Marysville Appeal-Democrat
B-52 bomber crash in California came as Air Force was upgrading legendary workhorse
The U.S. Air Force at Edwards Air Force Base was in the process of tests to upgrade the aging fleet of B-52 bombers with new engines and radar systems when one of the planes crashed Monday, killing eight people, officials said. The tests, and planned...
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City of Willows asks court to stop Glenn County Sheriff’s Office from pulling out of law enforcement services
The City of Willows is asking the court to order the Glenn County Sheriff ’s Office to temporarily maintain existing law enforcement services while the parties continue negotiating how the latter will provide protection within the city. Or if it will...
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Meet the local farmer and nurseryman who developed their own walnut tree rootstock named Grizzly for its hardiness
Mat Conant drove around his orchard in his four-wheeler on a sunny morning last week, talking about walnut trees that he had cloned to make a more vigorous rootstock. He explained that, in order to clone, one first needs to collect suckers which grow...
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Marysville residents lend their voices to plans for renovating the city’s historic Chinatown
A town hall this week, hosted by Marysville Chinese Community President Jon Lim, kept its focus on developing the Chinatown Blueprint, or “a community driven vision for the future” as Lim explained it. Beginning last year, the direction of the...
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Ten local men arrested for alleged involvement in Norteño gang trafficking network in Yuba-sutter
By Appeal-democrat Yuba County Sheriff ’s deputies were part of a months-long federal DEA investigation that reportedly stopped a pipeline of cocaine that was supplying Norteño gang members in Yuba and Sutter counties. The detectives and special...
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Filing legal action against Marysville Joint Unified School District says school’s response to allegations of child harassment was weak
A civil case filed by the parent of two former Cedar Lane Elementary School students accuses the Marysville Joint Unified School District of failing to disclose important information on how it handled the alleged harassment of his sons by fellow...
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Marysville will host a meeting on how to re-energize its historic Chinatown
The Marysville Chinese Community will hold a town hall-style meeting to discuss the future of the city’s historic Chinatown on June 11 at 6 p.m. Convened inside Marysville City Council Chamber, the gathering will focus on the Chinatown Blueprint, a...
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Yuba County deputies seize drugs, U.S. currency, weapons in Camptonville while serving search warrant
Deputies arrested a Camptonville man and booked him into Yuba County jail on alleged narcotics and firearms charges on Tuesday morning. Arion Demarco, 29, was arrested on the 13600 block of Moonshine Road in Camptonville, a rural area of the county...
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Yuba City victim of hot oil attack in Mcdonald’s being treated at U.C. Davis Medical Center; Gofundme established to help
The young man who allegedly had hot oil thrown on him while at work at a Mcdonald’s restaurant in Yuba City late Saturday night is currently being treated for seconddegree burns over 22% of his body, according to his mother, Amber Smith. Jacob Smith,...
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Captain Singh appointed as Yuba City’s Fire Marshall
Jaswant Singh has donned many uniforms on the ladder to his new position as Yuba City Fire Department’s fire marshal. He said it was his drive to learn that led to this success. As a 16-year-old immigrant from Punjab, India, Singh had a lot of...
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Enterprise Rancheria wins national award, support, from U.S. Department of Commerce for recent and future development plans
Two decades ago, the Estom Yumeka Maidu Tribe of the Enterprise Rancheria was having a lot of conversations with the residents of Yuba County: Its members were illuminating their history, discussing their ties to the land – and sharing some big dreams...
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Darkness by the river: The Juan Corona Files
In the back corner of the Appeal-democrat’s office is a dimly-lit storage room containing the newspaper’s “morgue,” which is journalism speak for a collection of files and envelopes stuffed with clippings from inhouse reports across the decades. Today,...
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Award-winning author from Orland says love of nature, experience as a game warden fuels his inspiration
It’s easy to feel entertained when you chat with author and retired game warden Steve Callan, as if you’ve been conversing with someone who knows important things – essential things that might make your life better if only you knew them too. Callan...
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The Man in Black’s persona brings raw American music to the Sutter Theater on June 12
Fans of country-western legend Johnny Cash will get the opportunity to experience his music and persona live when James Garner brings his renowned show to the Sutter Theater Center for the Arts on Friday, June 12. Yuba Sutter Arts said it’s excited...
