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I am a concerned Electric City resident. The proposed cutoff of Western in town is a dangerous and irresponsible action of the city council and mayor. Emergency services do everything they can to expedite response time. The Electric City mayor and city council are slowing down response time by this foolish project. From my information, fire, EMS and police are adamantly opposed to this plan. ECVFD to respond from their station, mutual aid fire, EMS and police responding to fires or medical emergencies or police protection and serving area...
Eminent Domain I don’t feel is in the best interest of our Tribal members. You say the sovereign and fundamental rights of the Tribe will be protected. Ancestral lands are not being protected. Look at how it has been treated. We have probed, excavated it, buried things in it. Chopped down our forests, leveled the hills, muddied and dirtied the water and air. Based on this, we have not been good caretakers. We have not taken care to ensure that our seventh generation will maintain. But back to Eminent Domain, who exactly will benefit from our l...
No one should have to choose between safety and democracy. Your county shouldn’t have to prioritize one over the other. But that’s what happens every other year. And that’s exactly what will happen again in 2020 if the Washington State Legislature continues refusing to pay its fair share of election costs. Counties conduct elections on behalf of every level of government – from federal presidential elections all the way to local mosquito-control districts. Washington State residents should be confident and proud that they have one of the most t...
Hannah Wapato placed first in both the 1,600- and 3,200-meter races in a Davenport track meet April 16, and Steven Flowers took first in the shot put at Quincy on Saturday. At Davenport, Wapato finished the 1,600 in 6 minutes, 26.57 seconds, and the 3,200 in 13:22.29. Brothers Steven and Bobcat Flowers placed first and third respectively in the shot put, with Steven throwing a distance of 45 feet, 6 inches, and Bobcat throwing 41-10. Steven Flowers also placed first in the 100-meter race in 11.5...
The Lady Raiders are at the top of their league following three more softball wins last week. In Pateros April 16, the Lady Raiders won 14-0 as Emma Marchand pitched 10 strikeouts for LR while only allowing one hit. “The pitching was the difference in this game,” said Head Coach Jaci Gross. “Also, the girls had 10 hits and Pateros had one.” Marchand was effective on offense as well, hitting three triples and batting in six runs. The Lady Raiders beat the Lady Tigers twice in Tonasket Saturday in a doubleheader. LR narrowly won the first g...
The Raiders dominated Pateros on the diamond at Lake Roosevelt last week, but lost closer games in Tonasket. Lake Roosevelt defeated Pateros 19-1 April 16, sometimes going through their full batting lineup in a single inning. In Tonasket April 20, the Raiders lost both games in the doubleheader, 6-3, and 8-0. Tonasket is on top of the Central Washington 2B league with a 9-0 league win-loss record, 9-1 overall. The Raiders are 2-6 in the league, 4-6 overall. Head Coach Billy Nicholson was...
The Raiders have been making a racket playing tennis against Entiat and Oroville last week. Hosting Entiat at home in Coulee Dam April 16, the Raider girls won 5-0, and the boys won 3-1. In Oroville on April 18, the girls won 5-0, and the boys lost 4-1. “Our girls’ team continues their winning ways,” said Head Coach Steve Archer. “They are looking stronger and stronger as we head into postseason play. We want to be playing our best tennis as the season comes to an end and advance as far as possible.” The Raiders hosted Liberty Bell yesterday...
Raider golfers competed with golfers from around the state at the Gamble Sands Invitational in Brewster last week. Darin Whiteman finished 18 holes of golf in only 76 strokes at the event, placing 11th out of 131 golfers April 17. “A very good result on a super challenging course,” remarked Head Coach Steve Files. “It was a terrific event again this year,” Files said. “A great experience for our players to meet and compete against some of the best golfers from around the state. It was ideal weather, other than some gusty winds at times. I...
Citizens, firefighters, engineers, and city officials discussed a controversial possible intersection change in Electric City at the city's April 9 council meeting. About 18 people in the crowd watched or participated in the discussion surrounding the city's plans to remove the stretch of Western Avenue directly in front of city hall and replace it with a sidewalk. Most only found out about the plans through recent articles in The Star, although the project is ready to go out to bid, with...
Cars and coffee are two things beloved around the world, and a way to celebrate cars while drinking coffee on a monthly basis may soon find its way to the community. Sam Hsieh, surgeon and chief medical officer at Coulee Medical Center, is also a car enthusiast. He recently bought a lot at the intersection of Main Street and Spokane Way, where he envisions people could congregate with their cars, drink coffee, and talk with their fellow community members. "The idea is to promote how we bring the...
Elmer City will spend $18,000 on a feasibility study on building a certain style of wastewater treatment plant for the town. The Elmer City Council voted unanimously April 11 to go through with the feasibility study following a nearly hour-long presentation by Public Works Director Jimmer Tillman. Tillman presented the council with fliers from Ovivo, a company that makes a treatment system called microBLOX, a membrane bioreactor (MBR) style of treatment plant. Tillman detailed the system as being affordable, easy to install, being the future...
Lake Roosevelt Junior/Senior High School is getting a new principal. Kirk Marshlain currently teaches English language arts and special education at Foothills Middle School in Wenatchee, and will take on the principalship at LR for the 2019-20 school year. Marshlain grew up in Lake Chelan, and after graduating from high school there, received a baseball scholarship to Simpson University in Redding, California, where he played baseball and earned a bachelor's in English for teachers in 2010....
Surprise! The Electric City Council has decided to change the y-shaped intersection in front of city hall in Electric City. Am I the only one who heard of this for the first time after reading it in The Star newspaper? It’s the first time the Electric City fire chief knew of this project. Is this even a done deal? Varying responses from council members at the last council meeting indicate that it is not set in stone, but City Clerk Russ Powers seems to think it is. Mr. Powers is quoted in The Star as saying, “The point is to slow down tra...
