News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The theme for this summer's NCRL's Grand Coulee branch summer reading program is "Fizz, Boom, Read!" There are a lot of activities and crafts in addition to special presentations that are free to the public. Also don't forget the reading challenge available for all ages. This Friday, June 27, activities include paper airplanes, balloon powered helicopters and balloon airplane races and more. The fun begins at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, July 2 is Lego Day beginning at 1:30. Friday, July 11, the NCRL... Full story
The Arbor Day Foundation is offering a handy tree-care booklet designed to help people plant and care for trees. Anyone can receive Conservation Trees, a user-friendly booklet featuring illustrations, colorful photos and easily-understood descriptions, by making a $3 donation to the Foundation this month. The booklet provides details about the right way to plant and prune trees. It also includes tips on using shade trees and windbreaks to save on energy costs, attract songbirds and create a living snow fence. To receive the Conservation Trees... Full story
What’s on your agenda for the weekend? If you are staying close to home, and you have a few bucks burning a hole in your pocket, and you are looking for a short-time diversion, look no further because it’s yard sale season in the Coulee. Here’s the menu. For starters, there are a half dozen sales advertised in The Star this week and more than likely, other sales will “piggy back” on these sales, offering up more chances, choices, and challenges so you can make some of those hard earned dollars work for you, on the cheap. But first, you have to... Full story
Grand Coulee 6/16 - A person on Continental Heights reported that a fire alarm that would sound when the door was opened had been broken off by an unknown party. - An Electric City woman reported that someone had slashed one of her tires and keyed the paint on her vehicle. 6/17 - A Coulee Dam woman reported that her car had been struck while parked at North Cascades Bank. The woman was asked to get a damage report so information could be filed. - An Electric City woman who listed her 17-year-old son as a runaway told police that she was afraid... Full story
The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Planning Department Pete Palmer, Land Use/Shoreline Administrator P.O. Box 150, Nespelem, WA 99155 509-634-2577 PUBLIC NOTICE The Colville Tribes Land Use Review Board will be holding a public hearing to make a ruling on the following land use and development permit: 1. Jimmy Jackson, representing the Colville Tribes Information Technology department has submitted a land use and development permit application to install 10,000’ feet of 24-strand single mode aerial fiber on existing Nespelem V... Full story
A crew of six tribal fisheries staffers are working on the Sanpoil River from mid-May to July to catch as many walleye and smallmouth bass as they can in hoping to improve redband rainbow trout and kokanee runs. The work is part of a "Chief Joseph Kokanee Enhancement Project" that began in the spring of 2011 and is expected to continue through 2017, a press release from the Colville Tribes' Fish and Wildlife Department states. Over the past three years, fisheries staff have been working to... Full story