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LAKEPORT, Calif — Lakeport Unified School District property was used as a backdrop this week to active shooter training for local law enforcement.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation led two 16-hour Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training, or ALERRT, sessions in Lakeport this week.
The training at Clear Lake High School was coordinated by the Lakeport Police Department during the school’s spring break.
This program is the national standard, research-based active shooter response training for peace officers.
Officers are trained to respond alone or to respond with a group of officers to an active shooter call with the priority of stopping the threat.
ALERRT is based at Texas State University and certified for credit by the California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training, or POST.
Sixty officers from eight local and state agencies attended this training, including Lakeport Police Department, Clearlake Police Department, California State Parks-Clear Lake Sector, California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office, Lake County District Attorney Investigations Division, Lake County Probation Department, Lake County Sheriff’s Office and the California Department of Corrections Parole Division.
Four of these courses have been held in Lakeport in previous years, training 115 officers.
The Lakeport Police Department offered its thanks to the FBI, ALERRT, POST the attending agencies, and the Lakeport Unified Safety Committee, Lakeport Unified School District and Clear Lake High School for making this valuable training happen to further our ongoing and combined efforts to keep our schools and communities safe.
CLEARLAKE, Calif. — The Clearlake Police Department is seeking information on a young woman last seen over the summer.
Police are looking for Alice Irene Hoven, 29.
Hoven was last seen in August 2022 and is known to frequent the area behind Walmart in Clearlake, police said.
Police said she has a history of drug use and may have mental health issues.
Hoven is described as a white female, 5 feet 5 inches tall and 148 pounds, with short black hair and blue eyes.
She also is said to have a Batman tattoo on her lower left arm.
If you have any information regarding Hoven’s whereabouts please contact the Clearlake Police Department at 707-994-8251, Extension 1.
The county of Lake recommended that visitors use caution while recreating due to continued storm damage, including downed trees and partially fallen limbs on the disc golf course and recreational trails.
Due to wet weather conditions, trails are still closed to equestrians and bikers, officials said.
The Lake County Water Resources Department will continue to mark hazardous areas around the recreation area and continue cleaning up post-storm damage.
Officials said they appreciate the public’s continued patience and caution while enjoying the park.
Highland Springs Recreation Area is owned by the Lake County Watershed Protection District and managed by the Lake County Water Resources Department.
For more information, contact Water Resources at 707-263-2344 or
On April 3, 2023, NASA announced the four astronauts who will make up the crew of Artemis II, which is scheduled to launch in late 2024. The Artemis II mission will send these four astronauts on a 10-day mission that culminates in a flyby of the Moon. While they won’t head to the surface, they will be the first people to leave Earth’s immediate vicinity and be the first near the Moon in more than 50 years.
This mission will test the technology and equipment that’s necessary for future lunar landings and is a significant step on NASA’s planned journey back to the surface of the Moon. As part of this next era in lunar and space exploration, NASA has outlined a few clear goals. The agency is hoping to inspire young people to get interested in space, to make the broader Artemis program more economically and politically sustainable and, finally, to continue encouraging international collaboration on future missions.
From my perspective as a space policy expert, the four Artemis II astronauts fully embody these goals.
Who are the four astronauts?
The four members of the Artemis II crew are highly experienced, with three of them having flown in space previously. The one rookie flying onboard is notably representing Canada, making this an international mission, as well.
The commander of the mission will be Reid Wiseman, a naval aviator and test pilot. On his previous mission to the International Space Station, he spent 165 days in space and completed a record of 82 hours of experiments in just one week. Wiseman was also the chief of the U.S. astronaut office from 2020 to 2023.
Serving as pilot is Victor Glover. After flying more than 3,000 hours in more than 40 different aircraft, Glover was selected for the astronaut corps in 2013. He was the pilot for the Crew-1 mission, the first mission that used a SpaceX rocket and capsule to bring astronauts to the International Space Station, and served as a flight engineer on the ISS.
The lone woman on the crew is mission specialist Christina Hammock Koch. She has spent 328 days in space, more than any other woman, across the three ISS expeditions. She has also participated in six different spacewalks, including the first three all-women spacewalks. Koch is an engineer by trade, having previously worked at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.
The crew will be rounded out by a Canadian, Jeremy Hansen. Though a spaceflight rookie, he has participated in space simulations like NEEMO 19, in which he lived in a facility on the ocean floor to simulate deep space exploration. Before being selected to Canada’s astronaut corps in 2009, he was an F-18 pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force.
