Work to Commence on Herlong School January 24, 1952 Superintendent H. Lawson Smith announced that construction of the new elementary school in Herlong will start January 7. The $347,247 project of ten classrooms and administrative offices will house the kindergarten through part of the third grade. Provision...

Susanville Prepares Celebration of Golden Anniversary as ‘City” January 23, 1950 There are new years and new years, but this New Year brings a double significance to Susanville because it marks not only the middle of a century, but also the town’s 50th birthday year. Susanville will...

Alosi Honored For Athletics At Susanville Football Awards Announced At Lassen High January 22, 1954 As a result of points awarded at the completion of the 1953 football season under the Lassen Union High School athletic award plan. Anthony Alosi, scat halfback for the Grizzlies football eleven,...

Floor of Valley Sinks After Quake January 21, 1951 Drop in the floor of Long Valley, Lassen county, as much as ten inches, has been discovered along one side of a crack in the earth in the Doyle area, apparently the result of the series of...

Lassen Youths Enter Contest January 18, 1948 Wallace Nye, senior FFA member, and Jim Fraley, junior member, will represent the Lassen county FFA chapter at the public speaking contest in Alturas on January 24. Subject of Nye’s talk is soil erosion and Fraley will speak on...

Board Discusses Highway Project January 17, 1941 The board of supervisors, meeting yesterday with the highway committee of the Susanville Chamber of Commerce, agreed to cooperate in the matter of securing right of way over small strip of land necessary to the completion of the projected...

Sheriff After Horse Thieves Lassen Officers Chase Men Engaged in Killing Animal for Hides January 16, 1906 Armed with search warrants of arrest, sworn to by Charles Rager of Washoe county, Nevada, and James Russell of Lassen county, Cal., Sheriff Wilson of Lassen county proceeded to the...

Aerial Search Made in Lassen January 15, 1950 Two pilots failed to spot any signs of plane wreckage at Norville Flat Wednesday when they covered about 20 square miles in an aerial search of the area. A section hand at Norville Flat had reported to the...

Susanville Ski Club Revived; New Tow at Fredonyer Summit January 14, 1951 Announcement was made by Rue Dastrup and Buddy Olsen that a ski tow and run are soon to be built at Fredonyer summit. The run to be named RuBo Run, will include a 1300...

Pilot Classes Will Continue January 11, 1941 Notwithstanding new government regulations which practically eliminated the smaller high schools and junior colleges of the west from participating in the U.S. civil pilot training courses in which the government pays $365 for every private pilot licensed, Principal N....

Retiring Susanville Druggist Looking Back on 32 Years of Various Changes January 10, 1946 With the longest continuous business record on Main street of any living Susanville merchant, William M. Bryant, for the first time since 1913 in not in business, having sold his interest...