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Articles from the December 18, 2024 edition


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  • As simple as a cakewalk

    Dec 18, 2024

    It might seem simple, but if you get left between numbers at the Moose Lodge's annual cake walk that was part of festivities Saturday it can be a little disheartening. People running it try to avoid that scenario. – Scott Hunter photo....

  • Tips for a safe and festive holiday season

    Dec 18, 2024

    As people prepare to gather with family and friends this holiday season, it’s important to think about health and safety. “With the holidays just around the corner, now is the perfect time to think about how you can help protect yourself from serious illness from flu, COVID-19 and RSV – and support your loved ones in doing the same,” said Dr. Rachel Levine, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). “Vaccination is an important step in having a happy and healthy celebration.” While preparing f...

  • Washington's Dan Newhouse looks ahead to a new Trump era

    Jerry Cornfield|Dec 18, 2024

    Republican Dan Newhouse is preparing for a sixth term in the U.S. House of Representatives, serving one of Washington state's most solidly Republican congressional districts. He's excited. He'll be a member of the House majority again. With Republicans in charge in the Senate and an incoming GOP president, he foresees his party "accomplishing good things for the country." Donald Trump, the former and future commander-in-chief might not be quite as happy. He didn't want Newhouse back this year....

  • Those least favorite places

    Roger S. Lucas|Dec 18, 2024

    Everyone who has traveled much has his favorite and least favorite places. Texas, all of it, gets my nod as my least favorite place. I have been to Texas on four occasions, but my brother David, was the convincing factor. He like me, got his start with Potlatch Forests, Inc. I worked at Potlatch and he worked at their plant in Lewiston. Along the way he accepted a position with the compliance arm of the outfit that checked construction ptojrcts to see if you were using the lumber quality that was required. They sent him to Texas. My brother...

  • Lamenting the death of cursive

    Tom Purcell|Dec 18, 2024

    The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states have dropped cursive writing from their curricula as they shifted to Common Core State Standards for English. As a result, many Gen Z Americans lack a distinctive cursive signature, which posed a problem for Gen Z voters who used mail-in ballots last month. Since officials had great difficulty matching Gen Z mail-in-ballot signatures to the signatures the government had on file for them, many of their...

  • The Notre Dame Effect

    Don C. Brunnell|Dec 18, 2024

    In the aftermath of the catastrophic fire which gutted Paris’ Cathedral of Notre Dame in 2019, President Emmanuel Macron announced it would be rebuilt within five years and promised it would be “more beautiful than before!” Macron, who remains head of a divided French government, saw restoration of the 13th Century church as a way to restore national pride and unite fellow French citizens. When interviewed just before Notre Dame’s massive doors re-opened on Dec. 7, Macron called the restoration a miracle—an accomplishment of the unthinkab...

  • This Week in History

    Dec 18, 2024

    December 23, 1783, General George Washington resigned his commission as Commander and Chief of the Continental Army. The resignation took place in the Senate Chamber of the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland where the Continental Congress was meeting. Washington left Annapolis having bid farewell to his officers on December 24th. His distention was his plantation on the Potomac River in Virginia. He arrived late afternoon on Christmas Eve, now a private citizen for the first time in nearly nine years. Source(s): Library of Congress...

  • Coulee Cops

    Dec 18, 2024

    Coulee Dam Police 12/9-12/13 - Reports were filed without descriptions of the circumstances but related to “suspicious circumstances” on Stevens Avenue in Coulee Dam, a theft on Goodfellow Avenue in Electric City, and a hit and run traffic accident on the bridge in Coulee Dam. 12/14 - An elderly man had been knocked down by a dog running at large in the area of Fir Street. A concerned person asked police to check on the man later. He wasn’t at home at the time police checked. The concerned person said they would check on him at a later time....

  • Gifts delivered this Saturday

    Dec 18, 2024

    Saturday, Dec.21, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.: Trees of Sharing delivery of gifts Please call to leave a message, including your phone number with Linda Black, 509-431-7587, to join the volunteer Trees of Sharing team. Opportunities exist to organize, shop, wrap, and deliver gifts....

  • Christopher Pete Carzoli

    Dec 18, 2024

    Chris quietly passed away while working under his truck in the garage. Just a door opening away with his little dog curled around him. He was a strong, fast worker when not in pain. Finally his four years of suffering with pancreatic cancer were over.My thoughts immediately went back to when he was a little boy, always teasing, laughing, and full of fun. I married Jim Carzoli the summer after graduation.He was in the Air Force at Moses Lake. Chris was our third child. We had four children and li... Full story

  • Strange game, season

    Scott Hunter|Dec 18, 2024

    Most of the boys' basketball game with Liberty Bell Friday night seemed to be going according to norms. Tight competition: it ended regular play going into overtime 46-46. And that is where the Mountain Lions apparently decided they would score no more. They kept their score at 46, even as Raiders racked up 60 points. It's not like Liberty Bell wasn't equal to the task, they just didn't do it. Worse, they continually fouled so LR would head to the free-throw line, racking up the Raider win...

  • Tribes getting new clean energy school bus

    Dec 18, 2024

    Washington state school districts and entities were awarded nearly $8.4 million in grants this week to replace diesel school buses with zero-emissions models – including funds for one new bus for the Colville Tribes. One EPA grant for $260,000 will replace a Class 6 diesel refuse hauler on the reservation with a new zero-emissions school bus. The Colville Reservation is considered a “Justice 40 neighborhood,” an environmental justice designation stemming from a Biden administration executive order. The order set a goal that 40 percent of the o...

  • legals

    Dec 18, 2024

    Notice of Meeting Cancellation Public Hospital District No. 6, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, & Okanogan Counties, Washington Public Hospital District No. 6, Douglas, Grant, Lincoln, and Okanogan Counties, Washington; which operates Coulee Medical Center and Coulee City Medical Clinic, will cancel the regular Board meeting for December. The next regular Board of Commissioners meeting will be held on Monday, January 27th at 6:00 pm. Happy Holidays! Public Notice City of Coulee Dam ORDINANCE ADOPTED BY THE TOWN OF COULEE DAM Ordinance 825 – adopting t... Full story

  • Federal agencies to revise environmental study for Columbia River Basin dam operations

    Mia Maldonado, Washington State Standard|Dec 18, 2024

    Federal agencies to revise environmental study for Columbia River Basin dam operations by Mia Maldonado, Washington State Standard December 19, 2024 The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation announced Tuesday that they will update an environmental study on the management of federal dams along the Columbia and Snake rivers. The agencies will prepare a supplemental environmental impact statement analyzing new environmental data that a 2020 study, which evaluated the operations and maintenance of the 14 federally managed dams...

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