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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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COVID-19, or the coronavirus, has received widespread news coverage, and as cases and deaths in Washington have been confirmed, how does it affect the local community? "Please be reassured that we have no confirmed cases of COVID-19 in our community," stated an email sent to Coulee Medical Center staff Tuesday. The email said the hospital "is taking a proactive approach in preventing potential exposure to staff and patients by screening all visitors and patients prior to entrance into the... Full story
Soarin' Marchand makes this game-winning, buzzer-beater for three look so easy, I'm sure he's only practiced it about a million times! Good video of the shot as tweeted by SWXRightNow: A perfect shot for the perfect end to a #StateB game! Tonight Lake Roosevelt went head-to-head against Wahkiakum. After a nail biter fourth quarter the Raiders would finish the Mules with a shot from beyond the arc! FINAL: 62-59 RAIDERS#WIAA | @wiaawa pic.twitter.com/Bq0YQf7PsB — SWXRightNow (@SWXRightNow) March 5, 2020... Full story
Officials at Coulee Dam last week gave a tentative green light to a Colville Tribes proposal to add a splash pad to the town’s park features to cool kids down in the summer. Frank Andrews approached the city council Wednesday with the idea, noting that the tribes could draft a grant application to submit jointly to a state agency that funds such projects. It could go on trust land controlled by the tribes across from the popular playground at Mason City Memorial Park near Harvest Foods, he said. Coulee Dam, along with other cities on or near th...
Expecting to attract a new business to lease the Melody Restaurant in the near future, Coulee Dam is preparing to fix at least part of the roof of the “Community Building” the town owns. The building also houses a bowling alley and a theater not currently in operation. Mayor Bob Poch reported to the city council Feb. 26 that the town has had at least two interested parties express an interest, including one who has operated five restaurants in Idaho. Poch said the individual had researched past Melody sales numbers and concluded it would be...
A former council member will head a planning commission for the city of Coulee Dam that currently has no other members. The city council Feb. 26 unanimously approved Mayor Bob Poch’s nomination of Ben Alling to head the commission, charged with completing a new comprehensive plan for the town as required by state law. The law would also allow the city to appoint one person for the process. The council has discussed that possibility, but Councilmember Keith St. Jeor moved to select Alling to chair the effort. He won’t be without help. The cit...
Police shoot suspect Police trying to take a man into custody on felony warrants Tuesday shot him, said Okanogan County Sheriff Toney Hawley. The shooting happened in Omak at 11:43 a.m., Hawley said in a press release. He said his deputies and Omak police had information on the location of a subject wanted on multiple felony warrants and tried to take him into custody in Riverside, Washington, just north of Omak. “The suspect was shot by law enforcement,” Hawley wrote, not saying which law enforcement officer or officers had shot the man. The...
A potential new, big hydro-electric project for the Coulee area, could be more likely to happen sooner than later if legislation being considered by the Senate in Washington D.C. passes. The $1.4 billion Banks Lake Pump Storage Project, proposed by Columbia Basin Hydropower, would bring in an estimated 1,000 to 1,500 workers to build a gravity-fed, pumped-storage system that would drain water from Banks Lake back down to Lake Roosevelt, turning generators in the process, and later pump the...
Special detectors may be installed at Lake Roosevelt Schools to address “rampant” vaping at the school. Vaping, which delivers nicotine to the user without tobacco present, is said to be dangerous to the health of anyone by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and especially to the development of adolescent brains. But students can vape discreetly, even in classrooms, with the devices used to vape being particularly small and the vapor itself often odorless and dissipating quickly. Getting some tech help to address the situation is...
February proved to be a bad month for restaurant buildings. On Feb. 21, at about 4:12 p.m., a Coulee City woman drove over the curb on Main Street in Grand Coulee, hitting the outside of Siam Palace, before going into reverse and backing into an alleyway. According to a police report from Officer Dan Holland of the Grand Coulee Police Department, the vehicle, a 1995 Ford Ranger, jumped the curb and hit Siam Palace, causing an estimated $10,000 in damage when the vehicle pushed in a concrete planter, bent a window frame, caused damage to the...
The role of a journalist is to be the eyes and ears for the readers. So while at a school board meeting, city council meeting, events, and so on, things that people may not have the time to go to, or don’t have a large enough interest in going to, my job is to listen for what’s interesting and present that to the readers. What are school or city officials saying? What are they doing? What laws are they passing? What changes are happening? What are people saying during the public comments part of the meeting? Public meetings are on the rec...
This week I am bring you another senior from the halls of Lake Roosevelt High School. My interview was a little different this time because I sat down with Jordan Flett in front of the entire Journalism class at LR to interview her to give them a taste of the interview process. So here is a little bit of my very personal interview with “Air” Jordan. As I start all my interviews with the seniors, I asked her about her year so far, and she opened up immediately in her shy voice that got bol...
Don Brunell’s recent article titled “Dams are the Northwest’s Flood Busters” (Star, Jan. 21, 2020) relies on fearmongering, rather than facts, to make his point. Brunell takes a circuitous route through disasters in the Midwest, conjuring up images of flooded farms and billions of dollars in losses, before getting to his real point: his belief that restoring the Snake River to improve salmon and steelhead runs isn’t worth the untold natural disasters that would impact all of us living and recreating in its flood plain. Here’s the problem: th...
