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Several local students were included in Washington State University’s President’s Honor roll for spring 2015. As WSU lists them, they are, from Coulee Dam, Taima Nichole Anne Carden and Alissa Brianne Mansker. From Coulee City, Allison J. Fox, Julianna Mae Hughes and Madeline Corinne Isaak. The listing means they achieved a overall grade point of 3.75 while enrolled in at least nine graded hours in a single semester, or had a GPA of 3.5 based on at least 15 cumulative hours of graded work.... Full story
Students of the month for May were announced by Lake Roosevelt Elementary School.... Full story
Cato Stensgar accepts an eagle feather from tribal council member Andy Joseph Jr Thursday as one of a class of seven eighth-graders to be promoted from the school. Teacher Sheri Edwards, left, and school board Director Nancy Armstrong Montes look on. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
Four area students fulfilled the requirements to earn a high school (HS21) certificate through Big Bend Community College during the 2014-15 academic year. The HS21 program offers students ages 21 and older the opportunity to complete their high school requirements by producing a portfolio of evidence based on prior learning, community service, occupational experience, high school transcripts, 2002 Series GED test scores, current appraisals, special projects, and coursework. The first local... Full story
Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Dennis Carlson Monday night outlined changes in the use of some spaces at the gym site on the Lake Roosevelt High School campus. Carlson told the board that the plan is to remove a wall in the old art room and then use the space s a weight room. That would turn the existing weight room into a space for Lee Largent and his special math classes. Work would include some interior door work for security reasons. Carlson said the low bid on the remodeling work was for $9,064. In other business, the... Full story
Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School principal Brandon Byers has resigned. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors accepted Byers’ resignation at a special meeting Monday night. Byers said Tuesday that he has accepted a position as assistant principal at Frontier Middle School in Moses Lake. Byers graduated from Moses Lake High School in 2002 and has several family members there. Leaving is “bittersweet,” Byers stated, and referred to the many fine staff members he has been associated with here, adding, “But it is the rig... Full story
The Banks Lake Bass Club Monday awarded Jazmine Sumner, graduating senior from Lake Roosevelt High School, a $500 Scholarship. Sumner resides in Grand Coulee and plans on attending Spokane Community College to study medical sonography. She will graduate Saturday with a grade point average of 3.668 and was one of five graduating seniors that applied for the $500 Banks Lake Bass Club Scholarship.... Full story
The school district has renewed its contract to maintain Keller School buses and entered into an agreement to maintain Colville Tribal Head Start buses. The agreement with Keller calls for bus garage personnel to maintain Keller’s buses for $850 a month. The Keller School District will pay for parts, tires and oil. The contract covers mechanic time and shop time. The contract is a continuing contract without changes. In other action the school district has developed a maintenance contract with the Colville Tribes covering Head Start buses. T... Full story
Sixth-graders helped the Rotary Club Saturday in a successful fund raiser designed to benefit them. The club's spaghetti dinner at Coulee Dam Town Hall brought in over $3,000 and will likely net over $2,000 after expenses. From left, Chelsea Dudley, Melissa Merriman and Skylar Armstrong clear empty plates from tables at the event, which aimed to bring in $1,600 to meet uncovered expenses for a $7,500 trip to a Leavenworth challenge course together with Nespelem sixth-graders. - Scott Hunter... Full story
COULEE DAM—The Grand Coulee Dam School District approved five resignations and one hire at its meeting last Wednesday night. Resigning were Lisa Vaughn, music teacher; Randi Heizer, paraprofessional for speech in the elementary school; LaLaina Caddy, paraprofessional in the elementary school; Barbara Mooney and Julie Hart, both bus drivers. The lone hire was Loren Endsley, secondary PE/Strength teacher. The school board’s regular meeting date of Monday, May 25, has been moved to 5:30 p.m. Monday June 1, due to a lack of a quorum on the reg... Full story
