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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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Local residents should be aware of a current flash flood warning issued by the National Weather Service this afternoon effecting our immediate area: A FLASH FLOOD WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 345 PM PDT FOR EXTREME NORTHEASTERN DOUGLAS COUNTY... AT 140 PM PDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR CONTINUED TO INDICATE A THUNDERSTORM PRODUCING VERY HEAVY RAIN OVER THE WARNED AREA. RADAR ESTIMATED AS MUCH AS 1.00 TO 1.50 INCHES OF RAINFALL HAS ALREADY FALLEN FROM THIS STORM. SOME ROADS THAT... Full story
Star Online readers, This site will be down tonight as the site is migrating to faster servers. Downtime will start about 11:30 p.m., so you probably won't notice. I know I won't! IT guy says it should be down about four hours.... Full story
The building that has housed the headquarters of the Colville Tribes for decades burned down early Monday, leaving tribal leaders to figure out how to spread out even more of their government operations across the agency campus. The aging A-frame building, itself the subject of recent controversy, inspired emotions of a different sort in the pre-dawn darkness as flames licked the sky and what had been the roof over much important tribal history collapsed. “That was the face of our nation,” mourn... Full story
The seniors are getting mobile. The Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center’s new once-a-month program of going to Spokane to shop has been successful and they are already planning trips to theater productions this fall and winter. The seniors recently were given a 14-passenger bus by People For People, and the donation was barely in their possession before they took their first trip. Seniors now go to Northtown Mall the third Friday of each month, hauling passengers for $15 per person. There were 11 o... Full story
Get ready for the community’s first Harvest Festival, Sept. 14, 15. It will be a family affair with games for both the kids and adults. A similar, but less ambitious, event happened last October. Sponsored by the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce, the two-day event will feature a barbecue competition cook-off with connections to the Pacific Northwest Barbecue Association. There’s a prize purse of $2,500, and those participating will have a cook off of pork, brisket, ribs and chicken. A second competition is a pie baking contest, wit... Full story
Since arriving in April, the new Safeway store manager in Grand Coulee has been working to correct weaknesses in the store and repair some community relations, he told chamber of commerce members Thursday. Ryan Dykes stood in his Army National Guard camouflage to talk to the gathering at SunBanks Lake Resort’s Cantina, having driven back from a Yakima base to give the talk. Dykes said that on his first day, he walked over to the Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce office to ask about j... Full story
Mike Mooney is a magician of sorts. Not the sleight of hand kind, but the type that takes a pile of material and makes something beautiful out of it. Mike builds cars, the custom and hot rod type. His cars are eye stoppers. The attention to detail … the paint … the upholstery … the chopping and fitting. Mike was named to the Street Rod Hall of Fame in 2010. It wasn’t entirely because of the cars he builds, but also because of the help he provides to other people. Then in June, Mooney took th... Full story
Gov. Jay Inslee was in New York for the world rollout of BMW’s new electric car, the BMW i3, which is partially built in Washington. We are all justifiably proud of our state’s role and see the car as a harbinger of Washington’s economic future. The BMW i3 features parts made from carbon fiber processed at the SGL plant in Moses Lake. Because it is strong and lightweight, carbon fiber is used in the production of jetliners, fighter planes and race cars. Now, it’s making its way into the retail market to produce lighter. more fuel-efficient vehi... Full story
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO), authors of H.R. 267, the _Hydropower Regulatory Efficiency Act_, applauded the unanimous approval of their bill in the U.S. Senate today. Their legislation will facilitate the development of small hydropower and conduit projects and direct the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to study the feasibility of a streamlined two-year permitting process. “In Eastern Washington, hydropower plays a pivotal role – whether it’s conventional, small, or conduit hydro ... Full story
Meeting cancelled The town of Coulee Dam cancelled its regular meeting of Wednesday, July 24, because town officials stated that there wasn’t any business to transact. The council’s next scheduled meeting is Aug. 14, at 6 p.m. Scam warning Grant County Sheriff Tom Jones is warning the public to be on guard for a person calling and seeking donations for the sheriff’s office. It’s not real – it’s a scam. “The Grant County Sheriff’s Office does not phone people asking for donations,” said Jones. “We also don’t solicit donations over email... Full story
NESPELEM, WA—Fire claimed the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation’s Headquarters located at the Colville Indian Agency early Monday morning, Colville Tribal Chairman Michael O. Finley said this morning. “For the first time in our government’s recent history, our legislative body and Administration is without a Headquarters. We are shocked and saddened at this development. Many irreplaceable Tribal and personal items were lost today. Fortunately, no one was hurt. The Tribal Governm...
