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A “lift station” revamp to get west Coulee Dam’s sewage across the river to the city’s new wastewater plant was bid at $906,000, the city’s engineer reported Monday. Engineer Daniel Cowger of Varela Engineering recommended accepting the lowest responsive bid, submitted by Strider Construction, of Bellingham, Washington. The council accepted the bid, noting the city would be pursuing extended funding through a grant proposal Cowger recommended. The city council was wary of a long entanglement with another west-side outfit. City Councilme...
Care & Share Food Bank will give out Thanksgiving food on Friday, Nov 18 from 12-3 pm. We will be closed on Nov 25 for Thanksgiving. Join our Facebook group. Questions call Pastor Shawn at 633-2566....
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...
Ben Alling was awarded a Quilt of Valor during the Veterans Day program Monday at the Pomeroy School District, where his grandsons, Logan and Colby Ledgerwood, have attended school. Alling enlisted in the United States Army on May 31, 1968. His rank started as a private and he worked his way up to an SP5. He was stationed at Fort Lewis, Washington for his basic training, after which he was sent to Aberdeen Proving Grounds in Maryland for an 11-week welding course. He came out an honor graduate....
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...
A community dinner will be held in honor of Steve Hood at the American Legion building in Electric City on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. As of last Saturday, Hood is now in the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame after a career - and in reality, a lifestyle - of coaching and preparing his athletes to win matches and tackle life's tussles. In his day job, he taught auto shop for 33 years at Lake Roosevelt High School, but he found time to volunteer in the community after...
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...
An Electric City couple pressed the city council Tuesday to start a discussion on the in-town deer population, which they said is now increasing and becoming a problem. Robbin and Carol Boyce said they’ve lived in the area since 1989 but never had problems with deer before 2010, and now it’s getting worse. Carol Boyce described problems with deer now ranging from her apparently tasty forsytvuhia bushes that are “just about toast” to an overly familiar buck who spooked her visiting adult granddaughter by coming too close behind her in the yar...
A Veterans Day assembly will be held at Lake Roosevelt on Nov. 10 from 9-10 a.m. in the high school gym, and veterans and their families are welcome to attend. Middle school and high school bands will be performing patriotic marches, and a slideshow will be presented showing veterans from the local area, their names, dates of service, and which branch of the military they served in....
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....
The annual Free Thanksgiving Dinner at the Grand Coulee Senior Center will be held on Thursday, Nov. 17. Doors open 4 pm. The center will be closing its doors at noon to set up. Call 633-2321 or stop in to sign up by Nov. 15 at center. Limited to 150. Open to public....
Legendary Raider wrestling coach Steve Hood, who retired in 2019, is being inducted into the Washington State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Hood will be inducted into the hall of fame in Yakima on Nov. 5, and a community dinner will be held at the American Legion building in Electric City on Sunday, Nov. 13 at 3 p.m. That free dinner will include a main dish, and attendees are encouraged to bring sides, salads, and desserts for a potluck. More information can be found by...
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...
Local voters will decide if the Grand Coulee Dam School District will receive levy funding supported by property taxes in the election that wraps up on Nov. 8. The levy resolution approved by the school board seeks only $2 per $1,000 of assessed property value from 2023 through 2025, compared to the current rate of $4.20. The levy collection rate for the GCDSD has fluctuated in the past 10 years, with a $100,000 home paying $437 to the district from 2012 through 2015, $395 from 2016-2018, $320...
A Veterans Day assembly will be held at Lake Roosevelt on Nov. 10 from 9-10 a.m. in the high school gym, and veterans and their families are welcome to attend. Middle school and high school bands will be performing patriotic marches, and a slideshow will be presented showing veterans from the local area, their names, dates of service, and which branch of the military they served in. Further submissions for that will be accepted up until Nov. 8, band teacher Gabriel James said. "The more the...
A tragedy that unfolded in Keller Thursday quickly spread to Nespelem as police searched through the night for suspects in the killing of two people and the shooting of a police officer in Keller. As police from agencies far and near answered a call not heard by residents listening to scanners for clues about what was happening, Colville Tribal Emergency Services posted a warning on Facebook about 7 p.m. asking Nespelem residents to stay in their homes. The mayor also issued that plea and added...
The Bonneville Power Administration is in negotiations to take over three switchyards in the Grand Coulee area. “The Bonneville Power Administration and the Bureau of Reclamation are negotiating the transfer of ownership, operations and maintenance of three Grand Coulee switchyards and the associated switch gear from Reclamation to BPA,” reads a joint statement from the two agencies in response to a Star inquiry. “The agencies have drafted multiple Memoranda of Understanding that will facilitate the transfer,” the statement continues. “It is im...
Retail chain Dollar General is looking to build a store in Grand Coulee. During Grand Coulee’s Oct. 18 council meeting, a man named Darryl Hackworth spoke during the public comment period, and said he has been working with Dollar General for the past few months, and said they are interested in acquiring city property on Federal Way behind where it intersects with Midway Avenue. “I think it would be a good move for the city,” he said, adding that he works for the Bonneville Power Administration, which plans on doing work locally that could...
by Jacob Wagner School is an institution built around educating students, and now the local school district has student representatives. The Grand Coulee Dam School District approved the appointment of two student representatives from the student body during their Oct. 24 school board meeting. Juniors Layla Flett and Celeste LaPlace will fill those positions. LaPlace, the daughter of the Board Chairman George LaPlace, had made a presentation to the board back in January about having student representatives. “A lot of my friends think no one car...
The Colville Indian Reservation will have greater internet access thanks to a large federal grant. “The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation accepted a federal grant to construct internet infrastructure across the Colville Reservation in the amount of $48,405,830.78,” an Oct. 12 press release from the tribes reads. “Construction will occur over the next five years, and the specific final scope of the project is yet to be determined. “Fiber will be connected directly to homes as much as possible. Where it is not possible, wireless ser...
Young students and Lake Roosevelt Elementary take a cheer clinic Tuesday afternoon with high school Raider cheerleaders. Some of them will be seen on the football field at halftime this Friday night. - Jacob Wagner photo...
The Colville Tribes and top federal officials of the Environmental Protection Agency met Tuesday to discuss and announce proposed changes to air quality regulations that affect some Indian reservations, including the Colville Reservation. The Federal Air Rules for Reservations (FARR) apply to all residents and businesses on or within 39 reservations in Washington, Oregon and Idaho. The Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation hosted the EPA's deputy administrator, Janet McCabe, and...
The Colville Tribes announced Friday night that the final suspect in this week's shootings on the Colville Reservation is now in the custody of law enforcement. The arrest follows the apprehension of two other suspects earlier today. Curry Pinkham was arrested in Elmer City by Colville Tribal Police, a post on the Colville Tribes Emergency Services Facebook announced at 6:08 p.m. “Details of this tragic event are still being assembled as law enforcement investigates,” Jarred-Michael Erickson, chairman of the Colville Tribes, said in a sta...
Two suspects are in custody and a third is still being sought in last night's shooting and chase, which police have revealed killed two and injured a police officer. Colville Tribal Emergency Services said in a Facebook post at 2:52 p.m. Friday that police are still searching for Curry Pinkham. Anyone with information on where he is asked to call tribal police at 509-634-2472. Residents in the Nespelem and Keller areas are still asked to remain indoors. An earlier update today had named Pinkham...