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The Community Crab Feed and Triple Fish Challenge events held this past weekend and sponsored by the local chamber of commerce were judged a success, especially by the angler who has been trying to win that tournament since he was 7. “The Community Crab Feed went great!” Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email. “The meals were delicious. We heard that many people were planning at-home crab feeds, which sounded like a lot of fun.” She said 300 pounds of crab from Pacific Seafood...
Joyce Marilyn Amenell passed away March 26, 2021, after a battle with dementia. She was born in Lincoln, Nebraska, to Frederick and Hilda Miller on August 2, 1935. She graduated from Lincoln High School in 1953, and from the University of Nebraska in 1957. She became a schoolteacher taking her as far away to Ramey Air Force Base in Puerto Rico. Upon returning to Lincoln, she met Dick Amenell where he was serving in the United States Air Force. They got married on July 24, 1960. They lived at... Full story
Mona Berland. September 2, 1951 to April 14, 2021; Passed away at home surrounded by family, after battling an extended liver disease. Mona graduated from Coulee Dam High School, Class of 1969. A member of Colville Confederated Tribes, she worked for many departments: Forestry, EMS and Police Department as a Volunteer Dispatcher and Reserve Officer. Her last position was with the Roads Department as Office Manager. Preceded in death by her father, Albert Weed; sisters: Valorie Weed and Cheryl Dick (Darrell); her first husband, Squires Agipith,... Full story
SUMMARY OF ORDINANCE NO. 1077 of the City of Grand Coulee, Wash. On March 16, 2021, the City Council of the City of Grand Coulee, Washington, approved Ordinance No. 1077, the main point of which may be summarized by its title as follows: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF GRAND COULEE, WASHINGTON, ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 17.18 OF THE GRAND COULEE MUNICIPAL CODE RELATED TO REGULATION OF CRITICAL AREAS; CONTAINING A SEVERABILITY PROVISION; AND SETTING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. The full text of this Ordinance is available upon request. DATED... Full story
Ellen Arment, now of Spokane, creates giant bubbles at the overlook just below the top of Grand Coulee Dam Thursday while her sister, Alice Bartley (not pictured), plays the recorder a few feet away. The pair have been doing this in various places for 30 years, offering wonder and beauty with their two pastimes. Cars passing by honked after drivers realized what they were seeing. Ellen said bringing a little joy to someone's day is their motivation. The two grew up in Coulee Dam, and Alice has...
The school district will be interviewing, then selecting, an architect who could eventually design new athletic facilities, as well as options for what to do with the former high school and middle school. The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors voted Monday to interview two architectural firms out of five applicants to a Request for Qualifications to design options for school facilities. The interviews of Design West Architects and NAC Architecture will take place at a special Ap...
A second community spring cleaning week will take place from May 1-8, when residents can haul yard waste to dump at the Delano Regional Transfer Station free of charge. The Regional Board of Mayors approved the second week of spring cleaning at their Monday meeting. The spring cleaning event will be self-haul only, with no city pickups of yard waste. Having applied for $3,500 in clean air grant money from the Washington State Department of Ecology, the RBOM was approved for $14,000 due to a misunderstanding that they were applying for $3,500...
Grant County Health District confirmed cases of B.1.429 variants of COVID-19 in three Grant County residents Monday, and lists 103 new Covid cases in the last week, including from the Grand Coulee area. The district’s health officer is advocating masking up with the highest quality mask you can afford, not just to protect others but also to protect yourself against new variants. The variants, often referred to as “California variants,” were identified in the first and second week of April through genomic sequencing at the Washington State Depar... Full story
This year, Colorama will give kids the opportunity to ride a blow up mechanical bull, ride a 34-foot long slide, and more. The "Kids Festival Zone" will be staged at North Dam Park in the upper baseball field on Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, from 12-8 p.m., and on Sunday, May 9 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. "We found All-Star Jump, a rental company out of Spokane that will be joining us for Colorama," Grand Coulee Dam Area Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Rachelle Haven told The Star in an email....
The Grand Coulee Dam School District leadership is taking a good step forward by preparing for the day when funding becomes available to entities who already have plans in place for improvements. In fact, that’s exactly how the district got its new school built, by taking the steps necessary to be ready when fortune, or the state Legislature, or Congress, smiles. When the plans were already in place, the day came that a jobs bill was looking for a place to lay in some green. A sharp state legislator we had working for us knew what to do. S...
Our beautiful mom, Amy Lou Mahoney passed away on Wednesday, March 31, 2021 at the age of 82, at the Vista Manor Assisted Living Facility in Wilbur, Washington. She was an amazing wife, mom, grandma, great grandma, sister, aunt and friend. She was a fiery red head who was lively, fun, full of spirit, quick to smile and slow to anger. She would do anything for her family and friends. Amy was born in Beaumont, Texas on March 11, 1939, to Lula Beatrice Dewil Ewbank and Francis Maunde Lawrence... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 4/6 - A city employee reported the seats had been broken on the seesaws at Shane Proctor Park on SR-174. The employee believes someone broke the seats using rocks. She also reported that at an earlier time someone had broken into a shed in the same park. - A driver was pulled over near Midway and Federal avenues for having studded snow tires on past the April 1 deadline to remove them. She was cited for that, as well as for driving with a suspended license and no insurance. - Police looked inside a Hill Street apartment...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District board of directors will be holding a special Zoom board meeting on Monday, April 19 at 5:30 p.m. At this meeting, the school board will be interviewing two Architect firms for on-call architectural services for potential facility upgrades.... Full story
Having grown up on a cattle ranch in Nespelem, Rachel McClure now finds herself working for a congressman, striding two worlds connected by legislation with a large influence on agriculture. McClure grew up on her family's cattle ranch, near Nespelem, that has been in operation for over 100 years. "My roots are deep there," she told The Star in an interview conducted over email. " I feel very fortunate to have grown up in such a beautiful place and with access to horses, fishing, and all the...
