Summary of Investigation into Yuba County Supervisor Released
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – The Yuba County Board of Supervisors is releasing the agenda for next Thursday’s special meeting to discuss exactly how to move forward with “remedial action” against District 3 Supervisor Seth Fuhrer. The Appeal-Democrat reports a summary of an investigation is being released by Boucher Law, into his alleged inappropriate workplace behavior, which includes accusations “by multiple witnesses” over the last two years of “massaging a county employee’s shoulders, pulling a county employee’s hair and touching a county employee in the nose and stomach, all without consent.”
The summary also mentions Fuhrer referring to county harassment training as “sex training” and references previous alluded to “inappropriate comments” while representing the County at the California State Association of Counties and Rural County Representatives of California conferences, including approaching a group of men and saying “you guys look like a bunch of Jews.”
Federal Disaster Tax Relief Act Signed Into Law, Benefiting Camp Fire Victims
(Washington DC) – In our nation’s capital, the President has signed into law House of Representatives Bill 5863, The Federal Tax Relief Act, co-authored by the District 1 Representative whose district includes Yuba, Sutter, Colusa, Butte and Glenn Counties.
The bill will now allow those who received wildfire tax relief payments – most notably Camp Fire victims – to receive a federal tax refund for taxes they’ve previously paid on them and makes future disaster relief payments federally tax free, going forward.
Additionally, the law is retroactive to 2014. it also shields wildfire payment recipients from losing benefits such as V.A. or Covered California, as the IRS considers disaster relief as “an income windfall.”
Arson Arrest in Oroville
(Butte County, CA) – Cal Fire investigators have made an arson arrest in Oroville, after crews responded pre-dawn Tuesday, to a commercial structure fire on Olive Highway near Gold Country Casino.
Butte County deputies arrived on the scene and detained the arson suspect, Zachary Michael Sims, until Cal Fire’s Law Enforcement Unit arrived. Sims was then taken into custody with bail set at $50,000.
Northern California Braces for Heavy Rain, Snow
(Sacramento, CA) — The Yuba-Sutter area, along with all of Northern California is preparing for more wet weather as a storm lingers through tomorrow, followed by a stronger system bringing heavy rain and gusty winds.
Snow levels could drop to 37-hundred feet, with the Northern Sierra expecting six to twelve inches above five-thousand feet and winds gusting up to 40 miles-per-hour.
After a brief break on Sunday, rain returns Monday, with the Valley potentially receiving up to two inches and Tahoe anticipating two to three feet of snow.
Bird Flu Detected In Northern California Poultry Farm
(Wilton, CA) — Bird flu has been detected at a poultry farm in Northern California. Officials are looking into an outbreak at Nilsen Farms, in the small town of Wilton in Sacramento County, which supplies turkeys to Foster Farms.
KCRA 3 reports that the California Department of Food and Agriculture has euthanized the infected birds. This is the fourth time bird flu has been reported in Sacramento County this year.
On Wednesday, the department reported the virus in was also found in three poultry flocks located in Kern County, Stanislaus County, and Tulare County
Summer X Games Coming To Sacramento In 2025
(Sacramento, CA) – A major announcement has hit Northern California. Sacramento will host the Summer X Games, a major extreme sports event, for the next three years starting in 2025, celebrating its 30th anniversary. The event is expected to have a sizable economic impact on the region.
The announcement was made by Cal Expo, newly sworn in Sacramento Mayor Kevin McCarty, and X Games CEO Jeremy Bloom. The games feature sports like skateboarding, BMX biking, and motocross.
Yuba-Sutter’s New Baseball Team Introduced
(Yuba-Sutter, CA) – Bryant Field’s newest tenant, the Yuba-Sutter High Wheelers, relocating from Davis after just one season during which they won the Pioneer League championship, were officially introduced yesterday at the stadium. The presentation included Marysville High School Hall of Fame member Lon Hatamiya, a part of the local ownership group.
The Pioneer League, founded in 1939, is a professional, independent Major League Baseball partner with 11 other teams throughout the western U.S., playing a 96 game schedule, with the High Wheelers home opener May 20th against the Grand Junction Jackalopes.
Jeff Larson reports in The Appeal-Democrat that the city of Marysville “has invested over $500,000 to bring the High Wheelers to town.”
Latest on Investigation Into Bidwell Mansion Fire
(Chico, CA) – It seems the investigation into the cause of yesterday morning’s pre-dawn fire that rendered the Bidwell Mansion a complete loss, has become a bit more complicated.
Action News initially reported, citing Chico Assistant Fire Chief Chris Zinko , that fire crews responded to “a warming fire” and “a person was seen leaving the area.” In their update last evening, that wording is changed to “illegal burn.”
Meanwhile, The Chico Enterprise-Record quotes Chico City Manager Mark Sorensen saying that he understood as of early yesterday afternoon, “an initial call suspected creek area warming fire,” adding “currently the root cause of the blaze does not appear to be the result of a warming fire. That is as far as I would want to go at this time. The facts of the matter are coming together.”
Guilty Plea in Magalia Home Invasion Attack
(Butte County, CA) – In Butte County Court yesterday, 31-year-old Samuel Dickenson pled guilty to multiple charges for an attack in Magalia in August.
Dickenson was wearing an all black ninja outfit, armed with knives & duct tape as he entered a home on Temple Circle late at night, with the intent to kidnap and rape an 8-year-old child living there. The child and the child’s mother were not there, but Dickenson was confronted by the child’s 70-year-old grandmother, who was stabbed twice in the chest, then as the woman’s 72-year-old husband attempted to save her, he was also stabbed. A 13-year-old in the home was able to call 911.
Both stabbing victims continue their recovery according the the D.A.
Dickenson faces 16 years in prison and remains jailed without bail until sentencing.