LAKE COUNTY
Explore eBooks in a whole new way with your Lake County library card
Lake County Library is excited to introduce Palace, a user-friendly app that makes accessing eBooks and audiobooks easier than ever. Palace combines more of the library’s digital collections into one seamless platform, offering unique content with no holds, waits, or checkouts—ideal for classrooms, book clubs, and community reads.
The Palace Project app is available for free download on mobile devices and tablets through the Apple App Store or Google Play. All you need is your library card to start exploring thousands of titles, including over 3,300 “Always Available” audiobooks provided through the California State Library’s eBooks for All project. Popular titles such as Death of a Prankster by M.C. Beaton, The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix, and The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy are now accessible without waiting or limits.
“We’re thrilled to offer another easy way for Lake County residents to enjoy digital books and audiobooks for free with their library card,” said Christopher Veach, County Librarian.
Learn more and start exploring today at library.lakecountyca.gov.
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WASHINGTON
Biden-Harris administration announces nearly $850 million to revitalize aging water infrastructure, advance drought resilience
The Department of the Interior today announced a $849 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to revitalize aging water delivery systems across the West. The funding supports 77 projects in Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah and Washington to improve water conveyance and storage, increase safety, improve hydropower generation, and provide water treatment. This includes 14 projects totaling $118.3 million in the Colorado River Basin.
Today’s announcement follows the release of five alternatives earlier this month that will be analyzed as part of the Post-2026 Operations for the Colorado River Basin. Since Day One of the Biden-Harris administration, the Department has led critical discussions over how to bring the Colorado River back from the brink of crisis in the face of an unprecedented 24-year drought. The release of alternatives is the next step in a responsible path to guide post-2026 operations for the Colorado River.
“President Biden’s Investing in America agenda provides transformational resources to safeguard clean, reliable water for families, farmers and Tribes,” said Acting Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis. “As we work to address record drought and changing climate conditions in the Colorado River Basin and throughout the West, these investments in our aging water infrastructure will conserve community water supplies and revitalize water delivery systems.”
“Reclamation is committed to utilizing these historic investments from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to revitalize our infrastructure for continued reliability and sustainability for the next generation,” said Bureau of Reclamation Deputy Commissioner Roque Sanchez. “These facilities are essential to the West as they provide water for families, farms and Tribal communities, while also and producing hydropower and recreation opportunities for communities throughout the Basin.”
Senior Advisor John Watts also visited the Delta Mendota Canal Subsidence Correction project in California today, which is receiving $204 million to address structural impacts to the canal from dropping groundwater levels.
The projects selected for funding today are found in all the major river basins and regions where Reclamation operates. Among the 77 projects selected for funding are efforts to restore canal capacity, sustain water treatment for Tribes, replace equipment for hydropower production and provide necessary maintenance to aging project buildings.
As climate change has accelerated over the past two decades, the Colorado River Basin experienced the driest period in the region in over one thousand years. Together, the Inflation Reduction Act and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provide the largest investment in climate resilience in our nation’s history, including $15.4 billion for western water across federal agencies to enhance the West’s resilience to drought and deliver unprecedented resources to protect the Colorado River System for all whose lives and livelihoods depend on it. This includes $5.35 billion for over 577 projects in the Colorado River Basin states alone.
To view a full list of projects selected as part of today’s announcement, visit Bureau of Reclamation’s website at https://www.usbr.gov/bil/docs/infrastructure/FY-2025-Aging-Infrastucture-Projects.pdf
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KELSEYVILLE
Holiday Fiddler’s Jam on Sunday
Hello Folks, The Fiddler’s Jam at Ely Stage Stop is on the 2nd Sunday, December 8.
We would love to have you with us in the Red Barn! Gather with friends old and new. Admission is free.
Think Holiday Shopping when considering the Ely mugs and wine glasses with our logo, plus other cute items for sale in the Barn and in the Museum. We’re having an “end of year” special on all our books. Be sure to take time to stroll the grounds to view the all the exhibits.
Music is from 12 p.m. to 2 p.m. Gates open at 11 a.m.
Visit with Santa
Get fully immersed in the Holiday Spirit when you and the kids visit with Santa.
He’ll be in the Museum, along with Mrs. Claus and their elves, to cheer you and to hear your secret Christmas wishes from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. It’s a great opportunity for selfies.
Ely Stage Stop and Country Museum is located at 9921 Soda Bay Rd (Hwy 281), Kelseyville. Open 11 am to 3 pm Saturdays and Sundays. www.lakecountyhistory.org
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