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Seven Raider wrestlers competed at the Tri-State Tournament in Coeur d’ Alene, Idaho Saturday, while others competed in Newport, Washington. Head Coach Billy Monroe called Tri-State “very tough and expected.” “Colton Jackson and Trevon Johnson were the only ones to win a match the first day,” Monroe said. “On Saturday, they had a second-chance mix-and-match that allowed all of our guys to wrestle more matches. We took advantage of this and got everyone three more matches. It was a great learning experience.” “I want to thank Coach Steve Hoo...
Lake Roosevelt High School has a new journalism class and a website where you can view their content published under the name "The Galleon." The class has around 20 students writing and contributing content. "We still have a long way to go and much to learn, but it has been a fun and rewarding process so far," said Steve Files who teaches the class, adding that they hope to upload some new content weekly. "Journalism is an elective class, and the online newspaper work is the featured aspect of...
Students are vaping at Lake Roosevelt Schools, and in schools around the nation. The nicotine in vape products, just as with tobacco, is said to harm developing adolescent brains. The topic of vaping was discussed at the Dec. 9 Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting during a discussion of policies, including a policy on nicotine products that was amended to include a clearer definition of nicotine products and devices that includes vaping and vaping products. The group discussed vaping at some length, including its prominence in the...
Some $5 million in grant money will go towards building more affordable housing at the Colville Indian Agency in the Nespelem area next year. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced last week that several Native American communities will receive grant awards with a combined total of nearly $200 million to go towards building approximately 1,200 new housing units. The Colville Indian Housing Authority will receive $5 million, one of 52 tribes chosen out of over 200 applicants, a HUD press release press release shows....
The Raiders demolished the Soap Lake Eagles on Friday in an overwhelming victory. In Coulee Dam, the Raiders beat the Eagles 82-26. Tyler Jordan tipped the ball in the Raiders favor to start the game and Cameron St. PIerre scored the first points with a layup. The Raiders got the ball back quickly, and Hunter Whitelaw scored a layup to put the Raiders up 4-0. The whole game went in the Raiders favor, who by halftime led 46-12, and by the end beat the Eagles by 56 points, 82-26. Jonathon Cante...
The Lady Raiders had a dominant victory over the Soap Lake Lady Eagles on Friday. In Coulee Dam, the Lady Raiders defeated the Lady Eagles 73-27, more than tripling their opponents' score. Lake Roosevelt led 39-21 at the end of the first half, and their defense held the Lady Eagles to only six points in the second half. Audrey Hansen led the Ladies with 18 points; Jozlyn Hansen added 15; Allison Nomee scored 12; Ellie Hansen scored 11; Almeta Desautel scored seven; Megan Abel and Shyanne...
The Raider wrestlers competed in Cashmere on Saturday, where the team placed second and two Raiders placed first. Colton Jackson took the champion spot in the 113-pound weight class. “Colton Jackson had a small bracket and only wrestled two matches and he scored two pins,” Head Coach Billy Monroe said. “He has not been scored on yet this season.” Wrestling at 120, Robert Thomas placed first. “Robert Thomas also had a great tournament,” Monroe said. “He won a close semi-finals match by two points and then scored a pin in the finals.” As a...
The Lady Raiders may as well have traveled to Manson inside a wooden horse, having decimated the Lady Trojans on their own basketball court Saturday. In their season opener, the Lady Raiders defeated the Lady Trojans 61-34 in Manson on Saturday. The game started close, with LR leading 25-24 at the end of the first half. But the Lady Raiders outscored Manson 15-8 in the third quarter, and dominated 21-3 in the fourth to win the game by a large, 26-point margin. The Lady Raiders were scheduled to host Bridgeport yesterday, but the game was...
The Raiders won their basketball season opener in Manson on Saturday against the Trojans. The Raiders defeated the Trojans 77-45, led by Soarin Marchand, who scored 35 points, 27 of which came from sinking nine three-point shots. Marchand “had an explosive offensive game,” Head Coach Jeremy Crollard said. Tyler Jordan scored 17 points in “his best game yet at LR,” according to Crollard, despite early foul trouble, adding that Jordan was “dominating” on the inside. “Jonathon Cante, Hunter Whitelaw, and Cam St. Pierre had great defensive gam...
Raider wrestlers hit the mats in the Okanogan Jamboree and the Davenport Invitational last week, taking the team title in the latter after their initial season warm-up in the former. The Raiders attended the Davenport Invitational on Dec. 7 where they scored the most team points, 165, out of 14 teams. “I was very pleased with the results,” Head Coach Billy Monroe said. “The kids showed up and wrestled hard. Winning the team title was really neat. It came down to the last two matches of the tournament for us to get first place as a team, and t...
Grant Transit Authority, which provides bus services through Grant County, will be buying four more buses with federal grant money. The acquisition of those buses will not add any routes to the Grand Coulee Dam area. Washington Sen. Maria Cantwell announced Dec. 2 that the Washington State Department of Transportation will receive $3,932,622 in federal funding from the Federal Transit Administration “to provide improved bus service to rural areas across the state,” a press release from her office states. “WSDOT will receive funding for the r...
Are smartphones a hindrance to learning in the classroom, or an asset? A recent article in The Star reported on smartphone-related discussions at a recent Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting. That article directed readers to a poll on the topic to get their opinions. The article was also shared to The Star’s Facebook page asking people to take the poll. Although only receiving 30 responses, a variety of viewpoints were presented in the results, including those of two students, eight teachers or staff members, 13 parents, and seven w...
