Alexander McKenzie Hall was sentenced on March 7, 2025, to 12 years in state prison for attempted second degree murder, along with a special allegation of assault with great bodily injury.
At about 11 a.m. on Thursday, May 2, 2024, on County Road 203 (Canal Road) at the railroad tracks, north of Hamilton High School, people driving by reported a man was throwing rocks at the windshields of vehicles.
A Willows CHP officer, whose identity has never been released to the public, was the first person to arrive at the scene. A fight ensued between the two men, and both sustained injuries.
It was broadcast over the police scanner that one of the men had been shot, but, fortunately, this turned out to be false. Although the officer’s gun had been taken from him and a single shot was fired, no one was wounded.
Law enforcement officers and other emergency responders from multiple agencies began arriving at the scene, searching for both the suspect and the officer’s weapon. Both were eventually found.
Investigators with Redding CHP’s Multidisciplinary Accident Investigation Team (MAIT) showed up and took over the investigation.
The CHP did not release the identity of the suspect, but on Friday, May 3, 2024, the Glenn County Jail issued a media release for seven people who had been booked on Thursday. One of these was Alexander Hall, 26, of Chico, who was booked on a charge alleging attempted murder.
He was booked at 11:45 a.m. and taken into custody by the CHP on Canal Road, south of County Road 9. His bail was set at $150,000.
According to the jail’s media release, Hall is six feet-four inches tall and weighs 200 pounds.
So, what has happened since? According to Glenn County Superior Court records, on May 2, 2024, Alexander McKenzie Hall was charged with alleged attempted murder, discharge of a firearm during the commission of a felony, infliction of great bodily injury during the commission of a felony, and throwing an object at a vehicle with intent to cause great bodily injury.
On May 6, the arraignment of Hall commenced. On May 8, a plea was entered.
On May 10, 2024, Dr. Robert Boyle, a psychologist from Redding, was appointed. A mental competence hearing was held on July 10.
On July 17, a trial setting conference took place. And on October 10, a trial readiness conference was held.
Also on October 10, a proceeding regarding Hall’s mental competency took place.
On November 14, 2024, another trial readiness conference was held.
A mental competence hearing took place on Friday, December 20, 2024, Judge Donald Cole Byrd presiding.
And, as stated at the beginning of this story, Hall was sentenced on March 7, 2025.
He is now in the custody of the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
Here is a list of the bookings into the Glenn County Jail, with information provided by jail personnel, the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, and Glenn County Superior Court records. Remember: Everyone accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Monday, March 10:
7:20 a.m., Stephanie Ranee Wright, 37, of Willows, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on two Glenn County Superior Court warrants alleging failure to appear on a misdemeanor charge. Total bail was set at $10,000. She was taken into custody at the Butte County Jail by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
Tuesday, March 11:
9:35 a.m., Joshua John Welter, 43, of Willows, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging public intoxication (a misdemeanor). Bail was set at $0. He was taken into custody at Glenn Medical Center, 1133 West Sycamore Street, Willows, by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, at about 9:07 a.m. on March 11, 2025, a Glenn Medical Center employee reported Joshua Welter, the son of a hospital patient, was calling and harassing staff by phone. Welter told staff he was responding to the hospital at 1133 West Sycamore Street, Willows. Glenn County Communications received a second call from the employee shortly afterwards, reporting Welter had arrived at the hospital and was trying to enter the facility. Sergeant Ramirez responded and contacted Welter at front entrance of the hospital. Welter allegedly showed obvious signs of intoxication. Welter emitted a strong odor of alcohol from his person, had slurred speech, and had glossy, bloodshot eyes. Welter was deemed to be unable to care for himself and he was ultimately placed under arrest for alleged public intoxication. Sergeant Ramirez spoke with staff and determined Welter’s comments did not fit the criteria for criminal threats. Welter was transported to the Glenn County Jail and booked, to be released once sober.
