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Memories of Jenny and Billy Carrigan
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5/14/2008
This is an online memorial for Jenny and Billy Carrigan. Feel free to express your favorite memories, thoughts and sentiments of Jenny and Billy or offer condolences to family and friends.
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Sheriff releases cause of death in slayings
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Delaine Fragnoli
Managing Editor
05/14/08
Chester High senior Jenny Carrigan, 18, and her boyfriend, Willows High senior Steven Furtado, 18, died of multiple stab wounds, according to a press release from the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office this morning, Wednesday, May 14.
The stabbings took place sometime between the late evening hours of Saturday, May 10, and the early morning hours of Sunday, May 11, according to the report.
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Local hospital establishes memorial fund
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M. Kate West
Chester Editor
Seneca Healthcare District board member Mike Willhoit announced today, May 13, that the Carrigan Memorial Fund has been officially established.
He said the purpose of the fund “is to provide Jodie Carrigan with financial support for the myriad of expenses she is likely to encounter.”
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Judge rules no bail for slaying suspect
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Delaine Fragnoli
Managing Editor
Judge Ira Kaufman ruled this afternoon that slaying suspect Reyes Carrillo-Garcia, 18, should be held without bail since he is being charged with two counts of homicide, a capital offense.
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Billy Carrigan pronounced dead; classmates travel to Chico to say farewell
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M. Kate West
Chester Editor
Sierra Hospice volunteer Glenda Turnage, who has maintained extremely close contact with the Carrigan family and the high school since the May 11 tragedy, has confirmed that 20-year old Billy Carrigan did, in fact, succumb to his fatal head injury this Tuesday morning.
 Billy Carrigan
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Lake Almanor residents come together to mourn slain student
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In a coordinated effort to assist the grieving community, Pastor Norma Jean Powell and many of her fellow members of the Lassen-Lake Almanor Ministerial Association came together in the officiating of a candlelight vigil for slain teen Jenny Carrigan. In addition to the many prayers offered by the religious leaders, students and community members were afforded the opportunity to share their memories and prayers.
Photo by M. Kate West
A candlelight vigil for Jenny Carrigan was held at 8 p.m., Monday, May 12, on the Collins Pine lawn on Main Street, in Chester. Opening the ceremony, Pastor Norma Jean Powell said, “This is an evening when we have come together to celebrate the beauty of Jenny.” In attendance were students, longtime and new members of the community. Yellow (her favorite color) balloons surrounded the main table and the color continued as many of the attending students laid yellow roses at the base of her photograph.
Photo by M. Kate West
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Slaying suspect to be arraigned this afternoon
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Delaine Fragnoli
Managing Editor
5/13/08
Reyes Carrillo-Garcia, suspected of slaying Chester High senior Jenny Carrigan and her boyfriend, Willows High student Steven Furtado, will be arraigned in Plumas County Superior Court this afternoon, Tuesday, May 13, at 3 p.m., when he will likely be charged on two counts of homicide.
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Chester High cancels open house
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By M. Kate West
Chester Editor
05/12/08
Chester High School Principal Scott Cory announced at 11 a.m. May 12 that the long anticipated open house scheduled for May 14 at 6 p.m. has been cancelled.
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Accident claims lives of two Janesville teens
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Barbara France
Managing Editor
05/12/08
By 8 p.m. Friday, May 9, word had spread that two Janesville teenagers died from injuries sustained in a two-vehicle accident on Bass Hill Road.
Sisters Elizabeth Morgan, 20, and Katie Morgan, 18, were pronounced dead at the scene. Their mother is Samantha Lindsey, also of Janesville.
Visitation is scheduled from 5-8 p.m. Wednesday, May 14, at Walton’s Colonial Mortuary located at 115 S. Lassen St.
Memorial services are scheduled for 1 p.m. Thursday, May 15, at the mortuary. Other remembrances were not available at press time, but updated information can be found at lassennews.com
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Lake Almanor Basin youth come together in grief
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By M. Kate West
Chester Editor
05/12/08
Without knowing who made that all important first telephone call, the ringing continued until nearly every student from the Chester High School Class of 2008 had the opportunity to connect and come together at the Lake Almanor Community Church at 7 p.m., May 11.
The purpose of the gathering, as explained by a local teen, was “to let the kids have a chance to express how they were feeling about the death of their classmate Jenny Carrigan and to have the opportunity to say something about her.”
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Billy Carrigan remains in critical condition
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By M. Kate West
Chester Editor
05/12/08
Responding to an emergency call to return home to Chester May 11, 20-year-old Billy Carrigan was approximately 35 miles from his destination when he was involved in a single vehicle accident.
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Two teens slain in Chester; suspect in custody
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M. Kate West
Chester Editor
05/11/08
Sunday, May 11, the Plumas County Sheriff’s Office reported a double homicide at 143 Aldon Drive in Chester, California.
