Well with the heat this week we can see summer’s almost here! Senior Portrait Sessions are starting early to beat the heat! Here’s one morning senior from this week.

What a great family we photographed on Mother’s Day. They had a picnic at Lake Redding Park and hired us to take formal and candid shots while everyone was together. They were so much fun, especially grandma :). Family gatherings are always a great time to get portraits done! Call us to find out about [...]

The Shasta College softball team lost its first game Friday. College of the Siskiyous, on the other hand, came out 1-0 winners in its Elite 8 opener.

Though I saw this on the internet, I think it probably looks a lot like what happened immediately before Milo fell into the Koi pond.

Columnist Peggy Noonan, in assessing the dismal state of affairs in the Republican Party, reports: "Members and pundits . . . fail to understand the deep seated antipathy toward the president, the war, gas prices, the economy, foreclosures," said Rep....

FBI agents served a search warrant Wednesday on the Yuba City home and office of Democratic congressional candidate Dr. Arjinderpal “AJ” Sekhon, a move the candidate called an example of “dirty politics.”

(Jim #23) — One of the first things I noticed about the recently announced Cascade Theatre/Jefferson Public Radio 2008-09 Performance Series: Less music. More dance and theatrical events. Not that that’s a bad thing. Ultimately, the theater needs to settle into programming that reflects (to a large degree) what

While shopping in a food store, two nuns happened to pass by the beer, wine, and liquor section. One asked the other if she would like a beer.The second nun answered that, indeed, it would be very ni

... for winning the chili cook-off Wednesday night at the Redding Rodeo Grounds. You'll notice by the picture that his hat bore a Red Bluff Round-Up logo -- and it didn't get shot up. (Figured they wouldn't try that again.)...

You might want to take a trip to Red Bluff this weekend. Canoe races, a huge downtown sidewalk sale, a Dutch oven cook-off, two new comedies at the BareStage Theatre, a classic car show -- it's all down here. If...

From an AP dispatch on Bush's unsuccessful pitch to get the Saudis to pump more oil to bring down prices... "Energy-guzzlers China and India are stretching supplies..." "Energy guzzlers" is an odd phrase given that, by one estimate, the U.S....

Alert reader K.S. points out that Andrew Pugno ("a super-smart kid") is a local boy who graduated from West Valley High in the early '90s. Actually, he was the valedictorian and senior class president. His 1996 wedding announcement in the...

SHASCOM recently recognized public safety dispatchers Lorraine O’Neil and Jessica Larmour as Dispatchers of the Year. O’Neil and Larmour received a tie vote from a panel of their peers.

That's what Andrew Pugno calls the anti-gay-marriage initiative on the ballot in November. Pugno is the lawyer for sponsors of the constitutional amendment, which would overturn Thursday's ruling. He tells the L.A. Times: "This decision draws a line in the...

This is so weird. Just yesterday Uncle E and I were talking about the pioneers of comic illustration and Unc loaned me a reprint of Mad #1 which I used to immediately scan the splash pages from the enclosed stories (see above.) It turns out that one of the masters we were praising was the [...]

That's the amount of dough businessman Jim "Downtown Santa" McDilda is rumored to be willing to raise and spend. By comparison, Mary Stegall raised about $70,000 in her campaign, then a record. Call me old fashioned, naive or idealistic, but...

Name five songs you secretly like but are embarrassed to admit you like:1. "Back Home Again" by John Denver (Actually, I pretty much like most of John Denver's stuff)2. "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" by Wham!3. "Like a Virgin" by Madonna4. "Goodbye to Love" by the Carpenters

A new friend, Santiago, from Spain, sent me this great video.Why Pray The Rosary? The video "May feelings," has been made by university students in Madrid (Spain). This video is the most watched in May in its category in spanish.It is good news, that in

Well, it's May 16 (I think. I guess I should have checked the date before I sat down to write). Anyway, we broke 100 yesterday and May is only half over. One-hundred degrees. I think the official high out at the airpo

Production issues caused a delay in the delivery of the newspaper today; your carrier is not to blame.