Wednesday, March 12:
7:05 a.m., David Alan Volmer, 45, of Clear Lake, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on a Glenn County Superior Court warrant alleging failure to appear on a felony charge. Bail was set at $40,000. He was taken into custody at the Lake County Jail by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, on February 16, 2020, a woman reported that a suspicious blue Thunderbird was on the property at 3948 Highway 99, Orland. Deputy Garcia located the vehicle as it was leaving the area. After an investigation, David Volmer was arrested and booked at the Glenn County Jail.
According to the Glenn County Jail’s booking information for February 16, 2020, Volmer was initially charged with possession of stolen property, possession of a controlled substance, possession of controlled substance paraphernalia, possession of burglary tools, tampering with a vehicle, and displaying on a vehicle or presenting to an officer unlawful vehicle registration (all misdemeanors). He was also found to have a Butte County warrant for grand theft (a felony).
According to Glenn County Superior Court records, on March 13, 2020, Volmer pled guilty to forging or altering a vehicle registration (a felony). All other charges were dismissed. On April 17, 2020, he was sentenced to 124 days in the Glenn County Jail, with 62 days knocked off for good conduct. He was also given three years’ formal (supervised) probation, scheduled to end in 2023. On June 3, 2020, his probation was revoked. On June 5, 2020, it was reinstated. And on June 30, 2020, it was revoked again. On August 9, 2024, Volmer was arraigned for failure to appear, and violation of probation.
9:30 a.m., Alton Claude-Douglas Steele, 40, of Orland, was returned to the custody of the Glenn County Jail without bail for alleged violation of parole, and possession of a controlled substance (both felonies). He was taken into custody at Napa State Hospital by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
Thursday, March 13:
No one was booked into the Glenn County Jail on this date.
Yesterday, March 12, The Observer reported that one of the three Northern California teenagers, Angelo Hawk Sanchez of Corning, had been sentenced to 50 years in state prison for his role in a double homicide in Montana.
On November 23, 2024, an anonymous person contacted The Glenn County Observer, claiming that “Melody [Rose Bernard] was behind it all.”
The unidentified person asked, “Why isn’t she being charged with conspiracy to commit murder [for] her role in both killings? She was on the phone before, during and after the shootings with the man that ordered the hit, she let the murderers use her vehicle, she hid them out, she tried to pay people to dispose of the suspect vehicle, and the first thing she tells the cops when they arrive is that he fell off the wagon and she was ordered to go find him.”
The person continued, “That sounds like she was trying to cover her part in the plot by insinuating he got himself killed and she never said who ‘ordered’ her to go find him.”
The person then alleged, “We all know the guy in the pen told her to find him and to show her what’s going to happen to her if she didn’t come up with all the money she owed them. Instead of owning up to her greed and blowing all that money, she blamed it on [murder victim Darrin Wade Caplette] and said he fell off the wagon and got him and that ex-con rapist [presumably, this refers to the other murder victim, Thomas Roderick ‘T.R.’ Yallup], killed.”
The anonymous person concluded, “She needs to be charged in connection with those killings and in the deaths of those that overdosed on her drugs while she was having half the rez sell for her.”
One of the anonymous individual’s wishes came true. Bernard hasn’t been charged in connection with the murders, but on Monday, January 6, she pled guilty in federal District Court in Great Falls to possession with intent to distribute controlled substances and to use of a firearm in the commission of a drug trafficking crime.
On the drug charge, Bernard is facing a mandatory minimum of 10 years to life in prison, a $10 million fine and at least five years of supervised release. On the firearm charge, Bernard is facing a mandatory minimum of five years to life in prison, consecutive to any other sentence, a $250,000 fine and five years of supervised release
Sentencing is set for May 1, and Bernard was kept in custody pending that date.
One of Sanchez’s co-defendants, Angelo Castillo-Haffley of Corning, is scheduled for trial Monday, March 24.
Another co-defendant, Miguel Ibanez of the Orland area, who was 16 at the time of the shooting, was scheduled to undergo a status hearing on Monday, February 10.
One of the suspects in a double homicide in Montana, a 19-year-old Corning man who was allegedly involved in a February, 2024, shooting incident in Orland, has been sentenced to 50 years in prison.
At about 10:52 p.m. on February 28, 2024, Orland police officers responded to the Paigewood Apartments, 745 Paigewood Drive, for a report of multiple shots fired from two vehicles.