The victims were Jenny Carrigan, 18, a Chester High School student, and Steven Furtado, 18, from Willows.
A suspect, Reyes Carrillo-Garcia, 18, also a Chester High School student and Carrigan's former boyfriend, has been taken into custody.
The crime scene at 143 Aldon Drive in Chester, where two "apparent homicides" were discovered Sunday around noon.
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Tragedy halts program at Chester High
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M. Kate West
Chester Editor
05/11/08
Once every four years, the “Every 15 Minutes” program makes its round of each high school in Plumas County and this was the year the program was to visit the Chester Junior-Senior High School campus.
An extremely well kept secret throughout the community, plans for the May 12-13 event had been in the works for the past several months.
Today, Sunday, May 11, after learning about the unconfirmed death of a CHS student, Principal Scott Cory advised that the Every 15 Minute Program has been cancelled for the remainder of the school year.
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Lassen Park ready to ignite prescribed burn in Mineral
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Lassen Volcanic National Park staff plan to ignite a 50-acre prescribed fire in the park’s headquarters area, located at the western edge of the community of Mineral along State
Highway 36. Ignition will begin Thursday, May 8, and continue Friday, May 9.
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Prescribed burning scheduled
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5/7/08
The Beckwourth Ranger District is conducting prescribed burn activities in Red Clover Valley and Maybe near Delleker and Portola May 1-9.
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Quincy business owner arrested on drug charges
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5/7/08
Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
Four Plumas County residents, including the owner of Morning Thunder Cafe in Quincy, were arrested for possession of various drugs Friday, May 2.
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Almost 100 kids hit the diamonds in Greenville
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5/7/08
Alicia Knadler
Indian Valley Editor
Almost 100 Little Leaguers and their families converged on the Greenville Community Park Saturday, April 26, for the big season opener.
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Chamber seeks grand marshal
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5/7/08
M. Kate West
Chester Editor
The parade committee of the Chester-Lake Almanor Chamber of Commerce met Monday, April 21, for the purposes of confirming and coordinating activities that must be accomplished in the near future.
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Board gets first look at fair events
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5/7/08
Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
Billy Cox presented the fair board with a working copy of the county fair schedule at a meeting Wednesday, April 23.
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City approves Mountain View development
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5-7-08
Diana Jorgenson
Portola Editor
The eight-acre parcel, land that constitutes the city limits on two sides, for the proposed Mountain View Estates development was originally zoned for one to eight homes to provide a buffer to the county property owners across the street.
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Memorial Day ceremony slated
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The new Plumas County Veterans Memorial has now been completed. Robert Zernich, Veteran Memorial chairman, reports that all of the necessary funds have been raised thanks to the many generous contributions of donors.
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Brown Act workshop scheduled next week
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5/7/08
The Plumas County Special Districts Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association and the Plumas County Counsel's Office are sponsoring a workshop on the Ralph M. Brown Act Thursday, May 15, from 9 a.m. to noon at the Veterans Memorial Hall, 274 Lawrence St. in Quincy.
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County hires ADA pro
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5/7/08
Delaine Fragnoli
Managing Editor
It was fiscally painful, but it had to be done. That was the message as supervisors took action to protect the county against accessibility litigation.
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Forest Service announces road closure
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The Plumas National Forest announced Friday, May 2, that a portion of the Moonlight Road (29N46) will be closed for logging operations May 5-7.
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Eastern Plumas loses power
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Sierra Pacific Power reports that a large transmission line is down, knocking out power to all of Portola and Loyalton Wednesday morning, April 30.
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QCSD finalizes proposed rates
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4/30/08
Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
The Quincy Community Service District recently released its final version of a rate study facilitated by The Reed Group Inc.
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Quincy celebrates spring with Art Walk
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4/30/08
Spring will spring - you know it will. So rain or shine, gather what gear you need and make your way to downtown Quincy for the next Art Walk this Friday, May 2.
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Local pot-growers sentenced in federal court
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4/30/08
Victoria Metcalf
Staff Writer
A Rush Creek couple is facing federal time for growing marijuana in Plumas County. A federal court judge found Jeffre Sean Sanderson and his wife, Alice Jean Wiegand, guilty of cultivating marijuana. Sanderson was sentenced to serve two years in federal prison. Wiegand was given six months, but is allowed time to put things in order for the two youngsters she will need to leave behind.
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Calling all alumni: Web sites offer nostalgia
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4/30/08
Alicia Knadler
Indian Valley Editor
Alumni of Portola and Greenville high schools are finding each other again at MyFamily.com, on Web sites created by Portola alumni Bob Kaufman and John Holland, who has spent many years teaching and coaching at Greenville High School.
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