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All students in the Grand Coulee Dam School District will start the year with online-only classes, according to a plan laid out Monday night to school board directors by Superintendent Paul Turner. In a Zoom board meeting with the directors and 26 other people Monday evening, Turner said the Okanogan County Health officer wouldn’t grant a waiver for the district to allow it to open with kids in physical classrooms. Okanogan County Public Health Officer John McCarthy isn’t alone in that stance. He and his counterparts in Grant, Chelan, Dou...
Grand Coulee Dam’s Third Powerhouse will be renamed, the secretary of Interior announced, according to the following press release from the office of Rep. Dan Newhouse, who represents the state’s 4th District in Congress. Press release: WASHINGTON, D.C. – On August 12, U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary David Bernhardt announced the Third Power Plant at Grand Coulee Dam would be renamed as the "Nathaniel 'Nat' Washington Power Plant," in honor of the father-son duo who were instr...
The next Grand Coulee city council meeting will be held Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020 at 6 p.m. via ZOOM. Information to join will be available on Monday, Aug. 17th by calling city hall at 509-633-1150....
Update: The road was opened up about 6 p.m. Wednesday night. An unoccupied house on the west side of SR-174 at the top of the "Wilbur hill" burned down, and many acres of wheat were lost. Lincoln County Sheriff Wade Magers had praise for firefighters: "Emergency responders from multiple fire agencies, WSP, Coulee Dam, LCSO, DNR, Bureau and NPS responded to a combine/field fire north of Wilbur located near 174 and Menke road. Unfortunately significant standing wheat and a unoccupied residence and...
Update 8/13/20 Firefighters say the Lower Coyote Creek Fire is now about 65 % contained and they will begin mop-up operations today, following a successful night of eliminating hotspots and cutting down unburned snags and material in the fire area, which has now been mapped at 2,580 acres. The Northeast Interagency Incident Management Team 1 has had 11 hand crews, 20 engines, four dozers, a pump cat and one skidgine on the fire, all watching out for hazards like dangerous snags, mine shafts and...
Okanogan County commissioners issued a “desperate appeal” last week to the community to follow health measures recommended by county health authorities on the Covid-19 epidemic in the county, which has the highest incidence rate in the state. An official proclamation was passed on Wednesday, Aug. 5 in a meeting called for that purpose after Okanogan Public Health Administrator Lauri Jones leaned hard on commissioners at a public meeting to send a unifying message. The commissioners’ proclamation said they feared that “the economy and the hea...
Okanogan County Public Health will be offering FREE COVID-19 testing throughout Okanogan County starting August 13, through the month for all residents of the county. Locally, testing is scheduled for Wednesday, Aug. 19 from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the IHS Clinic at the Colville Indian Agency campus near Nespelem. It's open to all. Testing is also currently scheduled in Coulee Dam for Aug. 25 from 2-7 p.m. at Lake Roosevelt High School. "In order to get our economy, schools, and health back on track...
Misty Krohn, a kindergarten teacher at Lake Roosevelt Elementary, will get $1,000 from a foundation to support her classroom this year as a “Dreamstarter Teacher.” Oglala Lakota runner Billy Mills, co-founder of Running Strong for American Indian Youth and Olympic gold medalist, announced that Krohn is one of nine “talented educators to be named Dreamstarter Teachers.” Each will receive $500 - $1,000 grants to support the educational needs of Native students. “Receiving the Dreamstarter Teacher grant is such an honor,” Krohn said. “I am beyond...
The 2020 Grant County Fair may not be happening this year, but a group of dedicated folks has been working hard to make sure that Grant County youth have an opportunity for recognition of their hard work and to sell their animal. Approximately 250 animals have registered for this year’s evaluation and sale, down by more than 50% from prior years, said the fairgrounds Director Jim McKiernan. “We expected to be down as families looked for alternative ways to sell their animals,” McKiernan said. “But this is actually more animals than we were ex...
John Terry McKissen, 87, of Grand Coulee passed away on Wednesday, August 5, 2020 in Grand Coulee....
