Since Sheriff Brian Martin's retirement in January, interim Sheriff Robert Howe holds the position until the upcoming 2024 election. Currently Howe has expressed his intention to retire once this position is filled, not seeking permanent office himself. On Jan. 3 2023, Lieutenant Administrator Luke Bingham filed for candidacy with the Lake County Registrar of Voters Office and is running unopposed as of press time.
Lake County's Sheriff will be turning in his badge at the end of the year. Sheriff Brian Martin made the announcement last week in a five-minute Facebook video.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. A property swap agreement that has gained the county a new sheriff’s headquarters and a new affordable housing project in the city of Clearlake has been completed, and is the first of its kind in California under a three-year-old gubernatorial executive order.
LAKE COUNTY, Calif. A property swap agreement that has gained the county a new sheriff’s headquarters and a new affordable housing project in the city of Clearlake has been completed, and is the first of its kind in California under a three-year-old gubernatorial executive order.
Mural dedication honors life of Upper Lake woman, raises awareness of missing and murdered indigenous women
Elizabeth Larson
06 May 2021
UPPER LAKE, Calif. On Wednesday afternoon, a group of young Pomo dancers performed in the bright early afternoon sunlight in Upper Lake’s downtown as singers chanted and burned sage.
As the young men performed in their beaded and feathered regalia, the young women, some of them crowned with headdresses of tall feathers, spun in circles, their long colorful skirts twirling around their ankles.
They danced barefooted with pieces of carpet put down to protect them from the hot pavement between the Habematolel tribal offices and tribal hall.