christopher's old world deli catering government has brought its delicious food and service downtown to grass valley you like desserts that got you like international style w moved to downtown grass down to a six westminst is worth half that last year hundred thirty two applicants for appeals were filed compared to forty two the year before going to a clerk at the appeals court it's inevitable some folks aren't going to agree and they're going to pursue it said james doubt bawn chairman of the assessment appeals board yes means half of the property owners who appeal their property value had a hearing convince the board to lower it through evidence they provide sometimes drowned by hired and independent fraser's  praise or is an opinion of value so it's subjective doubt on state of appeals filed last year approximately sixty four have been withdrawn into the clothes off yes i really do try to resolve them ahead of  we look at comparable sales and do an analysis just like a bank would do it will take the county a few days to calculate the total loss of property tax revenue to the county of an added property tax provides a book of funding for services to county citizens areas with the largest reduction include lake of the pines all to see and all to zero which have seen very drops as much as twenty five percent since the housing market peaked two years ago property owners will not receive notices about and tell this fall when they receive their property tax bill they will then have two months to appeal the value if they feel it is inaccurate live and doesn't anticipate a large volume of appeals because the county's steps to reduce values this year and a trio of candidates have far out for the three grass valley city council seats up for grabs in november but merab mark johnson and vice president basis work out said thursday if they are unsure whether they will run again current council member five who also filed this week all three were in a field of eleven people who applied to replace councilman councilman the ones who stepped down unexpectedly in late two thousand and six so your personal reasons and  and she wants to finish the job she doesn't have enough housing for our young families arbuckle said the ordinance would be designed to ensure teachers police employees and other working people who can look and work in grass vall already was out campaigning terrorists and people are on the city council all the time and we need fresh blood said really down i know a lot of young people and they are registering to vote in record numbers and they need she walks to work and said her pedestrian ways give her unique insight into the needs and better traffic control in the city just would like to see police officers working a bit instead of predominantly driving around in vehicles and certified nurse aide for many they have not made up their minds about running again they have until august eighth for most excited to see other people run for city council johnson said i'm giving myself a week until i finally decide i don't honestly haven't and a month after same sex marriage became legal in california more than one third marriage license issued in western nevada county went to gay couples more than half of those were issued june seventeenth and in the short then shortly after when a state supreme court decision legalized gay marriage went into effect since then a number of the license issued to same sex couples has leveled off according to statistics provided friday by county clerk recorder gregory yes another surge among gay couples seeking to marry is expected near november election when california voters will decide whether to change the state's constitution to define marriage as being between a man and a woman vet a county clerk recorder's  at the eric w root ministration center in a better city has if you're forty one marriage licenses to same sex couples among one hundred sixteen licenses handed out in the thirty one days since june  those twenty three licenses were issued to get couples in the first four days they could legally marry eight more same sex couples received license in satellite office a truckie that opens on thursday yet said placer county which includes lake atar hose north shore has issued between forty and fifty marriage licenses to gay couples according to a near walker of the clerk of corey's office in auburn of all the couples getting hitched in the western end of the county twenty eight recorder's office one in nevada city and one in north san juan bar so i've heard of couples are known getting married at different places he added the harmony ridge lodge in nevada city which was weddings and  friendly has yet to schedule its first same sex wedding but has fielded a number of inquiries corner james say there are people out there who are making plans are gonna say i didn't have half a dozen gay couples recently toured his property to let howell who caught always dream maker way chapel on the north shore of lake tahoe said the business is getting three to four calls a day from gay couples and has performed a same sex wedding it's really interesting how so well all of a sudden it's the rate it's been quite a phenomenon for us although the number of gay couples getting marriage licenses at the rate center has leveled off since last week with twenty three were issued to them for a while and nationwide circulation one hundred seventy five thousand anybody from any state can come here and get married he said so we're going to have a delay factor into this fall here that is it for our local news  afghan residents criticize obama's call for more troops in afghanistan coalition forces killed thirteen in afghanistan and senator mccain is just obama might be socialist first u s war crimes trip by dr you know to begin in