Once upon a time — before Shasta County was overtaken in January by an ultra-right board majority — the words “special Board of Supervisors meeting” meant something, well, special, outside regular supervisors meetings. Yesterday was the board of supervisors eighth… Continue Reading
Please don’t skip this post. It’s important. It’s been one year since my promise to limit any requests for financial support to this singular annual event, timed to happen right around A News Cafe’s birthday. No relentlessly annoying, gauche pleas… Continue Reading
Win Carpenter is ramping up his campaign to run for the District 3 Shasta County Supervisor seat. Carpenter will be running against long-time incumbent, Mary Rickert, who recently announced she planned to run for a third term. The Carpenter and… Continue Reading
On Saturday, Dec. 9, Cottonwood Community Library will host a ‘Winter Wonderland’ event. In years past, the library has sponsored a tour of various homes in the community, but this year everything is happening in one place, the home of… Continue Reading
The last time A News Cafe wrote about the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District, dozens of residents were fed up with canal water seeping underground and creating a soggy springtime mess that lasted into the summer. Cracks in the canal soaked nearby… Continue Reading
Lots of news from the Tehama Groundwater front. Four out of five of our Groundwater Sustainability Plans have been returned by the Department of Water Resources as “Incomplete”. The fifth GSP is still under review, but since it’s a… Continue Reading
Please join me in welcoming District 3 Supervisor Mary Rickert to A News Cafe as we discuss what led her to make an important decision earlier this afternoon. CHAMBERLAIN: Good evening, Supervisor Rickert. Thank you for taking the time to… Continue Reading
Am I the only one who’s been caught off guard by Thanksgiving this year? For Pete’s sake, I still have Halloween pumpkins on my front porch! I turned their faces around so they’re just plain pumpkins, which still work for… Continue Reading
Dr. James Mu, Shasta County’s new health officer, has been on the job for four weeks. It might have taken much longer to learn how the less-qualified Mu landed that position, if not for people who shared with A… Continue Reading
About 80 people scattered among the sea of available seats inside the McLaughlin Auditorium in Redding Wednesday. Everyone was there for a Shasta County GOP candidates forum. Judging by many familiar faces, the majority of the audience was comprised of… Continue Reading
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