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  • Koulee Kids Fest to offer activities

    Jacob Wagner|Jun 6, 2018

    Children of the coulee will get some stamps in their event “passport” on Saturday, June 16, when Koulee Kids Fest will be held all around the community. Stations will be set up at area businesses where children can enjoy a variety of free activities, including painting piggy banks at North Cascades Bank, chalk drawing at Coulee Medical Center, building a dam and a river at the Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center, piloting pedal boats at Coulee Playland, eating free ice cream at Coulee Creamery, and more. Children will get stamps in their “pa...

  • A rising wall

    Jun 6, 2018

    Construction work continues on the Bureau of Reclamation's new fire station off SR-155 across from Pole Park, with concrete walls being built and site improvements continuing, the USBR said Tuesday. The current contract completion date is September, the bureau said in an email. The $13.6 million project is being built by Innovative Construction & Design Ltd., a small business based in Post Falls, Idaho. - Jacob Wagner photo...

  • Locals help cross-country canoer get around dam

    Jacob Wagner|Jun 6, 2018

    Neal Moore, who is canoeing 7,324 miles on 22 American rivers over the course of two years, received some help getting around the Grand Coulee Dam on the last weekend in May. Elmer City man Jayme Brashears gave Moore and his canoe a ride from Lake Rufus Woods near Nespelem Creek to the King's Court trailer court area, thus getting Moore around the dam. Moore had run into strong currents and needed some help getting past the rough spots of the river. Moore stayed the night at the King's Court...

  • Newsbriefs

    Jun 6, 2018

    Doctor wants to represent you A woman who wants to represent you in Olympia has scheduled a “coffee talk” at the Voltage Coffee House this Friday from 7:30 to 9 a.m. Running for the state’s 12th Legislative District as an independent, Ann Diamond is a family physician and clinic owner in Winthrop. She’s running for position 1 in the House of Representatives for the 12th. Fire season gets started A wildfire on Sunday burned four buildings in Schawana, in Grant County, but firefighters stopped it before it jumped a highway. Grant County fire dist...

  • Reclamation to conduct drone flights at Grand Coulee Dam

    Jacob Wagner|Jun 6, 2018

    If you see some unidentified flying objects near the Grand Coulee Dam, don't be alarmed! It most likely isn't aliens studying hydroelectric power, but rather "drones" capturing aerial footage of the dam. The Bureau of Reclamation detailed the flights in a June 4 press release, saying the purpose is to "photograph and obtain video footage of the structure while water is spilling over the drum gates during the month of June." The new footage will show infrastructure improvements made over recent...

  • Towns may seek bids for garbage hauling

    Jun 6, 2018

    The contract for Sunrise Disposal, the company that performs garbage service in the area, is up for renewal in the four cities, and the cities are looking to put the contract up for bid. At the May 14 Regional Board of Mayors meeting, the mayors of the four cities (Electric City, Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, and Elmer City) discussed renewing the contract with Sunrise Disposal, and felt it wouldn’t hurt to put the contract out to bid to see if they could get more bang for their buck, and possibly look into recycling options as well. The four t...

  • Canada's Grand Coulee not so different from Washington's

    Jacob Wagner|Jun 6, 2018

    Approximately 836 miles away via the Trans-Canada Highway lies a town known as Grand Coulee, Saskatchewan. The town of approximately 650 people is located 10 minutes west of the city of Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan. "We are a bedroom community surrounded by farmland," Tobi Duck, administrator for the town of Grand Coulee said by email. "How and why they came up with the name Grand Coulee is anyone's guess as we are as flat as a pancake." Duck said that the people in the Canadian Grand...

  • Coulee Cops

    Jun 6, 2018

    Grand Coulee Police 5/29 - “Scooby” is causing trouble for its owner on East Grand Coulee Avenue by barking. The white- and brown-spotted dog got the owner a citation for not being licensed and causing a disturbance by barking. It wasn’t the first time the dog has caused complaints for neighbors. - Later, “Scooby” got in trouble again, this time at Coulee Playland, where it allegedly attacked a young Labrador-husky mix, injuring it in the jowls. The owner of the injured dog, from out of town, called police from Ephrata while on the way home...

