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- Marysville fire, police, EMS prep for big dig
- By Eric Vodden/A-D Reporter
- Marysville motorists won't be the only ones having to negotiate an ever-changing series of detours while Caltrans completes its $48 million two-year roadway reconstruction project.
Fire engines, ambulances and law enforcement vehicles will have to c... Full story
- Pomp and circumstance at Yuba College graduation
- By Rob Parsons/A-D Reporter
- Yuba Community College graduate Jeni Alcantar has one thing on her mind now.
"Jobs, jobs, jobs," the 25-year-old Radiological Technology alumnus said. "I want to get that first paycheck."
Alcantar, a Chico native, was one of more than 200 Yuba Coll... Full story
- Music will fill Plumas Street in Yuba City
- By David Bitton/A-D Reporter
- Live music will fill the air on Plumas Street on Saturday as 10 bands are set to perform during a free 10-hour concert.
"It is a thank you to the community for the support we've had the last five years," said Terri Tomlinson, co-chairwoman of the Su... Full story
- Let the road work really begin in Marysville
- By Eric Vodden/A-D Reporter
- Motorists traveling on state highways through Marysville will soon begin facing traffic disruptions and detours as Caltrans starts work on a $48 million, two-year roadway renovation project.
Work is planned to begin the first week of June on what wi... Full story
- Veteran regrets no combat in Korea
- By Eric Vodden/A-D Reporter
- A hint of regret can be detected in Frank Rodrigues' words when he describes his time serving in the Korean War.
"I had the feeling I never contributed enough," said the US Navy veteran, who admittedly made a pest of himself when he kept asking his ... Full story
- Downtown success seen as key to Bounce Back
- By Eric Vodden/A-D Reporter
- Improving downtown Marysville is the key to the city's Bounce Back initiative being successful, the architect of the plan told a small gathering of business owners.
Marysville City Manager Walter Munchheimer told the group Thursday evening the best ... Full story
- Taxing time for filers
- By Laura van der Meer/A-D Web Editor
- Larry Harris of Yuba City, who has been busy dealing with his wife's health issues, finally got his taxes done this week for the April 15 filing deadline.
"It's a little stressful taking care of her and I just didn't realize tax time was here alread... Full story
- Yuba City parkway accents Feather River
- Ribbon cutting set for April 27
- By Ryan McCarthy/A-D Reporter
- The Feather River Parkway where they will cut a ribbon April 27 rests next to the river that is responsible for Yuba City's start.
When Yuba City was laid out on the west side of the Feather River in the mid-19th century, its population rival was Ma... Full story
- Court could avoid ruling on gay marriage ban
- The Supreme Court suggested Tuesday it could find a way out of the case over California's ban on same-sex marriage without issuing a major national ruling on whether America's gays have a right to marry.... Full story
- West Linda blends a mix of lives
- By David Bitton/A-D Reporter
- Crime and violence haven't yet reached the place Betty Barlage has called home for 43 years.
But it's creeping closer to her west Linda house.
A drive-by shooting last month one block over on Poplar Avenue left one person dead, three injured and on... Full story
- Korea: Hot war in cold land
- By Ryan McCarthy/A-D Reporter
- Ask Yuba City resident Hugh Huff about the cold in Korea, and he talks about how peanut butter and Tootsie Rolls sent to soldiers would freeze.
Huff, 82, spoke about more epic events than freezing food — the landing at Inchon, Gen. Douglas Mac... Full story
- Argentine Jorge Bergoglio elected Pope Francis
- By NICOLE WINFIELD/Associated Press
- VATICAN CITY (AP) -- Argentine Jorge Bergoglio was elected pope Wednesday and chose the papal name Francis, becoming first pontiff from the Americas and the first from outside Europe in more than a millennium.
A stunned-looking Bergoglio shyly waved... Full story
- Yuba City man recounts hellish POW experience in Korean War
- By Rob Parsons/A-D Reporter
- His hands bound behind him, Yuba City's Obie Wickersham knelt in a South Korean ditch, stared at the large-caliber Chinese machine gun propped on the roadway above and waited to die.
"We knew they were killing (prisoners of war)," Wickersham recalle... Full story
- New Year's resolutions hold strong in Y-S
- Laura van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat
- If you made a New Year's resolution, chances are about six out of 10 you are still going strong by now.
A December study by the University of Scranton's Journal of Clinical Psychology, with data listed on the website StatisticBrain.com, indicates th... Full story
- State of Yuba City: Positioned for economic progress
- Officials bullish about finances
- By Ryan McCarthy/ADrmccarthy
- Public improvements and prudent finances in Yuba City leave it well-positioned for better economic times that can bring more business, city officials maintain.
