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Local Beermakers Respond to the Carr Fire Relief Effort by Brewing up Shasta Strong IPA

When you put a bunch of beer makers together and present them with a challenge, it’s a given they’re going to brew up a solution. The challenge at hand: find a way to combine their brewing skills to create something… Continue Reading

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Happy Valley Woman Makes Christmas Stockings for Carr Fire Victims

Vivian Say is thinking about winter. Specifically December. Specifically Christmas. She is thinking about the North State friends and neighbors who won’t have boxes of cherished Christmas memorabilia to cheer their hearts this yuletide. So this Happy Valley great-grandmother is… Continue Reading

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Fighting Fire With Fire: Notes From The Wildland Urban Interface

California must fight fire with fire, or risk losing one of its greatest assets in the battle against climate change: the ability of its forests to sequester carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases that are exacerbating climate change. That’s right.… Continue Reading

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After Losing Everything, What Remains?

I live in Redding, Calif., where, along with a thousand of our neighbors, our home was rudely and suddenly consumed by a wall of fearless flame and summarily reduced to rambling heaps of sad ashes and shattered shards of her previous pride, scattered and strewn about carelessly in the solemn space that once comprised our ordered, routine and predictable life; Continue Reading

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Carr-Fire California Breathing: Real Men Wear Protection

In my new Carr-Fire reality, I wake up each morning and peer outside to see if my world is still standing. So far, it is, but I’m seeing my world through Carr-Fire smoke-colored glasses that mess with my brain. Is… Continue Reading

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50 Years Later, North State Man Shares First-Hand Observations of Robert F. Kennedy’s Assassination

This week marks the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles. It’s hard for me to believe it’s been that long, but I was there, outside the Cocoanut Grove restaurant and nightclub at… Continue Reading

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As New U.S. Attorney, Former Shasta County D.A. McGregor Scott Wants to Make the North State a Priority

On April 24, 2018, the Shasta County District Attorney’s Office determined that a Redding police officer was justified when he shot and killed a man in December of 2017.  Police-officer involved shootings can dominate the news cycles and can sometimes leave… Continue Reading

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Churches Should Butt Out of Parishioners’ Sex Lives

After reading the articles and comments regarding Bethel here on aNewsCafé.com, I’m encouraged by the level of compassionate integrity the majority of responders have demonstrated.  It gives me hope for our community and our world. As a clinical sexologist and passionate humanist, I… Continue Reading