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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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From left, Nespelem School District Superintendent Effie Dean, Nespelem Directors Nancy Armstrong-Montes and Jarae Cate, Grand Coulee Dam Director Shannon Nicholson, GCD Superintendent Rod Broadnax, GCD Directors Rich Black and Alex Tufts, Nespelem Directors Anna Vargas and Jolene Marchand, and GCD Director Ken Stanger, pause for a photo during their joint meeting of the two school boards of directors August 30 at Siam Palace. Once a promised practice, the two board haven't met together since...
Coulee Dam is considering rezoning two properties for a use for which most people think they’re already zoned. Two buildings across Lincoln Avenue from city hall, built as dormitories in the 1930s, have been used as residences, a bed-and-breakfast, an assisted living facility, and as a place to stay for visiting medical professionals working at Coulee Medical Center. The current proposal would alter the city’s comprehensive plan to reflect such uses. A public hearing on the proposal will be scheduled, perhaps as soon as Sept. 27 if pro...
Marlene Oddie of Grand Coulee, and former local resident Nancy Cargo, now from Port Angeles, Washington, are semi-finalists at one of the biggest juried quilt shows in the country. The two have been chosen to display the quilt, 24 Karat Rondure, along with 210 others in the 2023 AQS QuiltWeek in Des Moines, Iowa to be held Sept. 27-30. Regardless of how their quilt places in the final judging, all semi-finalist quilts will be displayed at the show, which is expected to draw more than 10,000...
If you've ever wanted to fish but don't really know how, now's your chance to fix that. The Lake Roosevelt National Recreation Area is offering "Fish Fest" this Saturday at Spring Canyon, and they'll be giving away free fishing poles to the first 300 kids 14 and under. If you're ready to get "SCHOOL-ed in how to fish," as the National Park Service folks teased on Facebook, show up early during the 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. event to "to learn how to cast, reel, and tie knots." At the free family friendly f...
Students racked up a policy victory at Lake Roosevelt Jr/Sr High School Monday when the school district board of directors voted to implement most of their recommended changes to the dress code, one evening before school began. A group of Associated Student Body officers and representatives had presented their ideas to the board Aug. 14 using a sneaky tactic: they looked and acted exactly like typical high school students, then admitted that only one of the eight of them was meeting the current...
Grand Coulee’s city council voted just days before they had no operator to sign a one-year contract for operation of its sewer plant via an independent contractor, on an emergency basis. At the time on Aug. 23, the current employee had given notice earlier this month to retire on Aug. 25 after months of being the lone operator. The contractor, SJ Environmental, had already been in talks with both Grand Coulee and Electric City about running the plant and doing other related work. The plant processes 184,000 gallons of waste a day in the s...
The plan is to make it across the country in 44 stops, while along the way garnering even more pledges of support for veterans' causes, and, around here, dodging wildfires. A group of bicyclists stayed overnight in Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee Saturday, leaving early Sunday morning on day five of their trek that started at the naval airbase on Whidbey Island. Their "Navy '83 Ride Across America" will get them to their Naval Academy class of 1983 reunion in Annapolis, Maryland in October. Allan...
Firefighters from at least 10 different agencies fought a "stubborn" fire on a windy Friday weather forecasters had predicted could be a bad one. It was. The fire dubbed the Plum Point Fire erupted the same afternoon fires near Coulee City, Quincy, Medical Lake, and Elk started amid a Red Flag warning by the National Weather Service that fires that starting in the windy, dry conditions could spread rapidly. Initially estimated at 60-80 acres about 1:15, the Plum Point Fire was finally kept down...
A longtime community leader who revived the ailing Colorama Rodeo over a decade ago and focused on strengthening its sponsoring Ridge Riders Saddle Club, has died. George Kohout "was the epitome of Ridge Riders and Colorama Pro Rodeo, a community leader, the truest of cowboys from his hat to the bottom of his boots, and one of the greatest men the rodeo world will know from Grand Coulee" an announcement reads on the Ridge Riders' Colorama Pro Rodeo Facebook. "Our community and the area rodeo...
The Here for Good Foundation, STCU’s charitable foundation, is encouraging donations at innovia.org/stcu-here-for-good-foundation to support communities impacted by recent wildfires in the Inland Northwest. All funds donated are tax deductible and will be administered through local non-profit organizations to support rebuild and recovery efforts in local communities. The credit union seeded this effort with a $50,000 contribution. “The various fires impacting our region are devasting to watch unfold,” said Marty Dickinson, STCU’s Chief Marketi...
Rod Broadnax, the new superintendent at Grand Coulee Dam School District, points to another slider with "hustle" after coming down the inflatable slide on the football field. The inflatables were a contribution by the Colville Tribes to Broadnax's vision of an initial kickoff to the school year after he solicited their help and invited Nespelem School, specifically. The TeePee donated 250 burger and buns, and Harvest Foods supplied soft drinks. "This is who I am," Broadnax said after looking...
Many fingers are again pointed at electric utilities because downed power lines are suspected of starting another horrific wildfire — the one that raced through Lahaina killing hundreds of unsuspecting people. Who would have imagined that one day, the historic Hawaiian capitol on Maui would be a thriving tourist destination and 24 hours later it would be piles of smoldering rubble and ashes that included remains of people? Cellphone video reveals that high winds downed live electric lines, which...
