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COBB, Calif. – A Cobb golf course is reopening under new ownership.
Formerly known as Rob Roy, the new Cobb Mountain Golf is now open and under the ownership of Phil and Marci Psalmonds of Lakeport.
The course closed a few months ago after its former owners lost the property to foreclosure, Phil Psalmonds said.
He told Lake County News that the course went up for foreclosure sale on Oct. 16.
On the following day, Psalmonds – who previously had attempted to purchase the property – was able to reach a purchase agreement with the private lender who had taken it in foreclosure.
Psalmonds said it’s a new adventure and he’s “pretty excited about it.”
A small business owner, Psalmonds has been in the athletic club business previously, and his brother and sister-in-law own Quail Run athletic club in Lakeport.
“My family has always been into sports,” he said.
The course is special to him for another reason – it’s where he learned to play golf.
“It’s a beautiful setting,” Psalmonds said.
The 34-acre golf course has a bar and restaurant. Psalmonds said he intends to run both the course and the bar; the bar is being remodeled and will make its new debut as a sports bar.
The course itself also requires some work, as some maintenance had been deferred on it. He hopes to lease out the restaurant to a separate operator.
On the golf side, the course is now open for business during daylight hours, seven days a week, weather permitting, Psalmonds said.
Psalmonds plans to run the course like an athletic club, with affordable memberships and the ability to pay on a monthly, rather than yearly, basis.
“We’re having a membership promotion starting this Saturday,” he said.
They will waive the $500 initiation fee for the first 100 memberships.
Monthly members will cost $50 for an individual, $70 for couples and $90 for a family; for those who sign up for automatic monthly payments, they can save $10 per month.
While it’s still open to the general public for now, Psalmonds envisions eventually that the course will be run as a private club.
Cobb Mountain Golf is located at 16451 Golf Road.
Visit the new Cobb Mountain Golf on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/CobbMountainGolf .
Anyone interested in leasing out the restaurant is welcome to call Psalmonds at 707-349-0207.
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LOWER LAKE, Calif. – A single-vehicle rollover sent one person to an area trauma center Tuesday evening.
The crash occurred shortly before 5 p.m. on Highway 53 near Lee Court, according to the California Highway Patrol.
The car was reported to have overturned and hit a tree, trapping one person inside. Witnesses reported that the silver passenger vehicle appeared to have come to rest in a creek near Bryant Road.
A landing zone was set up nearby for a REACH air ambulance, and Dam Road and Jesse Street were closed down while firefighters worked at the scene.
The CHP requested that a Santa Rosa unit respond to the hospital for a blood draw once REACH arrived.
The roadway was reported to have been reopened shortly after 6:15 p.m.
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NORTHERN CALIFORNIA – Mendocino County Sheriff’s officials have taken a Richmond man into custody after he used Craigslist in an attempt to contact a 14-year-old for sex.
Michael Wolfgang Sparks, 40, was arrested on charges of sending harmful matter to a minor, contact with intent to commit a lewd act with a minor and meeting with a minor for the purpose of a lewd act, according to Lt. Greg Van Patten of the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office.
Van Patten said sheriff’s deputies initiated an investigation on Oct. 13 after receiving information that an unknown adult male – later identified as Sparks – was attempting to make contact with a minor through Craigslist for unknown reasons.
He said deputies initiated contact with Sparks through the Craigslist posting, posing as the 14-year-old.
Over a period of almost one month, deputies exchanged correspondence with Sparks through email, Van Patten said.
As a result of the communications with Sparks and the lewd nature and content of those emails, investigators concluded that Sparks wanted to have sex with the minor, according to Van Patten.
An arrangement was made with Sparks to meet in the Fort Bragg area. Van Patten said it was Sparks’ belief that he would meet and pick up the minor, and that the meeting would lead to the opportunity for sex with the teen.
At 10 a.m. last Saturday, Nov. 10, Sparks was arrested after driving from Richmond to the Fort Bragg area in order to meet with the minor at that arranged date and time, Van Patten said.
During an interview after Sparks’ arrest, he admitted to having the intent to engage the minor in sexual intercourse and was found in possession of items that would be used to facilitate that act, according to Van Patten.
Van Patten said Sparks was transported to the Mendocino County Jail and booked. Bail was set at $50,000.
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LAKE COUNTY, Calif. – On Tuesday the California Highway Patrol identified the young Kelseyville man who died last week as the result of injuries he suffered in a single-vehicle crash on the Nice-Lucerne Cutoff.
Officer Joe Wind of the CHP’s Clear Lake Area office said 21-year-old Matthew Dupler was the victim of the crash, which occurred late on the night of Nov. 8 near the Rodman Slough, as Lake County News has reported.
At 10:20 p.m. that night Dupler’s 2000 Hyundai Elantra went off the road and hit a tree, the CHP said.
Dupler was transported to Sutter Lakeside Hospital, where the CHP said he later died of his injuries.
He was wearing his seat belt at the time of the crash, and based on the investigation the CHP said alcohol did not appear to be a factor.