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Grand Coulee Police 3/22 - A woman reportedly stepped into traffic near the Electric City Post Office and slapped a vehicle as it passed. Police had numerous complaints about her. An officer told her if she didn’t stop she would be arrested for disorderly conduct. After speaking with the woman, the officer found she was homeless and told her about other communities that may have more services for someone in her situation. 3/23 - A man on Williams Street reported a 100-watt solar panel stolen off his back porch. He said it was charging a car bat...
Town of Nespelem STATEMENT OF QUALIFICATIONS REQUEST The Town of Nespelem is requesting Statement of Qualifications and performance information from qualified firms interested in providing professional engineering consulting services for the 2021-2024 calendar years in conjunction with city sponsored project with the potential funding in part through the Sate of Washington Community Development Block Grant Program with Federal funds provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, USDA-Rural Development and Environmental...
Students at Lake Roosevelt Schools will attend in person more than they have in a year, following the passage by the school board of a new schedule aimed at accomplishing increased face time with teachers and peers, even with masks. The new schedule will get kids in classrooms half a day Monday through Thursday, beginning April 12, nearly doubling their time physically in school but cutting time for those who wish to keep learning online. Fridays will be used to help students who need extra help catching up after a year of mostly online...
The annual spring cleanup will be free after all. The Regional Board of Mayors, after being awarded a grant, chose during a special meeting March 18 not to charge locals for dumping yard waste at the Delano Regional Transfer Station during spring cleanup week, which runs from April 3-16, with days depending on each town (see the ad on page 2). Originally, the mayors had chosen this year to charge a fee for pickup loads of yard waste taken to the transfer station to cover the costs of taking that waste to the landfill in Ephrata. They were previ...
A line of cars stretches from the parking lot of Coulee Medical Center, down Fortuyn Street, up Burdin Boulevard to SR-174 and down the highway Friday as people wait to get their vaccine shots. About 472 community members got their shots of the Pfizer vaccine, all of those scheduled and more. One person on a waiting list also got a shot, but the event could have provided about 100 more shots in arms, said Chief Nursing Officer Marlene Elliot. - Scott Hunter photo...
The Colville Tribes have been diligent in vaccinating their members against COVID-19 and members 18 years and older qualify to make an appointment for theirs. More than 4,300 doses of the Moderna vaccine have been delivered on the Colville Reservation, representing more than a third of tribal members who have received at least the first shot of the required two shots of the Moderna vaccine, and many who have received both doses, according to a March 18 press release from the Tribes. In the coming days, the one-shot Johnson and Johnson vaccine...
With the Lions Club's annual Easter egg hunt canceled this year, kids can take part in an "Alternative Egg Hunt" next week in which 26 different homes in Electric City will participate. Those homes will display colored paper eggs with letters on them in their windows starting Sunday, March 28 until Saturday, April 3. It's organized by Shannon Hitchcock of the Faith Community Church. Kids can go around the Electric City area south of Coulee Boulevard and east of Gold Avenue to find all the...
Pedestrians in Elmer City will be more footloose and fancy-free with a pathway project being completed later this year. In 2018, phase one of the pathway project built a path along the Lower River Road from Third Street to about halfway to Front Street, with two crosswalks connecting to the Downriver Trail across the Lower River Road. Phase two will finish the path down to Front Street. Front Street’s sidewalk, which currently stops short of the corner with the Lower River Road, will be completed and connect with the pathway. During their M...
Joah Nee looks over a sea of Easter baskets Monday at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center, assembled by a crew of volunteers from many donations. They made 475 baskets for sale in the fundraiser, an amount that took until Friday a year ago to sell. Nee was shopping for her two sons. - Scott Hunter photo...
Electric City council members, Mayor Diane Kohout, and even the city engineer meet with constituents Saturday in a two-hour, open-ended meeting at the Vets Center to provide information and answer questions about city projects....
Scouts are staying busy with another food drive. “A food drive is always helpful,” said Carol Nordine, who manages the local Care and Share Food Bank located at the Nazarene Church on the outskirts of Grand Coulee heading east on SR-174. “It gets us a variety of things we normally don’t have.” The boys and girls in the local troops left bags at area residences last weekend with a flier explaining how to donate food. Residents are encouraged to place food in the bags and leave them outside their homes before 9 a.m. this Saturday, March 27,...
Grand Coulee Police 3/16 - A man on Bay Area Drive reported that a dark colored pickup was parked in his driveway. He confronted the driver who said he had been drinking. A Grant County Sheriff’s deputy and a Grand Coulee officer responded. By the time they arrived, the pickup had left. Both officers were both unable to find the suspect vehicle. 3/17 - A man claimed that a man at a business was falsely claiming to be a veteran and wanted him charged with fraud/stolen valor. Police were unable to find anything related on the business website, a...
Colville Business Council Vice-Chairman Joel Boyd of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation was placed on administrative leave on March 24 by action of the Executive Committee of the Colville Tribes, a press release from the Colville Tribes says. The leave is effective immediately and will continue until further action is taken by the full Colville Business Council in the next available Special Session, which is currently scheduled for April 8, 2021. Vice-Chairman Boyd will not conduct business of the Colville Business Council...
