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Faced with a cash-flow hole of $1 million and growing, Feather River College is taking the unprecedented step of asking the county for an advance on its tax revenues.

The new membrane filtration system for Greenville domestic water is up and running. The work it took to get it that way was featured last month in the California Water Journal, a publication by the California Rural Water Association.

For more than a year, the class action lawsuit of eastern county citizens and the city of Portola versus the California Department of Fish and Game over economic impacts of the Pike Eradication Project was out of public sight, until Judge Hilde’s ruling to certify the plaintiffs as a class a couple of weeks ago.

The California Department of Transportation’s Environmental Enhancement and Mitigation Program has awarded the Mohawk Valley Stewardship Council a grant in the amount of $500,000 toward the acquisition of the ranch for its value as a roadside recreational facility.