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Yuba County Ag officials warn of ‘significant’ threat of bacteria-carrying insect contamination
Yuba County officials issued a public warning on Tuesday urging farmers and residents to take immediate precautions after determining that grape vine plants and citrus plants purchased at the Costco Wholesale store in Marysville were contaminated by a...
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Five decades to healing: The memorial for the Yuba City High bus tragedy victims arrives
Nearly 300 people attended the 50-year anniversary memorial for the Yuba City High School a cappella choir on Saturday, quietly honoring the 27 young faces who were forever lost in May of 1976. Many of those who attended this poignant event were...
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Yuba City suspect rolls his way to jail, allegedly hides loaded firearm
An alleged rolling offender tried to wheel his way away from Yuba City police officers Friday, only to eventually be caught and charged with carrying a loaded pistol. Surveillance video reportedly captured the fleeing cyclist hiding the gun, though by...
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Salmon back in ‘school’ after 100year recess from North Yuba River
For the first time in nearly a century, Chinook salmon are shoaling in the North Yuba River today. Also known as king salmon, the California Department of Fish and Wildlife returned the brawny fish to their historical habitat in the North Yuba River...
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Annual Punjabi American Festival in Yuba City to offer top musical talent and a rare cultural experience on Sunday
The Punjabi American Festival, a Yuba City event that has attracted an audience from all over Northern California in the last three decades, will take place this Sunday. The annual festival will feature live music, dance performances, authentic food,...
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The power of words: Yuba College ranks high in Northern California speech competition
From heads of state to those jittery firsttimers on open mic nights, most speakers of any stripe will admit that holding an audience in your back pocket requires a certain level of skill. If they don’t admit it is, they’re either arrogant or missing...
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Yuba City’s first-ever Sutter Buttes Showdown was an extreme bull-riding melee that featured a true comeback story
Scott Wells was a long way from his home of Queensland, Australia, when he climbed on a bull in the middle of a Sutter County windstorm. Beyond the chute, sweeping gusts of air rustled dirt under the relentless sun, sending up fast copper clouds that...
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Officials warn of deceptively dangerous conditions in the Yuba River
Northern California’s main power provider is cautioning locals to be careful around the Yuba River due to higher, colder water flows that are the result of dynamic snowmelt. While the transition from late spring to early summer can tempt many outdoor...
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Gallagher and Denney debate ideas in Yuba City, both turn fire at missing Sen. Mcguire
Congressman Mike Mcguire’s absence during a special primary election forum Wednesday evening in Yuba City left Audrey Denney, a Democrat, and Assemblyman James Gallagher, a Republican, to discuss the issues facing the state between themselves. And to...
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16 years and 4 days: A family remembers selfless son and brother 34 years after the Lindhurst High shooting
It was a Monday afternoon when Joe Ann “Joe” Hill drove herself to the Appealdemocrat in Marysville, parked her Chevy pickup against the curb under the bowed branches of an oak tree, slid down from the stack of cushions she keeps on the driver’s seat...
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New chief arrives in Sutter County ahead of fire season
As the hot, dry, dangerous season approaches, there’s a new leader in charge of Sutter County’s response. Kyle Long took over as Sutter County Fire Department fire chief last month. He brings with him more than two decades of experience and leadership...
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Yuba-sutter peach farmers to get more than half of $10.5 million in state and federal aid to remove trees following cannery closure
Ranjit Davit looked over a portion of the acreage where he’s farmed peach trees for 25 years. The roots were now ripped out. There was nothing left of the 4- to 15-year-old saplings but giant piles of wood. “My dad was a Del Monte customer since the...
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Looking back at the Yuba High Bus Tragedy Part III: What the survivors carried with them
Neither Donna (Peacock) Sorenson nor Christy (Young) Estabrook can recall anything that happened during the catastrophe that killed 27 of their friends 50 years ago. They just know they were there alongside those who were lost – and that they somehow...
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Looking back at the Yuba High Bus Tragedy Part II: ‘A rescuer’s nightmare,’ grief and growth
Editor’s note: This is the second of a threepart series about the 50th anniversary of the Yuba High School Choir Bus Tragedy, one that will bring readers the voices of the responders, and survivors who pulled through it. Part I ran yesterday and Part...
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Looking back at the Yuba High Bus Tragedy Part I: An irreversible direction
Editor’s note: This is the first of a threepart series about the 50th anniversary of the Yuba High School Choir Bus Tragedy, one that will bring readers the voices of the responders and survivors who pulled through it. Parts II and III will run Friday...
