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Grand Coulee 9/15 An officer found the door to a vacant business in Electric City open. The report stated that the owner of the building is deceased and it will likely be auctioned off soon. - A person from Continental Heights informed police that someone was trying to gain entry into the building. Police checked and found that it was a U.S. Census person seeking information from a tenant. - A domestic issue was handled by police on Federal Avenue where a couple was living in their car. The report stated that the two had been arguing about...
A Hill Avenue man who was pulled over by police twice the same day for driving with a suspended license found himself in Grant County jail. James E. Goodlake, 24, is the same man Spokane police arrested there last July for possession of a car stolen from an Electric City couple. Goodlake was stopped by Officer Tom Johnson about 9 a.m., Sept. 10, for operating a motor vehicle while his license was suspended. Then at about 3 p.m., he was stopped for the same offense, this time by Officer Joe Higgs. The second time, things got messy for the Grand...
"It's my world." That's how Archie Dennis, who has been named "Volunteer of the Year" for 2016, described his life in search and rescue. Dennis was top vote getter in The Star newspaper's volunteer of the year program for 2016. Dennis is no stranger in the area. He was born here, attended schools here, and only recently retired after being employed by the Colville Tribes and the Bureau of Reclamation. His life has been one of helping others. He is known for his diving rescue work, but that's...
An Electric City man went missing Monday night, prompting authorities to issue a "Silver Alert." Donald S. Fisher, 69, was last seen about 7 p.m. wearing a blue fleece coat, blue jeans, brown boots and a white hat. He is 5 feet, 9 inches tall, has gray hair, a white beard and brown eyes. Suffering from recent strokes and a brain surgery, Fisher is "almost non-verbal in communication" the alert issued by the Grant County Sheriff's Office said. He left without his medications, wallet or keys and... Full story
Electric City Council authorized city officials Sept. 12 to bid on two lots up for auction along SR-155 in the center of the city. The lots at one time housed a filling station. The Oct. 27 auction is being held by Grant County, which has a lien against the property for back taxes and penalties amounting to $1,142.99. The two lots are currently valued at $23,845, according to county records. The current owner is Gary L. French. The council met in executive session to discuss bidding on the property and providing guidance on the level of bid....
Electric City council approved its 2018-19 police contract with Grand Coulee at its meeting last Tuesday night. The contract amount is for $140,000, which is $15,000 more than the contract amount of the current year. The council approved the new contract with a 5-0 vote, and without the usual council committee debates that have been necessary in past years. In fact, Electric City hadn’t even named members to a police committee. The contract went to the Grand Coulee council last night for passage. The contract package was prepared by Grand C...
Coulee Medical Center's Ramona Hicks draws a look of uncertainty from a child during a "round" dance at the hospital's second annual "Gathering of Wellness" powwow last Friday. Allaying uncertainty and creating mutual understanding was a goal of the hospital when it launched the event last year. - Scott Hunter photo...
Sewer rates up in Electric City Sewer rates will go up $10 per month to $35.79 beginning with the November billings, the Electric City council agreed at its meeting last Tuesday night. Council takes over district Elmer City’s council voted last Thursday night to assume the rights, powers and functions of its Transportation Benefit District, making the council members the governing body of the TBD. The TBD receives $20 from most vehicle license fees. The money goes into a fund that is designated for city streets. Sidewalks fixed Two of the most...
Police served papers last Wednesday on a woman who has wanted to get permission to run a “dog rescue” operation in her home, telling her instead that she had 90 days to get her dog total down to three dogs. City officials stated that Dorothy Harris had been sent two registered letters but failed to respond to them. Police were then directed to serve the city notice to Harris to get rid of the dogs she had at her residence on Young Street from an earlier dog rescue operation. Harris said Monday that she has her rescue dogs down to three after ta...
Singer-songwriter Bradford Loomis came to the Grand Coulee Library on Sept. 12, performing original and traditional songs in the folk tradition to a small audience. With his long beard, Loomis’ voice ranged from a low grumble to a howling falsetto. Loomis told the audience about how he came to be a full-time musician after losing his job and home in the 2008 housing market crash. “I found music to be both a salve, but also a means of helping supplement our income, until it’s become the full-time thing that we do,” Loomis said. “We tour around a...
Officials from the Colville Tribes visited with the Coulee Dam Town Council Wednesday to explain the tribes’ plan to write a comprehensive parks and recreation plan that will include all the towns on the reservation and that would be useful to all of them in seeking project funding. When governments apply for grant or loan funding for projects, granting agencies generally require the project to be part of an overall plan. But small towns sometimes don’t have such plans in place when funding opportunities arise. Frank Andrews, of Colville Tri...
