Palermo News

Flames sparked by a lawnmower, fueled by Monday's triple-digit temperatures and strong south winds, destroyed a home and scorched almost 50 acres in the Palermo area.

The California American Legion's 91st annual convention in Riverside, which concludes Sunday, is dedicated in memory of Robert J. "Uncle Bobby" Castillo.

A concern about noisy residential electrical generators that first came before the Butte County Board of Supervisors in 2006, will be back on the panel's agenda today.

A Palermo feed store was saved from flames Tuesday afternoon after multiple bales of straw caught fire just feet from the building.

Two North County eighth-graders are starting their summer vacations on a historical note.

Suzy Vollendroff hugs sister Norma Virden on June 11, 2008, as charred remains set the backdrop for Virden's once-standing residence on Palermo Road, south of Oroville.

Entries for all competitive exhibits, including livestock, can be submitted now for the Butte County Fair, which will run Aug.

Bill Connelly and I are co-chairs of the Oroville Veterans Memorial Park Honoring All of Butte County.

Flames filled a one-story house east of Gridley this morning. People passing by the house at 1707 Highway 70 reported the house burning at 9 a.m., said Battalion Chief Mike Brown of Cal Fire-Butte County.

Though it has been in the paper, I do not think many people are aware that more high power lines will be coming through their neighborhoods if they don't speak up.

A major new power line is planned to be built through Northern California. Very few people have paid any attention to the project, its planned location or size.

Monday, Butte County supervisors gave tentative approval to a budget that may not mean much by the time today is over.

Pro David Rush of Palermo, Calif., caught a five-bass limit weighing 9 pounds, 10 ounces Saturday to win the Stren Series Western tournament on Lake Oroville with a three-day total of 15 bass weighing 29-8. For his victory, Rush earned $16,716 cash and a 198VX Ranger boat and trailer with an Evinrude or Yamaha outboard.

Jason Bubier of Oroville took over the top spot among the bass fishing pros after the second day Friday in the three-day Stren Series Western Division tournament on Lake Oroville.

I get tired of reading stories of cops stepping way over their boundaries, but apparently a lot of cops don't get tired of stepping way over their boundaries.

At the Earth Day art reception held at the Centennial Cultural Center in Oroville, Artists of River Town member Bud Alexander gave me a 1856 dime he found at the edge of the river.

"Back to the Future" starts at sunset in Bicentennial Park, Oroville, May 1. Hot Weather Party Boys & Girls Club Oroville Teen Center hosts this, 3-8 p.m., May 1, at 2959 Lower Wyandotte Road, Southside Community Center.

The wheels of a new school bus will be going round and round in the Thermalito Union School District, but with the safety of seat belts, children aren't likely to be bouncing up and down.

Children's Community Charter School Principal Bruce Crist recently resigned from the Paradise Unified School District.

There was talk of "takings" and "downzoning" and a veiled threat of legal action at the Tuesday meeting of the Butte County Board of Supervisors.