These four astronauts have followed pretty typical paths to space. Like the Apollo astronauts, three of them began their careers as military pilots. Two, Wiseman and Glover, were trained test pilots, just as most of the Apollo astronauts were.
Mission specialist Koch, with her engineering expertise, is more typical of modern astronauts. The position of mission or payload specialist was created for the space shuttle program, making spaceflight possible for those with more scientific backgrounds.
A collaborative, diverse future
Unlike the Apollo program of the 1960s and 1970s, with Artemis, NASA has placed a heavy emphasis on building a politically sustainable lunar program by fostering the participation of a diverse group of people and countries.
The participation of other countries in NASA missions – Canada in this case – is particularly important for the Artemis program and the Artemis II crew. International collaboration is beneficial for a number of reasons. First, it allows NASA to lean on the strengths and expertise of engineers, researchers and space agencies of U.S. allies and divide up the production of technologies and costs. It also helps the U.S. continue to provide international leadership in space as competition with other countries – notably China – heats up.
The crew of Artemis II is also quite diverse compared with the Apollo astronauts. NASA has often pointed out that the Artemis program will send the first woman and the first person of color to the Moon. With Koch and Glover on board, Artemis II is the first step in fulfilling that promise and moving toward the goal of inspiring future generations of space explorers.
The four astronauts aboard Artemis II will be the first humans to return to the vicinity of the Moon since 1972. The flyby will take the Orion capsule in one pass around the far side of the Moon. During the flight, the crew will monitor the spacecraft and test a new communication system that will allow them to send more data and communicate more easily with Earth than previous systems.
If all goes according to plan, in late 2025 Artemis III will mark humanity’s return to the lunar surface, this time also with a diverse crew. While the Artemis program still has a way to go before humans set foot on the Moon once again, the announcement of the Artemis II crew shows how NASA intends to get there in a diverse and collaborative way.
Wendy Whitman Cobb, Professor of Strategy and Security Studies, Air University
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article.
The meeting began with several proclamations, followed by public comment in which several community members called out North Bay Animal Services for its performance in handling the city’s animal shelter.
In recent weeks the organization, based in Petaluma, has been coming under fire for a variety of issues related to housing and handling of animals and treatment of volunteers.
City Manager Alan Flora said he’s given directives for improvement in treatment of animals to the organization and Clearlake Police Lt. Ryan Peterson has been assigned to investigate the allegations about the conditions in the shelter.
After the meeting, Lake County News reached out to North Bay Animal Services about the situation for an article on the city’s plans to address the shelter’s operations.
On Thursday’s agenda were two road projects.
The first was for the 18th Avenue Improvement Project, which the council voted unanimously to award to Argonaut Constructors, which was the low bidder at $4,632,295. The highest bidder was Granite Construction at $7,234,337.50.
The council approved a second contract with Argonaut Constructors for the Dam Road Extension/South Center Drive Improvement Project in the amount of $989,009.85. Ghilotti Construction was the high bidder at $1,386,441.25.
Both contracts allow Flora to approve up to 10% in additional cost due to unforeseen contract amendments.
Lake County Superintendent of Schools Brock Falkenberg, who was at the meeting for a proclamation presentation, said there is a school immediately adjacent to the Dam Road Extension area and he hoped in the next few years the city can address the need for a sidewalk there.
Public Works Director Adeline Brown said that is part of the project, to have curb, gutter and sidewalk on both sides of the road.
Flora added that there is a section of the project that extends to the southern boundary of a planned housing development on 18th Avenue, with the developer required to do the rest of those improvements along that property.
In other business, the council approved selling a vacant, city-owned lot at 16178 35th Ave. to an adjacent property owner for $6,950.
The council on Thursday appointed an alternate member to the Lake County Recreation Agency JPA Board of Directors; offered proclamations for Child Abuse Prevention Month; Sexual Assault Awareness Month; Arts, Culture, and Creativity Month; Public Safety Telecommunicators Week; and hosted a presentation by the Lakeshore Lions Club to the Highlands Senior Service Center.
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CLEARLAKE, Calif. — Clearlake Animal Control has a wide array of canines needing homes.
There are 28 dogs available this week for adoption, with several having been adopted in the past week.
They include “Dennis,” a male Labrador retriever mix puppy, and “Bella,” a female pit bull terrier mix.
The shelter is located at 6820 Old Highway 53. It’s open from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.
For more information, call the shelter at 707-762-6227, email
This week’s adoptable dogs are featured below.
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