Q. “Our 5-month-old German shepherd jumps up on people. He already weighs 60 pounds and we’re afraid he will hurt my mother-in-law. Will he eventually outgrow this?” You could wait the 10 or 12 years it will take for him to become too arthritic to jump up, or

I moved to Redding when I was 5,  so I’m familiar with the whole Rodeo Week thing. But I always wonder what goes through the minds of Redding newcomers and visitors who experience Rodeo Week  and all its activities for the first time.

Four-year-old Frankie Paulson and her Pomeranian, Gizmo, size up some of the competition Thursday before the start of the Asphalt Cowboys' annual Kiddie Pet Parade at the Mt. Shasta Mall in Redding. The yearly parade is a part of the Redding Rodeo Week activities.

ROUND MOUNTAIN -- She wears the title "executive director" at Hill Country Community Clinic, but there's a quality about Lynn Dorroh that's more elusive.

• Rescue mission fills fundraising post • Vista Hills celebrates with open house • Forklift training set in downtown Redding

Thursday's Northern Section Division VI baseball championship dripped with so much cheese, not even the Hallmark Channel will pick up the movie rights.

If you've got sex offenders, you've got mail. Shasta County residents can now sign up for free e-mail notifications telling them when a sex offender has moved within a mile of their home or other designated address.

Injuries are nothing to rodeo competitors.

SHASCOM recently recognized public safety dispatchers Lorraine O’Neil and Jessica Larmour as Dispatchers of the Year. O’Neil and Larmour received a tie vote from a panel of their peers.

RED BLUFF -- A woman was killed Thursday morning when a truck containing a group of her friends allegedly ran over her.

College of the Siskiyous softball coach Doug Eastman thinks both his team and conference rival Shasta have the talent to match up with anyone in the state Elite Eight tournament this weekend.

Redding Electric Utility will shell out $6.9 million to escape an auction-rate bond market gone bad in the recent subprime mortgage-related credit crunch.

Norm Ryan, a member of the City Council-appointed committee reviewing possible financing for a new Redding police station, has resigned after accusing city staff members of thwarting his efforts to consider all possible funding options for the building.

A rash of sick and dead skunks mainly in west Redding during the past three months is the result of canine distemper, said veterinary scientists Thursday at the University of California at Davis.

Stop the club hate. It's trite, out of touch and misplaced.

Cindy Barnett and Cathy Giacomelli of Redding might make pretty good detectives.

A 25-year-old Redding man is becoming quite a Shasta County historian and author.

Brendon Flynn is the force behind the gold -- Pacific Sun Olive Oil, the newest venture for the 56-year-old Pacific Farms and Orchards Inc., owned by his mother, Jane. Pacific Farms produces prunes, walnuts and almonds from orchards stretching from Corning to Jellys Ferry, and is a member grower of Sunsweet (pru

• Two firefighters treated at blaze • Second bomb threat closes Redding school • Motorcyclist found dead after crash on Highway 3

Sitting in the shadow of white canopies while the noon sun blazed overhead and gusts of wind blew across the steps of the Shasta County Courthouse, friends and families of the area’s fallen lawmen solemnly watched and listened.

Shasta College softball coach Sonny Stupek said he didn't want the heart attack he suffered the day his team clinched a playoff spot to distract from his players' achievement, but we figure it should be an extra motivation out on the diamond.

During the Vietnam War, a phrase came to symbolize the entire misbegotten adventure: "It became necessary to destroy the village in order to save it." It was said at first with sincerity, then repeated with irony, and finally with despair.

I don't know why people complain about a legislator coming from another district to run for office. He or she might have some good ideas on how to distribute state and federal funds.

Our nation’s economy is going through a period of uncertainty. The credit crunch and housing slump have dampened economic growth. Gas prices are reaching an astonishing $4 per gallon, and food prices are soaring. Americans are forced to cope with these rising prices every day.

The boats are in

My esteemed colleague Bruce Ross asks what the difference is between gays' and lesbians' quest for legalized same-sex marriage today and African-Americans' quest to end a ban on interracial marriage in the first half of the 20th century. The issue...

Wow, it has been a while since I last posted an entry in my blog! My time has been filled with fire-suppression spring cleaning, garden planting, weed pulling, and taking photos. This first photo is an Echinopsis hybrid ‘peanut cactus’ in my most favorite of ‘found’ pots, an old rusty hibachi barbec