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One thing sometimes leads to another. A recent change in Electric City is causing leaders in Coulee Dam and Grand Coulee to look at more possible changes for area fire departments and the ambulance service. Electric City this year awarded its contract for supplying police services to Coulee Dam, after decades of Grand Coulee supplying the service. The two towns are largely in different counties, and each has used different county dispatch systems — Coulee Dam’s with Okanogan County, Electric City’s with Grant County’s Multi-Area Communi...
Grand Coulee Dam School District Superintendent Paul Tuner will retire this coming July, he told his school board in a letter Monday. Turner, hired in 2016, put forth a plan a year ago to work part time for two more years alongside a full-time assistant, who could then take over. That assistant was never hired. In his letter, Turner recounted accomplishments and obstacles. Among them, upgrading the CTE building, working with the tribe to establish a Native language/culture program, and establishing a viable alternative learning environment...
Grand Coulee Police 2/7 - Police searched Burdin Boulevard but didn’t see anyone matching the description of two men who were reportedly up to no good and “casing” the neighborhood. - Multiple tenants at an apartment building have complained about drug activity at a particular apartment, including weird smells and people coming in and out of it and putting things in their pocket. Police explained that they would need to establish probable cause by catching people selling drugs and not simply having possession in order to do something about...
Students in Jaci Gross's fifth grade class at Lake Roosevelt Elementary School have been learning in more ways than reading at a desk lately. . Gross, in her 23rd year at LR, applied for a grant from Petco to acquire two leopard geckos and essentials for raising the lizards, which arrived Jan. 21. Now her students "are learning about how to handle the geckos," she said. "Along with it being pretty cool to have geckos, the students are learning how to care for them and will completely care for...
Legislators from the state's 7th Legislative District, which now includes most of the Grand Coulee Dam area, are inviting constituents to participate in a telephone town hall on Monday, Feb. 13, from 6-7 p.m., to discuss the current 2023 legislative session. Sen. Shelly Short, R-Addy, Rep. Joel Kretz, R-Wauconda, and Rep. Jacquelin Maycumber, R-Republic, will talk about legislation they are sponsoring, as well as their priorities for the legislative session. In addition, they will take...
Grand Coulee Police 1/31 - Police responded to a report of an agitated patient, brought into the hospital by tribal police, who was threatening to assault staff. Police learned a female had threatened to strangle a member of the security staff, although the man said he didn’t think she was capable of doing so. Police spoke to the girl who said she wouldn’t cause any more problems. 2/1 - A woman asked police to check on the wellbeing of her father. Police eventually found him at the casino and he said he was doing fine. - Police pulled over a c...
The Bureau of Reclamation said Monday that parts of its fire station construction project should be complete by the end of February, but the entire project will take over another year to complete. "Progress on previous structural, electrical, and mechanical installations at the Grand Coulee Dam Fire Station are ongoing and slated for completion by the end of February 2023," a bureau press release stated. "The next phase of construction involves initiating unfinished construction activities in th...
The Grand Coulee Dam and Nespelem school districts came to agreement Friday on terms of a "tuition" agreement they've been negotiating for the current school year. A solution for the next school year is still under discussion. The districts had until Jan. 31 to file applications with the U.S. Dept. of Education for "impact aid" funds that are meant to replace tax levy money they can't get because of non-taxable federal land within their boundaries. They've had an agreement since 1995 on sharing...
Grand Coulee Police 1/24 - Someone complained that a woman parked her car in an alleyway between D and E Street, blocking access through it. The woman said she thought it was her property and police told her she’d have to contact a land surveyor and real estate attorney to try and establish that. She said she understood and wouldn’t block the alleyway anymore. - A man recently released from jail, unhappy to learn another man was living in the Cardinal Road residence he used to occupy, threatened him. The man who was threatened was older, shorte...
Walkers across North Dam take advantage of sunshine Sunday next to frozen Banks Lake, where ice fishermen have been falling through spots where the ice is too thin. That happened again Thursday afternoon, when three reportedly fell in next to a log boom off Coulee Playland. All were OK, but a witness said two of them had to hang onto the logs until another fishermen could carefully push his sled to them and pull them to thicker ice. The Grand Coulee Volunteer Fire Department reportedly...
The Lions Club, which owns Spring Canyon Cemetery, is hoping to form a group to keep the operation going. “Like many other organizations, the Spring Canyon Cemetery board are few and aging, and are unable to do several of tasks needed to keep up the cemetery,” a statement from the club said this week. “The Lions do not want to see the Cemetery become a ward of the state like many other cemeteries in the State are.” The 4.5-acre cemetery was dedicated March 30, 1959, a year when 24 more people were buried there, after seven were the year be...
The Grand Coulee Dam School District will help fund a lawsuit against the state intended to have a far-reaching effect on funding school facilities and programs. School board members voted unanimously Monday to chip in $5,000 to to the Wahkiakum School District in the endeavor. Wahkiakum Superintendent Brent Freeman attended the meeting and filled the board in on progress on the suit, which will be heard by the state Supreme Court. The suit claims the state is not meeting its constitutional...
