Between 2017 and 2019 storm damage and destruction caused by the August Fire Complex in 2020, Trinity County will receive nearly $45 million in state and federal emergency funds to repair multiple damaged roadways. Read more
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Trinity Public Utilities District says it has reached a settlement regarding wildfire claims arising from the 2017 Helena fire that destroyed many homes and buildings in Junction City. According to a release from TPUD Tuesday, the action stems from claims that TPUD equipment was responsible for starting the fire.
At a lightly attended online meeting Jan. 7, Trinity County Resource Conservation District sought input on the Trinity County Community Wildfire Plan.
Trinity County firefighters and other first responders have been receiving COVID-19 vaccinations as part of Phase 1A of the California Department of Public Health COVID-19 vaccine rollout. According to Trinity County Public Health, the county will soon see drive-through Vaccine Point of Dist…
The difficulty of seating a jury during a pandemic is illustrated in the fact that several people arrested in 2019 and 2020 have still not made it to trial in Trinity County Superior Court.
A normally routine matter of updating the Trinity County Board of Supervisors’ annual list of board appointments to some 36 committees, regional boards and commissions sparked a clash last week as one newly sworn supervisor challenged a third-term supervisor for his seat as a voting member o…
As one of their first orders of business in the new year, Trinity County supervisors elected District 4 Sup. Jeremy Brown of Burnt Ranch to serve as board chairman through 2021 and District 5 Sup. Dan Frasier of Hettenshaw as vice chairman.
A Trinity County grand jury report released in December had nothing but praise for the ballot processing and tallying done by the Trinity County Elections Department chief and staff in both the 2019 and 2020 presidential elections. The grand jurors’ only negative finding was that a larger sp…
Crime & Punishment
The Trinity County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls from Jan. 4-10:
The Trinity County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls from Dec. 28 to Jan 3:
The Trinity County Sheriff’s Office responded to the following calls from Dec. 21-27:
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Meetings are subject to cancellation or closure to the public, or being held by teleconferencing, to reduce potential exposure to the coronavirus. All meetings of the Board of Supervisors and most other county meetings will be held by teleconference until further notice.
Meetings are subject to cancellation or closure to the public, or being held by teleconferencing, to reduce potential exposure to the coronavirus. All meetings of the Board of Supervisors and most other county meetings will be held by teleconference until further notice.
County, state and federal offices will be closed on Friday, New Year’s Day. Post offices will be closed New Year’s Day. Schools are currently on distance learning and/or on winter break.
Sports
Finally, the Trinity River Hatchery is seeing some adult steelhead. This past week the Trinity has sent the message to the steelhead down in the Klamath to start going up the Trinity. This past week the Trinity Valley has seen a significant amount of rain to raise the river and we are seeing… Read more
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Three reasons to join the communitywide art invitational at Main Street Gallery in Weaverville as it hosts the March “Visual Music” painting and sculpture show. Read more
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Obituaries
Always a mountain man at heart, Marvin Ray Stewart, EdD, or “D…
Elsie Jewell McLaughlin Glass at 98 years old, passed through …
Elizabeth M. O’Hara (“Beth”) passed away on Jan. 5, 2021, at t…
Johnny Edward Case Sr., aka Ed & E Greenum Pullem, clocked…
It is with great sadness that we announce Claudette Helen Bush…
Opinion
I support the Journal’s Jan. 6 editorial “Time to put more effort into shopping local” and urge all my neighbors and friends to make this a top priority. The impact of spending dollars locally is immediate.
Last Tuesday, Jan. 5, we got a reminder of how awesome it is to live in a small town. That afternoon a 12-inch water main broke and water came flooding into our front yard, pushing its way closer and closer to our front door.
Joe Biden won’t become president of the United States for another week yet, but it’s fair to say he’s already feeling the pressures of the office. I think being president-elect may be the second hardest job in the world.
It is almost over. There is light at the end of the tunnel; but did we learn anything? Will we be willing to forgive but never to forget? Will we put aside self-will and pride, consult God, and then allow Him to lead us, or will we let history repeat itself as it has so often done in the past?
Since the insurrection at the Capitol Building I keep thinking about my Dad and wondering what he would have thought. Frank J. Pace, son of Italian immigrants, joined the National Guard at 19 and almost lost a leg during World War II. Then he volunteered to fight in Korea when his unit was c…
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