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In a statement from the Middletown Teachers Association, it was announced that an agreement between the Association and the Middletown Unified School District had been reached. The agreement includes a contingency-based salary increase, improved training flexibility, support for colleagues, fair compensation for bilingual teachers, and individualized education program meeting clarity. Coincidentally, approval by both parties … Read more

The Ukiah Unified School District has learned that it’s federal School-Based Mental Health Grant has been cancelled by the U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration. The funding, which supports critical student support services, is scheduled to end December 31st of this year despite the fact that two and a half years remain on … Read more

At the most recent meeting of the Middletown Unified School District Board of Trustees, the board voted unanimously to accept and ratify a final agreement with the Middletown Teachers Association. The new agreement will allow the approval of new stipends for the current school year and includes a contingency for a potential 1% salary increase … Read more

The Mendocino National Forest is selling permits for personal-use firewood. Permits are $2 per cord with a minimum purchase of 10 cords, and a maximum of 12 cords per household. Permits can be purchased at Forest Service district offices in Willows, Stonyford, Upper Lake, or Covelo. Firewood collected within Lake and Mendocino counties is subject … Read more

The Lake County Fire Protection District, City of Clearlake and the Cal Fire Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit are conducting a controlled burn today and that will continue again on the 14th through the 16th between Walmart and Cache Creek Apartments. Expect smoke and fire equipment near Dam Road. There will be crews removing vegetation and pile burning.

Good news for the Clear Lake Hitch…biologists from the state fish and wildlife department doing counts of select streams and areas of Clearlake have said that in five weeks of sampling, week five resulted in a record 556 of the Hitch recording during electrofishing, which is one of the methodologies used to count the little … Read more

The Middletown Teachers Association and the School District have avoided a strike after coming to a tentative agreement. A strike vote in mid-April readied the Association to be able to walk out if the district didn’t respond to a request for negotiations. The strike vote was the first taken since the association formed over three … Read more

Firefighters were able to put down a vegetation fire before it spread near Willits yesterday. The fire was seen in the area of Ridgewood Road just after 1:30 pm. Fire crews and a helicopter were requested to fight the blaze. Crews were able to put down the fire with about five total acres burned.

The public comment period on the proposed fire hazard severity zone map that would place Lake County in the highest severity zone closes on the 13th. The map, released in early February added 14,000 acres of the county to the highest ranking for fire, an over 850% increase. County and city officials have stated that … Read more

The Lake County Tribal Health Consortium hosted its annual Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Day event this past Friday in Lakeport’s Xabatin Park. Over 1600 attended the event, meant to memorialize those lost and to raise awareness of the high number of missing and murdered indigenous people each year.