A herd of 24 mule deer graze in the Bureau of Reclamation's Visitor Center park below Grand Coulee Dam Jan. 19 about 3 p.m. Much of the group roams west Coulee Dam most of the day and night, but they can all be seen in the park in the mid to late afternoons, looking for a little more sustenance to get them through to spring, when new growth sprouts. Wildlife experts warn against feeding the deer, which take months to adapt to new types of food. Several starved to death in Coulee Dam a few years...
Right now, you may be thinking about taxes and records, but soon you’ll be thinking about what to do with those records you no longer need to keep. A local club has an answer. The Grand Coulee Dam Area Rotary Club, which has organized a day to shred those documents every other year for several years, is planning the event again for the Saturday after your federal income tax returns are due — April 22, tentatively at North Dam Park....
Grand Coulee Police 1/16 - Police responded to North Dam, where someone had reportedly jumped a fence with a shotgun while hunting birds and had fired two shots. Police found a man trying to retrieve two dead waterfowl from the water with a fishing pole. He said he had used a hunting app that showed the area as accessible. Police explained it was off limits for a reason. The man understood and was escorted out of the area by USBR Security Response Force officers. 1/17 - A Continental Heights woman reports a man she communicated with online was...
Eastern Washington University released their Dean’s List for Fall Quarter Tuesday for undergraduates who earned 12 quality hours with a grade point average of 3.5 or better. Local students on the list are: Derek Atkins and Addison Hansen, both of Coulee Dam; Stephen Flowers, Grand Coulee; Matthew Tillman, Nespelem....
Twice last weekend people wanting to fish through the ice of Banks Lake found out it was thinner than they'd figured. On Saturday afternoon and amphibious motor vehicle designed for ice fishing headed out on the ice from Coulee Playland with three men inside. When they tried to drive the four-wheeled vehicle over the off-shore log boom, the vehicle, a Wilcraft amphibious ice fishing vehicle, high centered on the logs and it broke through the ice at both ends, leaving it unmovable. But it was bui...
Grand Coulee Police 1/10 - Two women were reported as appearing to try to break into a red car near Midway Avenue and Spokane Way. Police saw the vehicle but didn’t find anyone around it after searching the area. 1/11 - Police arrested a man at a motel on Spokane Way and took him to Reardan where he was transferred to a Spokane County Sheriff’s deputy who took him to jail in Spokane County. The man had been charged there with assault, harassment, and malicious mischief against his girlfriend earlier in the month at a hotel. Because he was in...
Spokane Falls Community College listed several local students last week among its 1,451 on its honor roll for fall quarter 2022, which ended in December. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or above to be listed on the honor roll. Local students making the grade at SFCC included: Taylor Bartholomew, of Grand Coulee; William Friedlander, of Coulee Dam; Emily Nichols, of Keller; and Logan McElyea, of Wilbur. Also, Shawn Traxler, of Coulee Dam, has been named to Southern New Hampshire University’s Fall 2022 President’s List by ear...
Looking at something from a different angle can reveal much that hadn’t been noticed before. That principle may have been evident at a school board meeting Monday night. School leaders made plans Monday to systematically consider student opinion in coming meetings, the result of advocacy on the school board by two new student representatives. Appointed as ex-officio representatives in October 2022, Juniors Layla Flett and Celeste LaPlace have been discussing with other Grand Coulee Dam School District board members ways to get student c...
Zion Lutheran Church is celebrating it’s 85thAnniversary on January 15, 2023 at 11:00 am. Our guest preacher for the celebration will be Rev Daniel Wurster who was the pastor at Zion from 1973-1976. We are also hoping that former pastors Ken Goodfellow and William Goodin will be in attendance to celebrate with us and bless us. We look forward to being a part of the community for many years to come sharing God’s Love in word and deed. Lutheran pastors began visiting the Grand Coulee Dam community in 1933. Pastor Hugo Gurney was serving the Lut...
Grand Coulee Police 1/3 - One catalytic converter was cut and stolen from a U-Haul truck parked near the hardware store, and the catalytic converter was cut but not taken from a second U-Haul. - Police checked on a deer that had been hit by a car somewhere near the hospital. When approaching the deer, it was able to get away. Police decided it didn’t need to be put down since it was able to get away. 1/5 - A woman was banned from a Dill Avenue residence after an argument involving someone being allowed to use her car. - Jail was more a...
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 9913...
Park district commissioners last month approved a proposal for vendors to address in bidding on the maintenance work for North Dam Park for the year. The Coulee Area Park and Recreation District maintains and manages the park on about eight acres of land that belongs to the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation below North Dam. Commissioners Dec. 14 approved as to form a document that lays out the scope of work they expect will be done for up to $25,000 in 2023, including everything from mowing the lawns...
Here’s a look at the most popular stories in The Star over the last year. January Stolen car found abandoned at Keller Ferry after chase A stolen Cadillac that police stopped following because of a new state law was found at the Keller Ferry Marina the next day anyway. Washington State House Bill 1054 took effect in 2021 and limits, among other things, the circumstances in which an officer can pursue a vehicle in a chase, including circumstances related to probable cause, weather conditions, the safety of others, and more. A local officer h...
