Photos by Michael Woodward

  • Candidate for Anderson City Council John Day found himself in the thick of the hunt for one of two seats on the city council on Tuesday night.
  • Incumbent Anderson City Councilman Keith Webster said he was happy to be in the lead shortly after polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday night, but he didn't want to celebrate too early.
  • Supervisor Les Baugh gets congratulations from friends as initial reports put him ahead of challenger Chris Young by nearly 800 votes.
  • Milton Glazzard stands outside his mobile home after it was struck by a runaway van on Oct. 25
  • Surf Club float won the float making contest.
  • Raul Lopez
  • Former Anderson Police Officer Bryan Robert Benson's trial date was set for August 30, but his court case was dismissed on Friday. Here as he stands with his lawyer Stephen Palazzo, in the foreground, at a court hearing last year.
  • Leonard Michael Cromp
  • Searching: Citizens on Patrol members Duane Berg and Debe Hopkins search for a backpack on Friday that a sususpect dropped or hid while evading police in the Anderson River Park on Sept. 1.
  • FRESHLY BAKED: Sarah Spencer removes a tray of finished pasties, a stuffed pastry with meat and potatoes, from the oven at Sarah's Creamery in Anderson.
  • Anderson resident Richard Reinders learns to type among free classes for adults.
  • During a fire in Cottonwood on Wednesday, Neighbors hosed down their roofs and surrounding vegetation to keep their houses safe.
  • UP ON THE ROOF -- Law enforcement officers apparently prefer to wait out a man who ran away after attempting to run over several Anderson Police Officers while the man was riding an ATV in Anderson River Park on Wednesday morning. The man was eventually taken into custody.
  • Anderson Police Officers and Shasta County Sheriff's Deputies surround a Rupert Road house in Anderson where a young man headed after attempting to run over at least two Anderson Police Officers with an ATV while riding it through Anderson River Park. The man briefly hid in the attic crawl space of a house, but then gained access to the roof where authorities tried to talk him down.

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