Steele House Coffee is a locally owned coffee house at 437 Center St in downtown Yuba City. Espresso and house-made syrups, breakfast and sandwiches made to order, and fresh-roasted beans to take home.

The Sutter County Museum collects, preserves, and interprets the history of Sutter County from Native American habitation through the present. Located in Yuba City, its exhibits cover the Nisenan people, agricultural heritage, flood history, and community development. The museum also maintains a research library and photo archive.

The staging area and route for the annual Yuba City Nagar Kirtan — the largest Sikh parade and celebration in the Western Hemisphere. Held each November, the event draws 100,000-200,000 attendees and features a religious procession, live music, and an estimated 250,000 free meals served to all visitors regardless of faith.

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Historic photograph of Ellis Lake, Marysville's central public gathering space since the 1850s.

Didar Singh Bains arrived in Yuba City from Punjab, India in 1958 with little more than determination. He began working as a farm laborer, picking peaches for wages. Within a few years, he had saved enough to lease his first small plot of land. What followed was one of the most remarkable agricultural success stories in American history. Through relentless work, strategic land acquisition, and deep farming knowledge rooted in his Punjabi heritage, Bains built an agricultural empire that eventually encompassed over 18,000 acres across multiple California counties. He became the largest peach grower in the world, earning the nickname "The Peach King." But Bains was more than a farmer. He was a community builder and philanthropist. He donated millions to Sikh temples, schools, and charitable causes. He helped countless new Punjabi immigrants find housing and work. He was a fixture at community events and a bridge between the Sikh community and the broader Yuba-Sutter establishment. Bains also faced adversity with grace. He survived an assassination attempt in 1988 and continued his work undeterred. When he died in 2022, thousands attended his funeral services, and tributes poured in from across the nation — a testament to the impact of a man who had arrived with nothing and built everything.

City dropped a big pile of free mulch near the plaza — help yourselves this weekend.

Portrait believed to be of Mary Murphy Covillaud, teenage Donner Party survivor and namesake of Marysville.

Charles Julian Covillaud was a French immigrant who became one of the founders of Marysville. After arriving in California during the late Mexican period, Covillaud worked for John Sutter before striking out on his own. He married Mary Murphy, a survivor of the Donner Party, and in 1849 joined with partners Michael Nye, Foster Barham, and Theodore Sicard to purchase land from Theodor Cordua at the confluence of the Yuba and Feather Rivers. The partners platted a townsite and named it Marysville after Charles's wife. Covillaud played a central role in Marysville's early governance and development. As the city exploded from a few tents to a metropolis of 10,000 in just two years, Covillaud helped establish the civic institutions that would give permanence to what could have been just another mining camp. He died in 1867, the same year as his wife Mary, leaving behind a city that would grow into the cultural and commercial center of the northern Sacramento Valley.