christopher caldwell della catering company has brought its delicious food and service downtown grass hammond b three organ keyboards another goal he has been widely known for his gospel music and for his keyboard rock music with the grateful dead he's also experimented with writing all kinds of music collaboration of with the group and local musician concert with checking it out in another union story written by dave muller in a monumental win for grass valley newmont mining corps of denver will pay four million dollars to the city in a settlement announced tuesday and in the five year old lawsuit the money will pay two million in attorney fees until it is nice size to make it such a small amount of money on this deal and two million in cost incurred in the city sewer plant on freeman line since two thousand that's when city workers expanded to plan it hit the gold rush era mind tunnel owned by newmont tunnel filled with toxic water started spewing almost five hundred thousand gallons of water per day into the treatment plant part of the settlement you want also agreed to build a small two million dollar wastewater treatment plant to treat water from withdrew tunnel to the massachusetts have been sparring over the incident with the city paying to treat water to keep up with california federal water quality standards for discharge she did wolf creek city filed suit two thousand for for a long time newmont would not admit it drew aig because state and federal officials wanted the problem fixed to maintain water quality and wolf creek no matter who won the blame game both sides realized we had the same interests and to go to trial was not an option to b the move saves money and stopped wasting resources on the issue we had it in the end it's a win win for the city of grass valley and you want both sides who are ready for trial in january but decided to keep to go into the last mom instead of going before a jury in federal court in sacramento the plant will be there is and that was the primary goal they have to deal with that and we break even on the other stuff manager had feared the bill would be higher than city council members voted to hire former city administrator jeff fulton amazingly forty nine dollars per hour to shepherd the case through the trial so on made that hiring mo t fifty dollars an hour no big deal just considered a small bailout and another story written by david marr heidi nevada city city council will be looking at six potential sites in town to meet state low income housing guidelines the city must create new zoning for multiple family housing to meet guidelines to provide forty nine new low income residences ivette a city contract planner tom perriello said the new zoning would provide for up to fifteen units per acre the city has been given a list of sites on broad street cereals ridge and bost streets for possible consideration the city must have is housing element certified by the state by august to qualify for housing grants and loans council members meet march eleventh to discuss the merits of each site city planners city sigfried say the new multiple families owning and second unit ordinances passed by the council will help the city meet state housing requirements twelve of the low income residents would come from the second units the city is only wanting to sell on the minimal amount of acreage to satisfy the affordable housing requirements perillo said the city is not required to build on any of the land it selects for low income housing so long as a plan is in place the city's last housing element passed in two thousand and three was never certified by the state parched nevada county will see the return of rain and snow tonight into storm systems expected to keep things went through friday put how rains are expected to move in after ten p m this is actually i'm reading this about last night it's from you know we're already in the middle of this probably was no level is going down to five thousand feet the national weather service in sacramento predicted the first system is expected to last through thursday and leave up to one foot of new snow in the higher elevations anyone traveling the sierras in the thursday night will last into friday evening causing even more football showers and snow in the higher elevations the weather service said that will be the great news for nevada county in northern california where the snow pack is sixty sixty one percent of normal that's not death was three or two feet or fifty three percent of the average south you were is often roaring with high dark waters this time of year but the waterway now looks mid summer clear because of  precipitation levels for the fall winter rainy season last fall we had a sixteen point forty one inches of precipitation by tuesday for the weather year starting july first normal this time of year is twenty nine point seventy seven inches n city recorded twenty three point four each is to precipitation by tuesday with normal by february second brigade thirty three point zero to six inches high temps will remain in the fifty's and drop to the forty's thursday and friday as a storm passes through that's it today for our local news now it's time for our police blotter and items included sunglasses and glass are taken from an on locked vehicle in from a lane parking lot officers to court port for petty theft noticed the word on locked nine eleven am a man from east main street reported his vehicle was hit by a b p or pelican officers took a report from vandalism eleven twenty one am a driver involved in a fender bender in a parking lot a certain way refused to divulge his insurance five p m for males in a barking dog or reported in wolf creek at the corner of bank and ten lloyd streets five fifty seven pm a burglary or circle of recyclables was reported from a parking lot fre did twelve thirty one a m a call from three hundred block of pleasantry burdett her husband was drunk threatened her and would not let her go to sleep responding officers from the house would have left for the night no wonder and one fifteen a m contact was made with a man on a one hundred block east main street who was arrested once on suspicion of falsely representing