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Joe Higgs adjusts handlebars and footrests on the late Mike Horne's bike to get it through the door of MPH Hi Dam Bar and Grill, where his friends gather inside for a celebration of Horne's life in appropriate style Saturday. Higgs burned a little rubber and carpet right inside the door with the back tire to mark the occasion before parking the bike near the back of the bar. Horne, owner of the bar and MPH Auto Repair in Grand Coulee, and a city councilman, died unexpectedly Oct. 26. The bar...
Darlene Morava gets plateful of flavor at the Grand Coulee Dam Senior Center's Thanksgiving Dinner on the Thursday before the holiday. There were leftovers, and members will likely see some in upcoming meals this month. President Cheryl Hoffman said it may take another year or two to re-establish what had been an annual event before covid . - Scott Hunter photo...
As a longtime resident of Coulee Dam, I have concerns as to why the town of Coulee Dam and the Police Department are negotiating to take over the handling of police services for the Electric City area. Coulee Dam is already down one officer and will have to hire another one to cover Electric City. Crime is now rising in the Coulee Dam area. I unfortunately found this out the hard way over (the weekend before last), as my home was burglarized. In the early hours of Monday morning, while I slept, person/s broke into my house and went through my...
Lydia Jean Nelson, 93, of Elmer City, Washington, died Tuesday, November 15, 2022, at Callaway Gardens Alzheimer's facility in Kennewick, Washington. Jean was born in Hamilton, Montana on April 25, 1929 to Roy James Terou and Elma Maki Terou. She came to Coulee Dam, WA with her family around 1942. In her twenties she worked as a waitress at the Green Hut Café in Coulee Dam, WA. She met and married Kenneth "Swede" Nelson on Feb 4, 1951. Together they resided in Elmer City, WA raising 4...
Coulee Dam Police 10/30 - A man and woman were sleeping on the slide at Mason City Memorial Park on Mead Avenue, preventing kids from using the slide for its intended purpose. Police asked them to move from the slide. They didn’t offer any explanation for sleeping on the slide, but said they’d go sleep on a nearby bench while waiting for a bus. Police didn’t collect any further information from them because they weren’t committing a crime. 11/5 - Police responded to a report that a water tank had sunk about 15 inches into the ground at Cole Pa...
The Grand Coulee branch of North Cascades Bank is continuing to collect winter gear donations through the month of November for local children in need. Items they are seeking include new or gently used snow pants, gloves, scarves and winter boots. All items will be donated to the Grand Coulee Dam School District K-12 and will be distributed to those students in need during the upcoming cold months. Please help our local youth stay warm and dry during these challenging times....
The local school levy was passing by a better margin after vote tallies continued Tuesday in the four county election offices involved, with more ballots yet to count in two counties Thursday and Friday. With a total vote so far tallied at 630-571 in favor, Grand Coulee Dam School District’s Proposition No. 1 was winning in all counties but Grant by 52.46% of the vote as of 6:13 p.m. Tuesday night. That 4.92% margin had slimmed down from 5.66% an hour earlier after Grant County counted another batch of ballots, bringing their uncounted e...
Electric City will change from hiring Grand Coulee’s police department to enforce law in its city to contracting with a city slightly further away — Coulee Dam — after reviewing proposals from both departments for future police services. Details are still being smoothed out following a Monday city council meeting in Coulee Dam in which council members asked for clarifications, but their consensus was to accept the agreement in principle after clarifications were made. The deal will require Coulee Dam’s two-man department to double personn...
School board members Monday night accepted new “tuition agreements” between districts that have already been doing for decades what the new contracts will make legal, in the eyes of federal regulators. Grand Coulee Dam School District directors voted to OK the so-called “tuition” pacts with Nespelem and Keller school districts, whose students eventually attend junior high and high school in Coulee Dam, bringing with them federal “Impact Aid” funds to help pay for it. Because those schools get paid at a higher rate than the Coulee Dam distric...
I read the recent Star news article appearing in the October 26th issue of the Star. It was reported, at the October 18th Grand Coulee City Council meeting, during the public comment period an attendee, Darryl Hackworth, spoke. Mr. Hackworth said he had been working with “Dollar General” regarding setting up a retail shop in Grand Coulee on property located on Federal Way, behind where it intersects with Midway Ave. As an area resident, I personally feel the possibility of a Dollar General locating in Grand Coulee would be deleterious to our...
A Celebration of Michael's life will be held on Saturday, November 19th, 2022 at 4pm at the MPH Hi Dam Bar & Grill. Friends and loved ones are encouraged to attend Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at http://www.stratefuneral.com for the Horne family. STRATE FUNERAL HOME, Grand Coulee, Washington is caring for the family....
Robert L. "Bob" Tonasket, 82, Loving Husband, Father, Grandfather and Brother, Veteran and Respected Elder of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville passed away at his Keller, Washington home, the morning of Monday, November 7, 2022. Bob entered this world Saturday, October 5, 1940 to Joseph Sr. & Mary Covington-Tonasket in Nespelem, Washington. In 1958, he graduated from High School in Curlew. Washington, where Bob was a member of the Basketball, Baseball and Track teams. From October 16,...
The Grand Coulee branch of North Cascades Bank is continuing to collect winter gear donations through the month of November for local children in need. Items they are seeking include new or gently used snow pants, gloves, scarves and winter boots. All items will be donated to the Grand Coulee Dam School District K-12 and will be distributed to those students in need during the upcoming cold months. Please help our local youth stay warm and dry during these challenging times....
