Lakeport News

The Lake County hit band, SK2, returns to the Willits rodeo grounds stage July 3 at 9 p.m. following the CCPRA rodeo for a night of rocking Frontier Days music.

Clear Lake will a busy place this holiday weekend. In addition to the dozens of bass boats there will be wake board boats plus general recreational vessels.

LAKE COUNTY A personal watercraft burst into flames Thursday afternoon at Lakeside County Park on Soda Bay Road south of Lakeport.

LAKE COUNTY Fire leveled an outbuilding and burned approximately two acres of wildland surrounding a Scotts Valley Road home Tuesday evening.

LAKE COUNTY Kelseyville's leading fire official retires Wednesday. Howard Strickler has been fire chief of the Kelseyville Fire Protection District for 29 years.

LAKE COUNTY They took drink orders instead of license plate numbers and directed patrons to their seats instead of directing traffic.

Bass fishermen at Clear Lake have their choice this weekend -- thick algae in the south end or miles of weeds in the north end.

Turns out there is a cure for the summertime blues. Just the thought of building a duct tape and cardboard boat for a Fourth of July event at the Lakeport Yacht Club stirred joyous conversations, teamwork and creativity among friends and co-workers. First we planned on obtaining a quagga inspection sticker.

LAKE COUNTY Clean, drained and dry. That's what any boat must be before it can launch in Lake County.

The recent public health warnings on the blue-green algae blooms in the south end of the lake could impact tourism and even the fishing on Clear Lake.

LAKEPORT Barbara LaForge's ghost has been wandering Main Street for seven years, since her brutal and tragic daylight murder.

The following is a quote from former United States Secretary of State and Nobel Prize winner Henry Kissinger: "Military men are just dumb, stupid animals to be used as pawns in foreign policy." It is an excerpt from the book "Kiss The Boys Goodbye" subtitled "How the United States Betrayed Its Own Vietnam POWs," written by Monika Jenson Stevenson ...

LAKE COUNTY Lake County Waste Solution's Lakeport transfer station is set to close in October.

LAKEPORT A proposed new T-Mobile cellular tower in Lakeport is drawing scrutiny from city and county officials.

LAKEPORT The Lakeport City Council will send a letter of support for Assembly Bill 715 after voting 3-0 to approve it Tuesday night.

LAKE COUNTY Whether to keep two of the county's four quagga mussel wash stations was the focus of a workshop the Lake County Board of Supervisors held Tuesday.

LAKEPORT More than 50 onlookers bid farewell to the Vietnam Moving Wall Monday during a closing ceremony held at 12:30 p.m. at the Lake County Fairgrounds, where the Wall stood for four days during its only stop this year in Northern California.

After reading Cynthia Parkhill's article on the editorial page in the May 26 Record-Bee I have to write and say "Kudos, young lady, for a well-written, informative article about a subject affecting many elderly folks." I happen to live in a mobile home park near downtown Lakeport.

LAKEPORT Fewer than 10 people held signs protesting what they called a lack of justice in the Bismarck Dinius case Friday morning on the steps of the Lake County Courthouse in Lakeport.

While most seniors at Clear Lake High School in Lakeport are getting ready to walk, one 19-year-old graduate is pacing.