Chester Lee Hamilton, born in October of 1953 in Sugar Creek Missouri, passed away peacefully at his home in Grand Coulee, Washington on Tuesday, August 4, 2020. Chester grew up in Buckner, Missouri, where he enjoyed his childhood on the farm with his brother, Chuck and parents Glenn and Delores. He went to college at University of Central Missouri where he achieved a bachelor's degree in Industrial Safety and made several life-long friends. After college he headed west and spent time in...
North Central Regional Library (NCRL) will host bestselling author Ijeoma Oluo on Tuesday, August 18 at 7 p.m. as part of their NCRL Virtual Reads summer series. This event is cosponsored by Confluence Health, the Community Foundation of North Central Washington, and the Icicle Fund. Partners include the Wenatchee Valley Museum and Cultural Center and Wenatchee Valley College....
The Grant County Mosquito District #2 regular monthly meeting set for Thursday, August 13 has been canceled due to the Coronavirus outbreak....
The City of Grand Coulee will sell by sealed bids, two used fuel tanks, 1 approx. 520-gallon diesel tank, 1 approx. 1900-gallon gasoline tank. There is a minimum bid requirement of $500.00, this is for both tanks. The City may accept the highest bid under $500.00 Items may be viewed at the City Shop by appointment, please contact City Hall (509)633-1150. All items are sold as is, no warranty or guarantee. Sealed bids should be delivered to the City Clerk’s Office, 306 Midway Ave., PO Box 180, Grand Coulee, WA 99133 no later than 4:00 p.m. F...
Grand Coulee Police 7/27 - Police checked on a report of a boy dangling his feet over the water on the bridge over the canal on SR-174. He was gone on arrival at 1:20 p.m. 7/28 - An officer checked on a report of two dogs overheating in a vehicle on Snyder Hill Road at 11:15 a.m. The vehicle was gone on arrival. - Police spoke with an apartment renter on Hill Avenue, who wanted police intervention with a neighbor who was parking a car near his in the common parking lot. Police advised him to take it up with the landlord. - At the request of...
If popular differences can show up any place in the United States, it’s very possible they could show up first in Okanogan County. Once considered a bellwether county in presidential politics, the county supports a variety of types, from ranchers to escaped urbanites and everything in between. So it’s no surprise that county commissioners in recent discussions have represented the politics of our national Covid angst writ small, right down to the mask-wearing controversy. It was obvious the three commissioners fit well into distinct cross sec...
The people of the 12th District are so fortunate to have a meaningful choice in the legislative race to represent us in Olympia. Adrianne Moore is an exciting, hardworking candidate with family roots five generations deep in North Central Washington. Having worked in long -erm recovery from the impact of wildfires, she is primed to get the economy going following COVID19. Having worked to assist people to access health care, she will do all in her power to make sure people have adequate healthcare coverage. Our local hospital administrators in...
I once moved twice on the same day. We have moved 14 times, but only once in the past 56 years. Our first move was to Palouse from southern Idaho. We were so recently married that it only took a couple of boxes, and those fit neatly in the trunk of our 1946 Ford. We spent the winter there. Trained as a lumber grader, I answered an ad in the Spokesman Review for a position at Lincoln Lumber Company. We interviewed, got the position and found an apartment in Wilbur. The apartment belonged to the school district there, and we got it with the...
Grand Coulee creates an image in our minds - the Grand Coulee Dam or the City of Grand Coulee, maybe the general area around the dam. Of course, the Grand Coulee, as well. However, where is Grand Coulee National Park? Well, the story of what could have been a national park goes back some 108 years to1912. Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the American Geographical Society of New York, an organized excursion was planned and implemented — The Transcontinental Excursion of 1912. Geologists and ge...
The area around where Grand Coulee sits today was sparsely populated around the turn of the 20th Century, and the few settlers and ranchers all knew each other. They also knew Texas Jack, a loner who lived down in the bottom of Rattlesnake Canyon, in a cave. One day, Texas Jack returned home with a young mixed-race woman. He never called her by name in public and referred to her as 'Woman" as if that was her name. She dressed rugged and in men's clothes. Some people in the community took pity...