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- Written by: LAKE COUNTY NEWS REPORTS
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — The East Region Town Hall, or ERTH, will meet on Wednesday, Sept. 3.
The meeting will begin at 4 p.m. at the Moose Lodge, located at 15900 Moose Lodge Lane in Clearlake Oaks.
The meeting will be available via Zoom. The meeting ID is 813 6295 6146, pass code is 917658.
On the agenda is an update on ERTH business, including consideration of its activities and projects, and discussion on subcommittees.
They also will discuss survey results and hold a discussion on potential projects and activities to date for the District 3 municipal advisory committee group.
Other items on the agenda include the commercial cannabis report and cannabis ordinance update, updates on code enforcement updates, Spring Valley, the Superfund cleanup and Klaus Park, a report from District 3 Supervisor EJ Crandell, and new business and announcements.
ERTH’s next meeting will take place on Oct. 1.
Members are Angela Amaral, Jim Burton, Holly Harris, Maria Kann and Denise Loustalot.
For more information visit the group’s Facebook page.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Larson
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — Lake County Animal Care and Control has many dogs needing new homes of their own this week.
The dogs available for adoption this week include mixes of border collie, Chihuahua, Doberman, German shepherd, husky, Labrador Retriever, pit bull terrier, Rottweiler, terrier and shepherd.
Dogs that are adopted from Lake County Animal Care and Control are either neutered or spayed, microchipped and, if old enough, given a rabies shot and county license before being released to their new owner. License fees do not apply to residents of the cities of Lakeport or Clearlake.
Those animals shown on this page at the Lake County Animal Care and Control shelter have been cleared for adoption.
Call Lake County Animal Care and Control at 707-263-0278 or visit the shelter online for information on visiting or adopting.
The shelter is located at 4949 Helbush in Lakeport.
Email Elizabeth Larson at 
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Gov. Gavin Newsom is calling on the Legislature to pass a viable proposal to save California consumers upwards of $1 billion every year on energy costs, savings that would benefit millions of Californians.
The proposal — which is supported by a broad and diverse coalition of clean energy, environmental and labor advocates — enables the expansion of regional energy markets to lower energy costs, cut air and climate pollution, and avoid power outages.
The governor’s call for action comes after recent studies have found that acting this year is expected to yield more than $1 billion every year in economic benefits for the state — translating to real savings on customer electric bills.
“I’m calling on the Legislature to pass a viable proposal to expand regional power markets – it’s our best shot at affordability this year,” said Newsom. “Over $1 billion in economic benefits to our state is on the line and failure to get this done will mean higher electric bills, more pollution and a less reliable power grid. Californians deserve action now to make their electric bills more affordable.”
In August, the governor met with the coalition of supporters and thanked them for their work advancing this commonsense plan to further integrate California’s power grid with the broader West.
Newsom’s office said pollution is down and the economy is up. Greenhouse gas emissions in California are down 20% since 2000 — even as the state’s GDP increased 78% in that same time period.
The state also continues to set clean energy records. Newsom’s office said California was powered by two-thirds clean energy in 2023, the latest year for which data is available — the largest economy in the world to achieve this level of clean energy. The state has run on 100% clean electricity for some part of the day almost every day this year.
Since the beginning of the Newsom Administration, battery storage is up to over 15,000 megawatts — a 1,900%+ increase, and over 25,000 megawatts of new resources have been added to the electric grid.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. — California State Parks has repatriated cultural items to the Big Valley Band of Pomo Indians that have now returned home.
Big Valley and State Parks met to complete the repatriation of 21 baskets, regalia and other cultural items from the State Indian Museum State Historic Park on July 23.
This repatriation was part of State Parks’ compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
Big Valley Tribal Chairman Flaman McCloud Jr. and tribal members traveled to Sacramento to complete the repatriation and bring these cultural items back home to Lake County.
For Big Valley, these cultural items are integral to Pomo culture, identity and connect the community to their ancestors.
“It is an honor to be able to bring home items that our ancestors have touched and held and put sweat and their life into creating,” said Chairman McCloud. “It is a real blessing to be able to do that because we never got to know these ancestors in person. Through our oral history we know who they are, when they were in our community, what they did, whether it is for our ceremonies or just in our families. It is an honor to be able to have these things come home, however long it took, whatever work was needed.”
The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA, is a United States federal law that requires agencies and institutions to return Native American ancestors and cultural items to their rightful communities. Visit State Parks’ NAGPRA webpage for additional information.
“State Parks is committed to fulfilling our legal obligation under NAGPRA,” said State Parks Director Armando Quintero. “We are honored to be a part of the important repatriation process that returns ancestors and belongings to their homes and peoples. The State Parks NAGPRA program will continue this very important work until every Native American ancestor and cultural item has completed the NAGPRA process.”
Repatriated Items
Some of the repatriated items were obtained as early as 1880 by a private collector before being donated to State Parks, and others were purchased in 1960 by State Parks for display at the State Indian Museum State Historic Park, or SIM. Until recently, some of these items were on display in the museum.
This was the State Indian Museum’s first repatriation in over a decade. Like most museums with Native American collections nationwide, the SIM is in a moment of transition.
To educate and inform the public, the SIM created a new exhibit, “Welcomed Home: A Celebration,” about NAGPRA that communicates the joy and empowerment of repatriation.
The State Indian Museum was honored to work with Big Valley and assist with these belongings returning home.
Big Valley Chairman McCloud explained that these cultural items, “have a living spirit and they have been gone from their homeland for so long, that when they come home they are not going to recognize it … They know that it is their family they are coming home to. We are greeting them in the best way that we know how, we welcome them.”
Big Valley tribal members and State Parks staff then bowed their heads while the Chairman sang prayer in Pomo over the items.
For some of the cultural items, this was the first time they had heard their language in over a century.