guantanamo and united kingdom warns about u s torture policies maryland state police spied on peaceful groups and video shows israel soldiers shooting palestinian  war resisters james burmeister sentenced to six months in jail mexican immigrant beaten to death in pennsylvania and three died explosions in china but before the moved to downtown grass down to a six west main st save gas and shop locally come in and say hi artificially prolonging a ten ten year of u s troops in iraq would cause problems soon after there is because report was published u s embassy officials in baghdad called unlike his office to express concern over his statements and iraqi government spokesperson then  another relative of the governor was also killed in the raid and on sunday brock seen a bomb and travel to kabul where he met afghanistan's president hamid karzai bonna described afghanistan as a central front on our battle against terrorism spokesperson for guys our state senator obama conveyed that he is committed to supporting afghanistan and to continue the war against terrorism with vigor bamma also that with u s troops stationed in afghanistan he said to see young people like this it we're doing such excellent work with so much dedication and pride just makes me feel good about the country and i want to make sure that everybody's back home understands how much pride people take in their work here now much sacrifice people are making i than iraq if the u s government sends more troops here and violence will increase for example when we see a group of u s soldiers walking here doesn't make us feel safe or afghan forces are capable enough to ensure the security of afghanistan's us government should focus on other needs of afghans not the military afghans also criticize western officials for not doing more to help the afghan people ramadan john said there have been not been any kinds of changes to the lives of ordinary afghans to visit presence of foreigners has not changed the lives of the poor afghans have returned from iran or after twenty years there i had the best life when i was in iran now i have to work and like an animal in my country in order to feed my family my life is worse now what is the benefit of those western officials coming and going and in other news from afghanistan u s led troops in afghan forces killed nine afghan police officers sunday after their mis extreme record in the senate and so just obama might be a socialist again was asked about his views in an interview with the kansas city star dave helling said you to talk a little bit about senator obama today know and he said you said he was the most extreme member of the senate i think is the quote and senator mccain replied yeah that's his voting record and howling to the extreme and senator mccain yes and i said you mean you really think he's an extremist i mean he's clearly liberal senator mccain responded well that was his voting record all i said was his voting record and that is more to the left  the non socialists in the united states senate bernie sanders of vermont and alan says do you think he's a socialist brocklebank and senator mccain is that oh i don't know all i know is his voting record and that's what people usually judge r to take a military commission and then has been held in guantanamo for over five years last week his lawyer said he was subjected to sleep deprivation for a fifty day period in two thousand and three and a report published by the british parliament warns britain can no longer rely on american assurances that it does not torture pork by the house of commons foreign affairs committee said mr should want to take a face value statement from senior politicians including president bush that the united states does not resort to torture in the light of cia admitting he used waterboarding guardian reports that this may have implications for extradition of prisoners to the u s because britain is a signatory of the un convention which parts and individuals two nations where they're at risk of being tortured and newly released documents have revealed the maryland state police conducted an extensive surveillance campaign in two thousand and five and two thousand and six targeting peace groups and entire death penalty activists documents show on to cover agents infiltrate meetings and events in the baltimore pledge of resistance in baltimore coalition against death penalty the aid agency entered the name of one prominent baltimore peace activist max hall bus israeli soldier shoot a leg of a blindfolded and handcuffed palestinian man from calls range palestinian man was detained during protest against israel's west bank wall video shows in his really army officer gripping a blindfolded and handcuffed palestinian presence of a high ranking officer in a terror group israeli military is a disorder involved in as shooting has been detained for questioning an army statement and that using it as a direct contradiction of the idea value that in princip teenagers brutal the twenty five year old who was runner as well yelling racial slurs when one of the grammar as his friends tried to stop debating one of the teenagers said tell your mexican friends to get out of town or you'll be laying next to him rather as came to the united states six years ago he was a father of two children and was engaged to crystal dimwit who grew up in canada and in turn explosions on three buses killed at least three people and injured fourteen earlier today in a south western  it me the bombing come less than a month before the start of the olympic that officers took a report three thirty four p m a call reported a woman in business and twenty one on a block in a van to see how it was just having the police responding officers told the woman to stay out of the business and at