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Westwood woman reported missing

March 17, 2010 — Friends and family are trying to locate a Westwood woman who was reported missing on Tuesday, March 16.

The woman, Kristen Payne, 36, is 5'6" with green eyes and red hair past the shoulders. She has a tattoo of a Persian cat on her left shoulder and another tattoo of n eagle on her right leg.

Phill Shannon, the deputy with the Plumas County Sheriff's Office who took the initial report, confirmed an active missing person's case and said Payne has been missing for about a month.

He said foul play is not suspected.

Shannon said MichaelTurner, who lives in Greenville and was in a former relationship with Payne, reported the woman was missing after her mother and sister contacted him last Tuesday asking if he had seen or heard from her.

The information was given to the Lassen County Sheriff's Office for out of area assistance. LCSO Sgt. Matt McFarland said a deputy responded to Payne's residence in an attempt to locate her with no results.

According to Shannon, Turner reported he and Payne broke up on Wednesday, Jan. 6, which he said is the last time he saw her. Shannon said Payne's mother last talked to her at the beginning of January.

Turner said he and Payne had moved to the area from Modesto last year, and she could be trying to return to that area as she had contacted some friends about a month ago.

Anyone with information about Payne or her whereabouts should call the PSCO at 283-6300.

New policy may help city sell natural gas

March 16, 2010 — Lassen County’s Local Agency Formation Commission can clear the way for the city of Susanville to sell natural gas to customers outside the city limits but within its sphere of influence, according to a legal opinion from John Kenny, LAFCO’s general counsel.

The commission will need to write and approve a policy, and then the city will need to come forward with a request for an out of area agreement the commission could approve.

City elections heat up

March 16, 2010 — The race for the two vacant seats on the Susanville City Council has finally kicked into high gear, with a total of nine people taking out papers to become eligible in the June 8 election.

As of March 11, 2010, four people have returned with the required signatures and paperwork necessary to qualify for the election ballot, while five have yet to file. The deadline to gain the required signatures and file with the city has been extended to Wednesday, March 17.

Deadbeat state slows local school projects

March 16, 2010 — What’s the Susanville School District to do with its modernization projects when the check from the state isn’t even in the mail yet?

In November 2008, voters within the SSD approved Measure S, the $9 million Save Our Schools bond measure designed to partially fund the remodeling or rebuilding of Diamond View School and improvements to both Meadowview and McKinley schools.

Early teacher retirements reduce number of layoffs

March 16, 2010 — Six out of seven teachers in the Lassen Union High School District have elected to participate in the early retirement program.

As a result, the number of layoffs given to certificated staff was been reduced from 5.5 to 2.5 total Full Time Equivalents. There was also one non-reelect, a first-year teacher who the district decided not to re-hire.

During a Tuesday, March 9 meeting of the Lassen Union High School District Board of Trustees, the board approved giving certificated layoff notices for .51 FTE history teaching services, 1 FTE position in continuation education, .4 FTE independent study teaching services, and .51 FTE career technical education services — building trades and Wood 1 and Exploratory class.

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