  • New wine bar cuts the ribbon

    Jun 6, 2018

    Brad Oliver, a partner in The Wine Bar, cuts the ceremonial ribbon at the grand opening June 1, with an establishment already full of patrons. Partner Levi Seekins is behind the bar at left. They actually opened a week before, the day after getting their liquor license. It was the third time the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce has been able to put its giant grand-opening scissors to use in the last month. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Younger folks needed to keep stocking lake with fish

    Jacob Wagner|May 30, 2018

    Do you enjoy fishing in Banks Lake? Do you know people who do? Do you recognize fishing as a part of culture in the coulee? Then maybe you’d like to volunteer to help keep that viable. POWER, which stands for Promoters of Wildlife and Environmental Resources, is in need of volunteers, without whom they will shut down their fish-raising pens. The organization releases 150,000 trout twice a year into Banks Lake from their feeding nets located in Electric City. That’s 300,000 fish annually released into the reservoir by the group. Some of tho...

  • Folding the flag

    May 30, 2018

    Boy Scouts of Troop 24 display the flag they are about to fold at the annual Isle of Flags ceremony at Spring Canyon on Memorial Day. Eleven new flags were dedicated Monday, adding to more than 500 displayed annually. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Body of teenager recovered from lake

    Scott Hunter|May 30, 2018

    The body of a 17-year-old Lynnwood, Washington boy was recovered Saturday evening from the waters of Banks Lake after he went missing late Friday evening near Steamboat Rock State Park, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday morning. Friends had reported David V. Fesko missing around 8:30 p.m. Friday after watching him try to swim to shore after falling off a personal flotation device. Fesko went under water and didn’t resurface. Deputies, state park rangers and boaters searched the waters and shoreline until nightfall suspended the...

  • Newsbriefs

    May 30, 2018

    Privatizing BPA nixed Washington state members of the U.S. House of Representatives applauded the Trump Administration’s decision last week to abandon a plan to sell the Bonneville Power Administration’s assets. The Department of Energy’s announcement came after the Washington congressional delegation urged the administration not to privatize BPA. Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), Dan Newhouse (WA-04), Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05) and Dave Reichert (WA-08) issued a joint statement following Energy’s announcement. “On behalf of...

  • New art gallery opens in area

    Scott Hunter|May 30, 2018

    They've been wanting to develop an art scene locally, and last Saturday officials of the Northwest Native Development Fund took a big step: opening an art gallery. Board member Molly Morris cut the ribbon on the three-room Titwáatit Native American Art Gallery at 312 Spokane Way, close enough to Flo's Cafe next door for attendees to smell bacon cooking. NNDF has organized three local "Plateau Native Art" shows in the last three years, each bigger than the last, and attracted grant funding for...

  • In surprise assembly, Utz given statewide award

    Jacob Wagner|May 30, 2018

    Karrie Utz accepted an award as "Public School Employee of the Year" for the state of Washington in the Lake Roosevelt gymnasium May 29, chosen out of over 30,000 PSE members in the state. Utz appeared completely surprised when her name was announced at the mystery assembly as the gym roared with applause. Utz thanked her family, students, and fellow staff members in an emotional thank-you in front of the student body and staff for Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School. "This is so...

  • Man dies in motorcycle crash

    Scott Hunter|May 30, 2018

    An Idaho man died Saturday afternoon between Wilbur and the Keller Ferry when his motorcycle crossed the centerline on a sharp curve and struck a guardrail, the Washington State Patrol reported. Larry Everett Merriman, 75, was headed north on a 2002 Yamaha XVS11AP near milepost 99 and entering a sharp, left-to-right curve when he crossed the southbound lane, striking the guardrail just after noon May 26. Merriman was wearing an approved helmet, and neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor in the crash, the State Patrol reported. His family was...

  • Man's body found in Banks Lake

    Scott Hunter|May 30, 2018

    Grant County sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday morning, May 23, recovered the body of a man from the waters of Banks Lake south of Electric City. Deputies were called around 7:30 a.m. after a boater discovered the body, later identified as 72-year-old Garlan W. Crosswhite of Olalla, Kitsap County. Crosswhite’s boat was found beached along the east shoreline about two miles away. Campers at a campground just north of the Million Dollar Mile, about milepost 9 on SR-155, told a Grand Coulee police officer assisting that a camper and boat tra...

