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COBB, Calif. – A 3.8-magnitude earthquake that hit near The Geysers geothermal steamfield shook various parts of Lake County as well as neighboring counties.
The US Geological Survey said the quake occurred at 10:29 p.m. Wednesday.
The quake's epicenter was 4.3 miles northwest of The Geysers, 5 miles west of Cobb and 7.5 miles west northwest of Anderson Springs, at a depth of 1.3 miles.
Early Thursday, shake reports had been filed with the US Geological Survey from Kelseyville, Lakeport, Lower Lake and Middletown in Lake County, as well as from Angwin and Calistoga in Napa County, and Cloverdale, Healdsburg and Geyserville in Sonoma County.
Additionally, on Lake County News' Facebook page, readers reported feeling the quake in areas including Kelseyville and Cobb, and even as far away as Redwood Valley. A Healdsburg resident also reported that she heard it rather than felt it, as the quake caused her entire home to creak.
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MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – “Loose Affiliations,” Middletown Art Center’s ninth exhibition, opens Saturday, May 14, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The exhibit runs through June 26 at the Middletown Art Center, or MAC, which is located in the heart of town at the junctions of highways 29 and 175.
Lake County residents and visitors are invited to enjoy artist’s interpretations of both inner and outer worlds. You are invited to see intriguing work, meet the artists, enjoy refreshments and community. Children are welcome.
Founded in partnership with EcoArts of Lake County, MAC provides a year-round arts and cultural presence in South Lake County where formerly there was none.
Team members transformed the old Main Street Pavilion into a beautiful space for contemporary art, performance, and events. The back portion of the building serves as a studio where classes in drawing, painting, ceramics, photography, drama and more, are offered for children, teens and adults.
The Art Center opened doors March 28, 2015, and has consistently presented extraordinary art exhibitions featuring work by local artists, in a wide variety of mediums, including painting, pastels, photographs, sculptures in a wide variety of media and prints.
MAC is an arts nonprofit made by community members for the community to enjoy. The center offers a colorful palette of classes for children, teens and adults most days of the week. Aside from lively art openings every six weeks, MAC hosts musical performances, Open Mic and Hootenannys every other Friday.
MAC is expanding its offerings to engage the community both in terms of classes and happenings to encourage self-expression and enrichment through the arts.
The center continues to subsidize classes to those impacted by the Valley fire and those in the greatest need as the community recovers. MAC’s key goals are to inspire every child and adult to express themselves and grow through the arts and arts exposure, while bolstering the quality of life and sustainability of our community in support of a healthy local economy.
The gallery is open Friday and Saturday, noon to 6 p.m., or Sunday noon to 5 p.m. (subject to seasonal changes).
MAC will be closed on Friday, May 13, and will re-open on Saturday, May 14, at 6 p.m. for the opening reception.
Find out more about MAC at www.middletownartcenter.org or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ARTMiddletown . For more information email
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Fifteen branches of federal, state, and local government have agreed to work together on planning and projects in the Yolo Bypass and Cache Slough region in order to restore wildlife habitat, better manage floods, preserve farmland, improve water supply and quality, and provide economic development and recreation.
This partnership, formalized in a memorandum of understanding signed this month, will provide strategic input on the implementation of projects that include strengthening and setting back levees, removing barriers to fish passage, sustaining agricultural operations, and making it easier for salmon to rear on the Sacramento River floodplain.
The MOU helps coordinate and synchronize efforts of 15 separate federal, state and local agencies in the Yolo Bypass, a 92-square-mile swath of farmland and wetlands that serves as a flood safety valve to protect the cities of Davis, Woodland, West Sacramento, and Sacramento, as well as important agricultural lands and several small communities.
Designed in the early 1900s by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in collaboration with the State of California, the 41-mile-long Yolo Bypass can carry four times the flow of the Sacramento River.
Water from Clear Lake flows through Cache Creek and into the Yolo Bypass.
The Sacramento River once seasonally spilled across much of the Sacramento Valley, creating rich wildlife habitat, recharging groundwater, and providing abundant food for young fish.
Today the river is bound by levees, but the Yolo Bypass still operates most winters as a floodplain, carrying floodwaters from the river in a wide channel that stretches from Knights Landing to Rio Vista.
The bypass safely deposits as much as half a million cubic feet per second of flow into the mouth of the Sacramento River in the western Delta.
Besides helping to protect cities and rural communities from dangerously high flood flows, the Yolo Bypass supports abundant waterfowl and fish and offers good opportunities for habitat restoration.
Most of the bypass is privately owned and farmed, and the state holds easements that allow for regular flooding of the land. The state-owned Yolo Bypass Wildlife Area between Davis and Sacramento is popular with birdwatchers, hunters and educational groups.
Efforts are underway in the bypass to better mimic the river’s natural floodplains by allowing more water on the bypass for longer periods of time.
Studies show that the shallow flooding of the bypass boosts production of food for salmon and other native fish. Other potential efforts include enhancing seasonal floodplain habitat, improving levees for regional flood management, and removing barriers to help adult and juvenile fish return from the floodplain to the river.
“The Yolo Bypass was built generations ago primarily to provide public safety protection to the greater Sacramento area,” said California Natural Resources Secretary John Laird. “Over time, there has been a greater appreciation for its role in meeting other needs as well. Working together with everyone’s interests in mind, this agreement can move the role of the bypass to the next level – for flood protection, wildlife habitat and the agricultural economy."
