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Two local towns will directly lose transportation funds because of the passage of a state initiative. Electric City and Elmer City will lose a bit of revenue from the recent passage of a statewide initiative that, among other things, limits how cities can collect money for their transportation benefit districts. Electric City and Elmer City each have charged a $20 fee per vehicle registered to their residents, which brought in about $17,000 for Electric City’s TBD and $6,000 for Elmer City’s, according to their city clerks. Grand Cou...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders football team is going to state, hosting a first-round game on Saturday, following a solid victory in the district crossover game. In Coulee Dam on Nov. 8, the Raiders annihilated Liberty Christian, 61-14. Liberty Christian started the game off looking good, leading 14-0 at the end of the first quarter. But those were the only points Liberty Christian would score. LR put 27 points up on the board in the second quarter to lead 27-14 at the half. The Raiders then scored...
The Lady Raiders volleyball team is Yakima bound, having qualified for state for the first time since 1991 with a 3-0 victory over Mabton last week. The Lady Raiders had lost to Lady Bears Nov. 5 in Brewster, 3-1, winning the first set 25-21, then dropping the next three 25-8, 25-30, and 25-11. But Lake Roosevelt then went to Wenatchee for district play Nov. 7, when the ladies faced off against Mabton, winning in three sets 25-23, 26-24. and 25-16. That win solidified their going to the state...
Raider Kyle Edmo ran at the 1B/2B state cross country meet at Sun Willows Golf Course in Pasco on Saturday. Edmo placed 110th out of 154 runners with a time of 18 minutes, 40.1 seconds. Daniel Quintana of Ilwaco won the event in 15:55.8. "State went great!" Head Coach Ann Green said. "The early morning was pretty cold but warmed up just before his race. Kyle definitely gave it his best and that's all you can hope in an athlete." "This season has not only been great, it's been a huge learning...
The Lady Raiders soccer team's fourth season ended in the playoffs last week, the first time the team made it to the playoffs. Lake Roosevelt lost a soccer playoff game 6-3 in Tonasket against the Lady Tigers on Nov. 5. Bryn Chaffee scored a goal and had an assist. Jasilynn Schilling and Madisyn Toulou each scored a goal. Kyona Edmo made seven saves at goalie for LR. "Thursday's game with Tonasket was hard to swallow," Consultant/Trainer Randy Semanko said. "We thought we had prepared well and w...
Locals support idea of “ditching the switch” and adopting “permanent Daylight Savings Time” State legislation passed earlier this year would put a stop to changing clocks. Locals do not like switching their clocks twice a year between Daylight Savings and Standard Time, if an online Star poll is an indication. Daylight Savings ended on Nov. 3 when we rolled our clocks back an hour for what could be the last time we “fall back.” Daylight Savings Time moves an hour of daylight in the sunnier seasons, spring and summer, when the sun is out long...
Daylight Savings Time ended on Nov. 3 when we rolled our clocks back an hour. Could this be the last time we “fall behind?” Legislation signed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee earlier this year to permanently adopt Daylight Savings Time, in other words to “spring forward” but not “fall back” an hour, still requires the OK from Congress on the federal level, with President Trump saying he supports the idea. According to a recent KING5 news article “thirty-six other states have either had bills passed or proposed to make daylight saving time p... Full story
A new class at the high school could certify students to be home caretakers. Lake Roosevelt High School is working on crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s of implementing a home caretaker class into offered curriculum. The move would be the first program implemented in a drive to add CTE (Career Technical Education) instruction at the school. A previous attempt by the district to include a Certified Nursing Assistant class in the curriculum fell short when an instructor couldn’t be found. The one-semester class would prepare students to take...
Bridge girders heading toward the West Fork area of the San Poil river along highway 21 between Keller and Republic crossed the bridge at Coulee Dam recently. The girders, six in total, each measure 114 feet long. The former bridge at West Fork washed away in the spring of 2017, at which point a single-lane "Bailey Bridge," a type of bridge constructed for World War II, was put there to allow traffic to drive through. This week the girders will be put up for the new, two-lane bridge, according t...
James Duranceau attended an event last month hosted by the Special Forces Association where he was honored for his 16 years as a Green Beret in the United States Army. Duranceau joined the army in 1962, starting his first tour of Vietnam on Christmas Day of 1965. He became a part of the 173rd Airborne Brigade as a Ranger and an Airborne Ranger in the 2nd Battalion of the 75th Regiment, starting his second tour of Vietnam with the Korean Rock Ranger Battalion in 1968 when he became a Green...
The Raider football team returned from Brewster with a new Bear-skin rug, having killed the Bears 57-6 in the final game of the regular season last Friday, finishing as the undisputed champions of the Central Washington 2B league, undefeated in league play. In the first quarter, Cameron St. Pierre scored a touchdown on a 38-yard run, and later quarterback Hunter Whitelaw ran in one-yard touchdown. In the second quarter, St. Pierre ran an 11-yard touchdown run, and Whitelaw carried the ball in for 15-yard run. Malachi Rasmussen, also in the...
Kyle Edmo will run in the state cross country competition Saturday, after making the cut at Moses Lake last week. The senior placed 27th out of 88 runners in the 5,000-meter race at the District 5-6 1B/2B competition at Blue Heron Park in Moses Lake on Oct. 30, from where the top 28 placers advance. Edmo finished in a time of 19 minutes, 19.34 seconds and will compete at the state race Nov. 9 at the 1B/2B Washington Interscholastic Activities Association State Cross Country Meet at Sun Willows...
The Lady Raiders volleyball team swept away the competition in their league tournament after wrapping up their regular season with a victory last week. LR came away with a 3-0 victory in Soap Lake against the Lady Eagles to finish their regular season third in the Central Washington 2B league, with a win-loss record of 6-2 in the league, 10-3 overall. At the league tournament Nov. 2, the Lady Raiders beat the Tonasket Lady Tigers 3-0, then prevailed over the Liberty Bell Lady Mountain Lions,...
