Northern California ocean salmon anglers will get plenty of time on the water this year, and some commercial fishing will be allowed after being shut down for the past two years.
Trumpeting her outsider status, Arcata Republican Karen Brooks kicked off her campaign to become California’s next 1st District Assemblymember at an event Thursday.
The Russian River Flood Control District voted earlier this week to restore its water rates to what the district was charging in 2008.
Ukiah Unified School District trustees voted Tuesday night to eliminate more classified positions from next year’s school budget to cope with the deficit.
Citizens from around the Ukiah area who are concerned about what local Tea Party Rally organizers termed “the unrestrained growth in the size and scope of government” will rally today to promote individual liberty, free market ideals and Constitutional principles.
You won’t find any root-bound plants or ones adapted to climates much different than that of the Ukiah area at this plant sale.
The North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board is seeking comments on proposed changes to the quality and quantity of water discharged by the new Willits sewer plant.
The comment period ends April 30 with a public hearing to consider any objections scheduled for 8:30 a.
Little Lake Valley remained flooded Monday afternoon as a weekend storm finally drifted east after dropping 3.4 inches of rain.
The gloomy Monday had tempers somewhat frayed, with many in town bemoaning the seemingly incessant rains and lack of spring weather.
A 60-year-old Laytonville man was found dead of a suspected drug overdose in his home Sunday. An autopsy has been ordered.
Terry Allen Cohen had been scheduled for a mental competency hearing Friday to determine whether he was fit to face a retrial for the 2008 murder of Sean Jason Piper.
The deadline for public comment on the CalTrans application for the US Army Corps of Engineers permit is Friday. The design, environmental permits, and right of way acquisition are on schedule for the project to go out for bid this year, according to CalTrans.
Last week Kenneth Rogers, 52, of Westport, was sentenced to a term of 25 years to life in prison for the June 2005 attempted murder for hire of political rival Alan Simon, 53, also of Westport.
Rogers was found convicted by jury trial in July 2009 of conspiracy to commit first degree murder; attempted murder with special findings of willfulness, deliberation, and premeditation.
Two Willits men and a 17-year-old juvenile were stopped by Mendocino County sheriff’s deputies in Ukiah while walking on South State Street near the airport just after midnight Friday. The trio smelled strongly of alcohol; the juvenile was on probation and out past curfew.
Elvia Flores, a freshman at Live Oak High School, was last seen being dropped off at school Monday.
A 14-year-old Sutter County girl was back home with her mother Wednesday night after she was found in Gridley earlier in the day.
Elvia Flores was the subject of an Amber Alert and a widespread search in Sutter County after it was reported that she had been kidnapped Monday from Live Oak High School.
But based on interviews with Flores on Wednesday afternoon, “we don’t feel there was any type of abduction,” said Sutter County sheriff’s Sgt. Glen Mercer.
Sheriff’s officials reported that they received a call from the Gridley Police Department about 2 p.m. Wednesday advising them that a Gridley police officer had spotted Flores walking down an alley in the area of Oak Street and had taken her into custody.
Mercer said Flores and a girl who reported that she and Flores were kidnapped from Live Oak High School on Monday, apparently left the area of their own accord. He said it appears Flores left with the intention of visiting someone.
Flores was dropped off at the high school Monday by her mother. The other girl said that she and Flores had been abducted outside the high school by four or five men.
The girlfriend told deputies about the alleged abduction after the California Highway Patrol found her at a gas station in Orland.
Mercer said sheriff’s investigators are still deciding whether anyone will be charged with a crime.
In the contentious race for 4th District Supervisor, Virginia Bass supporters accuse donors to Bonnie Neely’s campaign of buying favor from the longtime Supervisor and Coastal Commission Chairwoman. They claim Neely’s future votes are bought and paid for.
But a 2006 campaign disclosure from the Bass for Mayor campaign gives a peek into how Virginia operates (click to enlarge):
Following a donation of “office rent” to the campaign valued at $4,500, Bass appointed Kneeland resident Lee Ulansey to the Eureka Planning Commission. The situation was fraught with weirdness, as we noted at the time:
One wonders what makes a “rural lifestyle” podium-pounder from Kneeland suitable for the Planning Commission in Eureka — the city where all hill folk will be rounded up and forced to live like rats in cages following the [county] General Plan Update, according to his supporters.
Ulansey owns a few properties in the rat’s-nest-by-the-bay, maybe that’s a sufficient qualification.
To make room for Ulansey, Bass pushed aside qualified commissioners who wanted to continue to serve, justifying the unusual move with an inarticulate defense about new blood.
Yet for other board appointments she followed normal procedure and re-appointed longtime members who wished to continue their positions.
The appointment was shot down when Bass failed to get a 4/5 vote required to approve an appointment from outside the city limits.
Ulansey’s name is written on the campaign statement form to replace Kramer Investments, which is crossed out.
In the current election cycle, Ulansey has donated $1500 to the Bass campaign.
So what can those developers slash HumCPR supporters expect from their generous monetary support to the Bass campaign if she wins?
Favors, apparently.
County opts not to join dam removal agreements [Daily Triplicate]
Supervisors seek ‘political leverage’ by not signing on
Del Norte County will not join two agreements to remove four dams on the Klamath River and use a basin-wide approach for restoration.
After months of considering whether to become a party to the agreements — which have already been signed by several stakeholder groups in California and Oregon, including tribes, irrigators, fisherman and government agencies — the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday opted not to join the collaborative effort in exchange for a chance to change the scope of what’s included in the dam removal package.