Officers found evidence of shots having been fired, and, with the help of Glenn County Sheriff’s deputies and California Highway Patrol officers, began searching for the two vehicles: a black Honda Accord and a black Dodge Charger.
Both vehicles were found in different locations (one of them on South Street), and the occupants of at least one of them were detained at gunpoint.
Following an investigation, firearms and other evidence were discovered and seized.
Angelo Hawk Sanchez, 18, of Corning, was arrested at South and Eighth Streets and booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging carrying a loaded handgun by someone who was not the registered owner (a felony), possession of a billy club, leaded cane, blackjack, etc. (a felony), willful discharge of a firearm in a grossly negligent manner (a misdemeanor), and contributing to the delinquency of a minor (a misdemeanor).
Sanchez’s bail was set at $20,000.
The three boys, ages 17, 16, and 16, also from Corning, were arrested for firearms and weapons violations and turned over to Glenn County probation officers.
No injuries were reported during the incident and both vehicles were towed.
A month later, on Thursday, March 28, 2024, Hill County, Montana, Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a report of shots fired in the parking lot of the D&L Bar in Box Elder. According to a complaint and affidavit of probable cause from Agent Ryan Eamon of the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation in the case of The State of Montana v. Angelo Hawk Sanchez:
At about 1:30 a.m. on March 28, Hill County Sheriff’s Deputy Cole Molyneaux was dispatched to 335 Highway 87, the D&L Bar, in Box Elder, Montana. Hill County dispatch relayed that a 911 call was received that gunshots had been fired at the bar.
While he was responding, dispatch informed Deputy Molyneaux that a gunshot victim was located in front of the Box Elder School. Deputy Molyneaux requested Hill County Sheriff’s Deputy Hooper continue to respond to the bar, while he, Molyneaux, respond to the gunshot victim at the school.
Upon Deputy Molyneaux’s arrival at the school, he found Darrin Wade Caplette. Caplette was receiving medical treatment from Rocky Boy Indian Reservation officers.
Molyneaux assisted with Caplette’s medical aid, during which he knew from his training, experience, and observations that Caplette had suffered multiple gunshot wounds.
A Rocky Boy ambulance arrived at the Box Elder School, and Caplette was transported to the Northern Montana Hospital. Deputy Molyneaux knew from his training and experience that Caplette’s condition was deteriorating rapidly.
Deputy Molyneaux saw Melody Bernard on Main Street in Box Elder. Molyneaux knew from prior experience and contacts that Bernard was an associate of Caplette.
Deputy Molyneaux spoke with Bernard, who was highly distraught and crying. The only information Molyneaux could ascertain was that Caplette had “fallen off the wagon” and Bernard was instructed to find him.
Bernard told Molyneaux that she found Caplette at the D&L Bar. There, he waved at Bernard, and she spoke with him.
Bernard told the deputy that she believed that Caplette thought she was fighting with someone. She then told Molyneaux that when she was leaving the bar, she heard gunshots from the parking lot.
Bernard said she saw Caplette on the ground, screaming for her. She gathered Caplette into her vehicle, a white Dodge pickup, and transported him.
The other man, Thomas Roderick (T.R.) Yallup, was also transported in a private vehicle. The ambulance met it in Laredo, Hill County, Mont.
Deputy Molyneaux then went to the D&L Bar, where Deputy Hooper told Molyneaux that individuals in the parking lot were identified as witnesses to the shooting.
From information gathered from the witnesses, Hooper learned that the victims, Darrin Caplette, 41, and Thomas Roderick (T.R.) Yallup, 42, both of whom were residents of the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation, were in the parking lot when the shooting occurred. The witnesses said they did not see the shooting but heard the gunshots and saw the aftermath.
The D&L Bar owner met with the Hill County deputies at the scene. Deputy Molyneaux requested Deputy Hooper go with the owner and view the surveillance footage from the bar.
While Hooper was with the bar owner, Deputy Molyneaux walked through the crime scene, looking for evidence of the shooting. He found blood stains, saliva, tire tracks, possible shoe impressions, and personal items.
