March 3rd, 2010
What: California Women Lead 9th Brown Bag Lunch
When: March 5, 12 p.m.
Where: Redding Library Community Room “B”
California Women Lead’s guest for its 9th Brown Bag Lunch will be Connie Regnell. Connie is the Shasta County Auditor-Controller. She was elected in 2006 andR
Ed White and Larry Fuqua met in summer 2008 while Ed was moving his company, EveryDay Fitness, to the Market Street Promenade. In December Larry, a member at Total Fitness, lamented that his gym was closing its doors. Ed and…
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Carnegies and HawkMan Studios invite you to the
ArtHop After-pARTy
Saturday, March 13 - 6 to 9 PM
FEATURING
Live Music by Allison & Victor
Alli
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Featured ArtHop artist and Shasta High School student Tracy Manuel talks about her work, her plans for the future and what it’s like to have an artist like my friend, Torri Pratt, as a teacher.
Tracy
What: Red Bluff Art Gallery First Friday Artists’ Reception - New Exhibits
When: March 5, 5 to 8 p.m.
Where: Red Bluff Art Gallery
601 Walnut, Red Bluff
This Friday, March 5th, from 5-8 pm, there will be an Artists’ Reception and Exhibit Opening for four talented…
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Anyone who has ever had the pleasure of dining with supermatt41 and his partner Chris knows already what I mean, but Chris is a fabulous cook. Friday night Gary and I were invited over, along with our gre
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The drowned truck has been freed from the creek tonight by Lassen Canyon’s tractor crew. With a grinding tug through gravel and spinning tractor wheels, the vehicle was pulled up on the bank this evening. It is obvious that this was not a stolen rig. Nothing had been stripped, nice wheels, tires, three-wheeler and a
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The Senate’s grand and noble tradition of suppressing all commercial, social, and cultural progress through the use of the filibuster is about to be ripped to shreds by savage democrats slashing the senate’s grand bod
About 300 people gathered near the Redding Civic Center today to rally against a proposed $5.9 million budget cut to Shasta County schools.
For the month of March, your local H&R Block offices in Anderson, Burney, Red Bluff and Redding will be offering North State residents the opportunity to have their current year return as well as prior year returns for 2008, 2007 and 2006 reviewed for free by a certified tax professional.
Two Redding men and two Redding woman were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of maintaining a home where illicit drugs were sold.
This morning I received a call from a neighbor that a truck had been swept away in our rain-swollen creek. We have been trying to prevent trespassing and keep dirtbikers off our properties and road, so I’ve been elected to be the neighborhood photographer and make a record of everyone caught trespassing, for the law [
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Two men — one from Southern California and the other from Oregon — were arrested on drug and weapons charges Tuesday night following a traffic stop on Twin View Boulevard in Redding, officials with the California Highway Patrol said today.
In a very crowded room full of mostly business, government and Tea Party types seeing the talk by conservative pundit Steve Greenhut this morning, local union leaders Steve Allen and Chris Darker sat quietly in the back -- too quietly...
A starting job as a Redding police officer could be worth more than $100,000 a year. How so? Read on.
As public agencies continue to wrestle with declining budgets, the scrutiny of their employees' pension programs rises. Which begs the question -- what are those retirements actually worth? What would somebody in
This is just between us. I’ve got the password to write a Redding Grocery Outlet (GO) Picks, and I’m going in.
When Doni writes GO Picks, they’re always so smart, so practical.
I’m thinking it needs some testosterone – you know, a junk-food, bad-diet, I-can’t-believe
With all of the land use restrictions that are being placed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the US Forest Service (USFS) and the Army Corps of Engineers we should all be aware of what this does to our collecting rights and access to these public lands for not only ourselves but our future generations of rock coll
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When pioneer Simeon Southern added a 2-story addition to his log cabin/trading post/stage station near Hazel Creek in the Sacramento River Canyon and made it into a hotel in 1882, it began attracting the attention of the rich and famous...
