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Millville Plains Residents Sue Chair Jones, Shasta County and Supervisors to Stop Gun Range Project
Millville Plains residents filed a lawsuit demanding a halt to any construction on the High Plains Shooting Sports Center until a full environmental impact report has been completed, according to a writ of mandate filed in the Shasta County Superior… Continue Reading
Dec. 5 Supervisors Meeting Summary: 2024 Chair, Vice Chair Selected, CEO Gets Bump in Salary, Severance Package
Editor’s note: Please join me in welcoming Barbara Rice’s summary of Tuesday’s Shasta County Board of Supervisors meeting. Rice is perhaps best known to A News Cafe regulars as ANC’s admin assistant and comments moderator. The complete agenda and video… Continue Reading
Rumors Swirl as Hard-right Board Majority Foments Secrets, Lies, and a Legacy of Banished County Counsels
Once upon a time — before Shasta County was overtaken in January by an ultra-right board majority — the words “special Board of Supervisors meeting” meant something, well, special, outside regular supervisors meetings. Yesterday was the board of supervisors eighth… Continue Reading
Shasta College Early Childhood Education Center & Lab Earns National NAEYC Accreditation
Shasta College Early Childhood Education Center & Lab, located in Redding, CA, has earned re-accreditation for an additional 5 years from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC)—the world’s largest organization working on behalf of young children. NAEYC Accreditation… Continue Reading
A News Cafe is Sweet 16; Looking for Love in all the Right Places
Please don’t skip this post. It’s important. It’s been one year since my promise to limit any requests for financial support to this singular annual event, timed to happen right around A News Cafe’s birthday. No relentlessly annoying, gauche pleas… Continue Reading
Reverge Anselmo Gives Another $250,000 to Right-Wing PAC That Donates to State of Jefferson Candidate
Win Carpenter is ramping up his campaign to run for the District 3 Shasta County Supervisor seat. Carpenter will be running against long-time incumbent, Mary Rickert, who recently announced she planned to run for a third term. The Carpenter and… Continue Reading
Cottonwood Community Library Hosts Winter Wonderland Fundraiser Dec. 9
On Saturday, Dec. 9, Cottonwood Community Library will host a ‘Winter Wonderland’ event. In years past, the library has sponsored a tour of various homes in the community, but this year everything is happening in one place, the home of… Continue Reading
District Looks to Prevent Another ACID Canal Calamity
The last time A News Cafe wrote about the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District, dozens of residents were fed up with canal water seeping underground and creating a soggy springtime mess that lasted into the summer. Cracks in the canal soaked nearby… Continue Reading
Tehama Groundwater Update – Cry Me An Atmospheric River
Lots of news from the Tehama Groundwater front. Four out of five of our Groundwater Sustainability Plans have been returned by the Department of Water Resources as “Incomplete”. The fifth GSP is still under review, but since it’s a… Continue Reading
