The total value of Lake County agriculture has dropped to a level not seen in a decade. The 2020 Ag Report says the county’s 2020 gross agricultural value is down 30% from the previous year. Significant downturns in the area of winegrapes, walnuts and timber negatively affected the county’s bottom line. Winegrapes alone account for … Read more
The Clearlake Area Highway Patrol office is investigating a crash over the weekend that killed a Redding woman. Sunday morning, CHP’s Ukiah Communication Center received a call of a vehicle crash on Highway 20, east of Walker Ridge Road. Northshore Fire responded to the scene and confirmed the driver had died of her injuries. CHP … Read more
A Willits man has been arrested on charges of felony evasion over the weekend. Jessie L. Davenport fled a traffic stop and led officers on a brief chase which officers abandoned due to safety issues. His vehicle was found abandoned. The next morning at another traffic stop, he was found to be the passenger in … Read more
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office says it will conduct a full length, 3 minute test of the warning sirens in several communities at 11am on Monday. Sirens in Middletown, Anderson Springs, Cobb, Loch Lomond, and Kelseyville Riviera, will be tested, with messaging sent out through LakeCoAlerts and Nixle notifying residents of the test.
Lakeport has been allocated $1.2 million in COVID State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds from the federal government, and yesterday, the City Council considered a list of projects that could be accomplished with those funds, which must be earmarked by the end of 2024. The four projects on a shortlist of those that fit into … Read more
Ukiah PD during a traffic stop last week discovered a ghost gun. An item dropped from the vehicle was found to be a 9mm semi-automatic pistol with a high capacity magazine, that had no serial numbers, making it untraceable, thereby a “ghost gun”. The 16-year-old passenger was arrested by UPD, and booked into the Mendocino … Read more
The California Transportation Commission last week allocated $589 million for road repair projects across the state. Just over $19 million has been earmarked for improvements at Pudding Creek Bridge on Route 1, pavement and guardrail upgrades on Route 1 from north of Rockport Street to U.S. 101 near Leggett, a multi-purpose paved trail along Route … Read more
At the next meeting of the Clearlake City Council on Thursday, one of the main items on the agenda will be to consider support for the Lake Area Planning Council’s plan to form a regional energy network. According to the Lake County News, City Manager Alan Flora’s report to the council said that Rural RENs … Read more
The judge in a child pornography case in Lake County has said no to a plea agreement that would have not have given the defendant any jail time. Judge Shanda Harry rejected Jeffery Scott Cramer’s guilty plea during his sentencing hearing. Cramer was arrested in May of 2020 after an investigation by the Lake County … Read more
The Lake County Library has scheduled a new virtual Adult Literacy Program to begin on Wednesday. The two, two hour training sessions will take place on Zoom, hosted by the new adult literacy program coordinator Georgina Marie Guardado, who is also Lake County’s current poet laureate.