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The Lake Roosevelt Raiders baseball team narrowly missed the playoffs after losing 5-3 to the Soap Lake Eagles May 4. Lake Roosevelt, Soap Lake, and Tonasket competed in a three-way tiebreaker on neutral ground in Brewster Thursday to determine which two teams would go on to the postseason. After losing 5-3 to the Soap Lake Eagles, LR would have needed the Eagles to then defeat the Tonasket Tigers for a second chance, but the Tigers edged the Eagles 4-3, ending any hope of a playoff spot for...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders golf team competed at the Lake Woods Golf Course in Bridgeport on May 2, where they played the nine-hole course twice starting from different tee boxes the second time around. “Oroville has a strong, experienced team and the match was a great chance for our players to challenge themselves against strong opponents,” noted Head Coach Steve Files. The Oroville Hornets produced the team and individual medalists for the day. Oroville had a team score of 369; Bryce Glover finished with a total score of 78, and Jordyn Smi...
Keianna Vera set a personal record with her javelin throw of 91 feet, 7 inches as the Lake Roosevelt track and field team competed in Bridgeport on Friday to compete in their invitational. “The weather deteriorated late in the meet and the throwers were competing into a strong side wind,” Head Coach Lori Adkins said. “While most competitors’ javelins were being carried out of bounds and short, Keianna used a smart strategy and threw a PR! Her efforts were certainly an example of being a competitor no matter the conditions and never giving...
The Lake Roosevelt Raiders tennis team defeated Wilbur-Creston-Keller on the road, then again at home, before losing at home against Tonasket last week. On May 2 in Wilbur, the Raider boys won 5-0 and the girls 4-1 against the Wilbur-Creston-Keller Wildcats. The closest matches ended in tiebreakers. In boys’ singles, Malcolm Carson defeated Jake Mattox 6-1, 4-6, 1-0 (10-5); and in boys’ doubles, Bradley Wilder and Terry Yazzie defeated Wyatt Corrigan and James Manchester 4-6, 6-2, 1-0 (10-2). At home on May 4, also against the Wildcats, the...
Students of the Month for April at Nespelem School include, from left - top row: Kandace Leith, mMixat Vargas-Thomas, Taylor Thomas; bottom row: Shyniah Dogskin, Nikolas Seymour, Louie Frank, Alan Stanger Jr., Theo George. Not pictured: Brinn Clark, Cheyenne Sweowat....
Wed., May 10 2:30 p.m., Raider Golf at Oroville Golf Course 4 p.m., Raider Track at CWB League Championship, Tonasket Thurs., May 11 4 p.m., JH Track at Bridgeport Fri., May 12 2 p.m., Raider Tennis at Omak/Okanogan Sat., May 13 Raider Softball either here or at Brewster Raider Tennis at Omak/Okanogan (Both Saturday events are dependent on our teams advancing in postseason....
City of ElEctric City Determination of nonsignificance WAC 197-11-970 Determination of Non-Significance (DNS) Description of proposal: Adoption of the City of Electric City Park and Recreation Plan. Location of proposal, including street address, if any: City of Electric City, Washington Lead agency: City of Electric City, 10 Western Ave., PO Box 130, Electric City, WA 99123 The lead agency for this proposal has determined that it does not have a probable significant adverse impact on the environment. An environmental impact statement (EIS) is...
We certainly aren’t seeing the amount of rainfall that the Olympic Peninsula receives with an annual average of 140 inches a year. Yet, we have been wet here in our region of the state. With all that rain and melt-off, things do happen — flooding, mudslides, roads washed out and crop planting delays. The folks at the National Weather Service office in Spokane stated this: “A combination of abundant late winter snow, heavy rain from several wet Pacific storms, and near-seasonal tempe...
Grand Coulee Police 4/30 - A woman who had just recently moved into a home on Sunny Drive in Electric City told police that she had punched the wrong button on her security system and it had sounded the alarm. 5/1 - A Prins Place resident called police to report a suspicious person wearing a “wife beater” T-shirt and jeans. Police talked to the “suspicious person” and found that he was walking on private property trying to find a place where he could get cell phone service so he could call his “old lady.” Police told him to stay off private...
Naomi Thoren, 93, passed away peacefully Tuesday, May 9, 2017, in Wenatchee, Washington. Memorial services will be held at 1 p.m. Monday, May 15, 2017, at Strate Funeral Home in Grand Coulee, Washington. A complete obituary will be in next week's Star....