Join the Downieville Improvement Group to enhance community spaces and participate in local projects.

Celebrate Mother’s Day with Celtic music and scenic beauty at Big Springs Garden & Retreat.

Graeagle’s annual Cinco de Mayo fundraiser supports the Mohawk Community Resource Center with food, drinks, and fun.

Classic motorcycles return to Plumas County for the INOA 2025 Feather River Rally III, June 16-21.

Great Yuba Pass Chili Cook-off returns March 1st, featuring no rules, free entry, and potential for corruption.

The Great Yuba Pass Chili Cookoff returns March 1st, featuring no-rules competition and five-time champion Andy White.

Forest City Historical Association hosts annual AppleFest on October 13th, 2024, featuring music, food, and a community raffle.

Western Sierra Railroad Museum hosts annual Pumpkin Patch Express with Halloween-themed trains and activities.

The Sierra Valley Art + Ag Trail event returns, featuring local art, historic tours, and agricultural experiences.

Eastern Plumas Health Care celebrates new multipurpose shelter systems with a public ribbon cutting event.

Sierra City’s final Big City Rod Run car show, a fundraiser for the Volunteer Fire Department, includes live music, food, and a parade.

Sierra City’s summer finale concert features Celtic/Americana duo “A Thousand Years at Sea” on September 1st.

New Lost Sierra Endurance Race challenges runners to a 100km journey through Downieville’s back country.

On Saturday, April 13th, from 4 to 7 p.m., JADAA’S Kitchen will host its long-awaited grand opening.

SIERRA CITY — It is time once again for the Sierra County Finals of Poetry Out Loud. The event will take place at the White House (312 Main Street) in Sierra City on Wednesday, February 7, beginning at 6:00 p.m.Poetry Out Loud is an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, administered in California by the California Arts Council and in Sierra County by the Sierra County Arts Council. While the initiative has been in operation since 2005, both nationally and statewide, this is the sixth year that Sierra County has been involved.The competition is one of memorization and recitation and is open solely to high school students. Poems must be chosen from the national Poetry Out Loud website, where an anthology of more than 1,200 poems is available. Recitation is judged on criteria of physical presence, voice and articulation, interpretation, evidence of understanding, overall performance, and accuracy.In Sierra County, the county champion receives $250, plus an all-expense-p