  • "Freedom Writers" message comes to Keller school

    Jacob Wagner|May 30, 2018

    Erin Gruwell, the teacher who inspired the movie "Freedom Writers," visited Keller Elementary last week at the invitation of the students. The movie highlights Gruwell's efforts to teach underprivileged students in Southern California to reach their full academic potential. Her methods have been adopted around the world, and include having students write honestly about who they really are. A book called "The Freedom Writers Diary" was published, including her early students' works, and was...

  • Alumni scholarships award

    May 30, 2018

    This is the second year the Grand Coulee High School Alumni Association has considered scholarship applicants from other high schools as well as Lake Roosevelt. Scholarships in the amount of $500 each were awarded to two graduating seniors: Paige Dice, Newport (Washington) High School and Baylee Easterday, Chiawana High School, Pasco, Washington. Paige is the daughter of Dan and Nicole Dice and is eligible for the award through her grandmother, Ida Faye Flowers Dice, a member of GCHS Class of 1959. Paige plans to attend the U of Idaho and study...

  • Coulee Cops

    May 30, 2018

    Grand Coulee 5/23 - Police are investigating an incident at the Eagles where an employee related that a customer had caused her pain when she squeezed her hand. The customer had tried to use a debit card, but the employee said she didn’t know how to process it and requested cash for the bar bill. A discussion ensued. Police are asking for a copy of the security tape. 5/24 - There was a report of a scary person walking on Burdin Boulevard. Police responded and saw a man walking on the sidewalk talking on a cell phone. - A report of a door k...

  • City explores options to crack down on crack houses

    Jacob Wagner|May 23, 2018

    If a house becomes a place where drug-related nuisances frequently arise, can a town do anything about it? That question was raised at this month’s Grand Coulee City Council meeting, where Councilmember Mike Horne suggested at the May 15 meeting that the city look into adopting into its code something along the same lines as the city of Medical Lake has, where if a house is a crime hub and police are called there regularly, and multiple charges are filed, the property and home can be seized for a year. Horne reasoned that adopting such a c...

  • New flags to be dedicated Memorial Day

    May 23, 2018

    Eleven new flags will be dedicated on Memorial Day, May 28, at the special Isle of Flags ceremony at Spring Canyon Cemetery. The ceremonies starts at 11 a.m. Monday with master of ceremonies Richard Black (Navy captain retired) getting the program started. The 11 new flags will honor Eugene D. Downing, Stuart Duane Frye, Phillip G. Haegen, Dale L. Hotchkiss, Richard Johnson, Lionel "Leo" Levac, Robert Earl Milliken, Ken Morley, Gary L. Rose, Dennis M. Shear, and Fred Wiyrick. The memorial...

  • Teenager's body recovered from Banks Lake

    press release, Grant County Sheriffs Office|May 23, 2018

    The body of a 17-year-old Lynnwood, Washington boy was recovered Saturday evening, May 26, from the waters of Banks Lake after he went missing late Friday evening near Steamboat Rock State Park, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported Sunday morning. Friends had reported David V. Fesko missing around 8:30 p.m. Friday after watching him try to swim to shore after falling off a personal flotation device. Fesko went under water and didn’t resurface. Deputies, state park rangers and boaters searched the waters and shoreline until nightfall sus... Full story

  • Man dies in motorcycle crash

    Scott Hunter|May 23, 2018

    An Idaho man died Saturday afternoon on SR-21 between Wilbur and the Keller Ferry when his motorcycle crossed the centerline on a sharp curve and struck a guardrail, the Washington State Patrol reported. Larry Everett Merriman, 75, was headed north on a 2002 Yamaha XVS11AP near milepost 99 and entering a sharp, left-to-right curve when he crossed the southbound lane, striking the guardrail just after noon May 26. Merriman was wearing an approved helmet, and neither drugs nor alcohol were a factor in the crash, the State Patrol reported. His... Full story

  • Body of Kitsap County man found in Banks Lake

    press release, Grant County Sheriffs Office|May 23, 2018

    Near ELECTRIC CITY—Grant County deputies on Wednesday morning recovered the body of a man from the waters of Banks Lake south of Electric City, the sheriff's office said in an advisory. Deputies were called around 7:30 a.m. after a boater discovered the body, later identified as 72-year-old Garlan W. Crosswhite of Olalla, Washington in Kitsap County. Mr. Crosswhite’s boat was found beached along the east shoreline about two miles away. Mr. Crosswhite’s body is in the care of Coroner Craig Morrison whose staff will determine cause and manne... Full story

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