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  • Recognition due

    Jim and Mary Jane Bailey|Nov 8, 2023

    Congratulations on your prestigious WNPA award. You are sooooo worthy of being recognized for all the hard work you have put into The Star for so many years. We certainly recognize the problems that go with owning a business. But providing local information in an unbiased way is a big talent. We also thank you for all of your work promoting and improving the Grand Coulee Dam community. Jim and Mary Jane Bailey...

  • Thanks for recognizing local efforts

    Mary Jane Bailey|Apr 1, 2020

    Thank you, Roger Lucas, for your acknowledgement of Scott Hunter’s great importance of providing all of us the area news (“Local efforts make a difference” March 25). Also, thanks for your public recognition of the Port District, both Keenes, and a handful of volunteers who have kept the Banks Lake Golf Course operating for the past few years. They have sacrificed 6-7 months, and countless hours of their time each year to do this for the community. Help is always appreciated. Mary Jane Bailey...

  • On area landscape removal

    Mary Jane Bailey|Apr 3, 2013

    This letter is in response to the March 20 Star article about Electric City looking to get rid of its “butt ugly trees.” In the 1980s, there was a consensus of the whole Grand Coulee Dam area community to beautify our area by creating more parks and greenery to soften the plainness and harshness. Project REV was implemented based on that and other mandates in the mid 1980s and the community worked hard to do just that by creating green areas wherever they could. Now our local governments are cutting down beautiful mature trees and soon we... Full story