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Mountain Echo
43152 Hwy 299E
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Fall River Mills, CA 96028- 0224
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A weekly newspaper of general  circulation, published  every Tuesday.
Editor
Walt Caldwell
cel: (530)945-4530
Business Mgr.
Donna Caldwell
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Katie Clift
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Joy Tjaden
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Ron Mosher
Sue Edmondson  Rich Patek 

Founded,
Oct. 3, 1977
Adjudicated as a legal newspaper for the county of Shasta,
November 8, 1982 by Superior
Court Decree #74779



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Aug. 19th,  2008
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Photo by Walt Caldwell
Boating Safety Officer Paul Skinner brings injured into the dock. (see slide show above).
Emergency Personnel hone skills
BURNEY FALLS — The scenario was all too possible, near misses have already occurred. In the drill, a canoe had been run over by a speed boat on Lake Britton. Emergency personnel from the California Park Service, the boating safety officer with the Sheriff's Department, Cal Fire and Burney Ambulance worked together to save and treat the injured.
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Firemen hit Soldier Mountain Fire hard & fast
GLENBURN — The column of thick black smoke was plainly visible throughout the Fall River Valley as it climbed skyward shortly before 5 p.m. Friday.
Even at a distance it was not a good sign. It was obviously in timber at the foot of Soldier Mountain. There were a number of residences in those trees.
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Sportsman Liquor robbed
FALL RIVER MILLS — A 22 year-old female employee at Sportsman Liquor was robbed after exiting one of the buildings at the Sportsman convenence store and gas station last Tuesday at 11 p.m.
The woman was finishing her duties when she was accosted...
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Transfer Station fire stinks up Burney and Johnson Park
BURNEY — The fire started in the bottom of the 40-foot load of garbage and refuse sitting next to the concrete ramp at Burney Disposal's transfer station last Tuesday evening.
According to Burney Fire Chief Ray Barber, it smouldered until it burned through the floor, which gave it oxygen.
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Man pleads guilty in shooting of 3 year-old girl
REDDING — Christopher Adam Shirley, 28, of Montgomery Creek pleaded guilty last Thursday to multiple charges and special allegatons arising out of the July 2 shooting  of a 3 year-old girl outside their trailer home on Windy Point Road.
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