Bella Vista Water District announces election winners

       The Bella Vista Water District recently announced the winners of its 2009 Board of Director’s election, which was conducted by Martin and Chapman Co. of Anaheim.  All property owners within the district were mailed ballots in October and allotted a specific number of votes based on the assessed value of their property.  The election for three vacant seats on the Board concluded on Nov....

Local Firefighters remember one of their own

By Michael Brown On October 15, 2009 the Bella Vista Volunteer Fire Department welcomed the public to a spaghetti dinner in remembrance of the 10-year anniversary of the devastating Jones Fire and to honor the memory of lost volunteer firefighter Karen Jane Savage of Junction City. The fire, believed to have started at a Shasta Lake campground near Backbone Ridge, burned a three-mile-wide path for...

Three major players in Kilarc-Cow Creek conflict file scoping comments on FERC website

Shasta County weighs in strongly in favor of saving Kilarc        In a strongly worded document filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on Oct. 19, 2009, Shasta County urges the Commission to require Pacific Gas and Electric Company to perform additional studies and to carefully consider all alternatives to decommissioning the Kilarc-Cow Creek hydroelectric plants being proposed. ...

FERC meeting on Kilarc provides a watershed moment

By Frank Galusha, EasyWriter © On October 19, 2009 the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) held a public scoping meeting as part of its environmental review of Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s License Surrender Application under the National Environmental Policy Act. The meeting was held to take public comment about the impact of PG&E’s decision to surrender its license to operate...