Work that includes improvements to levees and Highway 99 means the largest city in Sutter... Full story
- State of Yuba-Sutter's economy: Recovery appears under way
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- When Brynda Stranix took the helm at the Yuba-Sutter Economic Development Corp. in 2009, it wasn't an easy time to work for business expansion in the region.
The economy, lagging behind the rest of California even in good times, was still headed for... Full story
- Mid-Valley duck season ends with mixed results
- By Ryan McCarthy/ADrmccarthy
- Weather brought mixed results for the duck hunting season in Yuba and Sutter counties.
Jon Munger, a member of the Dingville Duck Club in Sutter County, said the season — which started in October and ended on Sunday — began strongly and,... Full story
- Habitat for Humanity on hold
- ReStore opened without permit
- By Griffin Rogers/ADgriffinrogers
- The day after its ceremonious grand opening in downtown Marysville, Habitat for Humanity was forced to close its ReStore following a decision by the city's Planning and Historic Preservation Commission on Wednesday that questioned the charity's opera... Full story
- Farm bill front and center
- Laura van der Meer/Appeal-Democrat
- As lawmakers in Washington, DC, work to decide which bills they will take up this year, farmers across the nation are monitoring the progress of a new farm bill.
Congress failed to pass a farm bill last year, despite being approved by the Senate and... Full story
- Double murderer gets two life sentences
- Friends, family of victims appear in Sutter County Court
- By Rob Parsons/ADcrimebeat
- Jack and Susan Martin’s friends and family vented two years of agony and fury this morning before Joseph Simlick was formally sentenced in Sutter County Superior Court for the couple’s brutal slaying in 2010.
Jack Martin’s sister, ... Full story
- Mosque blaze changed community
- By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack
- When a new, 12,000-square-foot mosque on Tierra Buena Road burned to the ground on Sept. 1, 1994, it was not investigated as a hate crime.
Images of planes flying into buildings had not yet been embedded in imaginations across the Western Hemisphere... Full story
- Yuba leaders predict bright future
- State of Things: Yuba County in 2013
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- If Yuba County is a stock, county Assessor Bruce Stottlemeyer said he's buying.
"I think generally speaking, what's going to happen is a lot more predictable than where we've been," said Stottlemeyer, who assumed his office two years ago and has wor... Full story
- Sales of new homes remain sluggish in Yuba-Sutter
- By Griffin Rogers/ADgriffinrogers
- If house sizes were used as a metaphor to show last year's growth in new home sales, Sacramento would be a mansion and Yuba-Sutter would be a studio with no running water and a leaky roof.
A statewide surge in new home sales last year left Yuba-Sutt... Full story
- Tattered US flags burned in American Legion ceremony
- By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack
- It's been a long time since most of them wore a uniform or took orders.
But the US military veterans gathered Sunday at American Legion Post 807 stood at attention and saluted like it was second nature.
The post headquarters on Feather River Boulev... Full story
- No day in the park at Marysville's Riverfront
- By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack
- A faded, badly deteriorated sign marking the Beckwourth Riverfront Park boat launch facility helps tell the tale of the park's demise.
Lettering on the once-grand marker claims that the city of Marysville maintained the site.
Evidence of any such m... Full story
- Yuba-Sutter cautious on Brown’s budget plan
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- Though Gov. Jerry Brown may have painted his proposed 2013-14 budget on Thursday as the first one with good news in several years, Yuba-Sutter officials said they're taking a more cautious stance.
In his presentation, Brown said the state's improved... Full story
- Mr. George to close Marysville barbershop
- Shop's been open almost 40 years
- By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack
- For almost 40 years, it has been second only to church as the most popular meeting spot for black residents of Yuba-Sutter.
Mr. George's barbershop — part fraternal order, part debate club, part black history museum and part volunteer clearing... Full story
- Old west Sutter County school may get new life
- By Griffin Rogers/ADgriffinrogers
- From elementary school to rat den, there is no doubt the 100-plus-year-old Slough School in west Sutter County has been neglected.
But the landmark one-room schoolhouse may see new life if it is partially restored as a result of a pending sale that ... Full story
- Read all about it: Check out the library – it’s still relevant
- By Ryan McCarthy/Appeal-Democrat
- Miles Smith goes to grade papers, Boeranda Mullins to read online and in print and Steve Clark to learn more about the late actor Jimmy Stewart.
Yuba City resident Clark, 66, was reading a Stewart biography he bought at a bookstore and taken with hi... Full story
- Plumas Lake residents hungry for new businesses
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- If you ask any Plumas Lake resident what's missing in the south Yuba County community, expect a long answer.
"Starbucks!" exclaims one woman. Others list a grocery store, a pizza place, a sandwich shop, a pedicure salon and a frozen yogurt shop.
"T... Full story
