Coulee Dam News

I'm not really a city person - well, a big city person, that is. I grew up in a bedroom community with a pleasant mix of town and country.

New MAC exhibit offers a glimpse of our regiona TMs brief Golden Age of art, and how it came to be during The Great Depression Jim Kershner The Spokesman-Review Among the works by Spokane's Z. Vanessa Helder on display at the MAC are, from top, "Jackhammer Crew," "Grand Coulee Dam Looking West" and "Sunday Morning in Grand Coulee," all circa 1939.

Henry J. Kaiser developed an extensive and complex industrial empire. During the construction of the Grand Coulee Dam in Washington, he began an association with Sidney Garfield, MD, that resulted in the prototype of the modern health maintenance organization.

Project labor agreements, in which governments award contracts for public construction projects exclusively to unionized firms, have been around for decades.

Overview of the Water-Energy Nexus in the U.S. Go 18025 Updated September 2009 Introduction State legislatures and natural resource managers have traditionally addressed water and energy as two separate issues.

Two Deer Park men have been identified as accomplices in a pharmacy robbery police linked to a 20-year-old woman.

Our city, like many, is facing some challenging times. Often, the reaction is to retreat; to bunker down a ' maybe even to start giving our responsibilities to others.

Ferry service at Keller was suspended Oct. 8 until further notice after a leak was discovered in the hull of the Martha S. The suspension of service on state Highway 21 across the Columbia River 'is ample evidence that our communities need a new ferry,' Colville Business Council Chairman Michael Finley said.

Grand Coulee Dam Visitor Center began its winter hours of operation, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily, on Oct.

Growing up around engineers and fisheries biologists, I'm wired to go sightseeing at fish ladders, salmon-spawning creeks - and dams.

Lopez resident Ralph Nansena TMs new book, Energy Crisis: Solution from Space discusses a bold solution for the problems we face today: dependence on oil as our primary energy source, global climate change caused by the proliferation of carbon dioxide, and the threat of wars over diminishing oil supplies.

Posted: Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009 - 4:47 p.m. PDT Tribe offers praise for fire response NESPELEM - The Colville Confederated Tribes issued a statement Sept.

"After Work," by Rich Beyer and Steve Love, honors the workers who built the Grand Coulee Dam.

A wildfire near Nespelem has forced officials to evacuated people near the Bureau of Indian Affairs.

A Nespelem school bus was damaged Sept. 10 in a crash on state Highway 155 at the north city limits of Elmer City.

I was disappointed in the underlying racism and blatant fear-mongering of Rich Landers' article on Aug.

Crews from at least six local fire districts are fighting a wildfire between Elmer City and Coulee Dam Friday evening.

The Revelstoke Unit 5 turbine has been delayed at Shelter Bay for the second time in as many weeks.

In August 1953 our parents took my three siblings and me on a month-long trip to the West Coast.

The Unit 5 turbine is currently at Shelter Bay. It had been scheduled to make the final leg of its journey this past weekend, but the move has been delayed for a week.