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  • Dinner time

    May 2, 2018

    Young diners get served up spaghetti dinner at the Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club's fundraiser Saturday at the Raider Hub at Lake Roosevelt Schools. The club raised about $1,400 toward a new curtain for the stage in the main gym. The old one is in tatters. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Clarification on PUD article

    May 2, 2018

    In last week’s article titled “PUD installing new meters,” we reported that one advantage of the new meters will be that Grant PUD users won’t need to report outages. Although this is true, this benefit won’t take effect until 2019, after all the advanced meters have been installed. Grant PUD utility customers should continue to report outages in the meantime....

  • Music & Beyond aims to be the place for music lovers, makers

    Jacob Wagner|May 2, 2018

    Local musicians and shoppers will have a place to browse a variety of music-related items and beyond, as well as have a place to talk about music, and possibly promote their own music or art. Faran Sohappy and his partner, Lisa Spencer, are setting up shop right across from Safeway, a shop called Music & Beyond. Music & Beyond carries CDs used and new, DVDs, Blu-rays, Blu-ray players, home theatre systems, bluetooth speakers, bluetooth headphones, video games and consoles, comic books, manga, am...

  • Coulee Cops

    May 2, 2018

    Grand Coulee Police 4/23 - A man who had been banned from an apartment complex at Continental Heights was seen in the facility. A report on the incident is being sent to the prosecutor’s office for review. - An Electric City resident will likely receive another citation for having too many dogs and having dogs being a nuisance. A resident living nearby called police and the officer counted 10 dogs at the house. The owner of the dogs has been cited numerous times before. The city ordinance allows for two dogs. - Police secured a storage unit a...

  • Furman won't run for assessor again

    May 2, 2018

    Scott D. Furman, current Okanogan County assessor, has announced his retirement and will not seek a sixth term as Okanogan County Assessor this fall. He will officially retire December 31. Furman oversaw the conversion from paper appraisals to computer appraisals in the year 2000. Mapsifter and Taxsifter were brought on board during that time, as well, allowing people to access assessor data from the comforts of their own home or office. An electronic digitized parcel layer map was also created during that time frame. In 2016, after the...

  • School levy approved for August ballot

    Jacob Wagner|Apr 25, 2018

    Local area voters will be faced with deciding on approval of a school levy that would restore six figures of property taxes per year to the school district for the next four years, but not raise tax rates higher than they were in 2017, putting them back to 81 cents lower than they are for 2018. Property taxes supporting the school district currently take $4.01 per thousand dollars of assessed property value towards a local “operations and maintenance” levy. In spring of 2019, that number drops to $1.50 per thousand, a difference of $2.51 res...

  • Shredded stage curtain needs a replacement

    Scott Hunter|Apr 25, 2018

    The curtain on the stage in the Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School gym, the one the class of 2018 will walk under to pick up their diplomas in June, is falling apart, a problem possibly remedied by spaghetti. At least that's what the Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club hopes to do with a fundraising dinner this Saturday at the school cafeteria. The club, famous locally for its spaghetti, is selling tickets for the dinner that will be dished up from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. The curtains, said music...

  • Newsbriefs

    Apr 25, 2018

    Performances coming up Young students at Lake Roosevelt School will put on an elementary musical called “School Is Cool” Thursday at 1:30 p.m. It’s written by four fifth-grade students. Acting is done by the fifth- and sixth-grade students, with a chorus consisting of the third- and fourth-graders. They will perform it in the elementary school gym. Donations accepted The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved donations at their meeting Monday night: $3,000 from Colville Tribes to the Northwest Indian Youth Conference for the Nativ...

  • Major street will get treatment this year

    Roger S. Lucas|Apr 25, 2018

    Drivers on a main Grand Coulee street will notice a major maintenance effort this year, as Spokane Way and other streets receive a pavement treatment. Grand Coulee has hired Gray & Osborne as its engineering firm to oversee a pavement maintenance project expected to be done sometime this year. Public works Director Dennis Francis said the chip-sealing project will begin at SR-174, and come down Spokane Way to the Teepee Restaurant, then start again on the other side of Midway Avenue, up Second Street to B Street. Some small “dig outs” are als...

