Of all the Veterans Days 89-year-old Korean War veteran and former Senator Maurice Johannessen has commemorated, today’s may be among his most bittersweet. On this Veterans Day, the Veterans Cemetery Memorial Chapel in Igo — the one made possible by… Continue Reading
A verbal altercation between Judy Salter, 75, of Redding, and Shasta County’s District 1 Supervisor Kevin Crye, 49, at the close of last week’s board of supervisors meeting dominated public comment time with numerous people either taking jabs at Crye… Continue Reading
Shasta County can exhale a sigh of relief today following preliminary results from two sides of the same coin in the county’s Nov. 7 special election. One side of the coin was the election itself. According to the latest election… Continue Reading
Tomorrow morning I’m getting flu and COVID vaccinations at the Redding VA Clinic. I’ll admit to being slightly nervous. It’s not that I’m not a prime candidate for Pfizer’s latest bivalent vaccine. I am. I’ve never had COVID, so I’ve… Continue Reading
The health plan open enrollment for individuals under age 65 and not Medicare eligible began Nov. 1 and continues until Jan. 31, 2024. If you want coverage to be effective January 1, 2024, you must complete the process before 12/31/2023.… Continue Reading
News of the appointment of Jon Knight — right-wing extremist, QAnon conspiracy theorist, and Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol attack attendee — to the Shasta County Mosquito and Vector Control board by the Shasta County Board of Supervisors went viral in… Continue Reading
Like a mongrel cross of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” and Gioachino Rossini’s opera buffa “The Barber of Seville,” Patrick Henry Jones led his merry troupe of political players — better known as the Shasta County Board of Supervisors… Continue Reading
Ask anyone who’s upset about the hard right turn the Gateway Unified School District board of trustees has taken since three ultraconservative members seized the board majority one year ago and the word that comes up most often is “chaos.”… Continue Reading
In a grinding five-hour evening session, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 3-1 on board chair Patrick Jones’ request to change the zoning on his 150-acre Millville Plains parcel from 40-acre residential to commercial/recreational, greenlighting Jones’ dream to build… Continue Reading
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