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Grand Coulee Police 4/12 - Police issued a public nuisance infraction to an E Street woman who owns pigs that keep getting loose and into other peoples’ property. The issue is ongoing. 4/13 - The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office pursued a stolen vehicle on “the old Grand Coulee highway.” A Grand Coulee officer was going to assist, but the suspect was in custody of Lincoln County officers prior to the Grand Coulee officer arriving at Road V and Road 52, where the stolen vehicle was stuck in a field. 4/15 - A man was banned from the hospita...
OLYMPIA – Starting today everyone 16 and older who wants a COVID-19 vaccine can receive one in Washington. The eligibility expansion marks the four-month anniversary of vaccine rollout in our state. Since mid-December, nearly 4.3 million doses of COVID-19 vaccine have been administered across the state. More than 2.67 million people have received at least one dose and more than 23% of Washingtonians are fully vaccinated. Opening eligibility to everyone 16 and older will further protect our communities and help us get closer to crossing the f...
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...
Lake Roosevelt Schools are seeking a community review panel for their School Improvement Plan. “We are in the process of finalizing the LRHS School Improvement Plan (SIP) and would like feedback from our community stakeholders,” a description on the school’s website reads. The SIP is a document required by Washington State and “includes academic outcomes and action steps that focus on improving school goals, community engagement, equity, and other important factors for school success.” The SIP review will take place sometime from April 26-...
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....
Nez Perce descendents who are currently in fourth through eighth grades have until April 27 to apply for a free rafting trip down the Snake River in their ancestral Nez Perce homelands. The rafting trip program seeks to have 15 youth from three different areas with Nez Perce residents to go on a 32-river-mile trip along the Snake River July 25-29, which includes two nights camping along the river. The program, paid for with grant money from the Gray Family Foundation, is being conducted in a partnership between the Nez Perce Wallowa Homeland Pr...
A 65-room hotel or “Microtel” planned to be built in Grand Coulee is still delayed until further notice according to Caleb McNamara, a partner in the project. Construction on the multi-million dollar Microtel to be located along Midway Avenue was originally intended to start in the fall of 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the project. More on the project can be read at https://www.grandcoulee.com/story/2020/07/08/news/new-hotel-coming-to-grand-coulee/13197.html ....
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...
Drivers on SR-17 can expect delays Monday, April 19, from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. as a crew collects road core samples near Leahy Junction, where 17 meets SR-174, the highway from Grand Coulee to Bridgeport. Traffic will be flagger controlled, the Washington Department of Transportation says....
A woman standing on two horses and jumping through a hoop of fire is something you have to see, and can see, at this year's Colorama Rodeo. Haley Proctor, wife of Grand Coulee's own national rodeo star Shane Proctor, is a trick rider in rodeos herself. Having seen her uncle do trick riding when she was little, Haley Proctor got in trouble trying to do things she wasn't supposed to do like standing up on her horse or hanging off the side. So her parents told her if she was going to do trick...
Grant PUD announced last week that it would join in a partnership with two other entities to pursue building a nuclear power project. The county-based utility that already operates two hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River will work with Energy Northwest and X-energy, in a "TRi Energy Partnership," a "mutual partnership to support the development and commercial demonstration of the country's first advanced nuclear reactor," the public utility district announced in a press release Thursday....
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...
After stealing a bus and leading officers on a chase across Grant County, a Grand Coulee man has been sentenced to just over three years in prison. Richard Manley, 62, stole a Grant Transit Authority bus Feb. 3 in Moses Lake at the bus station and drove it, pursued by officers, to Electric City, where the bus ended up on the side of the road and Manley was arrested. No one else was on the bus. Manley pleaded guilty Feb. 22 and was sentenced for the incident, the Columbia Basin Herald reported...
Twenty-six candidates will vie for six seats in the primary runoff for the Colville Business Council coming in May. There are seven out of 14 total positions up for election to the Colville Business Council, the governing body of the Colville Tribes. The Keller District will not need a primary runoff because it has just two candidates, and they will face off in the general election in June. The primaries to narrow these races down to two candidates are set for May, with polls open on May 8, poll votes certified on May 10, and absentee votes...
Grant Public Utility District has seen a large increase in overdue accounts since the COVID-19 pandemic started. In January of 2020, before the pandemic, Grant PUD had just 39 residential customers in the 90-days-or-more overdue category, amounting to $1,012 in outstanding payments, Chief Customer Officer Dave Churchman told commissioners at their March 23 meeting. In February of 2021, just over a year later, the numbers had gone up to 1,072 customers 90 days or more overdue, amounting to $286,395 in outstanding payments. Churchman said the per...
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...
The Washington State Parks Winter Recreation Program announced today that the price of Sno-Park permits will increase when they go on sale again Nov. 1. This will be the first increase since 2009. The price increases reflect the rising costs of Sno-Park operations, which include trail grooming, plowing, clearing lots and roads, bathroom maintenance, fuel and staffing. In addition, the program has had to replace aging equipment, including snowcats. Finally, over the last 12 years, the program opened several new permanent Sno-Parks and created...
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
Grant PUD, along with Energy Northwest and X-energy, announced they would be partnering on a nuclear power project. An April 1 press release from Grant PUD explained that the TRi Energy Partnership is “a mutual partnership to support the development and commercial demonstration of the country’s first advanced nuclear reactor.” The release says that “the partners will collaborate and share resources to evaluate their mutual goal of siting, building, and operating a Xe-100 advanced nuclear power plant at an existing Energy Northwest site north o...
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
If awarded a grant, Grand Coulee’s Shane Proctor Park could have new playground equipment, a half-court basketball court, and more. The city of Grand Coulee applied for a $162,000 grant from the Ephrata-based Paul Lauzier Foundation to make improvements to the park located along SR-174 between the gas station and the Mexican restaurant. The grant would pay for new playground equipment and playground surface, a half-court basketball court, and to make the park compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act. “The last couple of years the...
The Colorama Rodeo this year will include a show put on by Jason Dent, also known as Whistle-Nut, and his pet bull that he can ride around like a horse. Whistle-Nut is an entertainer, barrel man, clown, and stuntman "all rolled into one," he told The Star over the phone on Monday. "We're the real deal. ... They can expect to really be wowed," he said about his show that includes comedy, stunts, and personal interaction with the crowd. Ole (pronounced OH-lee), now 15 years old, was trained as a...
A Nespelem man was sentenced in federal court earlier this month to two years in prison for threatening his already-battered ex-girlfriend over social media, US Attorney Joseph H. Harrington said. Davis Henderson Tatshama Sr., age 36, an enrolled member of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, was sentenced March 17 after pleading guilty on December 17, 2020 to “Threats in Interstate Commerce.” In January 2020, over the course of approximately 11 hours, Tatshama sent a series of Facebook messages to his ex-girlfriend, who is als...