Grant PUD’s decision to pursue a partnership in a next-generation nuclear power plant stems from the same circumstance that incented Columbia Basin Hydropower’s interest in its Banks Lake Hydropower project. The factors driving this grip all of us; change is inevitable. Both the PUD and Columbia Basin Hydro figure more power will be needed in the coming years, and that much of it will come from renewable energy developments that need a more stable, fairly permanent source of power to steady their less-than-stable energy flow. Both of those pro...
Glad Eyes Williams and Tyler Jordan are delighted to announce the birth of their son Kade Chaz Jordan, March 8th, 2021 at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, WA. Kade was 6 lbs. 7.4 oz. and 19 inches at birth. Kade’s Maternal Grandparents are Naomi Yazzie and Brian Moomaw of Coulee Dam. Mylan Williams. Great-Grandparents are Frank and Lisa Yazzie of Rebecca Lake and the late Jennifer Joseph and Ruth Jim and the late Leroy “Chaz” Williams, Paige Orr and Gloria Simpson. Great-Great Grandparents are Geraldine and Patrick Gabriel of Rebec... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/25 - An officer responded to a barking dog complaint on Roosevelt Drive. Police observed a tan colored dog barking. The dog wouldn’t allow the officer onto the property, so he sprayed it with a half second spray of “OC,” or pepper spray, to the dog’s face. There was no answer at the owner’s door. 3/27 - A juvenile was reported driving a golf cart recklessly on Coulee Boulevard. He was told not to drive an unregistered golf cart in the roadway. 4/1 - Police noticed a door open on a truck parked on Second Street that has...
As public health authorities track cases of COVID-19, they worry that just as vaccines are rolling out faster, spring, sunshine and the yearning to breathe free could undermine progress on the fight against the virus and cause another surge of illness and death. As numbers come down, then stop dropping, they're tending to "plateau" at a level higher than earlier plateaus, Coulee Medical Center CEO Ramona Hicks told her commissioners at a meeting Monday night. She'd been on a weekly health care... Full story
The area comprising the Grand Coulee Dam School District has a 14-day COVID-19 incident rate of 263 cases per 100,000 population. The district’s website, www.gcdsd.org, includes a link to a Covid report compiling data from the five local zip codes within the district including 99123, 99133, 99155, 99124, and 99116. Updated on Friday, the report shows 11 cases within those zip codes making for the incidence rate of 283 cases per 100,000 population, as of March 26. In Grant County, the incident rate as of March 26 was 211. As of March 29, t... Full story
Grand Coulee Police 3/22 - A woman reportedly stepped into traffic near the Electric City Post Office and slapped a vehicle as it passed. Police had numerous complaints about her. An officer told her if she didn’t stop she would be arrested for disorderly conduct. After speaking with the woman, the officer found she was homeless and told her about other communities that may have more services for someone in her situation. 3/23 - A man on Williams Street reported a 100-watt solar panel stolen off his back porch. He said it was charging a car bat...
Bulldogs run over Raiders on football field The Lake Roosevelt Raiders suffered a loss in Coulee Dam on Saturday when the Okanogan Bulldogs defeated them 27-7, the Raiders' first loss of the season after winning their first three games. The Okanogan running game proved to be too tough for the Raiders to overcome. After going three and out to start the game, the Raiders punted to the Bulldogs, who scored on the first play of their drive, a touchdown run that spanned more than half the length of...
Students at Lake Roosevelt Schools will attend in person more than they have in a year, following the passage by the school board of a new schedule aimed at accomplishing increased face time with teachers and peers, even with masks. The new schedule will get kids in classrooms half a day Monday through Thursday, beginning April 12, nearly doubling their time physically in school but cutting time for those who wish to keep learning online. Fridays will be used to help students who need extra help catching up after a year of mostly online...
With the Lions Club's annual Easter egg hunt canceled this year, kids can take part in an "Alternative Egg Hunt" next week in which 26 different homes in Electric City will participate. Those homes will display colored paper eggs with letters on them in their windows starting Sunday, March 28 until Saturday, April 3. It's organized by Shannon Hitchcock of the Faith Community Church. Kids can go around the Electric City area south of Coulee Boulevard and east of Gold Avenue to find all the... Full story
Joah Nee looks over a sea of Easter baskets Monday at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center, assembled by a crew of volunteers from many donations. They made 475 baskets for sale in the fundraiser, an amount that took until Friday a year ago to sell. Nee was shopping for her two sons. - Scott Hunter photo...
NOTICE OF STATE’S INTENT TO NEGOTIATE LEASE Department of Natural Resources will begin negotiation of expiring leases with existing lessees on the following parcels. All leases are subject to third party bids by interested parties. Lease terms and bidding information is available by calling the Southeast Region at 1-800-527-3305 or by visiting the Region Office at 713 Bowers Road, Ellensburg, Washington 98926. The leases expire August 31, 2021. Agriculture Lease All/Part Sec Twp Rge 12-094506 Part 19 27 26.0E Part 16 27 27.0E 12-A72735 Part 2... Full story