Deputy Hooper returned from viewing the surveillance footage and reported that there were two suspects involved in the shooting and both of them fired guns. Hooper added that the vehicle they exited belonged to Melody Bernard.
Deputy Molyneaux notified the Rocky Boy Police Department of the suspect vehicle from the shooting. Deputy Bicknell told him that both Caplette and Yallup had died from the injuries they sustained in the shooting.
Deputy Hooper told Deputy Molyneaux that he was able to review the footage in more detail. He said he saw two suspects exit an older model, silver, pickup with several unique identifying characteristics. Deputies Hooper and Molyneaux know from prior experience that the vehicle in question belonged to Melody Bernard.
The footage showed her vehicle parked a distance away from the bar’s parking lot. The two suspects exited the vehicle and walked through the road embankment or drainage area to a collar-style fence.
The suspects moved around the gas pump in the D&L parking lot and approached Caplette and Yallup. One suspect was wearing all dark-colored clothing while the other was wearing blue sweatpants and a black hooded sweatshirt.
The faces of both suspects were obscured.
Later, Division of Criminal Investigations (DCI) Agent Bruce McDermott was provided video footage from March 27 of Melody Bernard’s residence. Three males shown on that footage corresponded with the suspects seen on the video footage from the D&L Bar on March 28.
Also on March 28, DCI Agent McDermott interviewed Melody Bernard, who was the registered owner of the suspect vehicle. Bernard identified the three individuals in the suspect vehicle as Angel Castillo, Miguel Ibanez, and Angelo Sanchez.
Two suspects, Ibanez and Castillo, allegedly presented firearms from their persons, firing several times at Caplette and Yallup. The suspect vehicle was seen moving closer to Ibanez and Castillo during the shooting, thereby aiding in their flight from the scene.
Deputies Molyneaux and Hooper determined that the suspects traveled away from the shooting the same direction from which they approached. The suspects then got into a silver or gold Chevy pickup known to belong to Bernard and fled the scene, traveling north on Montana Highway 87.
During a walk-through, DCI Agent Ryan Eamon observed a dark-colored Mercedes parked in the D&L lot, reportedly belonging to one of the victims.
While processing the scene at the D&L Bar, Montana DCI agents, along with deputies from the Hill County Sheriff’s Office, began initial interviews with individuals identified as people of interest in the shooting. DCI agents found evidence at the bar consistent with the shooting.
During the investigation, law enforcement gathered information that the suspects involved in the shooting were at the Super 8 Motel in Havre, Montana. Super 8 management allowed law enforcement to view the room registry and found that room #109 was registered to Angel Castillo.
During the earlier interviews by law enforcement officers, Angel Castillo was allegedly identified as the suspect driving the Chevy pickup away from the D&L Bar. The pickup was seen on surveillance footage from the bar as the vehicle the shooting suspects came to the bar in and entered as they fled from the scene.
Officers proceeded to room #109 at the Super 8 Motel and knocked on the door several times. Four individuals were found in the room.
The four were identified as Ashley Cortez, Angelo Sanchez, Miguel Ibanez, and Angel Castillo. They were transported to the Hill County Sheriff’s Office, where they were interviewed.
All four were advised of their rights. They declined to speak with law enforcement.
Three of the individuals – Sanchez, Ibanez, and Castillo – were arrested for deliberate homicide. A person convicted of deliberate homicide can be punished by death unless the guilty person is less than 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime, or by life imprisonment, or by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of not less than 10 years or more than 100 years.
Hill County deputy sheriffs were assisted in their investigation by Cascade County Sheriff’s detectives, tribal police, Chouteau County deputies, and the Montana Division of Criminal Investigation.
Hill County Sheriff Jamie Ross said, “The initial information indicates that this was a targeted assault directed at these two men and we don’t have any evidence currently that would indicate a risk to the public at large.”
Because this is a homicide investigation, the bodies will be sent to the Montana State Crime Lab for autopsy.
Back on Monday, March 4, 2024, Miguel A. Reyes Ibanez of Orland went to the Orland Police Department lobby to report his 16-year-old son, Miguel, missing. Since he lives outside the city limits of Orland, the Glenn County Sheriff’s took the call.