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RED BLUFF — A 22-year-old Red Bluff man who is suspected of trying to rob last month a 39-year-old woman outside a Bank of America was arrested Tuesday by police, it was announced today.
As I walk through the streets of downtown, I find myself enveloped in the sweet scent of early spring. This is a special time of year. It’s that time when the gray clouds of winter give way to blue skies,…
According to a recent AP article, the City of Orange in Southern California is pursuing legal action against a city resident for replacing his lawn with drought-tolerant plants. City code requires 40% of the yard be covered with live plants.
Quan Ha replaced his grass with wood chips in 2008. He and his wife conte
Redding’s drastically shrinking revenue streams may force action sooner than later on the Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the Convention Center itself.
This a striking image, but the message seems to me to be 180 degrees off. Yeah, we can't stop earthquakes, and the big ones will be deadly. But Chile is a prosperous nation with, I've read, tough building standards much...
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Conditions at Mt. Shasta Ski Park
Maybe this is just a coincidence. Maybe Ron Seeling retired (he's been in the job since 1994, according to his online bio), or got a more lucrative offer in the private sector. Still, last summer Seeling, then CalPERS' chief actuary,...
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Steve Greenhut, author of a book that harshly criticizes the pay and benefit packages given to public employees in California, this morning told a morning gathering at the Shasta Builders Exchange that as a government worker, "if you just stay on the job through the rest of your career, you'll have a millionaire's pensio
The driver of a Dodge truck suffered minor injuries this morning when his truck went off Interstate 5 in Anderson, down an embankment and into a tree.
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Or say they do, as the OC Register notes in an editorial about Jerry Brown's official announcement that he's running for governor. Jerry Brown's experience as mayor of Oakland - a position in which people can see readily whether potholes...
Somebody's always working a scam. The latest? "Renting" out vacant homes ("Ignore that For Sale sign!) to unwitting marks, then vanishing with the deposit. Read the warning -- and the advice if you spot one in progress....
Methinks the city manager has grown impatient with the pace of committee work. From the staff report for tomorrow's special meeting of the Community Services Advisory Committee: The City Council also asked the Commission to submit its findings and recommendations...
At first glance, Starbucks' decision to close its Discovery Village location is a head-scratcher.
By all accounts, the store was doing a healthy business in one of the most popular shopping centers in Redding. Starbucks is arguably Discovery Village's headlining act. It has been there since early 2000 and is one
As I’m planning to pull together my tax-related documents this weekend, I’ve got money and finances on the brain. High school and college math classes didn’t prepare me one jot for the household finances/budgeting area of real l
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After checking to see if anyone was inside this morning, rescue divers decided to leave a submerged vehicle in Stillwater Creek east of Redding.
Highway 89 has been reopened after a jack-knifed big rig earlier blocked southbound traffic six miles north of Lake Britton. The highway was cleared around 11:30 a.m.
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This is a small book, a quick read, that truly has inspired words within it. It has given me a greater understanding of What the Eucharist is, it is much more than I ever realized. It will chan
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The review of a psychologist's report to determine whether a Shasta County man accused of harassing and stalking his neighbors is mentally competent to stand trial was continued today until Thursday.
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Don’t tap on your screen, that’s the whole photo. Here’s a home on a big lot very near Redding. It’s also very near the railroad tracks, but if you can get past that, it has much to offer for the price. We recall it as a Short Sale recently, but that must n
A Redding pair who claimed they shot and killed a Sacramento man in self-defense in January were back in Shasta County Superior Court this morning, but their preliminary hearing that was scheduled for tomorrow has been postponed.
One viral video leads to another, apparently. In case you haven’t seen it.
I’m old enough to remember cartoons by Rube Goldberg. He drew illustrations of kinetic stuff like this, except you the reader had to use your imagination as to how it would all actually play out. This commercial video makes no reference
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This House Rental scam has been happening for more than a year, but has really become problematic recently. Some scammer a**hole finds a vacant house for sale, and then advertises it on Craigslist as "For Rent" with some verbage telling the renter to ignore the "For Sale" signs out front. They explain they are trying to
... wait till a chastened CalPERS lowers its sights on the investment returns it think it can realistically expect. The Bee reports on the discussion. Currently, CalPERS projects a 7.75 percent annual return on its massive portfolio. But in...
