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This mix of pine and oak on Jeff Obenland’s Chandler Road property is considered a threat to Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative power lines across the road. Those with yellow ribbons will be cut down, while the oaks with red ribbons will be trimmed back. Photo by Debra Moore

Debra Moore

  “If I could, I would cut less trees,” said Bob Marshall, the general manager of Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative.

  Marshall said he sympathizes with Chandler Road residents who don’t want their trees cut down, but his chief concern is fire and the electric company’s liability.

  The cooperative plans to remove hazardous trees along the length of Chandler Road to prevent them from toppling into power lines and igniting a fire.

  A draft memorandum of understanding between Plumas Unified School District and Plumas Charter School for 2013-14 was presented to the school board at the May 2 board meeting in Chester.

  By its own admission, the county’s probation department isn’t doing a good job with high-risk offenders.

  The poor success rate could end up costing the county money, in the form of fewer dollars from the state’s inmate realignment fund.

Players from 11 Chester Little League teams line up in the Chester Park baseball diamond as they eagerly await the first pitch of the season April 26. Photo by Samantha P. Hawthorne

  Eleven Little League softball teams occupied the Chester Park baseball diamond during the season’s opening ceremonies April 27.

  The teams — which included five T-ball teams and a mixture of six girls’ and boys’ teams playing in the major, minor and junior divisions — were announced one at a time by Chester Little League president Mike Klimek, and positioned so that two long lines were formed in the center of the field.

  Plumas Bancorp, a bank holding company and the parent company of Plumas Bank, announced its 2013 first quarter earnings of $616,000, an increase of 175 percent over the $224,000 it reported during the first quarter of 2012.