The following is the third quarter honor roll and attendance list at Nespelem School. Zero absences for third quarter: Gavin Jackson, Edward Frank, Drew Jackson, Sidney Dick, Kyle Edmo, Buffalo Pakootas, LorRinda Richardson. Honor Roll A- mMixat Vargas-Thomas; B- Cylia St. Pierre, Virgil Bearcub A- Enid Bearcub, Anoki Somday, Yvonne St. Pierre; B- Brandon Lowery, Camryn Carden B- Edward Cohen B- Iasai Adolph, Kyona Edmo, Edward Frank, Robert Thomas A- LorRinda Richardson; B- Scott Adolph, Sidney Dick, Kyle Edmo B- Shihiya Va... Full story
Colorama Rodeo Queen Emma Gunderson stops to pose with Lake Roosevelt Elementary students at the school Friday, following an assembly in which she was asked to draw names for winners of carnival tickets, one for each of 20 classrooms. The tickets were donated by Wade Taylor, of Taylor Enterprises, LLC. Gunderson stayed after for photos with several hundred students. - Scott Hunter photo... Full story
The Grand Coulee Dam PTA will meet Thursday, May 14 at 6:30 p.m. in the Lake Roosevelt Elementary cafeteria. The election of board members is on the agenda. All PTA members are eligible to vote.... Full story
Student of the month for April at LR Elementary School... Full story
Melissa Boord, of Electric City, was named to Big Bend Community College’s President’s List for the winter quarter with a GPA of 3.75 or higher and 12 or more graded credits.... Full story
Two school calendars set for next year The Grand Coulee Dam School District board passed its calendar for the 2015-16 school year at its meeting Monday night. The calendar calls for a starting date of Sept. 1, and a closing date of June 9. The Christmas break will be Dec. 19 - Jan. 3. The Nespelem School District, also meeting Monday night, passed their calendar for next year, as well. Nespelem will start Sept. 2 and end the year on June 15, 2016. Enrollment reported Student enrollment for the month of March in Grand Coulee Dam District... Full story
Olympia—A political thriller earns its debut March 23 at Olympia’s marble palladium when the Legislature’s leading producers-directors—Sen. Andy Hill, R-Redmond, and Rep. Ross Hunter, D-Medina—take the stage to introduce their awaited and unreviewed drama they claim will keep their fellow political thespians out of jail and solve the constitutional quandary hovering over them: full funding for basic K-12 education. The Washington State Supreme Court is holding those political actors accountable for a solution to its mandate issued last fall... Full story
The following are the Lake Roosevelt Elementary students of the month for February.... Full story
A huge crane Friday lifts bundles of metal roofing on top of the Lake Roosevelt High School gym. Workers this week are putting on the metal roof, which will match the roof of the new school complex. Workers recently finished duplicating the siding, trim and stonework on the exterior. — Roger S. Lucas photo... Full story
Virgil "Smoker" Marchand said he is ready to start his 7-foot-tall sculpture of Lake Roosevelt schools mascot that will be placed at the front of the new school. "I am just waiting for the go ahead, and then I can order the material," Marchand said. He was selected to do an art piece as part of the public art associated with the new school complex. "I have already designed 'Raider' and am anxious to get started on it," he said this week. Marchand plans to create Raider at his shop in Omak and... Full story
Kole Galbraith, son of Colville tribal member Lorena Boyd and Allan Galbraith, grandson to Larry and Gerry Boyd, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in the small, rural village of Bad-Aussee, Austria. He was awarded the scholarship at the conclusion of his studies at Western Washington University in Bellingham, Washington. The Fulbright Scholarship Program selects U.S. and foreign college graduates for exchanges in all areas of study, including the sciences, business, teaching, public service, government, and the arts.... Full story
Two classes covering the basics of high-speed data communication applications that are of growing importance to local industry are offered this spring at Big Bend Community College, the school announced. Electronic Communications I (IST-224) and Introduction to Fiber Optics (IST-226) are evening classes taught by BBCC instructor Steve Matern, who has held a Federal Communications Commission license since 1965 and has iNARTE industry certification. Electronic communications co-vers the basics of radio frequency and other high-speed data... Full story
Two local students were named to the President’s Honor Roll at Washington State University, the school announced this week. Taima Nichole Carden, of Coulee Dam and Alissa Brianne Mansker, of Grand Coulee, earned the honor by achieving an overall grade point of 3.75 while enrolled in at least nine graded hours in a single semester.... Full story
Terijayne Owen, of Grand Coulee, earned a bachelor of arts in social sciences from Washington State University in the school’s 2014 fall quarter, the school announced this week.... Full story