A Quincy farmer, who had offered a $2,500 reward for information that would help him recover his stolen truck and trailer, could pick up his own reward after spotting them just outside Grand Coulee. Kevin Weber, of Weber Farms in Quincy, a pilot, flew around the countryside Saturday in his private plane, trying to find his truck and trailer, which had been stolen sometime between Wednesday night and Thursday morning. He spotted them near Grand Coulee in Lincoln County and alerted the Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office. Lincoln County deputies, a... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board passed its 2013-14 budget Monday night after a public hearing on the matter. No one showed up to question the $9.5 million budget. The new budget exceeds the one for the 2012-13 school year by more than a million dollars. Superintendent Dennis Carlson said the increased revenue comes largely from the way the state is funding education. The state Legislature has responded to the Washington State Supreme Court’s ruling that Washington is underfunding education and will pay districts about $7,000 per s... Full story
A Nespelem man was arrested and booked into Okanogan County Jail Monday after being identified as the person who broke into the Galaxy Smoke Shop last Thursday. Police stated that Michael Stead, 26, was identified through security cameras on site. After Stead was identified, police learned through a phone tip that the suspect was at a trailer residence in Elmer City. Police found Stead there, standing out in the yard with a piece of foil in his hand. He later told police he used the foil to smoke a pain pill. An employee said that she thought e... Full story
A contestant in Sunday’s events at the Ridge Riders’ Junior Rodeo wears the intensity of competition on her face as she rounds the last pole in the senior girls’ event. The two-day rodeo, which featured a full list of rodeo events, drew 125 contestants from 18 years of age down to the 5-and-under crowd. No admission was charged, but the club “still made a little money on it,” said President George Kohout. He estimated another 700 people accompanied the athletes into town. “That’s good for the... Full story
Dan Foster, the new superintendent of the Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area, is learning how to do more with less. And it may be only an omen of things to come. He told chamber of commerce members last Thursday that he is operating with 6 percent fewer resources than what were available the year before, and if the sequester problem at the national level isn’t solved, the next year it could climb to 12-13 percent. Foster said adjustments this season have included such things as mowing l... Full story
Jerry Beierman, a Grand Coulee resident known for raising record-sized veggies, thinks someone doused several of his plants with some kind of poison, he reported to police Saturday. On Monday, Beierman said that three tomato plants, two bean plants and one cucumber plant were killed, along with an area of his lawn. He also said another plant had died, he thought from a separate incident. Beierman said he was concerned that others might suffer the same type of vandalism, and he was afraid that someone might still eat vegetables from poisoned pla... Full story
A full moon sets over Jones Bay on Banks Lake as the sun rises over the opposite horizon Tuesday morning. — Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Northwest Native Development Fund (NNDF) has launched a state-wide competition and search for three “native business” categories: • The “eagle” will go to a native business of the year. • The “bear” award will go to an outstanding advocate of native business, and • the “salmon” award will recognize a business or organization that has made an effort to patronize native-owned products or services. “Businesses in Indian Country are growing, and we believe it is time to recognize three very important aspects of the business environment in Indian C... Full story
Grant PUD invites children age 12 and under to participate in its special 75th Anniversary art contest. Participants create a work of art with the theme “How my family uses electricity,” using the PUD’s contest form. The forms can be downloaded from http://www.grantpud.org/community/education, picked up at a local office of the electric utility or at several local libraries. The forms, with the completed artwork, can be turned into a Grant PUD local office in Ephrata, Moses Lake, Quincy, Grand Coulee, Royal City or the Mattawa City Hall. The fo... Full story
The story of a puppy that was taken by some people from Poulsbo had a happy ending. A man reported to police that while he was in Safeway shopping, someone took his little white female Husky pup named “Sage.” A review of a security tape showed that the dog jumped out of the back of a vehicle and went underneath it. Two people coaxed it out, and then took it. An Electric City woman reported that she saw the people earlier in the day at the veterinarian’s office. After reviewing the tape, the officer stated in his report that he had seen the c... Full story
The Colville Tribes has announced plans to construct a casino on property purchased four years ago along SR-97, south of the Rodeo Trail Road near Omak. The Tribes wanted to start the project earlier but when workers dug on the site back in 2009, they found human bones, and it derailed the project until now. Joe Pakootas, executive director of the Colville Tribal Federal Corporation made the announcement last week. It’s the second major project announced by the Tribes this past year. Earlier officials announced plans to build a new $40 m... Full story
Services for Jeannie Moon will be held this weekend with a public wake on Sunday, July 28 at 7 p.m. Sunrise burial will follow July 29 at the Chief Joseph Cemetery....
Special meeting wasn’t A special meeting last Wednesday of the Regional Board of Mayors turned out not to be so special. The mayors of the four communities didn’t meet last Monday at their regular meeting because only two mayor were able to meet. Then they called a special meeting for Wednesday with the purpose of approving a bid on a curbing project at the Delano Regional Transfer Station. At that meeting, they had enough mayors present, but decided that they didn’t like the lone bid they received on the project and would advertise for a rep... Full story
GRAND COULEE, Wash. -- A Quincy-area farmer alerted deputies to the location of his stolen vehicles after he spotted them while flying his private plane. Kevin Weber of Weber Farms reported his 1997 Peterbilt dump truck and Beall pup trailer missing Thursday morning after they were taken from his farm overnight. The Grant County Sheriff’s Office on Thursday publicized Weber’s offer of a $2500 reward for information on the stolen vehicles and the person responsible for the theft. This morning, Weber piloted his private plane in search of the... Full story