Remember When for the week of 2/11/20
130 years ago
The California Senate confirmed the appointment of Frank Dixon as land registar of Susanville.
Frank Brockman gave an exhibition of bronco riding on a Frank Gross thoroughbred that made many tenderfoots stare.
How many men can sit on a bucking, bawling bronco for half an hour without having their insides churned into mush is something no stranger to the business can understand.
80 years ago
Today at noon the water in the Susan River, which has receded some during the morning hours, began to rise again, threatening some of the cabins in the lowlands between Lassen Street and Richmond Road. The river is more than 30 feet wide in many places.
40 years ago
John Dean, former aide to Richard Nixon, spoke at Lassen College of his Watergate recollections. Prior to his arrival, many of the college’s students and instructors protested the payment for Dean’s appearance.
30 years ago
Construction began on the dream child of Historic Uptown Susanville Association (then dubbed Historic USA) — an attractive plaza on South Gay Street. Cost of the project was estimated at $39,200. The group expected to sell 1,200 engraved bricks at $35 each to finance the project which was expected to be a bricked oasis of trees, ponds and benches.
20 years ago
Cancer rates in Milford and Doyle are two times higher than the state average according to Susanville resident Jack Pastor.
Pastor analyzed cancer occurrences in the area using Sierra Army Depot as ground zero.
15 years ago
Public access to a hydroelectric project feasibility study that cost Lassen Municipal Utility District ratepayers more than $125,000 is in the hands of Superior Court Judge Ridgely Lazard.
Both sides presented their arguments in a 2 ½-hour session. In the action Westwood activist Eileen Spencer filed seeking public records from LMUD.
Lazard promised to get a decision out as soon as he could. Now that he has taken the case under submission, the judge has 90 days to issue a decision.
Six years ago
Lassen County employees would be receiving better Internet service due to a contract approved with Frontier Communications for a 50 megabyte Internet connection.
“This is critical to Lassen County’s IT infrastructure. The staff has been working very diligently on this, and what we’re trying to accomplish is to build redundancy,” said Julie Morgan, assistant to the county administrative officer.
The county had one T-1 line and a cable modem connection with a total combined speed of approximately 16 megabytes. The connection is shared with more than 375 computers and 50 servers.
Last year
The Lassen High School Lady Grizzlies basketball team faced U-Prep Friday, Feb 8 in The Cave. They fought a hard battle at the net for a victory over the Panthers from Redding, with a score of 54 to 51.
By the final buzzer, the Lady Grizzlies claimed victory over one of the toughest teams in the league. This victory gave the Lady Grizzlies its first league championship since the 1981/1982 school year.