Friday, May 9, 2025

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Publisher and Editor Hello friends and neighbors! Happy Friday! The Gift Thats Worth 1,000 Words I love it when people bring me old pictures of Susanville and the surrounding area. Every once in a while, someone will show up here at the office, manilla...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoPublisher and Editor, SusanvilleStuff When I write about a subject here in Dispatches I am used to hearing about it afterward – people stop me in a store, or email or message me, and I am always glad for the feedback. But nothing...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Publisher and Editor It’s been a while dear readers, and I apologize for the gap between issues of Dispatches, but June, an already jam-packed month around here, has been a month fraught with website technical crises and looming projects. It seems like...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

by Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Editor and Publisher This is it - my absolute favorite time of the year in Susanville. When I was a kid, I always thought that Fair time, back when the Lassen County Fair was at the end of August, was the best time...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoPublisher and Editor, SusanvilleStuff It was a busy week in Susanville! Spring events are underway, and the weather has been perfect for stuff like… We had an earthquake last week! Well, technically Lake Almanor had the quake, but in Susanville we felt a pretty...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoPublisher and Editor, SusanvilleStuff The Lassen County Childrens Fair is Saturday! I have a lot of love for this event because I have such fond memories of its beginnings, four decades ago, when I was just a young tyke. In 1987 our band, the...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoPublisher and Editor, SusanvilleStuff It's here! I took this picture of Thompson Peak for you guys just to prove it. Spring has finally arrived in the valley! Buds are budding, leaves are leafing, and grass is greening up all over the place. By...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Publisher and Editor Loyal and True Part TwoKayla Millar, one of Susanville’s only true polymaths, and all-around awesome individual, not only knew the answer to the question ‘who wrote Lassen High’s school song?’ but she even sent me the sheet music for...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Publisher and Editor Wait a minute! Scandal rocks the high school music world! We’ve been hoodwinked! Remember that Lassen High School song "Loyal and True?" “We’re loyal and true, we pledge allegiance to you…” you know, that one. For nearly a century, at least,...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoSusanvilleStuff Editor and Publisher My job, and my love of local history, lead me to spend a lot of time reading old Susanville stuff. Lots of newspapers, periodicals, old government publications – anything I can get my hands on to learn about Lassen...

Dispatches from the Lucky Land of Lassen

By Jeremy CousoPublisher, Editor and Blarney CaptainSusanvilleStuff I don’t care if it was still cold this week, it looked like Spring yesterday and that was enough for me. And, lo and behold, once the three inches of atmospheric river washed away the ten inches of...
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