Glenn County News

When students graduate from schools in Butte and Glenn counties over the next two years, teachers, courses and athletic programs may be leaving with them.

May 25, 2012 -- Sexual predators and bullies have been around forever, but with today's technology the old "sticks and stones" adage may no longer hold true.

For information on these programs, as well as resources that can help pregnant women or women who are considering pregnancy, visit: California's infant mortality rate reached a record low in 2010, but racial disparities continue to be an issue, the state Department of Public Health reported.

With the nearest speech language pathologist more than 30 miles away in the town of Chico, the Glenn County Special Education Local Plan Area turned to PresenceLearning to provide adequate coverage for their students needing services.

Sue King, general manager of the Orland-Artois Water District, will retire on June 1, the district's board of directors has announced.

RSVP by Monday for the annual barbecue by the Glenn County Resource Conservation District.

He took his 280-pound hog, "Thing 2," to the Glenn County Fair and sold her for $2.75 a pound, and he certainly isn't sentimental about her departure.

The frivolous spending of taxpayer money, illegal meetings and an election conspiracy were all exposed in a series of stories written by then - Tri-County Newspapers reporter Rob Parsons.

A long trek to raise money - and awareness - for HIV/AIDS organizations will include about 150 bicyclists at various locations in Butte and Glenn counties Friday.

Aidan Recendiz, a first grader at West Street School in Corning, participate in the broad jump Tuesday at the 2012 Special Olympics held at Red Bluff High School.

Admission is $8 for adults, $4 kids 6-12. Ages under 6 and over 70 are free, as are military in uniform.

A man found dead beside County Road 200 this morning, near County Road 12, has been identified as Mark Edward Barr, 58, an employee with the Orland Unit Water User's Association.

Glenn County sheriff's deputies are looking for the operator of a personal watercraft who allegedly ran into a jet ski on Stony Gorge Reservoir Saturday, badly injuring Cristian Omar Villa, 23, of Williams.

Glenn County Sheriff's deputies arrested a 12-year-old boy Sunday for allegedly molesting his 6-year-old family member.

Mark Lund, Darby Sample, Norman Tucker and Ralph Godwin work May 5 on a new Habitat for Humanity house going up on East 19th Street in Chico.

A trial date has been set for a 35-year-old man arrested last week in Glenn County for an alleged tear gas attack in Chico.

Tariq Khan, 55, told the Glenn County Sheriff's Office the equipment was taken from a field in the Butte City area, near Highway 162, sometime in the last two weeks.

Weather forecasts can be more about where one is standing at a given moment, than what the date is on the calendar.

The Tehama Glenn Unit of California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection and the Tehama County Fire Department want to remind the public that they need to have a valid burn permit to burn as of May 1. Burn permits are available at the following locations: Paynes Creek Station, Red Bluff Headquarters, Los Molinos Station, Bowman Station and ... (more)

A resident cleaning up debris from a trash can blown over in the wind Monday told the Glenn County Sheriff's Office eight counterfeit bills, partially burned, were among the litter.