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  • 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

  • Smoke in air is from planned burn

    May 23, 2018

    If you noticed smoke coming from up Lake Roosevelt on May 23, it was from a prescription burn near Whitestone Lookout. The Colville Tribes are burning piles of slash from logging about 78 acres in the area....

  • "Assembly" throbs with a message for local kids

    Scott Hunter|May 23, 2018

    To call it a "school assembly" might give you the wrong impression. It was a rap concert at the end, but the bulk of it before the bass throbbed was all about honesty, mistakes, permanent hurt, forgiveness, letting go, and choices. James Pakootas was on a destructive path not too long ago, until he realized he was making the wrong choices. He told students at Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School, plus a few from the elementary grades, that he had chosen the wrong way to deal with the hurt...

  • Mayor resigns in Elmer City

    Jacob Wagner|May 23, 2018

    The mayor of Elmer City resigned unexpectedly in a letter the city received on May 15. Former Mayor Gail Morin later told The Star that she had been considering resigning for a while. “It is mostly health issues that I didn’t have last Spring when I filed,” she said in an email. “The next three years will need someone with more energy than me. Elmer City will be fine. Someone will step up.” Councilmember Jesse Tillman, the mayor pro tempore, will take Morin’s place in the meantime until the next Elmer City council meeting on June 14 at 7 p.m...

  • Council addresses loose dogs problem

    Jacob Wagner|May 23, 2018

    A heated discussion took place concerning loose dogs at the Elmer City council meeting May 10. After the council was finished with the main agenda, which including disposing of an old trailer, the topic of loose dogs came up in a discussion. Several members of the council, as well as city employees, noted that dogs running loose, intimidating children, and getting into people’s yards, is an issue in the town. “I would just shoot them if they came in my yard,” said Councilmember Don Bonertz, “which is too bad; it’s not the dogs’ fault, it’s...

  • School zone coming to River Drive

    Scott Hunter|May 23, 2018

    When Amanda Burton moved into a house on River Drive in Coulee Dam, she noticed it's a very busy road with no crosswalk where drivers often speed through, very near Lake Roosevelt Schools. Her kids are a couple years away from walking to school, but about 15 kids cross to and from the school every day, she told the Rotary Club last week. River Drive is also SR-155, which slows to a 35 mph speed zone at the city limits as drivers approach from the north. "A lot of people don't slow down when... Full story

  • Alan Cain joins City Council

    Jacob Wagner|May 23, 2018

    "It's our responsibility as citizens to participate," Alan Cain said before being sworn into the Grand Coulee City Council on May 15. Cain, who has up until recently served as the chair of the Civil Services Commission, will have to step down from that position now that he serves on the council. Cain had also in the past chaired the planning commission in Grand Coulee. Cain has experience working with other governments as well, having been a cartographer for the city of Springfield, Missouri,...

  • Tribal authorities will focus on seat belt violations

    May 23, 2018

    Tribal police will be focusing on ticketing seat belt violations from May 21 until June 3 in a joint effort with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The effort is part of the 2018 Click It or Ticket campaign. “We will be out focusing on seat belt violations and issuing citations to anyone caught traveling without a buckled seat belt or transporting unrestrained children,” a press release from Colville Tribal Public Safety states. “In 2016, 83 percent of traffic fatalities on the Colville Reservation involved an individual who w...

  • Dental services for kids offered next week

    May 23, 2018

    The Arcora Foundation SmileMobile, which travels the state offering dental services to children who might not otherwise have access to dental care, will be in Coulee Dam at Lake Roosevelt Schools from May 29 until June 1. A press release from the organization says that the SmileMobile is staffed by a clinic manager, dentist and dental assistant and will provide dental examinations to children, teens and pregnant women. Nearly one in five third-graders suffer from “rampant decay” in seven or more teeth, the organization asserts. Those wan...

  • Coulee Cops

    May 23, 2018

    Grand Coulee 5/14 - Police stopped a driver on Alcan Road when an officer saw a truck whose registration had expired in 2012. The driver, who claimed to have just purchased the truck, was cited for the registration problem and having no insurance. - A woman living on Crest Avenue in Electric City reported to police that she thought someone had put sugar in her gas tank. 5/15 - Police saw a woman near the post office in Grand Coulee who tried to get out of sight when she saw the patrol car. She was identified as a woman wanted on a Department...

  • Man arrested after guns stolen

    Roger S. Lucas|May 16, 2018

    Police arrested and jailed a 41-year-old Grand Coulee man after he was identified by separate people as the person entering a house at 208 Banks Avenue after another local house had been broken into and guns taken. Jonathan J. Anderson was booked into Grant County jail by police Sunday evening after he allegedly had kicked in a door to enter a residence at 100 Banks Avenue in Grand Coulee, then left with three rifles and a handgun. Witnesses told police that a man had been chased away from another person’s property and that he was seen entering...

  • Flash floods and storms could make Okanogan flooding worse today

    press release, Washington State Patrol|May 16, 2018

    The following is an update on behalf of the Okanogan Department of Emergency Management & Northeast Washington Interagency Incident Management Team on the flooding in Okanogan County and a current flash flood warning: OKANOGAN FLOODING 2018 Incident Update – May 17, 2018 12 P.M. Okanogan County – The National Weather Service has issued a flash flood watch due to severe thunderstorms that are predicted for later today. These storms will produce the potential for flash floods especially over recent burn scars, as well as the possibility of rap... Full story

  • Crushin' it in the parade

    May 16, 2018

    The children's wrestling group Coulee Crushers travels on their float in the Colorama Parade Saturday. Results of the festival's events are on page 8. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Congressional candidate comes to town

    Jacob Wagner|May 16, 2018

    Christine Brown, Democratic candidate for Washington's 4th Congressional District, spoke to a small crowd in Coulee Dam on May 9 about her views, and listened to views of those attending. Brown is traveling to towns in Central Washington as part of her "Big Table Tour." "The whole idea is to bring people to the table," Brown said. "I want to make sure all people have a seat at the table so that all points of view can be heard, listened to, and taken into account. A lot of people feel that if...