Public Notice City of Electric City Notice is hereby given that the City of Electric City will hold a 2023 Preliminary Budget Hearing on Tuesday, November 22, 2022 at 6:00pm at City Hall. In additional there will be a Public Hearing on the Revenue Source/Ad Valorem Tax for the Budget year 2023. All interested persons will be given the opportunity to provide either written or oral comments concerning the 2023 Budget and the Revenue Source/Ad Valorem Tax at said Hearings. Peggy Nevsimal, City Clerk/Treasurer (Publish November 16, 2022) Notice of...
The school levy was barely passing Tuesday night by a margin of just 1.38% of the 866 votes counted so far. The measure, which asked to replace the Grand Coulee Dam School District's current levies with one at half the combined rate of expiring levies, had slipped into the fail bracket by the slimmest of margins, two to five votes, in each of the four counties involved except Douglas, where it held a 23-vote favorable margin. Ballots could be postmarked by Tuesday, or inserted in a ballot drop...
Utility line crews in Okanogan County were still fixing outages from Monday's storm late Monday afternoon. In the immediate Grand Coulee Dam area, only a few flakes fluttered here and there, but a bit north it was a different story. Okanogan County reported at 10:38 a.m. Monday that electric utilities were experiencing small outages around the county, including Nespelem Valley Electric Cooperative. "It was the heavy, wet snow that was the culprit," NVEC General Manager Kevin Black said Tuesday as his linemen were finishing repairs near Bridgepo...
The Grand Coulee Dam area Scouts put out “Scouting for Food” bags with flyers in them this past weekend and hope to pick them up full on Saturday. They ask you to “please put nonperishable food or other donations out Saturday, November 12 by 9 a.m.” All donations will go to the local Care and Share Food Bank located at the Church of the Nazarene....
Michael Phillip Horne was born on November 7th, 1967 in Bellevue, WA. Mike left us all too soon on the morning of Wednesday, October 26th, 2022. Mike was a council member for the City of Grand Coulee, WA, as well as the owner of MPH Repair and MPH Hi Dam Bar & Grill. He worked hard and put his heart into every project he took on, whether it was his own creative idea or something to help someone else. He was always willing to jump in lending a hand to his community, friends and family. He was an...
Frank Edward Whitham, 81, of Grand Coulee, Washington passed into the arms of his Lord Jesus the evening of Friday, October 21, 2022. Frank was born Wednesday, December 11, 1940 in Omaha, Nebraska to Frank O. and Gladys F. Whitham. Following graduation from Reseda High School in Reseda, California where he was a standout member of the Football and Pole Vault teams; Frank went on to work for the Aerospace Industry with Lockheed Martin as a welder and supervisor specializing in working with...
The Grand Coulee branch of North Cascades Bank is continuing to collect winter gear donations through the month of November for local children in need. Items they are seeking include new or gently used snow pants, gloves, scarves and winter boots. All items will be donated to the Grand Coulee Dam School District K-12 and will be distributed to those students in need during the upcoming cold months. Please help our local youth stay warm and dry during these challenging times....
Alysias Wegner and Evan Brown of Coulee Dam, Washington, are proud to announce the birth of their son Nickolis Orrin Brown, Sunday, November 6, 2022, at Coulee Medical Center in Grand Coulee, Washington. He weighed 6 lbs., 6 oz., and was 19 inches in length at birth. Siblings include Evander Brown, Zayne Brown, Jaxon Desautel, Ayiah Desautel and Quinn Brown....
Christmas is on our minds! Trees of Sharing 2022 has launched it's program. Now through November 15 children's names may be submitted on “wish slips” and placed in decorated collection boxes at Safeway Pharmacy, Coulee Medical Center or Harvest Foods. If you know a family with children under age 18 living in the Coulee as far north as Belvedere that could use the encouragement of having Christmas gifts provided, please take time to fill out Trees of Sharing slips for each of their children. (Note that school-age children must be enrolled in...
PRELIMINARY BUDGET HEARING NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that The Town of Nespelem will hold the 2023 Preliminary Budget Public Hearing at Town Hall, 330 9th, Nespelem, WA 99155, November 9th, 2022 at 5:00 pm. Copies of the 2022 preliminary budget are available at Town Hall during business hours. All interested person will be give the opportunity to provide written or oral comments. Town Hall is handicap accessible. Arrangements to reasonably accommodate special needs, including handicap accessibility or interpreter, will be made upon receiving...
A federal funding problem that could have cost the Grand Coulee Dam School District millions in future years, and several just past, has apparently been averted, Nespelem School District Superintendent Effie Dean said Monday. Federal authorities reviewing a practice the two districts have used for decades to share federal Impact Aid took exception to it last spring. The two districts, since 1995, have operated under a memorandum of understanding (MOU) that some of the money from the federal Impact Aid program coming into Nespelem would be...
Grand Coulee city council member and business owner Mike Horne died unexpectedly on Oct. 26 at the age of 54. Horne had served on the Grand Coulee city council since November of 2016, and lived and worked in the city, owning both MPH Auto and the Hi Dam tavern. "The City was saddened to learn of the passing of Mike Horne," a Nov. 1 statement from the city reads. "Mike served on the Grand Coulee City Council from November 2016 to present. We greatly appreciate Mike's years of service to the...
