News Staff The finance director for the city of Willits, in a public meeting last week, revealed that the city is facing an over $4.2 million budget shortfall. Manny Orozco attributes the city’s financial woes to a lack of financial leadership since 2020, when the finance director position for the city was left vacant. Audits have not … Read more
The Middletown Senior Center has received the Parade Pioneer Award for Middletown Days 2025. The celebration takes place this weekend, with the parade on Saturday, June 21, starting at 10 a.m. in downtown Middletown.
Saturday from 10 til 2 or until supplies run out, The U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 08-08 of Lake County, in partnership with the Konocti Women’s Service Club, will hold a complimentary life jacket giveaway for kids. The Konocti Women’s Service Club members will register and weigh the kids, and then qualified Flotilla members will … Read more
The Lake County Board of Supervisors meets today and will consider salary raises to county employees, review an appeal against a bioenergy project by Scotts Valley Energy Corporation, and discuss Behavioral Health Services’ short-term loan request due to the annual Medi-Cal claim pause.
The inaugural Soda Bay corridor Community Fest is set for Saturday, June 21, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Riviera Elementary School in the Kelseyville Riviera. The event is geared toward families, helping teach how to prepare for fire season.
The No Kings Day of Defiance protests on Saturday drew good crowds in both Fort Bragg and Willits. In Fort Bragg, some 1200 protestors lined over a half mile of Highway 1 from South Street to Boatyard Drive. As the sidewalks became crowded, groups continued to the west side of the highway and past the … Read more
The Lakeport City Council meets this evening and will hear a presentation from Sonoma Clean Power evaluating the feasibility of expanding their Community Choice Aggregation program, or the CCA program, into Lake County. The council will also consider the adoption of the city’s Active Transportation Plan. The Council will also consider measures to address delinquent … Read more
Peaceful protests were held all over the region on Saturday as part of Indivisible and the 50501 Project’s No Kings Day of Defiance. In Lakeport, roughly 1200 rallied downtown, the fourth such protest held this year. The demonstration was among the largest recorded in Lake County in the past few decades. The protest event was … Read more
More details on the death of a Clearlake teen. Andrew Robert, 14, was part of a group that had gone to Hidden Valley Lake for an outing. Robert’s backpack was found near Big Beach, containing his clothing and shoes, which led searchers to believe that he had entered the water. A candlelight vigil in his … Read more
Peaceful protests were held all over the region on Saturday as part of Indivisible and the 50501 Project’s No Kings Day of Defiance. In Lakeport, roughly 1200 rallied downtown, the fourth such protest held this year. The demonstration was among the largest recorded in Lake County in the past few decades. The protest event was … Read more