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Award-winning film features local wardens and black market bear traders

Alicia Knadler

Indian Valley Editor

2/10/2010

Residents with the Discovery Planet Green channel can tune in to see what happens when Department of Fish and Game Warden Zeke Awbrey of Quincy and wildlife crime investigative reporter Steve Galster discover a 20-pound bear cub shot in the head near Poplar Valley above Sloat.
They appear in the national premiere of “Crime Scene Wild: Bears,” Friday, Feb. 12, at 5 p.m., one segment of an award-winning mini-series by Cicada Productions of London.

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Plumas District Hospital sued by local citizens

Feather Publishing

2/9/2010

Five citizens filed suit Monday, Feb. 8, in Plumas County Superior Court asking the court to appoint an election official for Plumas District Hospital so their proposed initiative can proceed through the election process.

Frank “Skip” Alexander, Robert Zernich, Robert Herr, Dennis Clemens and Martin Brutlag are asking the court to appoint Plumas County Clerk-Recorder Kathy Williams as the election official for the district so the signatures on their initiative petition can be verified.

See Wednesday's Feather River Bulletin for the complete story

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Assault on correctional officer a fabrication, authorities say

Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
2/4/2010

Plumas County sheriffís deputies and investigators responding to claims by High Desert State Prison correctional officer Todd Posch that he was the victim of a hit-in-run in front of his residence in Greenville Wednesday morning determined "Poschís allegations were false and fabricated" according to a press release signed by Sheriff Greg Hagwood.

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Out of touch: Pager provider abandons area

Joshua Sebold
Staff Writer
2/3/2010

   Several organizations operating on the eastern side of the county became aware of something strange in the third week in January: Their pagers were malfunctioning.
   Eastern Plumas District Hospital Information Technology Manager Rick Boyd received a call from a doctor Monday, Jan. 11.
   The doctor explained the hospital attempted to page him the night before and he never received the message.

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Multiple agencies respond to Basin disaster

M. Kate West
Chester Editor
2/3/2010

Without the assistance of multiple agencies, life, as it is known in the Lake Almanor Basin, might have come to a screeching halt during the snowstorms the week of Jan. 17ñ25.
In addition to the more than six feet of snow that fell on the West Shore of Lake Almanor and Chester, the storms brought about a Plumas County Board of Supervisors declaration of a local emergency Jan. 22.

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