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By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union A Favorite Female bartender friend wears a fake wedding band when she works. She is decidedly and happily single, and plans to remain that way despite the advances of various admirers seated across the bar. She calls the bogus band a “No Pest Strip…” Two Nevada Union High School graduating seniors created a masterpiece that now hangs in Grass Valley City Hall. Annie Clove and Autumn Legge painted a 6-by-5-foot picture of the Del Oro movie theater ...

Residents of newly constructed homes will see higher water and sewer fees, as well as impact fees, after a vote this week of the Grass Valley City Council. For a single-family home the impact fee will rise from $5,115 to $5,279, or $164 more per year. The increase will take effect Sept. 1. Impact fees are one-time fees assessed when a structure is built. “For people who move into these new units, they do use police and fire services, use the roads, the parks, so the fees are impacts offsettin...

Grass Valley has finalized its method for determining who will get a permit to operate a commercial cannabis enterprise within city limits. The City Council on Tuesday approved the membership of the committee that will make those decisions. Council member Tom Ivy abstained. The vote was the latest step on the road to commercial cannabis — a path the city started in November. That’s when the council took action to amend the municipal and development codes to allow cannabis businesses to oper...

Two pools will take the place of the existing Memorial Park pool in Grass Valley, once the work is completed. “We’ve graded out the sites and we’re waiting on plans for the new pools within the next couple of weeks, and hope to have preliminary approval,” said Bjorn Jones, assistant city engineer for Grass Valley. “The old pool is completely gone. We’re finalizing the design for the new pool before we start excavation for that.” The competition pool will have eight lanes 25-meters...

  The possibility of Mill Street’s permanent closure to vehicular traffic strode forward as last week’s solicitation of public comment concluded. Placards on Mill Street allowed people to leave written comments with their thoughts. They could also visit the city’s website, scan a web address with their mobile devices and met staff to give their opinions about what they’d like to see, said City Manager Tim Kiser. The effort not only asked if Mill Street should be converted to a pedestri...

  As the country approaches the Fourth of July many residents will enjoy the summer holiday with barbecues, fireworks or water recreation. However, the fun requires a certain amount of moderation, officials say. Grass Valley City Manager Tim Kiser said fireworks are not permitted for individual use. He recommends the professionally produced fireworks display sponsored by the city of Grass Valley at 9:30 p.m July 4 that can be viewed from Highway 49 at the Dorsey Drive overpass. Josephine Hodge...

  Officials aren’t sure when the work at Memorial Park will be done, but they want it ready by the park’s centennial this coming Veterans Day. The Grass Valley Council on Tuesday opted for a plan that will make the clock tower the focal point of the park. Two new benches will adjoin existing benches on the front of the clock tower, with kiosk signage on both sides of the courtyard, according to a staff report. Landscaping will be at the entryway and as a backdrop to the hardscape improveme...

By Lorraine Jewett | Special to The Union Pat Warner Has Lived Here Since 1988, and he appreciates our town’s idiosyncrasies. Pat recalls when flashlights put GeeVee in the national spotlight. “Back in ’98 I turned on the TV late one night and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno was on so I gave it a watch,” recalls Pat. “Imagine my surprise when he was right in the middle of a regular segment in which he showed actual newspaper clips of local police blotters and our very own blotter from ...