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Rescue Mission needs turkeys
OROVILLE -- The Oroville Rescue Mission is asking people to buy an extra turkey when they shop for Thanksgiving dinner and drop it off at the Rescue Mission at 4250 Lincoln Blvd.
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Salmon count up in Oroville area: Hatcheries report more fall-run salmon in Feather River, fewer in …
The fall Chinook salmon run was up on the Feather River this year, but down on the Sacramento River. Preliminary data collected by the U.
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OHS graduate is new interim county chief
OROVILLE — Butte County has a new interim chief administrative officer. Scott Tandy of Moraga, who for 33 years has worked in county administration in Butte County and elsewhere in the state, was appointed interim CAO Monday after a closed
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River Watcher: Oroville may have only a single shagbark hickory tree
You won't find any shagbark hickory trees down by the riverside, and very few in Oroville as they are an Eastern U.
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Brown Act violation, Oroville Inn before council
OROVILLE -- The City Council has an item to cure and correct a Brown Act violation on the docket Tuesday, as well as a decision about declaring housing conditions at the Oroville Inn a nuisance and ordering abatement of the nuisance within 60 days.
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Cyclists stay up all night in Oroville to open eyes about sport
OROVILLE -- There's nothing like a spectacle to renew the public's interest in an old subject. At least that's the way Lyle Wright thought when he helped organize this year's 24-hour bike race.
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Butte County Tire Amnesty tires dump makes dent in backlog
OROVILLE -- Saturday was Butte County Tire Amnesty Day. Held at the Highway 70 Industrial park from 8 a.
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Kids learn 'peace through dance': Choreographer shares message of cooperation at local schools
PALERMO -- An Israeli dancer, choreographer and university educator dedicated to changing the emotional climate at schools through dance, took his approach to local children this week.
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Scholarships will help keep club for youths open in 2010
OROVILLE -- On almost any given afternoon The Axiom is filled with the laughter and chatter of junior high and high school youth playing games, doing homework and enjoying one another's company.
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Fallen acorns sow student tradition at Ophir school
OROVILLE -- Sometimes the seed of a good idea sprouts from a child's fertile mind. That's the case at Ophir School, where students spent time during two days this week gathering acorns.
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Off the Record: Community shows support for girl and her horse
Way to show up, Oroville!!!! Y'all knock my boots off. As a friend of mine shouted over the noise of laughter, chatter, clanking dishes and order calls at Mike's Grande Burger Thursday night, "God bless small towns.
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Wildlife foundation leader is guest on 'Our Town' radio
OROVILLE -- Roberta Kirshner from the Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation is the scheduled guest at 11 a.
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Speaker condemns violence against women
CHICO -- Pay attention to how men and women are portrayed in commercials, films and TV shows, gender-violence expert Jackson Katz said during a lecture at Chico State University Friday.
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Community gives warmth to children through donated coats
OROVILLE -- The autumn air Friday morning was chilly, but a truck full of jackets, coats and other items donated for kids raised the level of warmth several notches at Ophir School.
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Palermo neighborhood ready to use guns against rampaging dogs
OROVILLE -- Some people in Palermo think the neighborhood is going to the dogs, and they intend to do something about it.
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Will they make it through the month?
A flock of wild turkeys gathers in a Butte County almond orchard this week, probably unaware that turkey hunting season starts Saturday and that Thanksgiving — when their domesticated brethren are commonly on the menu — is just a couple
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Man admits killing wife in surprise plea
OROVILLE -- An Oroville man, who had served time in prison for a previous killing, entered a surprise plea of no contest Thursday in court to the first-degree murder of his wife at the couple's home late last month.
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'Town hall' turns turbulent over prisons
CHICO -- Two state senators found themselves in stormy seas when talk turned to state prisons at a town-hall meeting Thursday night.
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State senator to argue against prisoner release
CHICO -- State Sen. George Runner, R-Lancaster, was in Chico Thursday to explain his position against the federally ordered early release of up to 40,000 inmates from California prisons.
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Dogs can kill when running in packs
PALERMO -- When a Palermo woman went out to feed her sheep early Saturday morning, she found them lying in the pasture in pools of blood, and she saw five dogs running away.
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