Richvale News

There will be a Chico Science Fair workshop 7-8 p.m. today at Emma Wilson School.

Larry Mattson of Richvale begins rice harvesting in this September photo. All Chico E-R photos are available here.

Here are some current north state road projects. New items are marked with bullets.

Rice farmers near the Thermalito Afterbay have begun the process of verifying how much yield is lost in rice fields due to colder water.

The discovery of methamphetamine inside a jacket led to the eventual arrest Tuesday of two adults in Richvale.

California Highway Patrol officer Tag Euritt and PG&E workers watch as tow trucks drag the Trader Joe's semi-truck away from Shippee Creek Tuesday, following an early morning crash on Highway 99 that closed the roadway for nearly 12 hours.

Oroville Churches: First Congregational Church, Bird and Oak streets, Interim Minister, W.H.L. Marshall; The Richvale Church, Ben C. Ericson, minister, superintendent, Campbell, Richvale, California; Church of Christ, 625 Bird St., B.U. Baldwin, minister; Community Advent Christian church Palermo F.B. Eastman Minister, Mrs.

Life is just ducky for Derrold Daly. For the past 25 years, the 80-year-old Live Oak resident has devoted his life to rescuing ducks and releasing them into the wild.

On behalf of the Community Foundation of Richvale and the Richvale Centennial Organizing Committee, I wish to thank the Chico Enterprise-Record and the Oroville Mercury-Register for the article written by Mary Weston prior to the 100th anniversary of the founding of Richvale celebration held on Saturday, June 27.

What: The Metropolitan Owners Club of North America will open its four-day international show to the public with what will be one of the largest displays of the little cars in the United States.

It was an appropriately toasty day Saturday, as Richvale residents and relatives of settlers here celebrated 100 years of history at "Mosquitoes, Mud and Memories," a historical representation of the families who settled in the town in the early 1900s and sustained themselves with rice farming.

Spraying to kill mosquitoes is planned Thursday evening in Richvale, Nelson and west Thermalito.

The saying, "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade," certainly applies to the early settlers of Richvale.

This month marks the 100th anniversary of the small southern Butte County community of Richvale.

Lundberg Family Farms of California has received the 2009 'Agricultural Stewardship Award,' recognizing the company's 'excellence in conserving, maintaining and improving our natural resources and environment by using innovative and progressive business practices.' The California Chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural ...

As he knelt near the grave of his grandmother late Monday morning, 12-year-old Jesse Opalenick remembered his own family's loss while taking the time to soak in the lessons of the patriotic holiday.

A northbound Amtrak train struck and killed a man apparently walking away from a single-vehicle rollover near Midway and Nelson Shippee Road early Sunday morning.

Four people were injured Wednesday afternoon, when a Ford Taurus crashed into the front side of a Chevrolet Trailblazer at the intersection of Highway 162 and the Midway near this farming community.

Four people were injured in a traffic accident, near Richvale, on Highway 162 at Midway.

A helicopter crashed into a hangar at the Richvale Airport in Butte County, injuring the pilot, a sheriff's department dispatcher said.