Deputy Gonzalez was dispatched and contacted Ibanez in the OPD lobby to take the missing person report for his son. The boy was entered into the Missing or Unidentified Persons System (MUPS).
On Tuesday, January 7, 2025, Judge Kaydee Snipes Ruiz sentenced Angelo Hawk Sanchez to 50 years in the Montana State Prison, with 10 years suspended and credit for 285 days already served. She also ordered him to pay $11,609 in restitution.
Sanchez was not the one who pulled the trigger on either Darrin Wade Caplette or Thomas Roderick (T.R.) Yallup, but he did drive the vehicle in which the shooters got away.
By state law, Sanchez will be up for parole after serving 12 and a half years in state prison.
Some weeks ago, an Observer reader asked about the official cause of death for Heather Reed.
As reported in The Observer on December 2, 2024, Heather Yolanda Reed, 50, died at the Habitat for Humanity Purpose Place apartments, 827 Newville Road, Orland.
The death occurred on Saturday, November 30.
Although the death was reported in both the Orland Police Department’s and Glenn County Sheriff’s logs, no cause was given.
This was, of course, because the cause of death could not have been known with certainty at this early stage. Toxicology and autopsy results generally take, at a minimum, some weeks to come back.
However, on Monday afternoon, March 10, The Glenn County Observer contacted the sheriff-coroner’s office and left a voicemail message. The call was returned Tuesday morning.
The Observer was told that the proximate cause of Reed’s death was asphyxiation by drowning.
A contributing factor was being under the influence of methamphetamine.
Asked how or where Reed drowned, The Observer was told it happened in a bathtub.
Here is a list of the bookings into the Glenn County Jail, with information provided by jail personnel, and the Glenn County Sheriff’s log. Remember: Everyone accused of a crime is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.
Thursday, March 6:
12:34 a.m., Domynik Scott Elwood Novack, 32, of Willows, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging evading a peace officer with wanton disregard for safety, assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm, infliction of corporal injury on a spouse, ex-spouse, date, etc., and violation of a court order prohibiting the purchase or acquisition of a firearm (all felonies). Bail was set at $95,000. He was taken into custody at the Blue Gum Motel, 2637 Highway 99, Willows, by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, at about 8:33 a.m. on March 5, 2025, Deputy Mallon was on routine patrol and observed a red Ford Focus fail to stop at the stop sign at the intersection of South Murdock Avenue and West Laurel Street in Willows. Deputy Mallon attempted to conduct a traffic stop and the vehicle failed to yield. The vehicle came to a stop at the residence of 642 South Murdock Street and a man allegedly fled from his vehicle into the residence. The deputy later learned the man driving the vehicle was Domynik Novack and he was allegedly involved in a domestic violence incident earlier in the morning. At 11:59 p.m. on March 5, Novack was arrested at the Blue Gum Motel, 2637 Highway 99, north of Willows.
12:25 p.m., Clark Daniel Schreiber, 43, of Orland, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging battery on a spouse, ex-spouse, date, etc., willful cruelty to a child with the possibility of injury or death, and violation of probation (all misdemeanors). Bail was set at $20,000. He was taken into custody at 6993 County Road 20, Orland, by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s logs, at about 11:37 a.m. on March 6, 2025, Glenn County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched for a welfare check at 6693 County Road 20 in Orland. Deputies arrived at the residence and conducted an investigation. Clark Daniel Schreiber was arrested on charges alleging misdemeanor domestic violence, child endangerment, and violation of probation.
Friday, March 7:
1 p.m., Edward Leroy Gravelle, 66, of Red Bluff, was booked into the Glenn County Jail without bail on a Glenn County Superior Court warrant alleging failure to appear on a felony charge. He was taken into custody at the Shasta County Jail by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
5:32 p.m., Brett Sheldon Jolly, 66, of Carmichael, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, driving while under the influence of alcohol, and hit and run by a runaway vehicle (all misdemeanors). Bail was set at $10,000. He was taken into custody at 353 County Road G, Willows, by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, at about 4:28 p.m. on March 7, 2025, an employee from the Freeway Bottle Shop, 1212 West Wood Street, Willows, called the Glenn County Sheriff’s Office to report a hit and run. Deputy Mallon contacted the employee and initiated an investigation. Deputy Mallon located the driver of the vehicle, Brett Jolly of Carmichael.