It’s not certain exactly how the wastewater treatment plant that serves the roughly 2,000 citizens of Grand Coulee and Electric City will keep operating after nine days from now. That’s when its current operator will retire. Currently, Grand Coulee has no one to replace that employee, and the city has been in talks to outsource operating the plant to an independent company on a contractual basis. That’s if the union representing employees will allow it, or if the contractor can justify that wage scale. All of that is uncertain, even unlik...
Update: 9:12 p.m. Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Dept Chief Ryan Fish said all Grand Coulee units were leaving Plum Point. Multiple fire departments were working the fire in Lincoln County. The fire began to grow again about 3 p.m. after it had looked like it was about under control until the wind kicked up. At 5 p.m. three Fireboss planes arrived, and worked for more than half an hour, repeatedly dousing the fire with water from Lake Roosevelt. By 6:30 p.m. flames were mostly knocked down but... Full story
Less than an hour after a caller reported a blanket-wrapped, badly smelling object on Omak Mountain Aug. 9, Colville Tribal Police found a woman’s body that still has not been identified. Okanogan County Dispatch transferred a call to Tribal Dispatch about 5:25 p.m. The original caller reported being in the Omak Mountain area and seeing what appeared to be a blanket wrapped around something, covered with dirt and sticks, and which had the odor of a dead animal. Tribal police responded and searched the area. At about 6:12 p.m., tribal law e...
Evan Jones finishes harvesting a field of wheat on George Dormaier and Sons land along Bodeau Road in Lincoln County Monday in shimmering heat as temperatures reach over 100. Wednesday and Thursday should be scorchers too. See our forecast on page 3. A National Weather Service excessive heat warning is in effect until 11 p.m. Thursday, but a fire weather watch was not set to expire until 8 p.m. Friday. - Scott Hunter photo...
Electric City voters will be asked to decide on whether to de-annex a part of the city they agreed to add back in 2009. The city council voted Aug. 8 that the city should place a measure on the General Election ballot in November to shed the city of some lands annexed to the east of SR-155 south of the causeway across Osborne Bay that belong to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation or the Washington Department of Natural Resources. Other lands on the other side of the highway, including the area containing Sunbanks Lake Resort, would remain within...
The Colville Tribes announced the passing of former Chairman Michael Finley Aug. 9 as The Lucy Covington Government Center began flying flags at half-staff in his honor. Among his notable accomplishments, the three-time chairman of the Colville Tribes presided over Colville’s Memorandum of Agreement in 2008 with the Bonneville Power Administration for acquisition and management of habitat for resident and anadromous fish. While chairman, Finley served also as chairman of the Inter-Tribal Monitoring Association for Indian Trust Funds. In 2012 t...
he founder and executive director of the Coulee Dam-based Northwest Native Development Fund is leaving his post. Ted Piccolo announced the move in an email Tuesday afternoon, saying he was leaving the community development financial institution simply because it is time for change. “There may never be a ‘good’ time for a founding Executive Director to leave a company,” he wrote. “However, there are ‘best’ times. Some are better than others. Within the scope of managing change this is probably the ‘best’ time.” “Ted says see you later- Not go...
Lacy Ward has been working hard and got caught doing it - by the new school district superintendent. Superintendent Rod Broadnax honored Ward Monday night with the first of what he calls the "Superintendent's Spotlight" for "going above and beyond." Broadnax said since his arrival July 1, he's been observing employees and noting who he thinks should be recognized for extra effort, noting Ward's work several times. Ward runs the SHARP Kids program, which engages students after school and had a...
Fire fighters scrambled to attack five fires that started Sunday afternoon as a slow-moving lightning storm torched brush and grass in Douglas and Grant counties and prompted a "county-wide" call from local fire chiefs. In Douglas County, a fire at Road 28 Rex was first reported at 4:26 p.m., followed seven minutes later by reports of fires at Pendell Road, two in Grant County in and near Pleasant Valley on the north side of Banks Lake, and another at Barker Canyon at 4:35. Douglas County Fire...
Brandon White was named official of the year in fastpitch softball Saturday in Yakima at the Washington Officials Association annual convention. Selected by his fellow officials and the state office "for your outstanding skills, abilities and service to officiating in the state of Washington," an award letter that arrived last month said. "He deserves this!" Lake Roosevelt Raider fastpitch coach Jaci Gross said, learning of the award. "He deserves to be recognized for not only his knowledge of...
The band that played in Grand Coulee for National Night Out Aug. 1 was the Stoney River Band, not the Hometown Hooligans....
It all ended well, with a young rock climber apparently still healthy after hanging for hours in a harness off a cliff at Northrup Canyon Saturday night, unable to go up or down. The canyon, an offshoot of the Upper Grand Coulee faces Steamboat Rock of highway 155 cutting into the coulee wall. The terrain features "steep cliffs, massive boulders, thick brush and a small crevice that would be difficult to bring equipment through," noted Grand Coulee Police Officer Kline, who was first on the...
A technical problem at the printing plant today delayed the printing of The Star for a few hours. We'll get them delivered to post offices and stores late this afternoon. Thanks for your patience. In the meantime, please enjoy The Star online.... Full story