Willows News

Part town crier and part town scold, Tim Crews arrives at work each day at the Sacramento Valley Mirror with one goal – to print the news as he sees fit, and maybe raise a little ruckus in the process.

What the U.S. Geologic Survey is describing as a "micro" earthquake rattled things, just a little bit, 11 miles east of Willows Wednesday.

Tim Crews was in his element, chatting up lawyers, felons and other courtroom denizens, and waiting for a judge to rule on whether he needed to comply with the Glenn County district attorney's demand that he turn over notes from some of the muck he had raked.

The Willows Police Dept. has arrested a 64-year-old man for allegedly threatening a six-year-old girl with a knife.

Jane Wrinkle of Artois and Jamie Hart of Willows received honors at the Lions District 4-C1 Convention at Rolling Hills Casino in Corning on April 27.

Tim Crews, founder and editor of the Sacramento Valley Mirror, examines his handiwork in its office in Willows.

The US Army Corps of Engineers rated the maintenance of 120 miles of Sacramento River levees north and south of Colusa as unacceptable.

Glenn-Colusa Cattlewomen members Jill Egly, Jan Beaufait and Jill Stoltenberg work with Glenn county ranchers Chet and Angela Vogt to give fourth-graders at Murdock Elementary School in Willows the opportunity to discover their Pathways to Nature on a field trip each spring.

The historic Chico Grange will hold its last educational program and community potluck of the spring, from 6-7:30 p.m. Tuesday.

The city of Orland will soon be getting together for a Celebration of Gratitude to dedicate and light its first piece of public art A a bronze sculpture.

Murdock Elementary School isn't quite falling down around its students' ears, but if people looked a little closer, they would see that its clean campus and tidy manicured lawns are hiding very serious problems.

Detectives are calling the death of man found in Stony Creek a homicide, but not many details are being released.

National Day of Prayer on Thursday will be observed with a special prayer service at 7 p.m. sponsored by the Willows Ministerial Association.

Education officials must ensure the school curriculum fully addresses reasons why people become extremists, a counter-terrorism expert has said.

In recent years water transfers in this area have been negotiated earlier in the year and usually involve fallowing of rice land and transfer of surface water.