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NCW Libraries is planning to upgrade its facilities around its district with a $10 million investment, including the library in Grand Coulee. NCW Libraries has selected Library Forward and Forte Architects as the design lead for the "Reimagining Spaces" project. The NCW Libraries Reimagining Spaces Project represents a $10 million, multi-year redesign of 27 community libraries. In funding the project, the NCW Libraries Board of Trustees hopes to make a visible and impactful investment in...
The National Weather Service in Spokane has issued a wind chill advisory for this region warning that skin should be covered outside to avoid freezing or frostbite. Below is the complete text. URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE National Weather Service Spokane WA 231 AM PST Mon Dec 19 2022 ...SNOW AT TIMES THROUGH WEDNESDAY MORNING PLUS COLD WIND CHILL VALUES... Light snow will slowly wane this morning across southeast Washington and the lower Idaho Panhandle. A second storm system will arrive... Full story
School board directors will study whether to allow weighted grade point averages to be considered for graduation. Considering whether to pass a recommended policy on high school graduation requirements Monday night, Chairman George LaPlace and Superintendent Paul Turner each spoke in favor of tabling that discussion to give time for more discussion with students and staff. Weighted GPAs can add more points for higher-level courses. An honors course might gain half a point on a regular class in the same subject area, for instance. “It takes a li...
Local mayors decided against further studying whether their Regional Board of Mayors could consider taking over the Spring Canyon Cemetery. Meeting as the RBOM Dec. 7, the mayors voted to drop their research into taking over ownership of the cemetery currently owned by the local Lions Club. The club had approached the mayors about that possibility last August, and they’ve been looking into it ever since. Coulee Dam Mayor Bob Poch said his council was not in favor of it. City Clerk Stefani Bowden had asked the Municipal Research Services Corpora...
Sometimes, if it’s not one thing, it’s another when you’re dealing a federal agency that gives you money. Or takes it back. Nespelem’s school board learned Monday that some of their Impact Aid money was being clawed back. Impact Aid is a federal grant program for local educational agencies that have lost local property tax revenue due to the presence of non-taxable federal land. Superintendent Effie Dean explained that the Impact Aid agency had found the school district’s 2019-2020 school year application for Impact Aid faulty, for two years...
A road sign lies on a sidewalk in Coulee Dam after a small car hit it Nov. 28 early on a slippery morning, according to a neighbor who saw it. The sign normally faces drivers coming off the west end of the Coulee Dam bridge over the Columbia River, where concrete blocks await drivers going too fast to slow down on the often-icy corner. A lighting fixture was also hit in a separate accident, and the corner is now dark. - Scott Hunter photo...
Grand Coulee Police 12/6 - An officer assisted tribal police with a man they had arrested for damaging a window at their police station. The Grand Coulee officer helped move the man, who was being combative, from a tribal police car to inside the hospital, and then back out to their police car after he was discharged from the hospital. - Police closed a door that was open at The Star newspaper after searching the building first. - Police collected information about a hit-and-run that may have occurred in the parking lot of the bar in Electric C...
We were on one of our vacation trips to Montana, Wyoming and Yellowstone Park and stopped for a time in Cody, Wyoming. We were looking for a place to stay because we wanted to take in the museum there and go to the night rodeo. We saw the sign for the Irma Hotel and decided to try our luck there for a bed for the night. When we asked if there was an available room, the clerk said the Buffalo Bill suite was available. It would afford two beds since our son Paul was along. We immediately took the suite. It was really two rooms along with a...
As we near the end of 2022, I want to take a moment to look back on some of the work I’ve done in Congress for our district. From passing landmark legislation to securing critical funds for projects in our communities, we’ve accomplished a lot. And as we enter into the new Congress, I’m committed to building off these successes and continuing to fight for Central Washington’s priorities. As a member on the Appropriations Committee, I work to secure funding for much-needed projects in Central Washington while ensuring our taxpayer dollars are be...
The $5.4 billion expansion of the Panama Canal is paying off for East Coast and Gulf of Mexico seaports. It is putting pressure on the Pacific Ocean-based terminals to be more competitive. The enlarged waterway opened in June 2016 allowing much larger container ships to transit between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Ships carrying up to 14,800 containers can now bypass Washington and other West Coast docks and deliver containers directly to cities from Houston to New York. The older canal...
Grand Coulee Dam's first concrete pour was 87 years ago last week. Congratulations engineers, builders and all who made the dream a reality....
A new bishopric is serving in the Coulee Dam Ward of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Al Frank, of Electric City, is the new bishop, with counselors Douglas M. Lockard, also of Electric City, and Brad Okamoto, of Coulee City. President Kyle Bair of the Ephrata Washington Stake presided at the proceedings Dec. 11, held at the Latter-day Saint chapel in Coulee Dam. Other leaders and local members of the church were also present. Bishop Frank replaces Dan Foster, who served as...
The Lady Raiders beat Almira-Coulee-Hartline in overtime after trading leads with the Lady Warriors repeatedly throughout the game Saturday in Coulee Dam, 49-43. Coach Melissa Meza called it "a good learning experience." After Carly Neddo tied it up at 42 apiece with 29 seconds left in the regular game, at least two more attempts to put Lake Roosevelt over the top missed the mark, and LR missed 17 rebounds in the game. "We fought back mentally and maintained our composure in the four-minute...
Making it look too easy, Raider basketball players soared to an 83-31 win over Almira-Coulee-Hartline's Warriors Saturday in Coulee Dam. Starting out slow, Lake Roosevelt gained about a point a minute against ACH in the first half of the first period, but it was 19-3 going into the second, and 45-12 by halftime. Coach Jeremy Crollard took the opportunity to get his players floor time, but the margin kept growing. The Raiders played Liberty Bell at home last night after the newspaper deadline...
Many of the young girls on LR’s girls’ wrestling team got their first taste of a high school mat at Eastmont Dec. 3, where they wrestled in the Lady Cat Classic. Junior Arianna Waters is the oldest member of the team, Coach Justus Caudell said. “High school is a little faster and a little more intense, and as the day went you could see the girls rising to that level.” A “very undersized” eighth-grader, Phenyx Marchand, won two and lost two at the 170-pound bracket, and Waters took third at 155. Ayamae Duclos won one and lost one to place secon...
Call for bids to create a website/domain for Center Senior Living Center Senior Living is a 501c 3 non-profit with the goal of converting the former Center School in Grand Coulee to a top-quality 60 bed assisted living and memory care facility. The board will accept proposals to create a domain and build a website for this project. The proposal should include examples of your work and previous experience. Proposals should be returned to Center Senior Living no later than January 15th, 2023. Return bids to: CSL, PO Box 748, Grand Coulee, WA...