Both Shasta County and the city of Redding declared a state of emergency Tuesday in a preemptive move to shore up defenses against the growing novel coronavirus menace. Shasta County Sheriff Eric Magrini emphasized...
Author: Jon Lewis
Riverfront Playhouse has scheduled one last fling before the theater company’s venerable old Enterprise location goes dark and the curtain rises on a downtown theater in the recently designated Redding Cultural District. Riverfront’s final...
After a nomadic couple of years that saw Axiom Repertory Theatre mounting plays in churches, schools, the Cascade Theatre and Old City Hall, the theater company finally has a home of its own. To...
As far as the goats are concerned, they’re just doing what they’re really good at: rummaging around the hillsides and eating stuff. As far as the city of Redding is concerned, the bell-bedecked ruminants...
As a small business owner, Gary Engell joked that he had the “dumbest, stupidest boss in the world.” After 62 years, he’s had enough and has decided to fire himself. His last day will...
I’m reminded of the Carr Fire every time I drive on Eureka Way or Placer Street toward my west Redding home, and I’m still taken aback at how close those flames got to my...
A Monday morning ceremony will mark a sizable step forward in providing services and support for the approximately 350 veterans attending Shasta College. The 10 a.m. groundbreaking ceremony represents a green light for construction...
Wet, cold, clumpy and clingy are not exactly the hallmarks of a winter wonderland, but that’s what west Redding residents woke up to Wednesday morning. It appears a chilly sleeper cell of sorts caught...
When voters in the Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District approved Measure H in 2016, they had no inkling of the devastation that was to be unleashed by the Carr Fire two years later. While...
As the daughter of a Polish Jew mother and an Argentinian father, it seemed almost preordained that Sonia Nazario would develop a keen interest in immigration. “My family has been migrating for the past...