Electric City has to be the luckiest city by a Dam site, maybe even the whole state of Washington! Why, you ask? Because Electric City was awarded a Transportation Improvement Board (TIB) Grant to close part of Western Avenue in the name of “public safety” without checking with anyone in public safety. Not the fire department, the police department or the ambulance that service the city. In my opinion, that’s Dam lucky. The residents who live on Stevens Street are even luckier than the rest of us, as you’ll get to see a lot more of your ne...
Lyft recently announced that it would be going public. Uber isn’t far behind. In little more than a decade, the two companies have upended the transportation sector — and transformed how we think about both transportation and work. If only we could bring that sort of innovation to our nation’s education sector. American schools have scarcely evolved since the days of the horse and buggy. Our educational system incentivizes memorization and rote learning in the age of Google. It prizes passivity at a time when entrepreneurial zeal is cruci...
This is a tale about Idaho’s famous “Bigfoot,” who was responsible for a number of stagecoach and wagon train robberies and killings. He roamed the desolate hills of Owyhee County and met his demise there. The name “Bigfoot” came from Shoshoni words “Namp,” meaning foot, and “puh,” meaning big. He was not the Sasquatch-type of Bigfoot, but an actual desperado who came out of Idaho folklore. His foot measured 17.5 inches long, so he’d received his name honestly. He was born into the Cherokee nation and was named Starr Wilkerson, son of a white m...
An 80-year-old woman died Monday afternoon when the car she was riding in rolled off the highway just east of Leahy Junction on SR-174. Ramona J. Anderson, of Omak, died at the scene 19 miles west of Grand Coulee, the Washington State Patrol reported. The eastbound 2012 Toyota Sienna in which she was a passenger was driven by Frank Anderson, also 80. The WSP investigation found the minivan had left the road off the right shoulder, then was overcorrected, leaving the road to the left, rolling and coming to rest about 40 feet off the highway....
The Lady Raiders lost their first of two softball games Saturday, then won the second in a doubleheader against the Brewster Lady Bears. Playing on a rainy, windy day in Grand Coulee, the Lady Bears defeated the Lady Raiders 15-11 in the first game, LR's first loss of the season. "The first game, we saw six fielding errors to Brewster's one fielding error," explained Head Coach Jaci Gross. "We also had several mental errors, which is unlike our defense." Emma Marchand went two for four with a...
The Raiders track and field team competed at the Nike-Van Kuren Invite on Saturday, and one athlete competed at a Pasco meet. Steven Flowers competed in the shot put event at the Pasco Invite April 13, “an elite meet even more competitive than a state meet,” Head Coach Lori Adkins said. “All classifications of schools go head to head. The qualifying marks to gain entry to the meet are high.” “When Steven received the invitation back in December to compete in the shot put event, we were elated!” Adkins said. “We couldn’t be prouder of Steven’s h...
The Raider tennis teams have been playing here and there, but only the girls' team had a win in the past week. The Raiders played in Tonasket April 9, where the girls lost 3-2 against the Tigers, and the boys lost 5-0. "The two wins at girls' first and second singles were big wins for the team," Head Coach Steve Archer said, referring to Alexia Ryan defeating Julie Bello 5-7, 6-3, 6-3, and Savannah Hobrecht defeating Noni Alley 3-6, 6-2, 6-3. "Alexia and Savannah's matches were similar, in that...
The Raiders had a dominant win against Pateros but were mauled by the Brewster Bears in a doubleheader last week. The Raiders traveled to Pateros April 9, where they beat the Billygoats 11-3. But the Raiders hosted the Brewster Bears in a doubleheader in Coulee Dam Saturday, losing the first game 22-1, and the second 11-1. The Raiders played a home game against Pateros yesterday, results of which will be reported in next week's Star. On Saturday, they play a doubleheader in Tonasket starting at...
The Raiders golf team competed at their home meet for the season at Banks Lake Golf Course April 11. "We're still trying to get into the groove out there," Head Coach Steve Files said. "It's midseason, but we're not quite in midseason form yet." LR competed with golfers from the Wilbur-Creston-Keller high school team, and Almira-Coulee-Hartline on the back nine holes at Banks Lake Golf Course. WCK's Carson Odegaard had the best score with only 40 strokes, followed by ACH's Conner Emerson who...
OLYMPIA - Legislation to make daylight saving time the year-round standard passed the Senate Tuesday evening in a bipartisan 46-2 vote. The bill would put Washington state on Pacific Daylight Time year-round, pending approval of Congress. Senators Liz Lovelette, D-Anacortes, and Tim Sheldon, D- Potlatch, voted in opposition. House Bill 1196 was introduced by Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, and has gained traction over the course of the session, passing the House on March 9 in an 89-7 vote. The... Full story
The city of Grand Coulee is looking at a vision for the future of the city that includes more pedestrian-friendly features, aesthetic upgrades, and relocating city hall at the former middle school. SCJ Alliance, the city's planning firm, presented some ideas for the future of the city at a March 13 meeting for the city's planning commission, which includes council members Alan Cain and Tammara Byers, as well as Grand Coulee citizen James O'Hara. "Alan and I were impressed," Byers said at the Mar...
Hippity hoppity, Easter is on its way, and that means Easter baskets and Easter egg hunts. Volunteers at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center assembled 450 Easter baskets through donations to the senior center, and will be selling them from now until the Friday before Easter for anywhere from $5 to $25. The baskets are geared toward children, but there are baskets for mom or grandma as well. Also for sale at the senior center are 100 child's size Easter dresses. The senior center at 203 Main...