February is National Go Red for Women Month, part of a movement to encourage women (and men, too) to embrace heart-healthy lifestyles. Mercy Medical Center in Redding marked the event on Friday by inflating a big red dress on top of its… Continue Reading
Mother-and-daughter team Ann Webber and Jeanette Ernst bought a laser to enhance homes that they were building. Once they got it and saw the possibilities, they started getting creative. They opened a storefront to offer custom laser etchings. The response… Continue Reading
An earthquake that registered 6.0 on the Richter scale struck just off the Pacific Coast at 12:20 p.m. Thursday. Some folks in Redding felt the quake, but no reports of damage so far. The 6.5-magnitude quake that hit the same… Continue Reading
What is your favorite piece in a box of See’s candy? (Click here to answer.)
I was driving down Highway 273 toward Anderson the other day, windshield wipers slapping, when I passed a familiar stand of palm trees. Big old palms, left from the days when a home or business occupied the now-vacant lot. The gray… Continue Reading
Do you remember your first romantic kiss? (Click here to answer.)
Why didn’t I (and thousands of other struggling authors) think of this? You can sell way more books if you form a political action committee. Take the money donated to the PAC and buy copies of your own book. Instant… Continue Reading
Urban gardening used to seem subversive. People planted tomatoes in public parks, strung their hops to rooftops to make homebrew and reclaimed empty lots as community farms, never mind the property owner. Yet in one of the more thoroughly tilled… Continue Reading
The Shasta College Theatre presents opera performances this week, including Puccini’s comedy “Gianni Schicchi” and scenes from “Rigoletto” and “I Pagliacci.” The operas are presented fully staged by Robert Waterbury, accompanied by Elizabeth Waterbury, and Ellen Southard on piano. The… Continue Reading
“Don’t worship a false prophet.” What does this mean to you? (Click here to answer.)
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