  • PUD installing new meters

    Jacob Wagner|Apr 25, 2018

    Grant County Public Utility District has been installing new “advanced” meters in homes and businesses, a move the utility says will save $35.6 million by 2029. If you see someone on your property, doing something with your electricity meter, it should just be someone working for Grant PUD installing new technology capable of transmitting electricity usage data remotely, negating the necessity for a meter reader to stop by on a monthly basis. Chuck Allen, public affairs officer with Grant PUD, made a presentation about the new meters at the...

  • Two jailed in Grand Coulee drug bust Friday

    Apr 25, 2018

    A Grand Coulee man and woman were jailed Friday and more arrests were expected after a search warrant served on a home yielded meth and heroin, the Grant County Sheriff’s Office reported. Grant County’s Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET), the Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team (TRT), and Grand Coulee Police raided the home at 212 Dill Avenue early Friday morning. There, they found meth, heroin, scales and packaging materials, a GCSO press release said. Michael Capshaw, 36, was arrested at the home and is lodged in the Gra...

  • Colorama carnival to return

    Roger S. Lucas|Apr 25, 2018

    Carnival tickets are on sale this week, offering substantial savings for early birds, a chamber of commerce official reported. Executive Director Peggy Nevsimal stated those who purchase carnival tickets by Thursday, May 10, will save $10. Tickets for early buyers are $20, while the same ticket will cost $30 the day of the carnival. Nevsimal said tickets will be available at the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce office, Coulee Dam Federal Credit Union, Coulee Hardware, The Star newspaper, Loepps Furniture, H&H Grocery and the Trading...

  • Earth Day draws crowds, drones

    Jacob Wagner|Apr 25, 2018

    The Colville Tribes hosted their ninth annual Earth Day celebration on Friday, giving away T-shirts and raffle items, hosting a free barbecue, and teaching children and adults alike about Earth Day-related topics. Hosted at the powwow grounds in Nespelem, booths provided information on electricity, forestry, recycling, drainage and runoff of different soil types, how to reuse old clothes, invasive species, health and nutrition, and much more. A popular booth hosted by M3 Consulting Group had bot...

  • Bridge underbelly work

    Apr 25, 2018

    Workers perform maintenance work under the Columbia River Bridge in Coulee Dam Monday as flaggers stop traffic on SR-155. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • Coulee Cops

    Apr 25, 2018

    Grand Coulee Police 4/16 - Police were informed of a 16-year-old intoxicated girl at a residence in Electric City. When police arrived, they learned of a warrant for her arrest, and she was taken to juvenile authorities in Okanogan County. - A woman told police that she had asked a person she only knew by a first name to use her bank card to get her groceries, and claimed a loss of $900. She had called 911 but hung up when they asked for her name. Police learned of a warrant for the arrest of the woman who claimed the loss. She was taken to jai...

  • One dog kills three others

    Roger S. Lucas|Apr 25, 2018

    A pit bull killed three Chihuahuas at a residence on Kent Street in Electric City, April 14. The pit bull was among six dogs owned by Trina R. Davis, and housed at 202 Kent Street, where she had lived with Raymond E. Atchison, before the couple had separated, according to police reports. Atchison told police that when he had returned home Saturday he found that the pit bull, which Davis had found and brought home, had killed three of her five Chihuahuas and injured another. A nearby neighbor had reported the killing incident to police dispatch...

  • Colorama buttons, parade, helicopter coming

    Roger S Lucas|Apr 25, 2018

    The Colorama Festival Button for this year's celebration goes on sale this week. Buy a button for $3, help support Colorama, and you're in the mix to win one of the many prizes attached to the buttons. All the buttons are numbered and the drawing for the prizes will be held at 1 p.m. at North Dam Park, after the Colorama parade. Buttons are available for sale at a host of locations throughout the Grand Coulee area. Another popular feature of this year's celebration will be the helicopter rides....