Washington and Oregon lawmakers want to end their legislative sessions; however, accounting for the costs of carbon emissions is a major roadblock. In Salem, rural Republican senators are boycotting the session and thereby denying majority Democrats a quorum to vote on a “cap and trade” bill. The measure calls for an 80-percent state reduction in greenhouse gases (GHG) by 2050. The system would be similar to existing programs in California and some Canadian provinces. The state would set a cap o...
Chamber to Meet Chamber will meet this Thursday, March 5 at the Pepper Jack's Bar & Grillet, Grand Coulee. The meeting will start at noon. Guest speaker Cassandra Haggeman, of the National Park Service, will address a potential threat from quagga mussels, a destructive invasive species of shellfish that authorities are hoping to keep out of Lake Roosevelt. American Legion Post 157 to Meet The next meeting for American Legion Post 157 will be Tuesday, March 10, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Vets’ Center in Electric City. Food Bank open F...
Selected as Students of the Month for February at Nespelem School included: from left - top row: Nataliah Saulque, Nyla Yellowwolf, Zach Elwell,Taylor Thomas, Arianna Waters; bottom row: Kendall Elwell, Alec Flett, Rykiah Picard, Alan Stanger, Myalove Stanger. Not pictured is Chayton Bob...
Vitalant, along with the Grand Coulee community blood drive volunteers led by coordinator Penny Lewis, is planning a blood drive for Monday, March 16. Donation hours will be from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at the community room at Coulee Medical Center. Vitalant is the sole blood provider to more than 35 hospitals across the Inland Northwest and needs an average of 200 blood donors every day. A single donation can save the lives of up to three people. For more information contact Stefanie Dunn at 425-314-3799....
To kick of the gardening season, a half-day gardening workshop will be held in Moses Lake on Saturday, April 18, from 9 a.m. – 1 p.m. at the Columbia Basin Technical Skills Center, 900 E. Yonezawa Blvd. This event is organized jointly by the WSU Grant-Adams Master Gardeners and Grant County Conservation District. The theme for this year’s event is Best Practices for Gardening in the Columbia Basin. Speakers Mike Bush and Katie Buckley will jointly talk about plant pollinators and exotic pests. Isaac Lnenicka will be discussing the benefits of...
Income tax time is here!! Free tax preparation is once again being offiered at the senior center in Grand Coulee every Wednesday through April 14, from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Volunteers trained in cooperation with the IRS will offer free help to taxpayers with low to middle incomes in preparing their federal income taxes. Special attention is given to those 60 and older. Free e-filing is also available. Taxpayers should bring with them: a copy of last year’s tax return; Social Security cards or other official documentation showing social s...
HIGH HONORS 3.5 to 4.0 SENIORS Ellie Hansen, Lorrinda Richardson, Nicholas Engeseth, Kyle Edmo, Keziah Stice, Brianna Stanger, Abbiggale Murray, Madisyn Toulou, Damian George, Alexia Ryan, Brianna Whybark, Wensdae Antoine JUNIORS Bryn Chaffee, Raven Clark, Vanessa Ankney, Kaimyn Schieb, Ashlyn Olsen, Rayann Steinert, Hunter Whitelaw, Cameron Gaines, Brieann Whittaker, Blossom Armstrong, Ariana Morse, Adriana Garcia-Atchison, Daxton Whiteman, Kyona Edmo, Lillie LaPlace, Heather Budravage, Chelsea Dudley SOPHOMORES Makenna Alling, Valerie Jury,...
The Raider basketball team is done with the regional round of the Hardwood Classic state tournament following a loss against the Toutle Lake Ducks. Lake Roosevelt lost to the Ducks 59-43 Saturday in Longview. The game started out rough for the Raiders, who only put up two points in the first quarter to the Ducks' 14. LR found their rhythm in the second quarter when they outscored the Ducks 14-12, including three-point shots from Hunter Whitelaw and Tyson Nicholson, cutting the Toutle Lake's...
The Lady Raiders' season ended Saturday with a loss to Mossy Rock in the regional round of the state tournament in Longview. The Lake Roosevelt girls racked up a win-loss record of 11-5 in the league, 14-11 overall, including the postseason. In Longview against the Mossy Rock Lady Vikings Saturday, LR lost 45-39 in a scrappy game that was tied up many times in the first and fourth quarters, with the Lady Raiders eeking out a one-point lead at 32-31 at the end of the third. But the Lady Vikings...
Grand Coulee Police 2/20 - The owner of storage units on Grand Coulee Avenue reported two units had been broken into. Pictures were taken and the owner would contact the unit renters about the incident and tell police if anything is reported missing. 2/21 - The Department of Licensing reported a man saying over the phone that he was going to overdose on heroin and kill himself. An officer went to an Electric City address where the man’s sister lived. She said he didn’t live there, but lived in a hotel in the Seattle area. She called him and...
The coronavirus death count in Washington reached nine on Tuesday, Feb. 3, including two people whose test results were released posthumously.On Monday, when six deaths had been reported, health officials asked state lawmakers for $100 million to attack the outbreak As of Tuesday, 27 people tested positive for the virus in Snohomish and King counties, up from 18 the day before. The three newly confirmed deaths were all residents of Life Care Center nursing home in Kirkland, which has been the nexus for multiple infected patients, some of whom...