When mobile home park owners Bob and Dee Kearns lost a customer in the early 1970s, a new community care center was born. Thirty-three years later, that dream is kept alive by the first two doctors to staff what is now the Sutter North Medical Foundation’s Brownsville branch. Dr. William Hoffman and Dr. John Rose […]
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Fresh out of college, I took on a reporting internship at the Appeal-Democrat in Marysville. After my summer was over, I was offered a position as a copy editor.
Underneath the rush hour traffic on the 10th Street bridge, smaller engines send two wheels flying through the air off dirt ramps and sliding through steep curves. Riverfront Park hosts dirt bikers of all ages every Tuesday and Thursday night from 5 to 9:30 p.m. The main track is set aside for the more experienced […]
Wheatland firefighters got a scare Tuesday afternoon when a fire that charred one field leaped across Wheatland Road toward another. The blaze is believed to have started somewhere in a field next to the Wheatland Cemetery just after 1 p.m. Wheatland Fire Chief Darryl Stineman said the exact starting point was likely near Wheatland and […]
When mobile home park owners Bob and Dee Kearns lost a customer in the early 1970s, a new community care center was born. Thirty-three years later, that dream is kept alive by the first two doctors to staff what is now the Sutter North Medical Foundation’s Brownsville branch. Dr. William Hoffman and Dr. John Rose […]
Vintage aircraft performed rolls and spins and the roar of a U-2 spy plane shook the ground Friday afternoon at the Yuba County Airport. An estimated 100 spectators had their eyes trained to the skies above the airport watching stunt fliers perform thousands of feet in the air at the first day of the three-day […]
Sidewalks around Ellis Lake and throughout Marysville are getting torn apart so wheelchairs and baby strollers can roll. Work is already under way at 9th and D streets, where a construction crew is breaking up concrete curbs and putting in handicapped-accessible ramps to make the area compliant with the Americans with Disabilities Act, said assistant […]
A former state senator says he will run for the Republican nomination in the 2nd Assembly District seat in 2008. Jim Nielsen, 62, declared his intent after Jason Larrabee, the closest competition in his party, stepped aside and endorsed him Wednesday. Nielsen is best known for his time in the Senate from 1978 to 1990 […]
Sai Pa Thao still has a pea-size lump on his ankle from the fighting – and he’ll gladly press your finger to where shrapnel still rests under his skin after more than three decades. That lump is one of the many wounds he suffered in the Vietnam War. He received a Purple Heart in 2004. […]
With the spark of a flint, the click of an arrowhead and the whispers of a flute, about 40 children were whisked back more than 150 years to the time of the mountain men. The Muzzleloaders set up camp Wednesday on the back lawn of the Sutter County Community Memorial Museum in Yuba City with […]
Three numbers drew the ire of Arboga residents in a ZIP code dispute, but a name change could help make the transition a little easier. A 90-minute meeting Tuesday night with postal service representative on the front lawn of the Arboga Community Center drew about 80 people to discuss moving the town’s ZIP code from […]