Saturday, March 8:
6:21 a.m., Jessica Lynn Esquibel, 39, of Oroville, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging driving while under the combined influence of alcohol and drugs, possession of a controlled substance, and possession of controlled substance paraphernalia (all misdemeanors). Bail was set at $5,000. She was taken into custody on Highway 45, south of County Road 65, by a California Highway Patrol officer.
9:19 p.m., Geoffrey Michael Chavez, 25, of Orland, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging driving while under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, driving while under the influence of alcohol, and driving without a license (all misdemeanors). Bail was set at $10,000. He was taken into custody on County Road P at County Road 9 by a California Highway Patrol officer.
9:44 p.m., Shillah Shea Razo, 25, of Elk Creek, was booked into the Glenn County Jail on charges alleging infliction of corporal injury on a spouse, ex-spouse, date, etc., and assault with a deadly weapon other than a firearm (both felonies). Bail was set at $50,000. She was taken into custody at Phil’s Way and Pum Ti Ta Da Lane by a Glenn County Sheriff’s deputy.
According to the Glenn County Sheriff’s log, at about 6:48 p.m. on March 8, 2025, Detective Lopeteguy was dispatched to the Jensen Park parking lot on Elm Street in Willows regarding a domestic violence call for service and assault with a deadly weapon involving a vehicle. Detective Lopeteguy and Sgt. Lemmon responded to the park and met with the confidential victim and several juvenile witnesses. Upon arrival, Glenn County Sheriff’s deputies learned the confidential victim was injured by his or her live-in partner, Shillah Razo. Deputies learned Razo fled the area in her dark gray Cadillac with dark tinted windows. Deputies continued to interview the victim and witnesses. Detective Lopeteguy initiated a report.
Sunday, March 9:
No one was booked into the Glenn County Jail on this date.
I don’t do this for money. The Glenn County Observer is a labor of love.
Nevertheless, The Observer costs money. Gasoline payments, court document charges, and website costs all come out of my pocket.
And one of these days, my old laptop and my even older camera are going to kick the bucket.
I know most people who have encountered The Observer like it. A story in The Observer is typically read by two- or three-thousand people, with some stories reaching 10- or 20-thousand people.
Yes, really! For example, the first of my stories about the tragic death of Tracey Quarne was read by nearly 14,000 people.
Unfortunately, the number of people who have made a financial donation to The Observer over the past year can be counted on two hands. I appreciate these contributions immensely, but if a few more readers were to donate, it would be a tremendous help.
Vandalism of political signs is a violation of one’s freedom of speech.
Even if one can’t stand Trump, it’s still not okay to deface (and that’s the appropriate term for a couple of reasons) a sign bearing his likeness.
Trump’s face on the sign in question has black paint on it. The sign is located in Willows on the west side of North Tehama Street (Highway 99), just north of the Highway 99 Lodge.
Regardless of the vandalism, the sign is obsolete anyway. It shows a likeness of Trump, along with the words, “America, miss me yet!?” The sign has been at its present location for years.
Okay, Trump is back in office. The sign no longer serves its original purpose. No one, not even his most devoted supporters, misses him anymore.
Perhaps it’s time for whoever is responsible for the sign to remove it.
The four gas pumps of the Double EE Market. Glenn County Observer photo by Larry Judkins.
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Drum roll, please! And the winner is … the Double EE Market at Highway 32 and Sacramento Avenue in Hamilton City!
The price of regular grade gasoline there is $4.30 a gallon. (Note: For all per gallon gas and diesel #2 prices, I have rounded up a tenth of a cent to the nearest penny. None of that obsolete 9/10 of a cent B.S. here!)
The price of the plus or intermediate grade gasoline is $4.60 a gallon at the Double EE, and the price there of the premium grade is $4.70.
In Glenn County, the average price of regular is about $4.71; the average price of the intermediate grade is $5.1; and the average price of premium is $5.13.
