely closed to all traffic from 6:30 pm to 6:30 a.m. nightly this week, the city of Moses Lake said Tuesday when construction work closed it. Construction should be completed Friday night, Oct. 2. The work is closing Stratford Road between Broadway Avenue and Valley Road, so drivers should allow extra travel time and plan to use an alternate route. Stratford is a popular route from for people from the Grand Coulee area heading to Moses Lake....
Although the area got some badly needed rain last week, local firefighters found out firsthand it wasn’t enough. Volunteers from the Grand Coulee and Electric City fire departments fought a 100-acre wildfire for four hours along the Columbia River with Douglas County Fire District 3 firefighters Sept. 24. Crews from Douglas Okanogan Fire Dist. 15, Douglas County #5 and the Bureau of Land Management also sent fire trucks and personnel. “The fire burnt well considering the rain we received yesterday, but the winds dried out the (grain) and shr...
Grand Coulee Police 9/18 - A Kent Street man said he didn’t want to press charges against a man he said had come to his home to collect on a debt but punched him the face and threatened him with a hammer when he only paid him $20. The report didn’t specify what the total debt was. - An officer spoke with a woman from Grand Coulee on the phone. The woman was difficult to talk to and slurred her words, and the officer found himself repeating himself to her quite often. The woman said she loaned her credit card to a man who hadn’t returned it. T...
Local science teacher Derrick Johnson launched a helium weather balloon that went up in the sky over 87,000 feet to "near space," a place "where you and I would not survive, no matter how much oxygen we would breathe or how many coats we would put on," Johnson told The Star in an email. A video on YouTube shows the flight as the balloon goes up and up, showing Lake Roosevelt and Banks Lake, as well as other surrounding areas from a greater and greater distance, eventually showing the curvature...
Students at Lake Roosevelt will soon be able to use the computer labs at the school. A Sept. 24 update from Superintendent Paul Turner says that beginning Oct. 1, because Okanogan county is at about 18 cases of COVID-19 per 100,000 populations, meeting requirements from county health directors to open the school further, that students will be able to take advantage of the schools computer labs. The four labs in the high school and one lab in the elementary school will be able to accommodate 50 students total at a time, Turner's update says. A...
The Grand Coulee City Council meeting that was cancelled on Tuesday has been rescheduled for Thursday, Sept. 24 at 6 p.m., to be conducted via ZOOM at https://zoom.us/j/96190557159?pwd=MmtnWS91SUJuOU9pNVMwZFI4VzVtUT09 . Items on the agenda include: A discussion on the wastewater agreement with Electric City; a Chamber of Commerce fundraiser discussion; fire awareness/risk management; a discussion about using federal COVID relief dollars to help small businesses; and more....
Operating a public school during the COVID-19 pandemic isn’t easy, but optimism remains with the COVID incidence rate in Okanogan County being low right now. As if to underscore the challenges, regional internet service for many went down Tuesday night, right before the Grand Coulee Dam School Board was to meet, via Zoom, to consider whether to partially open in-school teaching. “Everybody’s totally stressed out, it’s been totally nuts,” Superintendent Paul Turner had said Monday over the phone about the new, currently online-only school ye...