himself to a police officer he was booked into jail so i thought it was as an police officer i man from one thousand block of cannae drive reported neighborhood children whistling very loudly for fifty seven p m a woman from the sixteen thousand block of john wayne reported young girl soliciting funds for star soccer o called team destiny the woman reported she wrote a check for twenty dollars nearly discovered the girl had given her a fault to address five o five p m a woman from twelve thousand block a referee ready how report of an accident in front of her home involving a child and a in today's first story new figures show afghan civilian casualties rose to more than twenty one hundred last year more than third were killed by afghan and u s led troops on tuesday afghan president hamid karzai renewed claim this is not possible they're going to get their own army work the u s says ignore growing criticism from karzai including his demand for a timetable for withdrawal of all foreign troops president obama is preparing to send another seventeen thousand additional troops to afghanistan later this year and militant attacks are also increased by one third in afghanistan last year defense minister abdul raju wardak said the number of foreign militants has swelled because of or he said since last year as a result of the success in the surge in iraq there have been a flow of foreign terrorists into afghanistan there has been engagement ditcher in two thousand and eight that in some of these engagements actually sixty percent of the total forces which we have encountered were foreign fighters the al jazeera news network is reporting israeli forces have fired on a lebanese aid ship off the coast of gaza witnesses say israeli troops then stormed the boat beat passengers and destroyed communication equipment the boat is carrying more than sixty tons of desperately needed aid for gaza israel was forcibly denied several eight ships trying to break its blockade in gaza almost forcing why to sync last month gaza is coming under threat from a new congressional major in the united states a congress members have co sponsored house congressional resolution twenty nine which threatens to pull funding for the united nations relief workers agency schools he also said the israeli army is first said there were militants inside installations they later then to retract that same time the i d f and other israeli spokesmen people were saying that there were militants inside installations israel officers in our coordinate meetings were saying they knew very well there weren't so there flipping and flopping and each flip with each flop the credibility of the israeli spokesperson is hanging in rags that's why we say that this has to be impartial investigation to find out what really happened lanka the last functioning hospital in the northern war zone has closed after coming under the fifth attack in three days medics and patriots have evacuated the area thousands of civilians or patients not patriots so medics and patien area thousands of civilians continue to be trapped and without medical care industry lankan government forces to battle tamil tiger rebels the hospital reportedly came under fire from cluster bombs the un since at least fifty civilians have been killed over the past few days and in somalia the director of the local radio station has been assassinated same time he'll made was killed by gunmen wednesday in mogadishu ahmed headed the independent radio station  at a bailed out company could make a maximum of five hundred thousand dollars he said for top executives towards have these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste it's bad strategy and i will not tolerate it has president or going to be demanding some restraint in exchange federal aid so that when firms seek new federal dollars we won't find them up to the same tricks the cats would only apply to future bailouts not the money already dispersed the move follows outcry over last week's disclosure that wall street firms paid out over what six eighteen billion in bonuses last year this means that all the banks and all the car manufacturers take it to pay their executives whatever they want whenever which is paper spending and favorable legislation the return of more than two hundred fifty percent it's good lobbying and meanwhile american auto parts suppliers are asking for twenty but more than twenty billion in government bailouts automatic news reports fifteen thousand workers those japanese based in japan based company will close twenty seven plants worldwide following the first annual loss six years the british high court is claiming u s government threats have prevented it from revealing details on the alleged tortur guantanamo bay prisoners on one see the two senior judges said that they were unable to release key information because the u s has threatened to intelligent sherry's with britain the british attorney general is considering whether to bring charges against americans involved in the ren alleged torture of british resident binyam mohamed mohamed claims his confession to terrorism charges was given only after you his penis was sliced by a blade ouch and the bush administration has refused to release key documents mohammed's lawyers said efforts to obtain them would cause serious and lasting damage to u s british relations and jeopardizing british national security in his new role in the british high court said is reluctantly carried to the u s threats because disobeying them would mean putting the british public at risk while hammett's eternally collide stafford smith said for the british foreign secretary to give in to these illegal demands by the bush administration is capitulation by to blackmail principal interior secretary ken salazar has cancelled a controversial last minute bush administration attempt to auction off nearly hundred fifty thousand acres of wilderness in the southern utah on wednesday salazar said he had cancelled the leases to drill for gas and oil on the seventy seven parcels of public land the sale was initially delayed after university student tim de christopher posed as a veteran bought up thousands of acres good for you to