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  The longer Plumas County goes without a general plan, the more its planning director, Randy Wilson, worries.

  Failure to have an updated general plan leaves the county vulnerable to lawsuits.

Congressman Doug LaMalfa speaks to a group of Graeagle residents March 27 while having lunch at Graeagle Restaurant. He was doing a tour of his district during the House of Representatives’ break from Washington, D.C., and spent time with his constituents all over District 1. Photo by Carolyn Carter

 Last week Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa showed District 1 voters that no town was too small and no setting too informal to meet his constituents when he had lunch with a handful of community members in Graeagle.

  The Portola City Council and Eastern Plumas Heath Care set up a united front against the impending MediCal cuts that are coming to the hospital.

  At the City Council meeting March 27, hospital CEO Tom Hayes updated the council on the fight against Assembly Bill 97, a bill that authorizes a 25 percent cut to MediCal reimbursements and demands retroactive payments from 2011 that the hospital will have to start paying back.

  Plumas Arts encourages all who are interested to get their seats at the table for the Saturday, April 13, Taste of Plumas at the Plumas-Sierra County Fairgrounds. The Taste of Plumas has sold out every year.

  Sierra Pacific Industries announced last week that it plans to shut down one of its Quincy sawmills for about two weeks, beginning Friday, April 5.

  Sierra Pacific spokesman Mark Pawlicki said the short-term curtailment is due to wet weather and not market conditions.