Articles written by David Schmidt

David Schmidt|Apr 27, 2022

Re: “Consolidation touched upon briefly at mayors meeting” I find it interesting that the idea of consolidating our town is coming up again. For a point of clarification, a town in Washington does not need to be in one county. Coulee Dam is in three counties: Okanogan, Grant, and Douglas. Grand Coulee is in two counties: Grant and Lincoln, Elmer City is in Okanogan and Electric City is in Grant. Some years back a lot of time and money was spent trying to consolidate the towns, but the effort never reached a vote. We even formed a hospital dis...