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News, views and advertising of the Grand Coulee Dam Area
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The only reason North Dam Park is still green and lovely is spelled: The Coulee Area Park and Recreation District, an entity run by volunteers, at least some approaching burnout. CAPRD is an actual government organization, created in 2003 by a vote of the people within its boundaries, which stretch from Disautel Pass to Steamboat Rock, a design intended to give it enough reach to empower everyone to contribute minimal amounts to a collective benefit and initial target: siting and building a new...
Ten years ago The Grand Coulee Dam School District Board passed it’s budget Monday night after a public hearing on the matter. No one showed up to question the $9.5 million budget. The Colville tribes has announced plans to construct a casino on property purchased four years ago along SR97 South of the Rodeo Trail Road near Omak. Tribal officials had announced that the cost will be a $24 million project for the 58 square foot facility. The building that had housed the headquarters of the Colville tribes for decades burned down early Monday n...
Jack Herbert Zielsdorf passed on to be with the Lord on July 9, 2023 at about 9:00 PM at his home in Grand Coulee. Jack was born on March 24, 1942 in Eau Claire, Wisconsin to his parents Hebert and Mary Zaielsdorf. He had 4 bothers, Bruce, Randy, Mark, and Tom. He graduated from High line High School in Burien, Washington where he met his future wife, Sharon Lee Janet. They were married in 1962. Both working and in 1967 God blessed them with a son, John Cody Zielsdorf. In 1969 they were blessed...
Grand Coulee Police 7/15 - Police were told that a variety store had footage of a woman police had spoken to earlier outside the neighboring hardware store. The footage showed the woman leaving a package of ice cream outside in the parking lot. - Police were in possession of a lost cell phone when the owner called with a friend’s phone. The woman confirmed the phone was hers by knowing the PIN and she got her phone back. - Police spoke to a homeowner on Dill Avenue who explained she was having a branch cut down that hung over her roof, and not...
Snapping in place some of the final panels, Workers for WTI Inc. near completion of a new roof on the Grand Coulee Dam School District's CTE building in Coulee Dam Monday. They will start on another job on the Alternative Learning Environment building at the former middle school in Grand Coulee within a few days. - Scott Hunter photo...
The new superintendent at the Grand Coulee Dam School District has set a schedule to be available on one Tuesday a month for either morning coffee or evening pizza to sit down and chat. It’s something he has done in other districts with some success, Superintendent Rod Broadnax said when he dropped off a flyer at The Star with a schedule through next May. “Parent & Community Engagement Opportunities with the Superintendent” will offer coffee at 10 a.m. for an hour. The first one is set for Aug. 29. Broadnax said it will likely take place at Vo...
Two local police departments will hold separate events to get together with citizens for some fun on the same date. “National Night Out is an annual community-building campaign that promotes police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie to make our neighborhoods safer, more caring places to live,” explains the website that promotes the event that started in 1984. It’s always on the first Tuesday in August. Coulee Dam Police Department will hold their event at Mason City Memorial Park on Mead Way Aug. 1 beginning at 5 p.m. Mead...
"Miss Coulee", the first big passenger boat to go into service on the lake behind Grand Coulee Dam. - July 8, 1940...
Marjoe Ann Richards, 84, gained her heavenly independence on July 4, 2023, in Tahlequah, OK. She was born September 22, 1938, in Hollywood, CA the daughter of Richard Lee Webb and Helen Louise (Barber) Webb. Marjoe graduated from Boulder High School in Boulder, CO in 1956. She attended the University of Colorado on a full scholarship to the School of Music for playing the harp and was also blessed with the gift of perfect pitch. Marjoe's childhood was spent in Oceanside, CA until she moved to...
Grand Coulee Police 7/9 - A Roosevelt Drive resident showed police security camera footage that showed someone, possibly a neighbor, throwing rocks at her home, causing an estimated $1,900 worth of damage, including a broken window. Police were unable to speak to neighbors at the time. 7/10 – A bucket of dirt was being carried by a homeless fellow. He told police, when contacted near the park on SR-174, that he was using the bucket of dirt for street art. Police told him not to wander into empty lots and people’s yards for such purposes without...
Notice is hereby given that the Town of Elmer City has adopted the following Ordinance. • Ordinance 375: Defining public nuisances and declaring certain conditions, places, and things to be a public nuisance and prohibiting the same, providing for the abatement thereof and providing penalties and repealing Ordinances No. 181 and all Ordinances in conflict therewith. Passed July 13, 2023. Copies are available at: www.townofelmercity.com or at City Hall located at 505 Seaton Ave. Elmer City. City Hall is accessible to the handicapped. Kelly R...
Rod Broadnax concluded a busy week at his new job with a report to the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors, when he was sworn in as the new superintendent of the district. Broadnax told the board he’d met with several teachers and other staff members during the week at their request. “All meetings were very collaborative and very supportive,” he said. The administrative team will be studying a book this year, he informed the board. “Is my School Better Because I lead it?” by...
