Community Updates
- Plumas Lake residents hungry for new businesses
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- If you ask any Plumas Lake resident what's missing in the south Yuba County community, expect a long answer.
"Starbucks!" exclaims one woman. Others list a grocery store, a pizza place, a sandwich shop, a pedicure salon and a frozen yogurt shop.
"T... Full story
- Plumas Lake: Long wait for Lally Mart
- The Lally Mart gas station and convenience store coming to Plumas Lake is long awaited by residents there, but it's also been a long time in the planning.
Pami Lally, whose family already owns gas station/mini marts in Linda and Olivehurst, said she... Full story
- Yuba-Sutter students get hands-on learning experience at Corral
- By Nancy Pasternack/ADnpasternack
- Hooves, "are just like your fingernails," explained Jeff Shearer, a farrier and Flying U Rodeo crew member, as Lone Tree Elementary School students crowded around to see.
He bent over to remove a worn shoe from his horse's back foot, and Jaden Whale... Full story
- Park, albeit small, slated for Wheeler Ranch subdivision
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- An empty acre of weeds and dirt near the entrance to a Plumas Lake subdivision stands as a final reminder of the bust in local housing toward the end of the last decade.
Intended as a park in the Wheeler Ranch subdivision, the lot at Links Way and P... Full story
- Home prices on upswing in Yuba-Sutter
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- The long, painful slide in Yuba-Sutter real estate can be said to be finally over. In its place? Appreciating prices, tight inventory, and homes new and old in demand.
According to October figures from real estate information service DataQuick, Inc.... Full story
- Fundraiser held in Plumas Lake for car crash victim
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- Many, perhaps even most, of the people who went to a fundraising event for Rachael Gertz on Wednesday evening didn't know the woman who had died in a car accident last month on Feather River Boulevard.
But a sense of community, and pictures on flier... Full story
- Fundraiser set for crash victim
- Appeal-Democrat staff report
- A fundraiser is set for Wednesday for the family of a Plumas Lake woman who died last month in a car wreck.
Rachel Lynn Gertz was killed Oct. 20 when her Honda Accord veered off Feather River Boulevard and crashed into a steep ditch near the interse... Full story
- Marysville parade is celebration of life and country
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- When asked what Veterans Day means to a veteran like himself, Phillip Johnson of Sutter had to take a long, thoughtful pause on Sunday.
"I've never really thought about it," said Johnson, a US Army veteran of the Vietnam War, moments before he parti... Full story
- Switch fees upheld for OPUD fire service
- By Ben van der Meer/ADbvandermeer
- The plan for a Yuba County subdivision to receive fire service from the Olivehurst Public Utility District has hit another snag, but this one probably won't change the final result.
Although the county's Local Agency Formation Commission rejected wa... Full story
- Cows visit Cobblestone Elementary
- Milky Way, Henry have health lessons for Plumas Lake school
- By Ryan McCarthy/ADrmccarthy
- Students at Cobblestone Elementary School in Plumas Lake received a lesson Wednesday in nutrition and health from a 1,200 pound 6-year-old.
Milky Way, a Guernsey cow in the Mobile Dairy Classroom program, arrived in the trailer that's dubbed her lim... Full story
