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M. Kate West
Chester Editor
5/5/2010

    The Seneca Healthcare District may again be looking at a change in administration, this time driven by the financial decisions made by another rural, critical access hospital.

    The potentially influencing hospital, Mayers Memorial, a district hospital in Fall River Mills, may bring about this change by entering into a management contract with Renown Hospital of Reno, Nev.

Linda Satchwell
Staff Writer
5/5/2010

    Jeanette Brauner is retiring as Plumas County children’s librarian after 31 years  —  a simple sentence that says a lot, as generations of children and former children are saddened by her departure.

    Sierra Institute Center of Forestry invites residents and visitors to experience a Maidu way of life on a special tour Saturday, May 15. 

Farrell Cunningham, whose Mountain Maidu ancestors have lived in the valley for thousands of years, will guide the tour.

Linda Satchwell
Staff Writer
5/5/2010

    A packed courtroom, presided over by a retired judge of Butte Superior Court, the Honorable Thomas Kelly, listened April 27 as petitioners for the Plumas District Hospital Tax Limitation Initiative brought an ex parte application.

Diana Jorgenson
Portola Editor
5/5/2010

    Jessica Bauer, a 2005 Portola High School graduate, was on her way to work as an EMT with REMSA in Reno, Nev., when she saw a glow in the distance. It was 4 a.m., April 23.