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Portola sends Tigers to first-ever championship game

The Portola community braved the first snow flurries of the season early on Nov. 30 to send off the Tigers football team to its first-ever championship game. Eight emergency vehicles with lights flashing and...

Drama group offers laughs during fall performance for parents

Young thespians capped off a semester of theatre education with a Nov. 18 performance in Quincy for family and friends. The drama group, called Magic Beanstalk Players, is a program of the nonprofit dramaworks...

Supervisors honor Board Clerk Allen Hiskey

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors joined its counterparts around the state in recognizing the Board clerk for the many services he provides that are essential to the lives of Californians. Plumas County Board Clerk...

Sheriff pushes for undersheriff pay raise

Pay levels within the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office were once again before the Plumas County Board of Supervisors Nov. 14, this time with the aim of bringing the undersheriff salary into line with the...

‘The Addams Family’ brings love to spooky season, new technology to West End Theatre

The humorously macabre themes of “The Addams Family,” performed in late October, made it an apt choice to open the 2023-2024 community drama lineup at dramaworks/West End Theatre. Meeting the challenges of this production...

Plumas County HR director faces felony charges 

Plumas County Human Resources Director Nancy Louise Selvage faces three criminal counts stemming from her alleged activity as a department head on and following May 17, 2022.  Plumas County District Attorney David Hollister filed a...

Supervisors approve additional $50,000 for payroll system implementation

Can $50,000 end what Supervisor Jeff Engel called “the Munis nightmare?” For more than 5 years, the county has been struggling to transition from one payroll system, Penamation, to another, Munis—expending over $1 million and...

Greenville parade honors veterans

Veterans in dress blues, Blue Star Moms, horses in red, white and blue, and kids waving American flags paraded down Greenville’s Main Street Nov. 11 in a show of support for the men and...

Spending PG&E settlement draws ongoing discussion

The Plumas County Board of Supervisors continued to discuss how to spend the county’s $7.8 million Pacific Gas & Electric Co. settlement fund at their Nov. 7 session.  In a half-hour conversation that hinted at...

Plumas Supervisors honor Richard Fletcher, all veterans

Richard Fletcher was honored Nov. 7 in a courthouse observance that recognized all the men and women who have served the nation and Plumas County in the Armed Forces. The brief ceremony, held by the...

November 2023 election results: Voters approve Beckwourth Peak Fire District in unofficial count

If unofficial election results hold, Eastern Plumas County will have a brand-new fire district following overwhelming voter approval Nov. 7 of the Beckwourth Peak Fire Protection District. The Plumas County Elections Office reported that Measure...

Bookmobile aims to expand library services in Greenville and beyond

Plumas County will soon have another way to access books and library services: a new Plumas County Library bookmobile is scheduled for delivery early next year. Its most pressing immediate mission? To help meet...

Voters will determine the fate of the Chester Fire Department

The future of the Chester Fire Department is in limbo pending the outcome of a Nov. 7 ballot measure designed to provide relief to the financially troubled district.  Measure D would authorize the Chester Public...

Project Read puts books in the hands of children and families countywide

My 11-year-old son Everett actually bounces up and down with excitement. “Are they having one of those free book things?” he asks as we walk up to the Quincy branch of the Plumas County...

Supervisors deliberate how to spend $7.8 million Dixie civil settlement

Plumas County officials are weighing how to spend $10 million in Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and insurance payments to the county for damages incurred by the 2021 Dixie fire, which burned nearly one...

Greenville celebrates Highway 89 project

A downtown enhancement project over a decade in the making came to fruition Oct. 21 when local, county and state officials formally dedicated improvements to Highway 89 as it passes through Greenville.  Locally known as...

Transportation commission seeks community input

The Plumas County Transportation Commission is seeking vital community input as part of the process of updating the county’s regional transportation plan. “Community, stakeholder, and partner feedback is critical to helping PCTC develop an...

No courthouse on Dame Shirley

Dame Shirley Plaza will not be the site of a new state-owned courthouse in Quincy.  The Plumas County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 on Oct. 17 to send a message to the Judicial Council of...

Supervisors to discuss Dame Shirley Plaza Oct. 17

Dame Shirley Plaza lies just beyond the Plumas County Board of Supervisors meeting room, but it will be on the table Oct. 17 as the supervisors decide whether to sell the grass-covered parcel to...

Fundraiser Oct. 15 to benefit victims of Blairsden fire

Beloved legacy businesses Gumba's Restaurant and the Village Baker in Blairsden were totally destroyed by fire in the early morning hours of Sept. 15, leaving a community still in shock. On Sunday, Oct. 15,...
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