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Marysville school preps for annual Color Fun Run on May 12
Anna Mckenney Intermediate School will be hosting its 9th Annual Color Fun Run next Tuesday. The event is meant to bring students, teachers and members of the community together for a day of connection while raising money to support the school’s...
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From Marysville to Colusa, the Mid-valley had a bustling weekend of activities
relaxing around its century-old brickwork Saturday, some watching live mariachi music while digging into wraps of meat, cilantro, onion and salsa, others gathering inside and outside of the Silver Dollar Saloon to say goodbye to a storied institution...
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Grit, guts and glory are at the heart of new Sutter Buttes Showdown on May 17
In “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote that “nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bull-fighters.” And when it comes to the chute-banging, dirt-breaking action of rodeos in the American West, many see that same risky truth bear...
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Colusa’s mosquito abatement team discusses Dengue Fever and Chikungunya Virus while tapping public for vigilance
This summer, a small group of professionals in Colusa County have a big job ahead of them – trying to safeguard the community from several health threats carried on the wings of tiny intruders. In the past, that mission was primarily about controlling...
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‘No one is above the law.’ Fans of the Feather River cheer as farming counties defeat State before California Supreme Court, nullifying funds for embattled Delta Tunnel
Those worried about the survival of salmon and steelhead populations in the Feather, Yuba and Sacramento rivers were relieved last week when the California Supreme Court upheld a lower court ruling that the Newsom Administration created an invalid...
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Silver Dollar Saloon will host street celebration Saturday ahead of closing its doors for catering shift
The owners of one of Marysville’s most-talked-about saloons are hosting a street party this Saturday to trumpet the establishment’s shift from a bar and restaurant into an events center. Dubbed the “One for the Road” gettogether, the event runs 2 p.m....
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Congressional candidate Eric Jones, running to represent part of Yuba-sutter, argues ‘The American dream is for everyone’
The race is on for California’s Fourth District seat and the Appeal-democrat thinks it’s a safe bet that newcomer Eric Jones and incumbent Mike Thompson will bring their A games in the battle to represent part of the Mid-valley. Jones, a Democrat, has...
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The Confronters: How a ruling on a Yuba County murder case opened the cell door to another death
The country lanes winding east from Wheatland up to the Spenceville Wildlife Area are rough in wintertime – broken, mud-torn and potted with enough standing rain water to mirror the passing clouds. It was off one of those tumbling backroads that a...
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Alleged DUI driver runs into house in Yuba City Wednesday morning
A reportedly intoxicated driver left the road early Wednesday morning and plowed into the front door of a residence in Yuba City, according to Yuba City police reports. At approximately 2:45 a.m. on April 22, officers responded to the area of B Street...
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After decades together, Yuba-sutter’s joint NET-5 Task Force for drugs splits up
Top law enforcement officials in Sutter and Yuba counties have announced a plan to dissolve the NET-5 Task Force, responsible for a slew of weapons and narcotics busts across jurisdictional lines since 1980. Officials from each side of the Feather...
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The next generation of rodeo riders are learning their trade in the Mid-valley at the Flying U Ranch
The Flying U Rodeo Ranch held its annual Free Rough Stock School on Monday and Tuesday, allowing young bull and broncriding hopefuls to learn from the best competitors in the sport. It all happened at the Rosser’s family arena in the unincorporated...
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Sutter County Museum gets a lively turnout for tribute to Punjabi-american culture
With roots in India, and their lives in Yuba City, Sikhs came to the Sutter County Museum Friday night to reconnect with their culture as they viewed the exhibition, “Beyond the Five Rivers: Punjabi Pioneers Through the Art of Sarabjit Singh.” The...
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Despite construction woes, a new team at the Appeal-democrat is settling in with an eye on re-energized coverage
Greetings from the editor! Marysville’s Lake Ellis Drive may look like it’s under something akin to military occupation from the State, but anyone who has made it through the construction mess and navigated to the Appeal-democrat’s office has probably...
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Yuba County Board of Supervisors votes down special district proposal for community college
Three of five Yuba County Board of Supervisor members voted ‘no’ on adopting a resolution to form a school facilities improvement district – one proponents had hoped would ultimately spark the passing of a $300 million bond to repair and modernize Yuba...
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The doomed daredevil of Yosemite, and how he died, chronicled in new four-part documentary show on HBO
The life and legacy of extreme climber and BASE jumper Dean Potter will be explored in a new four-part HBO docuseries airing Tuesday evening. “The Dark Wizard” is described by Warner Bros. as an “up-close and unflinching portrait” of Potter, who...
