Williams News

By JULIET WILLIAMS California voters gave Arnold Schwarzenegger a single, blockbuster-sized mission when they sent him to Sacramento six years ago in an unprecedented election: Fix California's chaotic budget system, once and for all.

Gamaliel Alcantar Bautista, of the 200 block of Virginia Street in Williams, was arrested by the California Highway Patrol at 10:20 p.m. Sunday on Spring Valley Road on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol.

The Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit of Cal Fire is suspending all burning permits starting Wednesday in both counties because of severe heat, which helped spur several vegetation fires over the past weekend.

SK Foods, the beleaguered tomato processing company with a plant in Williams, was sold Friday to an international company that distributes agricultural products.

SK Foods, a vegetable grower and processor with plants in Kings and Colusa counties, has been sold in bankruptcy to Olam West Coast, a processor headquartered in New York.

Price was the factor behind Will Damon's decision to stay at the Llewellyn Williams Mansion.

Location: 925 H St., Sacramento Building: Four stories, 13,000 square feet, Italianate stick-style Victorian, restored in 1994 at a cost of $2.1 million History: Built as a home for Llewellyn Williams, a Gold Rush-era partner in the Pioneer Milling Co.

Info: A.J. Napolis, director of Cesar E. Chavez Service Programs, Youth Service California will speak.

Getting ready to board the bus is Scott Sherman, Tehama County Clerk-Recorder Bev Ross, Mary Lee Grimes, and Deputy Clerk Tina Robinson.

A grass fire is threatening structures near Highway 20 in Williams, according to authorities.

Info: The Modesto Jaycees need help with the Independence Day celebration. The following areas need volunteers throughout the day.

Jonathan Pelot Watson, 23, of Florida was arrested by the Colusa County Sheriff's Office at 8:58 p.m. June 7 at Highway 45 at Princeton Ferry Road on suspicion of possession of a bad check or money order.

Courtney M. Williams of Grass Valley has graduated from Rochester Institute of Technology with a bachelor's/master's degree in American Sign Language Interpreting.

BUTTERFIELD 8 IN Concord presents "The Women," by Clare Boothe Luce from June 18 through July 11.

A Maxwell man was the third to die on a Colusa County roadway in the past three weeks.

Will the William S. Hart Union High School District ever manage to build a high school campus in Castaic without getting caught in the middle of other people's petty land wars? Maybe not.

The Grand Ballroom at the Regency Center is getting a svelte new moniker June 17, when it will be known simply as the Regency Ballroom.

Jesus Franco Velazquez, 28, of the 100 block of Ninth Street, Williams, was arrested by the Williams Police Department at 9:11 p.m. June 1 at Ninth and B streets on suspicion of possession of a narcotic controlled substance.

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is ready to urge lawmakers to deal quickly with California's enormous deficit.The governor planned to address the Legislature Tuesday in an unusual midyear appearance.The state faces a deficit of $24.3 billion for the coming fiscal year.Controller John Chiang has warned that California will run out of money to ...

Since news first broke that plans were in the works to put high energy power lines in a 1,000 foot swath through Solano County, residents and county leaders have lamented the lack of local hearings to air the plans and gain local comment.