An unexplained phenomenon took place 35 years ago on a farm on a plateau west of Omak Lake in which a three-ton piece of earth was lifted out of the ground, landing some 73-feet away. It's still a mystery. No signs of machinery were seen near the 10-foot by 7-foot hole, nor near the relocated piece of earth, which is said to have fit the hole like a jigsaw puzzle piece, like it was cut with a giant cookie cutter. Greg Behrens, who worked as a geologist for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the...
With an ever-growing presence of smartphones and tablets in our lives, how do they fit into the school system? The topic of smartphones, and therefore social media, came up multiple times at the Grand Coulee Dam School District's Nov. 25 board meeting. Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School Principal Kirk Marshlain, in his report to the school board, spoke about a new practice on his side of the K-12 school complex: assigning unique passwords to students to access the internet, passwords... Full story
The Grand Coulee City Council voted last week to extend their contract with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation to keep a portion of B Street closed for up to another year during construction of the bureau’s new fire station. The council discussed some of the frustration of closing the street for another year at their Nov. 19 council meeting. Councilmember Tom Poplawski said he’d like to add a penalty clause that says the bureau has to pay a penalty if the project isn’t done before the end of 2020. Councilmember Mike Horne agreed that would be a...
The local port district set a formal deadline of Dec. 31 for the sale of Banks Lake Golf Course to Rattlesnake Ridge to be completed. Grant County Port District 7, which manages the local airport and Banks Lake Golf Course, signed a purchase and sale agreement earlier this year to sell the golf course and some surrounding land to Rattlesnake Ridge for $1.8 million. The company gave the district $10,000 in earnest money toward the sale. District Commissioner and President Jim Keene said that he recently had told Scott Gerrits, the president of...
A local museum focused on honoring the people who make the community's history now has a collection of tools from a worker on display. Antique hammers and wrenches were donated by Robert McClure this month to the Coulee Pioneer Museum in Electric City. The hammers belonged to Delbert McClure, Robert's father, and a former mayor of Electric City in the late 1960s who also owned Del's Texaco there. Amanda Covey, who volunteers at the museum, which is open from 1-5 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday,...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders' football season ended in Kalama in the second round of the state playoff tournament Saturday. In Kalama, the Raiders played against the Kalama Chinooks, losing 43-0. "Obviously Saturday didn't turn out how we'd have liked, but we lost to really good football team," Head Coach Tim Rasmussen said. "It was a fantastic opportunity to travel and play on turf and experience what the elite football programs at our level look like. We can use it as a tool to be able to help...
At the same meeting in which their public works director described the “dilapidated” state of some of Electric City’s water and sewer system, the city council voted to change the firm that plans and engineers major upgrades on those systems and more. The city council chose Century West Nov. 12 to be the city’s new engineering consultant firm, ending a 35-year relationship with Gray & Osborne, approving the recommendation of a committee tasked with comparing different engineering firms. That committee was made up of Mayor Elect Diane Kohout,...
A proposed $1.4 billion hydropower project is looking more likely to happen in the area, its promoters say, and would bring in 1,000-1,500 workers during construction and create 100-150 permanent jobs. The Banks Lake Pumped Storage Project would be a gravity-fed, pumped-storage system, draining water from Banks Lake, back down to Lake Roosevelt, turning generators in the process, and later pumping the water back up to Banks Lake. One or two penstock pipes, up to 35 feet in diameter, would run...
Justin Miller has been selected as the new fire chief for the Electric City Volunteer Fire Department. Miller’s appointment to chief was approved by the Electric City Council at their Nov. 12 meeting. Miller has served on the department for 16 years and was a lieutenant prior to being appointed chief. Mark Payne, who was recently fired as chief, was present at the meeting and said that Miller would be a good selection, and that he feels Miller will do a good job. The council also approved a stipend to the fire chief of $25 per fire training o...
Imagine opening an old envelope and catching a glimpse of history. Grand Coulee man Fred Long received a few items that belonged to his brother, Robert "Bobby" Long, after he passed away recently, including an unsigned letter titled "This is Persia, The Way a G.I. Soldier See's It," dated November 13, 1943 from "Iran Persia." Fred Long knew right away it wasn't his brother's handwriting, but since Robert Long, along with his other brother Harry, had served in Persia at that time, Fred Long...
The Lady Raiders ended their volleyball season by competing in the state tournament for the first time since 1991 as they lost in two games in Yakima last week. Lake Roosevelt first played the Kalama Chinooks Nov. 14, winning the first set 25-15, but losing the next three 25-13, 25-16, and 25-21 for a 3-1 final. That evening, the Lady Raiders faced off against Chewelah, again winning the first set, 25-13, and dropping the next three 25-19, 25-9, and 25-15. "We had a wonderful season this year,"...
Many Raiders and Lady Raiders athletes have received “All League” honors from the Central Washington 2B League, nominated and chosen by coaches from the league. All four teams made it to the post season this year. In football, in which the Raiders will compete in the state quarterfinals Saturday, Hunter Whitelaw was named as First Team quarterback; Sam Wapato was named as First Team receiver; Trevon Johnson, Josh “Bobcat” Flowers, and Myka Boyd were all named as First Team offensive linemen. Malachi Rasmussen was named as Second Team receive...
A garage fire in Grand Coulee was extinguished before it spread on Monday afternoon, causing mostly smoke damage, with no one suffering any injuries. “It could have been way worse,” Marjie Gallagher said about the fire that she said was caused by a wood stove. Her husband, Don, has power tools in the garage at their home on Roosevelt Drive, she said, among lots of other stuff, but she wasn’t sure of the extent of the damage yet. “It’s just a big mess, really,” she said, adding that they are still able to stay in their house and aren’t in n...