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Teachers, students, and parents from the community voiced their opinions on the upcoming school year in a Star survey, and the results are as diverse as the personalities of the respondents. Two weeks ago, The Star reported on changes schools are facing for the 2020-21 school year after guidelines were released by the state's Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction. Those guidelines include rules such as those requiring all students and staff to wear face coverings and maintain a...
Community and family worked together to make possible a day at the races on Saturday, when Ty Tipps competed in Monroe at the Evergreen Speedway, racing in a brand-new Chevy S-10 mini truck. Tipps competed in the Northwest Pro4 Truck series races held at the Evergreen Speedway on June 27 where he posted the best lap time in the B Heat qualifying race with a time of 20.7 seconds. The track was getting slick from rain. "We had to back it down a little bit or get stuck in the wall," Tipps told The...
A wind-driven brush fire threatened homes on the northern end of east Coulee Dam Tuesday night. Fire fighters from every nearby agency were on scene defending homes and working to try to prevent the fire's spread on the hillside above town. Nearly two hours later they were still working. No homes were lost as of 8:47 p.m. At about 7 p.m., the wind direction pushed the fire alongside the treed neighborhood that sits against the brushy edge of town, but not directly into houses and an apartment...
Raider sports, like all aspects of our lives now, will look a lot different in the new normal of COVID-19 pandemic life. Like seriously different. Like you can’t pass the basketball different. Like a kid playing tennis with the wall different. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, along with the National Federation of State High Schools Association and Sports Medicine Advisory Committee, has released guidelines for resuming high school sports. Those organizations “believe it is essential to the physical and mental well-being of...
Grant County will award the bulk of a federal grant for coronavirus relief to small businesses and non-profit organizations, county commissioners announced Tuesday. A group of Grant County officials met last week to discuss and recommend a preliminary budget allocating $5.4 million awarded to the county in the Coronavirus Relief Funds Grant authorized by the CARES Act passed by Congress earlier this year, the county said in a press release. The plan was approved by the Board of County Commissioners Tuesday. The following allocation was the prod...
We need to give thanks to the people of the American Legion of Electric City for all the work they are doing at the Spring Canyon Cemetery. Starting right after Memorial Day, they have come to the cemetery every Saturday and have spent the day cleaning and digging out headstones. It is hard work as some of the headstones are completely grown over. Thank you very much; what you are doing means a lot to a lot of people in the community. Garey Clements Grounds keeper, Spring Canyon Cemetery...
The COVID-19 pandemic made us reconsider how we work, attend school, seek medical care and interact with family and friends. One thing is clear – access to affordable broadband is more important than ever. As leaders in fiber infrastructure development, Public Utility Districts must be allowed to compete for federal funding to serve the most hard-to-reach rural customers. Policy makers recognize that broadband access is critical to a community’s success. Congress and the President are considering broadband as part of their respective inf...
At its founding, the United States of America was the first of its kind: an experimental government based on the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. Gaining our independence from Britain was, in a way, a changing of the tides – for those who declared themselves Americans, our future generations, and everyone in between. Over the past 244 years, our country has grown and evolved into – what I believe to be – the greatest country in the world, and we must defend her with patriotism and pride. As Independence Day appro...
On July 4, 1975, America proudly celebrated its Bicentennial as the world’s greatest nation while Poland was a suppressed Soviet satellite state. Poles had no right to free speech, were hungry and impoverished. If you wanted a job, you played ball with Communist Party bosses. If you disagreed with their ideology, you likely were imprisoned. Poland was a rather bleak land which had not recovered from the German Blitzkrieg in 1939. Meanwhile, in Washington, the Business Week program started at C...
According to the legend, in a fit of rage, Coyote flung Rabbit from the top of Steamboat Rock, where he landed and stuck in the side of the coulee wall below Salishan Mesa. Rabbit was then changed to stone and became Rabbit Rock. One of the earliest postcards from the 1930s identifies the rock basalt column as Rabbit Ears Rock, and at one time the ears stuck further out the top than they do today, giving the rock an even more rabbit like appearance. At one time the Old Speedball Highway ran...
Rob and Richard Skordas will be hosting a Celebration of Life for our dad, Tom. Please join us Saturday, July 11 from 2:00 p.m. to closing time at the Coulee Playland Resort in Electric City. We invite you to share a story and raise a glass in his memory. This will be an outdoor event so bring a chair and your favorite toasting beverage. We look forward to seeing you there. Please share this invite with folks who knew Tom and Kathy....
Sharon Aileen Bjorson, 67, of Grand Coulee, Washington, passed away at her home on Saturday, June 13, 2020, in Grand Coulee. Sharon was born to Frank and Dorothy Reifsnider on March 3, 1953, in The Dalles, Oregon. The family relocated to Walla Walla, Washington, where Sharon and her brothers were raised and grew up. She graduated from Walla Walla High School in 1971. Sharon came to Grand Coulee in October of 1972 to be with a lifelong friend as she welcomed her first child. It was then that she...
Lela K. (Wachter) Sisco passed away on Sunday, June 21, 2020, at the age of 93. Hamme and Kate Wachter welcomed Lela on June 23, 1926, while living in Wilbur, Washington. She is survived by her younger sister, Helen Anderson; son, Ron Rosenberg (Penny); daughters: Darlene St. Jeor (Stan), Delores Caple, Rusanne Wagner (Dan) and Tamie Majeski (Greg) as well as numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. She loved her flower gardens, cooking, baking, sewing and...
