News briefs

City tree

removed on Tulip Street

Coulee Dam officials hired a contractor to take down a large, 80–90-foot dying pine tree near the old Masonic Temple on Tulip Street recently after it began leaning toward a nearby TV shack and threatening water and sewer lines, Mayor Bob Poch told the town council Aug. 26.

The town hired Basin Tree Service because the tree was too large for the public works crew...