Chamber to Meet The Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce will meet this Thursday, Sept. 21, at Siam Palace in Grand Coulee. Meeting begins at noon. Guest speaker will be Molly Morris from CMC, who will be conducting a “Community Health Needs Survey.... Full story
Grand Coulee 9/10 - After receiving a complaint about the excessive noise, police asked a man on Stevens Avenue in Electric City to turn down the volume on a football game. 9/11 - A woman told police that a black and white dog that was loose ran up to her and she felt threatened by it. 9/12 - Police assisted a Coulee Dam officer who was taking an intoxicated woman to jail after the vehicle she was driving was damaged. The woman had driven over a traffic sign, damaging a tire and the front end of the car. A tow truck was called to remove the...
A Grand Coulee man received a sentence of 50.5 months in prison to go along with an earlier sentence of 29 months in a Grant County Superior Court case last week. Melvin Toulou, Jr., 43, pleaded guilty to four counts — trafficking in stolen property in the first degree; unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree; burglary of the Vlachos estate building on Spokane Way, and trafficking in stolen goods taken from the Vlachos property. The state agreed to the guilty plea, and Toulou received a 101-month sentence, with 50.5 month of p...
Leland Travis Toulou was last seen in the Omak area and has been missing since September 8. If seen please contact Colville Tribal Police at 1-800-551-5800.... Full story
The construction crew building the Bureau of Reclamation's new fire station works with concrete forms on a wall at the site off SR-155 on Tuesday. The $13.6 million facility will be paid for through Bonneville Power Administration funds from ratepayers. - Jacob Wagner photo...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors met in retreat Monday night to set goals for the current school year. Money is the thing that greases the wheels of education, and will play a major part in shaping the goals set by the board. The board agreed, and the administration set passage of a school tax levy as one of the goals. The levy would go to voters sometime in the spring. A levy committee is being formed and will make recommendations to the board on the amount, the number of years, and how the funds would be used....
It’s time for the harvest. The community Harvest Festival, that is. You can set aside this Friday, Saturday and Sunday for some fun, relaxation, and excitement. It’s the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce’s 6th Annual Harvest Festival, Sept. 15-17, located at North Dam Park and Banks Lake Park. There’s a barbecue competition and tasting, a wellness powwow, a motorcycle poker run, human foosball competition, vendor fair, a Run the Dam race, kids’ games, a beer garden that features football games Saturday and Sunday, with a bit of live m...
If you notice the grass turning to brown at North Dam Park, blame a faulty pump. The Bureau of Reclamation installed a submerged pump in Banks Lake several years ago just over North Dam, which abuts the park. That pump quit working last week, Wade Taylor told the Coulee Area Park and Recreation District Monday night. His Taylor Enterprises has been watering and mowing the lawn at the park this year, but on Thursday no water flowed to the sprinklers. Taylor reported to district commissioners...
Windmills to get some love The historic and whimsical Gehrke Windmills and North Dam Park will get some planned maintenance next month, and a new fund has been set aside for their upkeep. The Coulee Area Park and Recreation District, which manages North Dam Park, started a dedicated fund for the windmills’ maintenance with a $200 donation from North Cascades Bank last month. District President Bob Valen said he would like to see that grown and maintained around $600. Next month, the Grand Coulee Dam Rotary Club is set to work on the w... Full story
Workers at the Delano Transfer Station will have to live with a mold problem a little longer. The Regional Board of Mayors had the mold issue on their agenda Monday, but not enough mayors showed up for the meeting to deal with the problem. The mold issue and other problems were targeted for repair by the group’s insurance company last spring, and the mayors were given 60 days to correct the problem. That was several months ago, and the issues raised still haven’t been dealt with. Work needed includes asphalt repair and drainage (causing the...
Work on the Grand Coulee Dam Airport’s runway will begin Sept. 18, Grant County Port District 7 commissioners learned at their meeting Aug. 30. Commissioners also got more good news when their engineering firm, TO Engineers, reported that the successful bid of $248,000 for the runway work came in well below the engineer’s estimate of $319,000. The low bid was awarded to Road Products, Inc., from Spokane. The total cost of the project, including engineering and management costs, will be $288,759. The project to repair major cracks in the 4,200-f...
Grand Coulee 9/2 - A hospital employee reported that a strange man was wandering around the lobby area and sleeping on the chairs. An officer learned that the man was visiting his mother in the hospital. 9/3 - A woman on Fifth Street in Electric City told police that her ex-husband had taken her car. Police noted that the car she said was taken was still in the driveway. Since the woman was confused the officer stated in his report that he planned to contact the woman’s family. - USBR Plant Protection reported that a man who seemed d...
A 29-year-old man found himself in Grant County jail last Wednesday after he allegedly rammed a patrol car after being stopped by police for driving under the influence. In jail is Wade G. Rainbolt, 29, who is known in the area, but who gave his address as Valley, Washington. Washington State Patrol Public Information Officer Brian Moore said Tuesday that Rainbolt is being charged with driving under the influence, hit and run, second-degree assault and first-degree malicious mischief. Grand Coulee Police were alerted by dispatch that what...
First-place winner Stefanie Marchand Reuben, Spokane, works on a new painting during the third annual Plateau Native American Art Show at North Dam Park, sponsored by the Northwest Native Development Fund. Her portrait of a native woman took first place. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story