“The intent of this MOU truly echoes the US Army Corps of Engineers’ focus on Integrated Water Resource Management,” said Sacramento District Command Col. Michael Farrell. “We can only achieve success by considering the plans and viewpoints of all other stakeholders in the watershed, and look forward to further collaboration on a long-term vision for the Yolo Bypass.”
“We are very pleased to take part in the signing of this agreement. It affirms a commitment to collaboration and aligns efforts across agencies to achieve outcomes that will help us improve flood conveyance, economic development, habitat, water quality and more in the Yolo Bypass and Cache Slough region,” said Bureau of Reclamation Mid-Pacific Regional Director David G. Murillo.
“Local agencies have been working hard to coordinate our efforts in the Yolo Bypass and Cache Slough region for a long time,” said Yolo County Supervisor Jim Provenza. “We welcome this opportunity to grow the conversation by working more closely with our state and federal agency partners.”
“This is exactly the kind of interagency partnership that is necessary to move forward in achieving flood protection, local economic sustainability, and the State’s coequal goals of habitat restoration and water supply reliability,” said Randy Fiorini, chair of the Delta Stewardship Council.
The parties to the non-binding, 10-year MOU recognize one another’s missions and authorizations and commit to greater collaboration and communication regarding federal, state and local actions – two critical ingredients for success in a landscape that provides so many benefits.
The signatories are the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, California Natural Resources Agency, California Department of Water Resources, California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, State Water Resources Control Board, Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, Yolo County, Solano County, Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency, Solano County Water Agency and Reclamation District No. 2068.
A copy of the MOU is available at http://resources.ca.gov/docs/160510-Memorandum_of_Understanding.pdf .
LOWER LAKE, Calif. – On May 4, the entire Carlé High School student body took the whole day to tour Woodland Community College.
On behalf of all Carlé High School we would like to thank Woodland College students Dustin Wilson, Alicia Donschikowski, Danielle Stennet and Cameron Carrillo – three of whom were Carlé graduates – for sharing their personal experiences and struggles.
We also extend our gratitude to Pam Bordisso and City Councilman Bruno Sabatier for being our guides.
We would also like to thank Chef Robert and his entire culinary class for preparing an amazing lunch for the entire student body of Carlé High School. Carlé's media student are in the process of making thank you plaques for the student and staff alike.
A student from Carlé High School, Brianna E. Legg had this to say, “I had a blast. They answered all of my questions. Walked us through the whole process of getting classes, getting the books we needed for those classes, and on top of everything they took time out of their day to show us their beautiful campus. I’m so looking forward to college. Thank you.”
“My experience at Woodland/Yuba College, as my peers say, was fantastic. The culinary class went above and beyond preparing an amazing lunch. I had a wonderful time and the students of this awesome college were inspiring,” said Destiny Blevins.
Destiny was our highest credit earner last grade period and has already signed up for college classes this summer.
The new press has been prepped, ready and put in to action. We would like to thank Dr. Barry Munitz for his incredibly generous donation of $5,000 to our media program. This donation has allowed us to modernize and will take our business through the next 15 years.
With that in mind media teacher Alan Siegel assigned student Emily Greig the great task of making new name plates for our new press which of course will be called “Barry.”
Emily created two plaques saying “Hi, my name is Barry and I was born in 2016.” We all take great pleasure in that long after we are gone students and staff will be calling the press Barry in honor of Dr. Munitz.
Next week’s article will detail our prom which took place on Friday the 6th and held on our campus home.
Brianna E. Legg and Candice Safreno are students at Carlé Continuation High School in Lower Lake, Calif.
UPPER LAKE, Calif. – Author Gilda Evans will be conducting a revisit at Upper Lake High School May 12 to 16.
In conjunction with the English department, current seniors reviewed her manuscript in 2014, the beginnings of her pilot program for teens and parents now called “S'LIFE, Slices of Life for Teens.”
A public event will be held at 6 p.m. Thursday, May 12, in the high school's student center, 675 Clover Valley Road.
“There is a kind of universality about growing up,” said Evans. “S’LIFE, Slice of Life for Teens addresses many of the questions and concerns that frequently arise during this precarious stage, and does it in a manner that is fun and easy to read. The chapters are concise and succinct, and discuss a variety of real-life scenarios that every teen and parent is likely to encounter at one point or another.”
"We started this in part because it's never too early to begin the dialogue with kids and open avenues of communication with them," says Anna Sabalone, teacher at ULHS, concerning the visit she's initiated with Ms. Evans. "We had a lot of great feedback a few years ago, I can't wait to see how it works this year.”
Community members are encouraged to attend to discuss concerns and ask questions of the author about life, the book, and the pilot program.
LAKEPORT, Calif. – All branches of the Lake County Library system will be closed Saturday, May 28, to observe Memorial Day.
Normal hours at all branches will resume on Tuesday, May 31. Call your local branch if you have any questions.
Even though the library will be closed you can still go online to the library Web site at http://library.lakecountyca.gov to download ebooks, audiobooks and magazines.
You also can check on your account, renew any items you have checked out or requests books from libraries in Lake, Sonoma and Mendocino to pick up at your local branch when the library does reopen.
Lakeport Library, located at 1425 N. High St., is normally open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The phone number is 707-263-8817.
Redbud Library, 14785 Burns Valley Road, Clearlake, is normally open Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Wednesday, noon to 7 p.m. The phone number is 707-994-5115.
Middletown Library, 21256 Washington St., is normally open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The phone number is 707-987-3674.
Upper Lake Library, 310 Second St., is normally open Tuesday through Friday, noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. The phone number is 707-275-2049.