  • Rep. Newhouse files for reelection

    May 16, 2018

    Congressman Dan Newhouse, R – Sunnyside, officially filed for reelection at the Newhouse Campaign Headquarters Monday in Yakima. Newhouse is a third generation Yakima Valley farmer and conservative businessman. He has represented Washington’s 4th Congressional District since 2015 and is seeking his third two-year term. “Over the past year and a half, with a unified Republican government, we have made tremendous progress for conservatism in the House of Representatives,” Newhouse said. “We still have much more work ahead of us, and I would be...

  • Students to seek removal of state folk song "Roll on, Columbia"

    Scott Hunter|May 16, 2018

    Students at Lake Roosevelt Junior-Senior High School intend to petition the state Legislature to reject the state’s official folk song because its original lyrics contain references they consider racist. Seventh-grade students studying state symbols in Washington state history were upset when they recently heard lyrics in Woody Guthrie’s seminal “Roll on, Columbia,” which are not listed in the Secretary of State’s web page about the song. Written just after Guthrie had seen Bonneville Dam on his month-long commission from the Bonnevill...

  • Newsbriefs

    May 16, 2018

    Ballot boxes to be set Grant County will be installing a new ballot box near the bus stop across from Electric City City Hall to follow a state law passed in 2017 that requires a drop box in every city, town, and census-designated place with a post office. Similar drop boxes were set in front of Coulee Dam Town Hall last year for Douglas and Okanogan Counties. It’s Candidate Filing Week For Washingtonians across the state, this week marks another step toward public service. Candidate Filing Week begins Monday, May 14, for hundreds of offices f...

  • New art gallery will open

    Jacob Wagner|May 16, 2018

    A new art gallery in Grand Coulee will be showing and selling art by established artists as well as by up-and-comers. Located on Spokane Way, Titwáatit Native American Art Gallery will be holding its grand opening on Saturday, May 26, when they will be sharing some finger food, hosting live music, having an elder bless the space, and displaying and selling art to the public. "I've always thought it'd be cool if we had an arts vibe in this town," said Ted Piccolo, executive director for the...

  • No fire, just smoke at school

    Scott Hunter|May 16, 2018

    An alarm that drew six fire engines, an ambulance, 22 firefighters and emergency medical personnel, plus three police officers tested their response plan but revealed only smoke at the high school gym Thursday about 3:45 p.m. The problem was apparently an old electrical breaker in an electrical room in the basement of the old gym, according to a press release from area fire chiefs. Damage was limited to the electrical equipment and the related smoke damage. When firefighters arrived, the room was filled with smoke, but no flame. The cause is st...

  • Developer denied waiver of improvements

    Jacob Wagner|May 16, 2018

    After letters exchanged between lawyers, Electric City resident Wayne Snyder will have to submit a new short plat application concerning the details of his 17-acre, four-lot subdivision on Snyder Hill Road. The city denied Snyder a waiver that would allow him to not improve streets adjacent to lots that were or are being subdivided, including curbs, sidewalks and gutters necessary to bring the area up to code. Snyder has the option of applying for a deferment for the work to be done, which would mean he wouldn’t have to do it until, if the d...

  • Tribal voters choose candidates

    May 16, 2018

    Officials returns for the May 5 Colville Business Council primary election show major shifts between the poll votes and absentee ballots, ensuring a race for the current chairman and clearly defining the top two candidates in each of four districts. Jarrend-Michael Erickson, with 173 total votes, will face Janet (Wak Wak) Nicholson, who garnered 222 for Nespelem Position 1 on the council. Nicholson had led by one vote 51-50 in the polling, with absentees making the difference. Charlene Bearcub got 168 votes, followed by Anna Vargas with 102...

  • Coulee Cops

    May 16, 2018

    Grand Coulee Police 5/8 - A Nespelem driver was cited for driving with a suspended license after he was stopped because of a faulty light. - A woman who had a warrant for her arrest was seen on Midway Avenue, arrested and taken to Grant County jail. - A man who was trying out a set of drums at Wenatchee Avenue and Alcan Road was told the noise was bothering a neighbor. He said he would quit playing them. 5/9 - A woman at a Midway Avenue apartment told police that a man she helped put in jail was out and that she was afraid. She was told to...

  • Congressional candidate holding town hall Wednesday night

    Scott Hunter|May 9, 2018

    A candidate for Congress announced a tour of the state’s 4th Congressional District that includes a town-hall meeting tonight (Wednesday) in Coulee Dam and a coffee shop visit the next morning. The Christine Brown for Congress campaign announced last week a “Big Table Tour” that includes stops in small towns. It started in Oroville on Monday morning. Brown will hold a public meeting at Coulee Dam Town Hall, 300 Lincoln Avenue, tonight from 6-8 p.m. The next morning from 8-10 a.m. she’ll hold a “Coffee with Christine” at Voltage Coffee Hous...

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