The Double EE does not sell diesel #2. The cheapest diesel in the county is sold by (drum roll again, please!) the Maverik station in Orland.
Igbal Singh of the Double EE Market stands in front of the door of the business. Glenn County Observer photo by Larry Judkins.
The price of diesel #2 there is $4.40 a gallon.
The average price of diesel #2 in Glenn County is $4.92.
Following is a complete list of public fuel stations in Glenn County, showing them by city (Orland, Willows, and Hamilton City):
Orland
Liberty Food and Gas, located on the southwest corner of Sixth and Tehama Streets:
$4.66/gal. for regular; $4.96/gal. for plus; $5.26/gal. for premium; and $4.90/gal. for diesel #2.
Orland Stop and Shop, located at the northwest corner of Walker and East Streets:
$4.90/gal. for regular; $5/gal. for plus; $5.30/gal. for premium; and $5/gal. for diesel #2.
Chevron, located at 848 Newville Road, just west of Walgreens:
$4.80/gal. for regular; $4.90/gal. for plus; $5.20/gal. for premium; and $4.80/gal. for diesel.
Arco, located at 902 Newville Road, just west of Dutch Bros.:
$4.60/gal. for regular; $4.80/gal. for plus; $5/gal. for premium; and $4.70/gal. for diesel.
Speedway on the south side of South Street, just east of Interstate 5:
$4.58/gal. for regular; $4.88/gal. for plus; $5.08/gal. for premium; and $4.70/gal. for diesel.
Speedway, 1185 Hoff Way, just west of Taco Bell:
$4.52/gal. for regular; $4.82/gal. for plus; $5.02/gal. for premium; and $4.70/gal. for diesel.
Maverik, 4473 Commerce Lane, south of Newville Road:
$4.38/gal. for regular; $4.78/gal. for premium; and $4.40/gal. for diesel. Maverik has the cheapest fuel prices in Orland, although it does not sell the intermediate grade of unleaded gasoline.
Pilot Travel Center, 4444 Commerce Lane, south of Newville Road:
$4.48/gal. for regular; $4.78/gal. for plus; $5.08/gal. for premium; and $4.66/gal. for diesel #2.
Super Shopper, located on the northeast corner of East and South Streets:
$4.70/gal. for unleaded gasoline; and $5/gal. for diesel #2.
Of the three largest communities in Glenn County, Orland gives the public the most options, with nine fueling stations. Willows has only four, and Hamilton City has three.
Willows
Diamond gasoline, located at the southwest corner of West Wood Street and North Humboldt Avenue:
$4.70/gal. for regular; $4.90/gal. for plus; $5.10/gal. for premium; and $4.60/gal. for diesel #2. This is the cheapest fuel in Willows.
Willows Travel Plaza (Chevron), located at 1481 Highway 99, just south of County Road 57:
$5/gal. for regular; $5.60/gal. for plus; $5.80/gal. for premium; and $5.80/gal. for diesel #2.
Chevron, located at the southeast corner of West Wood Street and North Humboldt Avenue:
$5.30/gal. for regular; $5.50/gal. for plus; $5.68/gal. for premium; and $5.80/gal. for diesel.
Arco, located at the northeast corner of West Wood Street and North Humboldt Avenue:
$4.80/gal. for regular; $5/gal. for plus; and $5.20/gal. for premium. The Willows Arco does not sell diesel.
Hamilton City
The Double EE Market, once again, is located at Highway 32 and Sacramento Avenue:
$4.30/gal. for regular; $4.60/gal. for plus; and $4.70/gal. for premium. The Willows Arco does not sell diesel.
Sinclair gas station, located on Highway 32 between Broadway and Main Street:
$4.80/gal. for regular; $5.10/gal. for plus; $5.30/gal. for premium; and $4.90/gal. for diesel.
Shell station, located on the south side of Highway 32, east of the railroad tracks:
$4.80/gal. for regular; $5.30/gal. for plus; $5.50/gal. for premium; and $4.90/gal. for diesel.
The above survey was conducted by The Glenn County Observer late in the morning and early in the afternoon on Saturday, March 8. The survey did not include commercial fueling stations, only stations that serve the general public.
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