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Landmark clock back on Montgomery Street
OROVILLE — Some 5,700 school students, out of the roughly 24,000 in Butte County, are going to get a shot at the first round of "pandemic H1N1" influenza vaccinations.
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Searching for Salvation
Nichole Wilson looks at the bare cupboards in the food pantry at the Salvation Army Church Thursday. Donations from agencies and the community have dropped, while the number of families and homeless people needing food has risen.
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River Watcher: The wonder of seeds
The sight of those 1,700-pound pampered pumpkins that win contests always spins your imagination of seed-making gone awry.
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Oroville Adult School teaches eBay etiquette
OROVILLE — Sally Bodine took an eBay class at Oroville Adult school a year ago, and it has helped raise money for her nonprofit that buys building lots for poor families in Mexico.
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Butte, CSUC host enviro conference
CHICO — Just a few years ago the word "sustainability" was new in the American lexicon. Reusable bags were rarely available for sale in grocery stores.
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Oroville Calendar for Nov. 2
TUESDAY Yoga: 8:30 a.m. and 5:15 p.m. at YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. 533-9622. The Women of the Wyandotte Grange: 10 a.
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Old-time fiddling fills radio waves
OROVILLE -- Some picking and singing can be expected at 11 a.m. Tuesday on the "Our Town" radio program on KRBS-LP, Oroville, a radio station broadcasting at 107.
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Off the Record: Kids can lighten the heart, make Halloween sweet
She's 5-years-old, lives in Utah and calls her grandma in California every night before she goes to bed.
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Butte County's budget bulge nice but not meaningful
OROVILLE -- At the end of the last fiscal year Butte County had about $7 million more in its coffers than anticipated, but officials say the extra cash is nothing to get excited about and more red ink is on the horizon.
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From The Pulpit: '3.1415 & or Tolerance Part Four'
Relying on scripture to make a point is futile as any point can be sustained by one scripture or interpretation or another.
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Dwindling donations end jail anti-addiction ministry
OROVILLE -- Though legally blind, Linda Vazquez has helped many Butte County inmates gain the inner-vision to escape often chronic addictions to drugs and alcohol.
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Clock change Sunday also means smoke detector battery change
Fire officials throughout Butte County are reminding citizens that in addition to changing their clocks Sunday, they should also change their smoke detector and carbon monoxide detector batteries.
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Oroville man in custody after snatching another man's cash at ATM
OROVILLE -- An Oroville man was surprised Thursday when a clean-cut young man grabbed his money when it came out of an ATM at a bank on Oro Dam Boulevard.
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Oroville boosters planning car giveaway to raise money for sports
OROVILLE -- As other financially strapped districts in Northern California are doing, parents of Oroville High School and Las Plumas athletes are trying to keep sports afloat in the district.
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Two special events held at Ophir School
OROVILLE -- Excitement rolled over the Ophir School campus Friday as students and staff participated in two special events.
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District officials report minor attendance drop, few cases of swine flu
OROVILLE -- Contrary to rumors of swine flu, or H1N1, prevalent in Oroville area schools, districts officials in Oroville, Palermo and Thermalito said that is not the case.
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Haunting the neighborhood
Chase Eakin, 10 (left), Matthew Eakin (center) and Ashley Eakin, 13 (right), prepare their Fifth Avenue home in Oroville for Halloween on Wednesday.
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Stimulus helps clear way for new solar project at Butte College
BUTTE VALLEY -- More than $16.9 million in federal stimulus money will help Butte College build the third phase of its solar project.
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City to create a plan for development of Southside
OROVILLE -- The City Council has approved about $195,000 to develop plans and bid documents for the Southside Redevelopment project on Myers Street.
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Suspect pleads not guilty in stabbing death of wife
OROVILLE -- The man suspected of stabbing his wife to death Tuesday during a domestic dispute pleaded not guilty in court Thursday to an open count of homicide.
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