Darrell G. Sinclair Sr., 77, born Tuesday, April 6, 1943, in Sioux City, Iowa, to Alfred W. Johansen and Gracie Schneider, passed away in his Coulee Dam, Washington home surrounded by his loving family on Thursday, June 25, 2020. From 26 April 1960 through 30 March 1964, Seaman Darrell Gene Sinclair was a proud member of the United States Navy, during which time he served on the 492' USS Amphion (AR-13) Repair Ship, based at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba. On Wednesday, June 3, 1970, Darrell...
Members of The American Legion Post 157 and community members are getting together Saturday mornings from 8 - 11 to clean grave markers. They will be taking the 4th of July off to celebrate with family but will resume on July 11. The goal is to clean around all the grave markers by the end of summer. If you would like to help with this project, come to Spring Canyon Cemetery with your tools for cutting sod and sweeping off head stone on Saturday mornings in July and August. We do not work if...
The next virtual guest author at North Central Regional Library Reads Virtual Author Series for adults this summer is Peter Heller. Heller will be reading on Tuesday, July 7 at 7 p.m Heller is an award winning adventure writer and bestselling author. His most recent novel, The River, is the story of two college students on a wilderness canoe trip - a gripping tale of friendship tested by fire, white water, and violence. He has also written Celine, The Painter, and The Dog Stars. His non-fiction...
North Central Regional Library was recently awarded a grant from the Public Library Association and Microsoft to extend the wireless broadband internet ranges around all 30 of its public facilities. The $20,000 grant will pay for equipment to expand the Wi-Fi signal approximately 400 to 600 feet outside all 30 of the public libraries in Chelan, Douglas, Grant, Okanogan and Ferry counties. Wifi will also be expanded around NCRL’s Distribution Center in Wenatchee. “High-speed internet plays a prominent role in our daily lives. Connecting rural co...
Food Bank Hours Change Starting July 10, Care & Share food bank will be open every Friday, 2 - 4 p.m. for drive through service. For those wanting to donate to the local food bank send checks to: Care & Share Food Bank, PO Box 671, Grand Coulee, WA 99133. AA Meetings for GCD and Nespelem Area Confused in the Coulee AA meetings are held on Mondays and Fridays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center in Electric City. Call Paul at 633-3377 days or 633-3345 evenings. New Hope Group meetings are held Wednesdays at 6 p.m. at the Vets Center. These are open and...
Teachers who have been working in online teaching and learning for decades understand the potential and power of the tool called technology, but it's not about the tech. The following is from a May blog post by the author, now retired from teaching for 31 years in Nespelem and still an advocate for the use of tech to inspire and teach, with the right emphasis. This article online will link to her post, which contains more than 30 links to resources for teachers, at https://ww...
OLYMPIA – June 30, 2020 – The Washington State Parks Boating Program, safety advocates and law enforcement agencies are asking boaters to help keep everyone safe by not consuming alcohol or marijuana while out on the water — especially when operating a boat or paddlecraft. As boaters prepare for the Fourth of July holiday, law enforcement agencies are preparing for Operation Dry Water — a nationally coordinated effort that focuses on boating-under-the-influence (BUI) awareness and enforcement. Boaters will notice an increase in patrols on fres...
Town of Coulee Dam Notice of Public Hearing NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a Public Hearing will be held, via teleconference, to consider the Six-Year Comprehensive Street Program (TIP) for 2021 – 2026. The Public Hearing will be held at the regular council meeting of Wednesday, July 8, 2020 at 6:00 p.m. at which time the public may give written or oral testimony. The telephone number and call-in instructions will be available 24 hours prior to the meeting. To obtain the call-in information for this meeting, please contact Coulee Dam Town Hall a...
Grand Coulee Police 6/23 - An elderly man was reported walking in a confused state near Taylor Street in Electric City. Someone had returned the man to his home prior to police arrival. 6/25 - A man was reported to have been pounding on the door of a trailer on Burdin Boulevard. Police found him passed out on the porch in his underwear. He was escorted nearby to the place where he was staying. - A woman on Jackson Avenue reported her screen door had been ripped off and thrown on the yard. She also said electronics were unplugged but weren’t t...
OLYMPIA – June 29, 2020 – The Washington State Parks and Recreation Commission encourages safe and responsible gatherings in state parks during the upcoming Fourth of July holiday. The Fourth of July falls on a Saturday this year, prompting concerns by State Parks staff about larger-than-normal attendance over the holiday weekend, crowding and poor etiquette, especially at parks on or near beaches, lakes and rivers. To help prevent the spread of COVID-19, State Parks reminds celebrants to practice social distancing and good hygiene, use face co...
It's the Fourth of July weekend, and there's no fireworks show at the Grand Coulee Dam this year, and very few places to light them locally. - Fireworks are not allowed at North Dam Park due to no one applying for a permit from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. -The city of Grand Coulee allows no fireworks in city limits. -Electric City follows state law which allows fireworks to be lit within the city limits from noon to 11 p.m. from June 28 until July 4, when they’re allowed from noon to midnight. -The city of Coulee Dam forbids fireworks y...
