Red Bluff News

The Sun Country Quilters Guild will be holding its monthly meeting on Monday, June 24, at the Red Bluff Community and Senior Center, 1500 S. Jackson St., Red Bluff.

A siren was quickly followed by a California Highway Patrol unit in pursuit of a dark gray or black pickup truck about 9:30 a.m. Tuesday exiting Interstate 5 to Diamond Avenue and toward South Main Street.

A 19-year-old Corning man was flown to Enloe Medical Center in Chico with major injuries in the second of three collisions between 1 and 1:47 p.m. Monday on northbound Interstate 5. The Corning man, identified by a California Highway Patrol spokesman as Matthew Cochran, was on a 2007 Kawasaki motorcycle that collided with a 2002 Ford Ranger pickup ... (more)

The Tehama County Board of Supervisors passed a rather status quo preliminary 2013-14 fiscal year budget Tuesday with no major service changes that once again gave the highest priority of discretionary funds to public safety.

A 36-year-old man was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon Monday night after he reportedly hit another Red Bluff resident over the head with a metal pipe.

CalFire, Red Bluff Fire and Tehama County Fire were dispatched around 4:45 p.m. Monday to a vegetation fire at Trinity Avenue, near Brady Court in the Antelope area.

Helen Adeline Comiskey died Sunday, June 16, 2013, at her residence in Red Bluff.

A Dudley s Excavating employee tackles a trash pile at a residence in the 8400 block of State Route 99W in Gerber, where a warrant for an abatement order was served Monday morning.

Wind power program The Thursday Evening program series sponsored by the Sacramento River Discovery Center will conclude this season with a windy subject.

Gleaners will distribute food as follows in June: --- Corning, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, June 19, Corning Senior Center, 1015 Fourth Ave. --- Red Bluff, 8 a.m. to noon, Wednesday, June 19, Food Bank, 20699 Walnut St. --- Rancho Tehama, noon to 2 p.m., Monday, June 17, Recreation Center.

The USDA's Food and Nutrition Service is offering free breakfast and lunches to Red Bluff students ages of one to 18. The meals will be given at Jackson Heights Elementary School and will go all the way through August 13. Students do not have to be a part of Jackson Heights Elementary School nor do they have to be a part of any summer school ... (more)

The following information is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol.

William Wong Foey's new novel, Winter Melon, is about a young woman who survives the 1937 Japanese invasion of China.

Six of the long-time dancers from Dance Red Bluff await the final performance on Saturday, June 8. The studio is closing its doors after six years.

A pursuit that briefly spilled onto the streets of Red Bluff ended more than a half-hour later near Corning this morning.

From the appearance of the surface, the beautiful emerald green river looked calm and nearly placid, but that was an illusion The current was strong, flowing along at over 13,000 cfs and it drew the drift boat downstream at a rapid clip.

Red Bluff City Councilman Robert Sheppard Jr. resigned from his position Monday morning.

"Concert Series" in the Red Bluff River Park is from 8-9 p.m. Monday evening PROGRAM---JUNE 17 Sound Off March Ain't She Sweet The Entertainer Sound Off Pachelbel's Canon The Magnificent Seven The American Patrol Trombone Blues In A Minor Mood A Tribute To Gershwin More information available from Conductor Jay Thiel at 527- 3486.

The Senior Nutrition Program serves meals Monday through Friday at the Red Bluff Community-Senior Center, the Corning Senior Center and the Los Molinos Veterans Hall.

The following information is compiled from Red Bluff Police Department, Tehama County Sheriff's Department, Corning Police Department and California Highway Patrol.