MIDDLETOWN, Calif. – Lake County International Charter School will host its annual yard and heirloom plant sale Saturday, May 11.

It will be held from 9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. at 15850 Armstrong St., Middletown.

Come find some treasures and all the plants you need for your summer garden. All the plants are started from organic, heirloom seeds from the Petaluma Seed Bank.

All proceeds benefit educational programs at LCICS, which is a free, public charter school open to all K-7 students in Lake County.

It provides students with an inquiry/project-based enriched education in a nurturing environment, and is the only site-based public charter school in Lake County.

For more information or to arrange donation of items, please call the LCICS office at 707-987-3063, email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. , go to www.lcics.org or “Like” the Lake County International Charter School on Facebook.

UPPER LAKE, Calif. – This month 150 years ago, the outcome of the Civil War hung in the balance.

Confederate General Robert E. Lee’s army was outnumbered more than two to one, and was about to be squashed in a giant pincer movement by General Hooker’s overpowering Union army.

When the dust settled, more than 30,000 men were casualties, and the Union army was in retreat.

The amazing story of what happened in the titanic Battle of Chancellorsville will be the topic of this month’s Civil War Roundtable at the Tallman Hotel in Upper Lake this coming Monday, May 6, at 6:15 p.m.

Zane Jensen will be leading the discussion on the battle and its impact on the war and on our history. Jensen is a local history teacher and has been to the site of the battlefield, giving him a unique perspective into the events of the first week of May 1863.

Dr. Bill Cornelison, professor of history at Yuba College, will open the roundtable with a short slide presentation of some battle related sites he has recently visited, that will segue into Jensen’s presentation.

The Redwood Empire Civil War Roundtable meets the first Monday of the month, and typically reviews events that occurred that month 150 years ago, in recognition of the Civil War’s Sesquicentennial.

Admission is free, and everyone is welcome.

For more information, contact Phil Smoley at 707-264-4905 or Zane Jensen at 707-349-6390.

LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – Lake County Public Services Director Caroline Chavez announced that the Eastlake Landfill and the Lakeport Public Services office will be closed Monday, May 27, for the Memorial Day holiday.  

Residential and commercial collection will occur one day after your normal pickup day.

Normal collection schedules will resume the week following the holiday. Both facilities will reopen on Tuesday, May 28.       

Normal operating hours at the landfill are 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily.

The Public Services office is normally open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

If you have any questions regarding this subject or any of the solid waste issues in Lake County, please call 707-262-1760.

LAKEPORT, Calif. – On Saturday, May 11, the Clear Lake Trowel & Trellis Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale.

The sale will take place from 8:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. in the Lincoln-Leavitt parking lot, 650 N. Main St, Lakeport.

Purchase heirloom vegetables, flowers, succulents and miscellaneous garden items and art.  

All proceeds will be used for local scholarships and community service projects.

CLEARLAKE, Calif. – The board for the Public, Education and Government – or PEG – cable access television station will meet on Wednesday, May 8.

The meeting will take place beginning at 6 p.m. in the council chambers at Clearlake City Hall, 14050 Olympic Drive.

Agenda items will include a discussion of PEG Board meetings being recorded for Channel 8, approval of programmer's job description and consideration of Beth Katherine Kaiman’s appointment as station lead.

PEG Board members include Chair Denise Loustalot, Vice Chair Ed Robey, and members Jo Bennett and Vince Metzger.

KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – The Konocti Lioness Club will sell raffle tickets for two Mother's Day gift baskets at the Riviera Shopping Center located in the Clear Lake Riviera.  

Tickets will be on sale from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, May 4, and Sunday, May 5, and again on Friday, May 10, from noon to 4 p.m.

On Saturday, May 11, ticket sales will end at 4 p.m. and two winning tickets will be drawn.

These two baskets are overflowing with wonderful and awesome gifts for that special person with the proceeds going to benefit Lake County youngsters in need.