It began with a roadside fire July 5, along SR-155 south of Electric City where a small blaze burned grasses both sides of the highway near jeopardizing homes. In the following days, various agencies in the region would call for immediate evacuations of areas where a wildfire had started quickly. Thunderstorms with multiple lightning strikes didn't help amid conditions the National Weather Service had predicted would include low relative humidity with stiffer winds, calling for a "Fire Weather...
Grand Coulee Police 7/2 - Several vehicles were reportedly being driven erratically by people who had been drinking at the Eden Harbor marina area. Police searched the area and adjacent areas for the vehicles but didn’t find them. - A woman was locked inside of her Continental Heights apartment due to a malfunctioning deadbolt. Police contacted the Grant County Housing Authority, the building owner, who said they would come fix it. 7/3 - An unoccupied Mercedes was left at a Grand Coulee Avenue gas station. Police checked to see if it was stolen...
Town of Elmer City Public Hearing Notice is hereby given that the Town of Elmer City will hold a Public Hearing on Thursday, July 13th at 6 p.m. to consider the Six Year Comprehensive Street Program for 2024 – 2029. All interested persons will be given opportunity to provide written or oral comment at said meeting. City Hall is located at 505 Seaton Avenue and is accessible to the handicapped. To join the meeting via Zoom, call City Hall for instructions. Kelly Ross Clerk/Treasurer 509-633-2872 (Publish July 5 &11, 2023) City of Grand Coulee N...
A lot is happening in the coulee this summer....
The crowd watches the fireworks off the top of Grand Coulee Dam, culminating the Festival of America Tuesday night, July 4. — Scott Hunter photo...
Retiring superintendent Paul Turner models a cap given him by the Grand Coulee Dam School District Board of Directors at Turner's final meeting June 26. Turner has served as superintendent since 2016 after a year as assistant principal. His tenure has not been without controversy, and the words on the cap reference a derogatory remark made in a letter to the editor. - Scott Hunter photo...
Grand Coulee Police 6/25 - A Grand Coulee resident reported a burglary that likely occurred last winter at a boarded-up building near Martin Road belonging to her family. Boards were missing from windows, wheels were missing from vehicles, and locks were damaged. Extra patrols in the area were requested. - A man living in a camper on A Street agreed to turn off his generator at night to not disturb a neighbor. He told police he’d just gotten an address for the property and would soon have electric service installed. 6/26 - A resident of B...
City of Grand Coulee ORDINANCE NO. 1092 AN ORDINANCE CONCERNING THE SHORELINE MASTER PROGRAM PERIODIC REVIEW REQUIRED BY RCW 90.58.080(4) WHEREAS, the Shoreline Management Act (SMA) requires the City of Grand Coulee to develop and administer a Shoreline Master Program (SMP); and WHEREAS, the City of Grand Coulee adopted a comprehensive SMP update as required by RCW 90.58.080(2), which was effective as of August 2014; and WHEREAS, RCW 90.58.080(4) requires the City of Grand Coulee to periodically review and, if necessary, revise the master...
Early Monday morning, someone stole a tractor from the Spring Canyon Cemetery. The thief was there for at least 40 minutes, apparently breaking into one building through an old, wooden panel covering a door window, then probably taking keys found inside to open another building that housed the tractor, a 1996 John Deere 1070 loader with a backhoe attachment. The Lincoln County Sheriff's Office is hoping the pickup may look familiar to someone, so they put photos on a Facebook page and asked for...
The Bureau of Reclamation is prohibiting fireworks on North Dam for the Independence Day holiday. Reclamation is taking precautionary measures to decrease the potential for wildland fire and is reminding the public that use of fireworks is prohibited on Reclamation lands and waterbodies. Reclamation will allow the permitted fireworks display at Grand Coulee Dam to occur for the Fourth of July festivities. There is a low risk of fireworks reaching the surrounding lands from the top of the dam, so the show can proceed. The fireworks show begins...
Several years ago, the Grand Coulee Dam School District decided to fence off its “bus barn” near the baseball field in Coulee Dam due to repeated thefts happening at night. Earlier this month, as city officials gathered at the Delano Transfer Station to learn about their new equipment, a good sized $50,000 wood chipper obtained with a grant, transfer station manager Randy Gumm wondered aloud about the advisability of keeping it there; he’s had a lot of problems with theft. Other city officials from Grand Coulee, Coulee Dam, and Elmer City...
Grand Coulee Police 6/19 - A man and his girlfriend watched the Laser Light Show at the Grand Coulee Dam and locked themselves out of their car. A police officer helped orchestrate getting the couple in touch with a service who got them back into their car. The couple paid for the service. - An officer scaled onto the roof of a building on Midway Avenue in a tactical manner that his fellow officer could only describe in his police report as being like Spiderman. The officer had scaled the building following a report received at 3:33 a.m. that...
