After five days of practice, the only thing that stood between two young golfers was 20 feet to the hole. The putting competition settled nothing as 12-year-olds Jordan Davis and Trevor Bishop matched birdies on the three holes in regulation and through the first two playoff holes. The two trained with about 30 boys and […]
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A Yuba City High School graduate will be on NBC’s “Today” show Friday morning to help incoming college students deal with debt. Justin Fiske, 22, took part in an Aug. 13 panel with five other college students. Each spoke about their experiences with financial aid, credit cards and work. Fiske said he was the only […]
Hundreds of healthy people went to the hospital Saturday to celebrate Nostalgia Day as part of Rideout Memorial Hospital’s 100th anniversary Saturday. The Marysville hospital was started in 1907 when local aristocrat Phebe Rideout donated her home for such a facility in honor of her husband, Norman Dunning Rideout, and her son, Norman Abbot Rideout. […]
Temperatures in the Yuba-Sutter area have been relatively normal this summer despite a heat wave at the beginning of July and an unseasonably strong storm at the month. After a three-day stretch above the century mark at the beginning of July, temperatures reached 100 degrees only once the rest of the month and stayed at […]
Wheatland Elementary School District received two grants totaling more than $700,000 to help students’ safety and mental health. A five-year, $500,000 grant was awarded to Lone Tree School under the state’s School Community Violence Prevention Program. The funds will go to provide an intervention counselor who will serve as a modified probation officer for students […]
Family fun will be served with hot dogs at the Brownsville Amphitheater during the first-time “Sunday in the Park” event this weekend. The event, hosted by the Brownsville Recreation Committee, will feature pony rides, egg races and a watermelon-eating contest. Each child that participates in the races will get a grab bag of goodies, and […]
A Browns Valley man pleaded guilty Tuesday to four child pornography charges in Sacramento federal court and is expected to plead guilty to another charge locally, officials said. Richard John Matuck will be sentenced to federal prison Oct. 16 after pleading guilty to three charges of producing images of child pornography and one count of […]
Yuba-Sutter traffic fatalities dropped significantly in the first half of 2007, according to the California Highway Patrol. Between Jan. 1 and June 15, there have been four fatalities, down from eight last year and 16 in 2005. Part of the decline has come from the drop in drunken driver and seatbelt-related fatalities. Only one death […]
Yuba and Sutter county residents are flipping on the lights Tuesday night for block parties to let criminals know their neighborhoods aren’t going to let crime happen. Law enforcement officials from both counties will be going to about 20 gatherings for National Night Out. The national event focuses on community awareness to prevent crimes. People […]
An expansion project for Yuba-Sutter Disposal Inc.’s Integrated Waste Recovery Facility in Marysville can go forward without further environmental reports, according to a city report. The project at the former landfill will allow YSDI to increase the amount of material it processes each day and the total amount of feedstock and compost material it can […]