This coming weekend is shaping up to be just about perfect. The weather forecast is ideal and the calendar is jammed with great events – including two of my favorites all year, the Manton Apple Festival and the Win-River 125… Continue Reading
Fall isn’t only for football. It’s also quite possibly the best time of the year for running and cycling, especially once enough rain has fallen to moisten the trails and to wash the grime and goatheads off the roads. We… Continue Reading
Those of us who live in the West, especially the rural West, tend to take public lands for granted. It seems we have easy access to endless tracts of public land for hiking, camping, hunting, fishing, gold panning, rock climbing,… Continue Reading
Four of us were struggling to keep our footing on the side of a hill covered with tall, dry grass. Dead ahead of us was a thicket of poison oak and 10-foot-tall manzanita. We were marking a potential trail route… Continue Reading
The Sacramento River bike path and Redding’s bicycle circulation in general will advance, thanks to a $1.2 million state grant. The California Natural Resources Agency announced earlier this week it would award the City of Redding $1.2 million of Proposition… Continue Reading
It’s time once again for the Whiskeytown Relays, the 20-mile race in which four-member teams run all the way around Whiskeytown Lake. Sunday, September 19, will mark the 35th running of the Whiskeytown Relays, and race director Tori Parks is… Continue Reading
The biggest event of the year in Palo Cedro – the Honey Bee Festival – is set for this weekend, September 11 and 12, at Bishop Quinn Catholic Center. Now in its 30th year, the Honey Bee Festival typically draws… Continue Reading
There is no more vexing public policy subject in California than water. I’ve inched into the subject numerous times over the years for a variety of publications, and I’ve nearly drowned every time. Essentially, California’s human population and the ecosystem… Continue Reading
A downtown movie theater is closing in one Sacramento Valley town, and a downtown theater in a different town appears on the verge. The State Theater in downtown Woodland will close on Labor Day after 73 years. The even older… Continue Reading
It’s become evident to me that A News Café’s loyal audience enjoys reading about the finer things in life: Fancy restaurants, classically trained musicians, modern art, carbon fiber bicycles, European vacations. And sex. Clearly, you like reading about sex. My… Continue Reading
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