The Union

COLUMN: There are many benefits to litter pick-up, such as team building and environmental, but also it’s important for economic development and quality of life to have clean, safe roadways, says Mali LaGoe, assistant CEO and acting CDA Director, whose team of 18 volunteers picked up 750 pounds of trash along LaBarr Meadows Road.

A British man found dead of multiple gunshot wounds last week in Nevada City has been identified by authorities.

Sierra Theaters opens its doors to movie-goers for the first time in almost a year Friday with its downtown Del Oro Theater and Sutton Cinemas in the Glenbrook Basin both showing new movie titles.

BREAKING: Investigators say they’ve located the remains of a man on a Nevada City property, where they had been looking for the body of a homicide victim since Thursday.

Grass Valley will get a brief respite from the heat this week, though highs in the upper 90s will return by this weekend, the National Weather Service said.

With the support of local residents and community leaders, the Nevada County Relief Fund raised $287,500 in the last four weeks, which will be awarded to 73 small businesses countywide, according to a press release.

Nevada County Public Health has partnered with 211 Connecting Point to provide the community text updates when new information about the COVID-19 vaccine in Nevada County becomes available.

The fallout is due to a change in contract on the state level that affects the food bank’s allocation from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, according to food bank Executive Director Nicole McNeely.

As of Thursday, Nevada County has received just over 3,000 vaccines total, according to Public Health. This represents around half of the doses needed to get through Phase 1A in the county.

We want for the students to have an interactive learning experience, said usic in the Mountains marketing and donor services manager Hilary Hodge. Music, in particular, faces challenges (working virtually) because of the limitations in sound technology.

The business has decided not to contest accusations from the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control that it ran a disorderly premise and will accept a 45-day alcohol sale suspension.

We tested out our snowmaking systems at both Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows on October 16 and began making snow in earnest at both mountains on October 23, said Liesl Hepburn, public relations director at Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, in an email.

It’s going to be huge, it’s definitely make-or-break, 1849 Brewery Co. manager Kevin Krikorian said of the decision’s effect on his business. It could eliminate us. Probably not, but we’re having to pinch every penny we can, try to defer some payments, that’s where we’re at right now.

According to Save Nevada County Trees organizer Matt Osypoweski, activists are gearing up for more direct confrontation while trying to protect trees at Pioneer Cemetery.

When PG&E’s planned shut-offs began in 2019, residents scrambled to buy generators, protect their food supplies and gas up their vehicles. By now with four shut-off events this year alone many of these precautions are becoming second nature, locals said.

The Center for the Arts opens Backstage Bar in downtown Grass Valley (PHOTO GALLERY) https://www.theunion.com//center-for-the-arts-opens-backs/

An Amnesty International report released last week includes Nevada City’s August counter-protest violence as an example of police departments nationwide failing to protect peaceful protesters.

We keep hearing that the anxiety, grief and precautionary measures that accompany the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting our mental health. We’re not crowding psych wards, but suffering more subtly: we’re drifting apart from each other, and even diminishing our hold on consensual reality.

5:51 p.m. A caller from Condon Park reported people preparing food with a fire at a picnic table.

Grass Valley police officers conducting a sweep of area transient camps ahead of Sunday’s high wind event moved out a number of campers and arrested one woman on charges that included having an illegal campfire, authorities said. https://www.theunion.com//transient-charged-with-reckless/

Hundreds of prescriptions were dropped of at various Nevada County locations as a part of Nation Prescription Take Back Day (PHOTO GALLERY) https://www.theunion.com//dropping-off-the-drugs-county-t/

Strolling through the quaint historic shopping district in downtown Nevada City or Grass Valley, you would never know that Nevada County is home to a thriving manufacturing industry. https://www.theunion.com//manufacturing-companies-in-neva/