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Rain is expected to douse Redding this morning as a winter storm rolls over.
I've heard union officials and rank and file public safety employees say that during online and in-person discussions of public pension costs. In fact, I remember one firefighter declaring that his colleagues tended to die five years after retirement. Not...
Up way too early to day. I’ll be dragging later and I have tons of errands to attend but I need my quiet time.
You’d think getting up at 5:30 a.m. would do the trick but not so that last two mornings. There were responsibilities to attend to the minute I opened my eyes.
This morning 4:15 [...]
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I was invited to break bread Tuesday evening with four honchos from the Greater Redding Chamber of Commerce and the conversation turned inevitably to the local economy. The consensus around the table, alas, was that we'll probably have to wait...
.How many of you have really sat down and thought about what your goals are in life?If you don't have a specific goal, how do you know what direction you are going?Are you progressing toward your goals, or ar
You think nothing lasts anymore? If you’re talking about electric appliances, I agree. But some things seem to keep ticking. For example, the NorCal John Frank Memorial footrace celebrates its 40th anniversary on Saturday, March 6, at Lake Redding Park.
All…
The words over at Three Word Wednesday are amaze, frail and sacred. Somewhere, there's a better story in this than what came out.Street ProphetFor all his craziness, he didn’t direct his gestured outbursts at those who passed on the street, but into
REDDING - Enough is enough.
So says the Shasta County Education Coalition, a grassroots collection of educators, administrators and elected officials fighting to stop state budget cuts to education here.
Shasta County schools have seen $36.5 million in funding cuts since 2008…
What would be the first line
of your autobiography?
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Dear Lynne: Is there a shortcut to chicken soup, good chicken soup? Do you ever use canned chicken broth? If so, which brand you like? Is this sacrilege? — Eli in Denver
Dear Eli: Answer to your first question is yes. And that ties into your second, the answer being, in a pinch. As to brands, two years ago I ta
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This week, I'll answer two e-mails from readers with stockpiling issues.
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Whether it's a planned dinner gathering circled prominently on your wall calendar or a last-minute phone call from a spouse announcing, "Company's coming for dinner," everyone needs that one dish they can count on - something that's sure to be edible and delicious.
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Today is Wednesday, March 3, the 62nd day of 2010. There are 303 days left in the year.
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Fair aims to help small businesses
The Small Business Development Center at Shasta College and College of the Siskiyou; will host the The Small Business Fair - Workshop & Resource Expo on Tuesday.
Most discussions of health care are like something out of Alice in Wonderland.
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For half a decade, conservative Rep. Wally Herger and liberal Sen. Barbara Boxer have been haggling - along with Shasta and Tehama counties, tourism promoters, property developers, environmentalists and neighboring landowners - over just how to manage the Sacramento River Bend, an 18,000-acre patch of public land north of R
Can I get a list of Tea Party cuts?
To all the Tea Partiers out there,All I ever hear from you are complaints about the direction this country is going. You complain about this and you complain about that - especially about losing your freedoms and paying too much in taxes.
ANDERSON - A 10-year-old boy told Anderson police on Monday that a driver with two Pomeranian-type dogs on his lap tried to get him into his car while he was walking home from school.
Deputy county counsel is tapped for top postShasta County supervisors Tuesday said they will appoint Rubin Cruse Jr. as the county's top lawyer.
Shasta County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday morning to spend $458,000 in Homeland Security grants on two drills, two robots and other equipment for county agencies.
RED BLUFF - Eight felony counts of money laundering were added Tuesday in the case against Red Bluff entrepreneur Joseph Froome, delaying his preliminary hearing on marijuana charges, Tehama County Deputy District Attorney Matt Rogers said.
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