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Caltrans reported efforts are underway to attack litter on the state’s highways while also offering employment opportunities to groups of people in need of jobs.
Clean California, a $1.1 billion effort to massively expand state and local litter abatement efforts introduced in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s California Comeback Plan, is seeking to create an estimated 11,000 state and local jobs over three years, including opportunities for people exiting homelessness, veterans, students, at-risk youth and those reentering society from incarceration.
In this News Flash, Caltrans highlights recent hiring events geared to fill available state jobs for landscape maintenance, equipment operation, and highway maintenance.
Caltrans’ Clean California hiring events provide interested applicants an opportunity to obtain a state job with medical, dental, vision, paid sick leave and retirement benefits.
Salaries for the jobs vary, and workers with experience who are hired may make up to $5,379 a month to start in certain positions. Available Clean California job postings can be found on CalCareers.
The statewide program includes potential projects in all 58 counties, with nearly a third of the funds being directly invested into cities, counties, tribes, and transit agencies to clean and enhance local streets and public spaces.
Caltrans will award millions in matching grants to fund impactful projects on local streets and roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways, and transit centers in underserved, rural and urban communities.
This News Flash is the 233rd in a series of videos highlighting Caltrans’ activities that present the wide-ranging work that Caltrans does to enhance California’s economy and livability.
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The City of Clearlake Animal Association also is seeking fosters for the animals waiting to be adopted.
Another way to help is through donations. A wish list has been posted at Amazon and on Chewy. For those who wish to shop local and drop off items, call 707-273-9440 to schedule a delivery or donate at the association’s Facebook page.
Call the Clearlake Animal Control shelter at 707-273-9440, or email
Visit Clearlake Animal Control on Facebook or on the city’s website.
Here are this week’s adoptable dogs. The newest dog is featured at the top.
‘Edgar’
“Edgar” is a male American Staffordshire terrier mix with a short black and cream coat.
He is dog No. 5189.
‘Andy’
“Andy” is a male pit bull terrier mix with a short gray and white coat.
He is dog No. 5150.
‘Bear’
“Bear” is a male American Staffordshire terrier mix with a short brown coat.
He has been neutered.
He is dog No. 3476.
‘Bella’
“Bella” is a female pit bull mix with a short brindle coat.
She is dog No. 5080.
‘Blue Eyed Jack’
“Blue Eyed Jack” is a male German shepherd mix.
He is dog No. 5046.
‘Mara’
“Mara” is a female Rottweiler mix.
She has a short black and tan coat.
He is house-trained.
She is dog No. 4628.
‘Mitzy’
“Mitzy” is a female shepherd mix with a medium-length black and white coat.
She is dog No. 4648.
‘Sassy’
“Sassy” is a female American bully mix with a short black coat.
She has been spayed.
She is dog No. 4602.
‘Tanisha’
“Tanisha” is a female shepherd mix with a short orange and white coat.
She is dog No. 4647.
‘Terry’
“Terry” is a male Dutch shepherd mix with a smooth brindle coat.
He is dog No. 4880.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A Wednesday morning head-on wreck near Nice killed one driver and resulted in the arrest of the second on suspicion of driving under the influence of drugs and vehicular manslaughter.
The name of the man who died was not released on Wednesday night by the California Highway Patrol’s Clear Lake Area office pending notification of next of kin.
The CHP report explained that at 7:26 a.m. Wednesday, Steven Michael Pruitt, 35, of Lakeport was driving a dark blue Chevrolet Camaro westbound on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff just west of the Rodman Slough as the other driver was headed eastbound driving a light green Honda Civic eastbound.
For reasons the CHP said are still under investigation, Pruitt allowed his Camaro to cross over into the opposing lane over the solid double yellow lines, where it collided head-on with the Honda Civic.
After the collision, the CHP said the Camaro came to rest on the north edge of the cutoff and the Honda Civic came to rest on the road’s south edge.
CHP Clear Lake Area Commander Lt. Dan Fansler, who was the first to arrive on scene, assumed incident command, the report said.
The CHP said the Honda’s driver was pronounced dead at the scene by Northshore Fire Protection District personnel.
Both drivers were using their safety equipment, the report said.
The CHP established one-way traffic control, which remained in place during the entire investigation.
The roadway was fully reopened shortly before 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, according to the CHP.
During the on-scene investigation, it was determined that Pruitt was under the influence of drugs and he was placed under arrest. The CHP said Pruitt was medically cleared and booked at the Lake County Jail.
Pruitt, whose booking sheet lists his occupation as a child care provider, is being held for DUI causing injury and vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated, with bail set at $1 million, according to jail records.
He is due to appear in Lake County Superior Court for arraignment on Friday.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — A Clearlake Oaks woman arrested last month for the July killing of her boyfriend has been extradited back to Lake County from Missouri.
Tammy Sue Grogan-Robinson, 56, was arrested in August in Missouri, more than a month after she fatally shot 56-year-old Charles Vernon McClelland of Rohnert Park at the Clearlake Oaks home where she was living.
Authorities found McClelland’s body on the morning of July 7, not long after deputies responded to a local hospital on the report of a woman later identified as Grogan-Robinson reporting she had shot a man who had assaulted her.
Investigators said Grogan-Robinson and McClelland had been in an on-again, off-again dating relationship for five years.
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office would later conclude, based on its extensive follow-up investigation, that Grogan-Robinson’s shooting of McClelland wasn’t justified.
That resulted in the Lake County District Attorney’s Office filing a complaint for murder against Grogan-Robinson on Aug. 13.
Authorities said she was arrested on Aug. 18 in Missouri — where she has family — on a felony arrest warrant and extradited back to Lake County.
Chief Deputy District Attorney Richard Hinchcliff filed charges against Grogan-Robinson that include murder and assault with a firearm, with special allegations of intentionally discharging a firearm causing death, personal use of a firearm and inflicting great bodily injury.
Hinchcliff told Lake County News that Grogan-Robinson was previously arraigned and had been asking the court to allow her to represent herself.
In a Tuesday motion hearing before Judge J. David Markham, however, defense attorney Mitchell Hauptman, who made a special appearance on Grogan-Robinson’s behalf, said she was dropping her request to represent herself and wanted to retain an attorney.
Markham confirmed that with Grogan-Robinson, who appeared via Zoom from the Lake County Jail.
Hauptman raised issues because he had not yet received discovery in the case from the District Attorney’s Office. Deputy District Attorney Rich Watson said he had been directed not to release that information until Grogan-Robinson retained an attorney.
Grogan-Robinson is set to return to court on Tuesday afternoon, at which time the court will review the $2 million bail she is being held on at the Lake County Jail, where she was booked after arriving in Lake County on Sept. 11, based on jail records.
Hauptman said she is entitled to a review of that bail amount and Watson said he wanted to notify the victims of the proceeding.
At next week’s hearing, Hauptman intends to have Dr. Chris Lombardo testify — either in person or by a letter — to Grogan-Robinson’s character. Lombardo has worked with Grogan-Robinson, a surgical technician, in a local surgical unit.
Grogan-Robinson also is scheduled to have her attorney make their first appearance and to enter a plea to the charges at Tuesday’s hearing.
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