TEHAMA COUNTY: Stoll Fire Date/Time Started: June 23, 2018 12:52 pm Administrative Unit: CAL FIRE Tehama-Glenn Unit Tehama County Location: Stoll Rd & Baker Rd, west of Red Bluff Acres Burned – Containment: 268 acres – 80% contained Evacuation Info:… Continue Reading
In light of the suicides of Kate Spade and Anthony Bourdain: Most people would rather discuss their heroin addiction than their depression. No one wants to say, “I have a mental illness.” Well, I have had skin cancer and cluster… Continue Reading
Oh God, Thy sea is so great and my boat is so small No one has to look far to find where the sea has swamped the boat. From a recently widowed neighbor to earthquake victims in Mexico to millions… Continue Reading
“I didn’t feel the lump.” So wrote Patti McCarthy on January 1, 2013. “I was called back for a second mammogram. I like to look at a tech’s face to see if I need to worry. But cancer never entered… Continue Reading
My curmudgeon credentials are impeccable. When I was a small child, my mother occasionally called me Hard-Hearted Hannah (I don’t remember exactly why, but it was probably deserved). In my early 20s, I worked with a woman who sighed, “So… Continue Reading
Robert Brown had been organizing the Redding March for Science for a week. “It’s a lot of work,” he laughed, but added that it was wildly successful, estimating the marchers totaled around 400. Hosted by the Whole Earth and Watershed… Continue Reading
One of the happier aspects of the internet is meeting people. (No, not stalkers and such.) I mean people you’d probably never meet otherwise, people you like and become friends with. You might share an interest in restoring old Buicks,… Continue Reading
I’ve been a little depressed since November 9, like drink-gin-straight-out-of-the-cat-dish depressed, and also a little angry. More than a little angry, actually. I had a fantasy in which modern-day Edward R. Murrows and Joseph N. Welchs arose and put a… Continue Reading
By the time Denmark native Kirsten Plate arrived in Chicago in 1968, she had already lived in Iran, England and the Netherlands, working as a bartender, nanny, and au pair. When she took a job promoting Danish food products, the… Continue Reading
Sometime after 8Â p.m. on Sunday, March 3, a person or persons spray-painted hate words on the front of the Igo Store at 6490 Placer Road. By the time a neighbor saw it as they were leaving for work at 4:30Â a.m.… Continue Reading
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