All counties are eligible for Phase 3 of Gov. Jay Inslee's Healthy Washington reopening plan on March 22. Inslee made the announcement March 11 following a downward trend in COVID-19 case rates and hospitalizations across the state over the past month. "The reason we are able to make this progress is because we have been safe, we have been diligent and we have cared about our loved ones and ourselves," Inslee said. The reopening of outdoor sporting events, increased vaccine eligibility, and...
Anyone can now either sign up for a vaccination event in Grand Coulee this Friday or get on a list to get vaccinated against COVID-19 through a state website Grant County Health District made live last week. So far (11 a.m. March 17), about 576 appointments are already set up for the drive-through event in Coulee Medical Center's parking lot from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. for first and second doses of the Pfizer vaccine. The website seems improved from an earlier version and is simple to navigate. It...
Among those Lake Roosevelt High School students inducted into the National Honor Society March 10 were, from left: Chelsea Dudley, Landon Krohn, Tyson Nicholson, Tanner Whitelaw, Kawika Whalawitsa, Tanner Kiser, Britt Egbert, Hunter Whitelaw, Camryn Carden, Chase Clark, Bryn Chaffee, Elijah Rasmussen, Raven Clark, Audrey Hansen. Inductees not pictured were Penelope Antoine, Ashley Baker, Pyper Schmidt, and Aubrey Harris. The event was recorded and can be watched from a link on the school...
Whether they continue to share a wastewater treatment facility with Coulee Dam, or build their own, Elmer City ratepayers are looking at higher sewer rates, but how much higher remains to be determined. The Elmer City council watched a presentation from Project Engineer Nancy Wetch of Gray and Osbourne last Thursday night. Wetch’s report compared the estimated cost of building Elmer City’s own wastewater treatment facility to the costs of renegotiating their current agreement with Coulee Dam, which expires at the end of 2024. The report loo...
The need for a community basketball court was discussed at a parks district meeting last week. Commissioners for the Coulee Area Park and Recreation District met on March 10 via Zoom for the first time since December. Commissioners discussed pursuing grants for projects in North Dam Park, such as for new playground equipment, which was a top priority for respondents to a poll The Star conducted in December. Respondents to that poll also expressed wanting a full-size basketball court, with the current single basketball hoop at the park, on a...
The town of Coulee Dam still plans on its traditional, spring cleanup help with yard waste despite the fact that the areawide spring cleanup was altered this year. Grant County officials told the Regional Board of Mayors recently that the traditional waving of fees at the transfer station for spring cleanup is not legal, so the mayors agreed on a reduced fee for dumping yard waste, not free. Coulee Dam has its own spot for dumping yard waste, so will continue with that service for its citizens April 3-10. “Since we do not use the landfill to d...
A museum in Colorado will offer a program this week showing historical photographs of the Nespelem area, streaming it live online so you can attend. The Clyfford Still Museum, located in Denver, Colorado, will be live streaming a free program titled "Into the Archives: Photographs from the Colville Reservation." "In 1937, Clyfford Still co-founded an artists' colony in Nespelem, the Indian Agency on the Colville Reservation in Washington state," the museum website explains. "During his time ther...
The local Scouts BSA Troops 24 and 52 will be doing another food drive for the Care and Share Food Bank. It was brought to the scouts’ attention that the food bank is running especially low on food, so they thought another food drive would be a good way to help out, said Kim Stout with the scouts. As they usually do once a year, the scouts will be dropping off bags this weekend, March 20-21, then pick them back up the following Saturday, March 27. They will start picking up about 9 a.m. The local food bank is particularly looking for canned v...
Electric City will be holding its second informal meeting with the community where people can give their input and ask questions about the goings on of the city. The meeting is scheduled for Saturday, March 20, from 1-3 p.m. at the American Legion building on Coulee Boulevard. The mayor, city engineer, and members of the city planning commission and city council will be available to talk to the public. Topics at the meeting include sidewalks being built, the pedestrian waterfront pathway project, an informal poll on a community park, changes to...
American Legion #157 Commander Jim Brakebill spoke to the Regional Board of Mayors March 8 about wanting to create a veterans’ memorial for the Coulee area. Brakebill emphasized the idea for a memorial was only in the earliest stages, and he wanted to involve the mayors and communities so that people could share their input on the project. Various possibilities were discussed in brief, including the options of having lighted flags for the different branches of the military, and of selling bricks with the names of service members printed on t...
Grand Coulee 3/11 - A man reported receiving fraud calls in which the caller said he worked for the IRS, knew the last four digits of his social security number, and said that it had been involved with drug smuggling in Texas. He provided police with two phone numbers he received calls from and was told to tell police if he received another call. - A man reported a package stolen from his porch and showed video of a man wearing a red, white, and blue jacket taking the package. The thief was identified and found at a King Street residence and...
The Bureau of Reclamation has canceled a contract to build its new fire station for the second time, it announced, but construction is expected to restart sometime this spring with a new contractor doing the work, perhaps even while lawsuits among the parties persist, if court records are an indication. The government originally awarded the contract in 2016 to build the 22,000-square-foot fire station, with completion expected in April 2018. Innovative Construction and Design (ICD), a small...