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Ishi’s story still haunts the Valley and beyond
It’s hard to believe that it happened in Oroville of all places, that an embodiment of the land’s lost voices – and a final survivor of the state’s darkest crimes – appeared in the flesh near barking dogs at a slaughterhouse on the edge of town. He...
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‘Neon Alley’ to cast a callback glow on Plumas Street
Yuba City’s Plumas Street is a hub for art and entertainment in the region, but it’s about to get even more eye-catching with the arrival of a new initiative called ‘Neon Alley.’ According to the local creative community, this project will blend...
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Yolo County owner of deadly fireworks plant also accused of suspected payroll fraud, cheating the state
Reality Check is a Bee series holding officials and organizations accountable and shining a light on their decisions. Have a tip? Email [email protected]. At least six people were arrested Thursday in connection to the Esparto blast that killed...
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James Gallagher’s big issues in congressional run are cost of living, housing, government waste
YUBA CITY — After 12 years serving in the state assembly, James Gallagher (R-yuba City) is running for Congress in California’s 1st Congressional District. Gallagher, the descendant of Irish immigrants who came to Northern California in the 1800s, is...
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Yuba one of seven California counties to receive $145.4 million in state homeless funds
Eight communities across California including Yuba County will receive almost $150 million to move homeless people into housing, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Wednesday. Yuba, Solano, Sacramento, Yolo, Santa Clara, Lake, Orange and Riverside counties will...
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Fertilizer costs in the Mid-valley driven up by ongoing war
As the U.s.-israel war on Iran continues, stifled trade is making its way to farmers in the Mid-valley and North State. Among many business delays caused by the war, reported global fertilizer shortages may inflate input costs for farmers here after...
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Beale Air Force Base earns high-level environmental award for efforts against ‘forever chemicals,’ pollutants
Beale Air Force Base earned a prominent military award for its stewardship of the base’s natural resources from 2024 through 2025 and for its innovation in resolving complex environmental concerns, the latter recognition coming on March...
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Yuba City Taekwondo stand-outs kick their way into state championship on Saturday
There is a sense of camaraderie when walking into Master Joseph Rivera’s studio at 7 Star Taekwondo. Young kids lie on their backs on chairs, concentrating on their books or devices. As children start gathering for a 4 p.m. class with their parents on...
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Top takeaways from latest governor’s race forum
Four of the top Democrats running for California governor on Wednesday told a agriculture-friendly Central Valley audience that the left-leaning state’s restrictions on business and the environment have made life more difficult for farmers and should...
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Recently retired FBI agent who grew up in Sutter County releases book on confronting trauma
April 27, 2013 wasn’t a day that FBI Special Agent Arvinder Ginda would forget during his long career in federal law enforcement. On that afternoon, an 8-year-old girl named Leila Fowler was found viciously stabbed more than 20 times in her west...
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Colusa’s hotly debated Sites Reservoir proposal passes another hurdle for approval
While California Governor Gavin Newsom and President Donald Trump disagree on a number of issues, one project they both strongly support is the controversial plan to build Sites Reservoir in the rolling foothills on the west side of the Sacramento...
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A Butte County woman just defeated the world’s richest tech companies in court
Meta and Google reportedly have a combined value of well over a trillion dollars, but all the high-priced attorneys that money can buy didn’t save them last week from a civil action that was just brought by a young woman from Butte County. Referred to...
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Community gathers to remember fallen Marysville police officer Osmar Rodarte at new memorial bench
A memorial bench honoring a fallen police officer was unveiled Thursday at Veterans Park in Marysville. About 50 to 60 people attended the tribute to Marysville Police Officer Osmar Rodarte a year after his death. The 27-year-old officer was shot and...
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Bus tour highlights Sutter Union High students Landmarks of Legacy project
Students at Sutter Union High School in the Future Business Leaders of America program reminisced on Wednesday about the process it took to build seven landmarks from Meridian to Yuba City. They had fabricated the historical signs over the course of...
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A small group of chickens are the Yuba-sutter area’s unlikely guardians against West Nile Virus
Yuba City and Marysville are known far and wide for feral chickens, yet it is several flocks of domestic cluckers who are quietly helping protect those communities from West Nile Virus. That was an observation made to the Yuba City Council last week...
