Williams News

Hector Manuel Bermudez, 37, of Yuba City, was arrested at 6:43 p.m. May 25 by Williams police on Virginia Way at Teri Drive, on suspicion of two counts of driving while under the influence.

One man, whom the California Highway Patrol said may have been under the influence of narcotics, died in a Sunday morning crash west of Williams, and two local residents were arrested as part of a DUI checkpoint operation in downtown Colusa Friday night.

Salt Creek 3, one of several inmate fire hand crews at Wednesday's Ishi Fire Training Drills held at Ishi Conservation Camp near Paynes Creek, practices moving a shelter during a fire shelter deployment drill.

Over the next two days, 225 cyclists and crew members will have traveled 275 miles of the four-day, 330-mile NorCal AIDS Cycle, a cycling fundraiser to support HIV/AIDS services in Northern California.

To say Philip Sites is a reluctant grand marshal for the 82nd annual Maxwell High School Rodeo may be as big an understatement, as his qualifications are undisputable for him to be selected.

Pollination ecologist Neal Williams, assistant professor of entomology at UC Davis, will present a public lecture on "Promoting Native Bees for Gardens, Farms, and Native Plants" at the Davis Botanical Society meeting on Thursday night, in the Davis Public Library, 315 E. 14th St.

Can watching two senior citizens playing cards make for entertaining theater? It certainly can if those two seniors are the wonderfully talented John Hetzler and Ann Kendrick.

Aspiring writers take note: If writing crime fiction is your thing, Thriller School is coming to Ventura's Pierpont Inn May 11-13. Thriller School is a three-day workshop where, according to the instructor, British author and writing consultant Sarah Williams, you can, "Get it right, get it written and get it read." Thriller School is a ... (more)