William Bowers Bourn was the original owner of the Empire Mine Company. According to Roger A. Lescohler in The Story of the Empire Mine, 1850-1956, Bourn was a descendant of Jared Bourn “who came from England in 1630 with John Winthrop, the founder of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.”

The board voted on a new salary schedule, which includes the superintendent’s salary, effective July 1, 2022.

The Grass Valley School District held its final board meeting of 2022. Here’s what the board voted on (all votes were unanimous).

The significance of the Petition of Right of 1628 is not that the Petition established new rights by some act of Parliament but that the Petition sought enforcement of rights that the Five Knights already possessed by and through Magna Carta.

Magna Carta, in its simplest terms, was a very specific peace treaty between the monarch and the nobility which contained 63 specific paragraphs regarding the future relationship between the parties thereto.

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