  • Town, tribes talking of collaboration on fast internet

    Scott Hunter|Apr 18, 2018

    The town of Coulee Dam and the Colville Tribes are negotiating on working together so that each might complete projects to bring high-speed internet service to the town and to the Colville Reservation. "Whether we like it or not, the internet is air," Sanjay Saggere told the town council last week. "I come from a place where I could breathe internet; here I can only breathe air." Saggere, who the tribes hired as their new chief information officer earlier this year, said that the Colville Confed...

  • Two jailed in Grand Coulee drug bust Friday

    press release, Grant County Sheriffs Office|Apr 18, 2018

    A Grand Coulee man and woman are jailed this morning and more arrests are expected after a search warrant served on a home yielded meth and heroin, the Grant County Sheriff's Office reported. Grant County's Interagency Narcotics Enforcement Team (INET), the Moses Lake Regional Tactical Response Team (TRT), and Grand Coulee Police raided the home at 212 Dill Avenue early this morning. There they found meth, heroin, scales and packaging materials, a GCSO press release said. Michael Capshaw, 36,...

  • Still going down

    Apr 18, 2018

    Blossoms on a wild apricot tree at Crescent Bay are backlit by sunlight over the water and the lowered shoreline background of Lake Roosevelt Tuesday. The Bureau of Reclamation said Thursday that the lake will be lowered to no higher than 1,222.7 feet above sea level by the end of April to help control flooding downstream. It was at 1,234 feet in this photo. Its full level is 1,290 feet. - Scott Hunter photo...

  • City council to hold retreat in Ephrata

    Jacob Wagner|Apr 18, 2018

    The Electric City Council will be taking a retreat to Ephrata next week to see some presentations related to managing a city, and to discuss ideas in a different environment. The council booked the Nat Washington House in Ephrata for $150 dollars for the day’s presentations April 28. On the agenda for the council’s retreat are presentations from finance consultant Bill Mulholland, the Association of Washington Cities, and the Municipal Research Services Center. The purpose of the retreat, according to City Clerk Russ Powers, is to allow cou...

  • Council hears ramifications of de-annexation

    Jacob Wagner|Apr 18, 2018

    Electric City Council is considering de-annexing lands in the Osborne Bay area that were added to the city in 2009, and there’s a lot to consider. Letting go of expanded city limits from that annexation would require a supermajority, or 60 percent of city voters. Part of the reasoning for de-annexing the land has to do with hunting regulation. The area is designated as public land, so a hunter may be under the impression that they can hunt there until finding out the area is within city limits, in which hunting is prohibited. Currently, it is t...

  • Electric City park plan changes could save $180,000

    Roger S. Lucas|Apr 18, 2018

    Plans for a proposed "Ice Age Park," behind the fire department building in Electric City, have a few changes that would save $180,000, and the city has hired a different landscape architect. It happened last Tuesday night as the city council looked at and approved changes to the proposed park, and agreed to contract with SPVV Landscape Architects, of Spokane, for professional services that will take the city through its grant application process. The city relieved Robert Doll, landscape...

  • Newsbriefs

    Apr 18, 2018

    Coulee Dam passes pay raise The town council in Coulee Dam passed a pay raise for city employees last week, raising their wages by 4 percent. Triple Fish Challengethis weekend The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce’s annual fishing tournament that challenges anglers to catch three kinds of fish happens this weekend. Online registration continues until midnight Thursday, but on-site registration begins Friday at Coulee Playland at 5 p.m. Boat drivers will meet for rules at 8 a.m. Saturday. Anglers have to catch smallmouth bass, walleye a...

  • New venture turning old hall into new coffee house

    Roger S. Lucas|Apr 18, 2018

    People are due for both a "shock" and a "treat" with the opening of Grand Coulee's new Voltage Coffee House next week. It may be a shock for those who remember the old Carpenter's Hall on Spokane Way, or the bakery, or the salon, all in the same building. During at least part of this time, the building was cut up into seven small rooms. Not anymore; it has a sense of spaciousness. The new coffee house, long the dream of owner-operator Solveig Chaffee, will also offer customers a treat when they...

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