The Lady Raiders soccer team won a close playoff game in Bridgeport to move onto the next round. The Ladies played their last regular-season game Oct. 29, losing 4-0 in Liberty Bell against the Lady Mountain Lions. Finishing the regular season ranked fifth in the Central Washington 2B league with a win-loss record of 4-7 in league, 5-7 overall, the Lady Raiders then faced off in the postseason against the number-four Bridgeport Fillies (6-6, 8-8), in Bridgeport Nov. 2, defeating them 3-2. “We had a nice 2-0 lead at halftime,” Con...
Readers responding to an online poll are split on the idea of changing to a four-day week at Lake Roosevelt Schools, with most being against it. An article in last week’s Star described a nuanced discussion that took place among Grand Coulee Dam School District board members and the superintendent on the topic of going to a four-day school week. The discussion touched on some of the ramifications of making such a change, including how it would affect childcare and how long it would extend the school day. Although clear answers on these q...
Recycling isn't as easy as it sounds, and there are a lot of different views on how efficient it is. With the Coulee set to get a recycling container at the Delano Regional Transfer station, education on recycling is being emphasized. The topic was discussed at the Oct. 14 Regional Board of Mayors meeting of three mayors, a city administrator, a concerned citizen, the transfer station operator, and a Sunrise Disposal owner who was on the phone. Kim Christensen of Grand Coulee raised the topic,...
Work was done recently on the “old wagon road” trail at Northrup Canyon, including using a “trackhoe” as well as laying down gravel in areas. The Washington State Park Service approved the work which was done by the Crab Creek Riders, a chapter of the Back Country Horsemen of America. The work was done to “improve the conditions of the trail for safer public access,” explained Jared Liening, a park ranger at Steamboat Rock State Park. “It’s smoothing it out and applying gravel in areas that needed it due to washout and erosion slipping off of...
The gym floor at Lake Roosevelt Elementary needs replacing only five years after the gym, and the school, were built. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board approved the payment of $15,000 toward the replacement floor, the rest of the cost being covered by Northern Hardwood, the company that had installed the original floor, who verbally agreed to cover the rest of the roughly $30,000 total cost of replacing the floor, even though it is no longer under warranty. "The membrane has shifted and is coming loose," Superintendent Paul Turner...
A Raider had the best time in the state for 1.5-mile races, the ninth best in the nation. Lake Roosevelt's eighth-grade cross country runner, the aptly named Chase Marchand, had an impressive year, putting up the best finish time in the state for 1.5-mile races, the ninth best in the United States, when he ran in Omak Oct. 9, finishing in 7 minutes, 55.3 seconds. Marchand had six first-place finishes throughout the season, one second place, and two thirds. Some of his other first places include...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders defeated a worthy competitor from the Central Washington 2B league Friday, solidifying the Raiders' status as league champs. Even if the Raiders were to lose to Brewster on Friday, resulting in a three-way tie between LR, Brewster, and Tonasket, the Raiders hold the tie-breaker, Head Coach Tim Rasmussen said. The Raiders executed a solid win against the Tonasket Tigers Oct. 25, defeating them 37-6. Both teams had a win-loss record of 2-0 in the league, 5-1 overall...
The Lady Raiders are entering the post season of volleyball on Saturday after trouncing the Lady Tigers in Coulee Dam last week. The Lady Raiders won decisively, 3-0, against the Tonasket Lady Tigers in three sets, 25-18, 25-21 and 25-17 in Coulee Dam Oct. 22. Ellie Hansen led the ladies in blocks with five; Audrey Hansen led in kills with 12; Aliah Capshaw led in digs with 11; Mikaylah Thompson led in aces with 3; and Megan Abel led the ladies with 17 assists. LR was scheduled to host Soap...
The Lady Raiders earned two decisive soccer wins last week, defeating both the Oroville Lady Hornets and the Pateros Nannies, and are now heading into the postseason. The Lady Raiders defeated the Lady Hornets 7-0 in Oroville on Oct. 22, where Sadi Trotter, Madisyn Toulou, and Bryn Chaffee each scored two goals, and Jasilynn Schilling scored another. "Oroville was a good learning experience for some of the forwards," Head Coach Micah Esmond said. "We had 14 shots at goal from Jasilynn and Sadi...
What if every weekend were a three-day weekend for students and staff at Lake Roosevelt Schools? If a four-day week were implemented, how would that affect childcare? How would that affect school days? The topic was discussed at the Oct. 15 Grand Coulee Dam School District board meeting. Numerous ramifications were discussed, but the consensus was to take the pulse of those who would be affected. Superintendent Paul Turner noted that the Bureau of Reclamation has already been on a four-day work week, and that the Colville Tribes have recently... Full story
Some unpopular decisions may have to be made within the Grand Coulee Dam School District to balance the budget. Superintendent Paul Turner brought the topic up at the district's Oct. 15 board meeting, urging the board to bring up areas of the budget that they think may need to be scrutinized. "How do we cut $400,000?" Turner asked. "I've been thinking through it pretty strongly." Turner said he's been coming up with a list of items to potentially be cut, and he wants the board to let him know wh...
People may note a bit more of pinch when they haul that Saturday load to the dump, beginning next summer when prices go up slightly. The Regional Board of Mayors last week approved a raise in transfer station dumping rates from 6.2 cents a pound to 6.7 cents. City Administrator of Electric City, Russ Powers, who prepared a proposed budget for the RBOM, said the income of the transfer station simply isn’t matching up with the expenditures. “It’s just the cost of things,” Powers said. “Insurance, fuel, goods. More and more people are maybe drivin...