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Students from Lindhurst and Faith Christian make their arguments during mock trial competition
Did classically trained chef Haley Fromholz murder celebrity chef Morgan Sears, star of the reality TV cooking competition show, “Recipe for Success?’ Sears died after ingesting poison heartstopper mushrooms, and it was up to prosecuting attorneys to...
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‘The brave and the bold’ at Bok Kai
A woman has finally been identified nearly 50 years after being left strangled and naked in a snowbank in the Sierra, the Placer County Sheriff ’s Office announced. On the late afternoon of Dec. 17, 1977, a couple from the Bay Area were out walking...
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Yuba killer Johnny Nanlap was a red flag for the state’s early parole controversy: A lawsuit that followed will keep him lock up
“A devil in my head telling me to kill, kill, kill.” That’s what a young man reportedly muttered to Yuba County jail deputies when he was first hauled in. And he spoke those words after leaving a scene of carnage behind him on 4th Street in...
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North of Colusa, a winery full of Trappist monks keeps reaching for vino heaven
Sometimes wine can heighten our sense of the history around us. Fifty-seven miles north of Colusa, there is place where lasting legacies come alive, from the vines and crops growing on a famed tycoon’s lost ranch, to the wayward stones of a 12th...
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146th Annual Bok Kai Parade and Festival offers Chinese culture in Marysville this coming weekend
The Year of the Horse canters in this weekend in downtown Marysville with the 146th Annual Bok Kai Parade and Festival. This colorful cultural event highlights Marysville’s rich Chinese heritage. The Chinese water god, “Bok Eye” or “Bok I,” is...
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Looking back at the violent mysteries of the Mid-valley’s rivers
There’s a lasting mythos in the Midvalley, an array of longtime stories reaching from the Silver Dollar Saloon to those iron bridge-plates where the river bends against a fading redness before nightfall. It’s the power of lore and ‘twice told...
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Ten years after Yuba County axed its Fish and Game Commission, a new program arrives for conservation
A decade agon, the Yuba County Board of Supervisors decided to eliminate its county Fish and Game commission. Generally, those commissions across California advise their respective local governments on wildlife management, as well as administer certain...
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Jelavich family donates $100,000 toward new livestock show pavilion at Y-S Fairgrounds
A Yuba City family has donated $100,000 toward the construction of a new pavilion at the Yuba-sutter Fairgrounds for the annual youth livestock show. In a statement from the Yuba-sutter Fair Heritage Foundation, Fair CEO Dave Dillabo described the...
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Bi-county ambulance celebrates 50 years
Bi-county Ambulance celeb rated half-a-century of service in Yuba and Sutter counties during a ceremony at the company’s Yuba City headquarters on Wednesday, March 11. Alex Bumpus, the company’s current president and CEO, spoke about the company...
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World rushes to shore up oil supplies
The U.S. and Israel’s war on Iran forced world governments to intervene to shore up energy supplies, even as President Donald Trump once again said fighting will end soon. The International Energy Agency approved its largest-ever release of emergency...
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Markets whipsaw over Iran news
WASHINGTON — Energy markets whipsawed for a second consecutive day as investors raced to interpret rapidly shifting comments from the Trump administration over the war in Iran. Oil prices plummeted after Energy Secretary Chris Wright erroneously...
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Military objectives ‘pretty well complete’
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said he plans to waive oil-related sanctions, have the U.S. Navy escort tankers through the Strait of Hormuz and predicted the war with Iran would resolve “very soon” as he confronted mounting economic and political...
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U.S. demands Iran’s complete surrender
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump demanded Iran capitulate in the war’s seventh day, suggesting a longer timeframe for the conflict even amid energy-market tumult and worries about whether the U.S. has the military stockpiles to carry on the fight...
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President wants say over Iran’s next leader
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump declared he would be “personally involved” in selecting Iran’s next leader as U.S. and Israeli forces continued their bombardment of its government Thursday, even as officials in Tehran insisted they could withstand...
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Another day another reason or two for attacking Iran
WASHINGTON — The White House tried for a fifth day Wednesday to explain why the United States is waging war in Iran — this time it was press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s turn — as Democrats said the president has not made a clear case. Leavitt led...
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White House anonymously gives purpose to war in Iran
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump decided negotiations would go nowhere with Iranian officials after Tehran’s “clever” negotiators “procrastinated” and masked their true nuclear capabilities and goals, senior administration officials said...
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