Soil preparation and proper pruning are important to keeping blueberry plants healthy and harvests plentiful.

I heard the woman before I saw her. "Get some chicken nuggets," came a raspy female voice behind a clump of manzantia bushes that poorly hid a pop-up tent, a heaped shopping cart and a bearded man. The man spoke softly and then ambled off, away from her, the campsite, out of the brush and in the direction of the st

How curious is the nest: no other bird Uses such loose materials or weaves Its dwelling in such spots – dead oaken leaves Are placed without and velvet moss within And little scraps of grass a

The Republican Party, with the disastrous George W. Bush presidency still fresh in public memory, has decided not to compensate for its past mistakes by moving toward the center. Seeing no real opposition from the Democrats, it has moved further to the right.

When Chauncey C. Bush, Father of Redding died in 1907, he was buried in the Redding Cemetery. On May 14, 1920, his body was disenterred and transported to Oakland where he was laid to rest beside his wife in an...

Shasta Rose Society looks after the 196 rose plants at Redding City Hall. Some 70 volunteers turned out to prune the rosebushes there. The event doubled as a workshop to teach home gardeners how to best go after a thorny plant.

In light of the admission during the Republican debates that mistakes were made by President George W. Bush, it needs to be pointed out that the current batch of Republican candidates want to make the same mistakes.

January 3rd, 2012This is a Call to Action from the police families of the United States. We come to you as a united front on behalf of our law enforcement officers across the country. We stand together as we collectively refuse to allow our officers to be discounted, disrespected, and devalued any longer. I

As a candidate in 2008, Barack Obama promised hope and change while artfully using verbal massage to hypnotize the left and the young who were tired of the status quo. Buyer's remorse set in as President Obama's implementation of "change" became the downward spiral of the economy, a massive uptick in debt, a

GOP ideologues still profess that tax cuts will "turn the economy around." The Bush tax cuts have been with us for over 10 years.

When word got out that Tehama County supervisors planned to shut the Los Molinos Library, some residents felt ambushed.

Barbara Riddle (letter, Oct 7) asserts that President George W. Bush created 8 million jobs. This is incorrect.

Marion Schmitz, Redding

David Perreault can find much better examples of meanness in George Bush (either one), Dick Cheney, Rick Perry, John Boehner, Mitch McConnell and Eric Cantor — all mainstream Republicans.

President Clinton left a balanced budget and gained 28 million jobs. Bush cut taxes saving wealthy job creators millions in taxes, lost 8 million jobs, and left a $14 trillion deficit.

Everyone knows that we are in a mess. If you are a Democrat, it's Bush's fault. If you are a Republican, it's the president's and the Democratic Congress' fault. And if you are an independent, it's everyone else's fault.

Stolen from throbinsonBold the things that apply to you...I am an only child.I am Catholic.I am currently in my PJs.I am currently pregnant.I am currently suf

Rick Perry is no George W. Bush.

Officers and medics headed to northwest Redding this morning after someone called dispatchers to report an overturned car in the bushes.

A Siskiyou County Jury has returned a set of Verdicts finding a 25-year-old Hornbrook Man Guilty of Kidnapping a Three-year-old Yreka Girl, Molesting her, and leaving her for dead, according to a Yreka Newspaper’s Website. The Siskiyou Daily reports that Kody Kaplon was Convicted Monday Morning on Nine Charges, plu

A Siskiyou County Jury has returned a set of Verdicts finding a 25-year-old Hornbrook Man Guilty of Kidnapping a Three-year-old Yreka Girl, Molesting her, and leaving her for dead, according to a Yreka Newspaper’s Website. The Siskiyou Daily reports that Kody Kaplon was Convicted Monday Morning on Nine Charges, plu

Redding Police searched in vain for a Wanted Man in East Redding Tuesday Morning, and then returned a few hours later and caught him. The Neighborhood around Shasta View Drive was crowded with numerous Redding Police Cruisers and Unmarked Detectives Cars after Investigators spotted a Parolee with Outstanding Warrants as

A Redding Cab driver was ambushed early Tuesday morning. Shortly after One A-M, 59-year-old Redding Yellow Cab driver Mario Rodriguez had gone to the area of Sheridan Drive and Court Street to pick up a Customer. He was jumped by two males, who stabbed him several times and beat him with an unknown weapon. He was treated

Not here - very unusual considering it's late July. It's hot but nowhere near as miserable and horrid as it could be (it could easily be 118/48C), so I'm thankful. I don't have air conditioning, you see; I have an evaporative cooler ("swamp cooler") and it works well up to a point, after which it's just moving hot ai

Eight people were crammed into a vehicle built for five when it rolled over near Yreka on Saturday. A 17-year-old boy from Central Point, Oregon was driving the 1999 Jeep Cherokee on Yreka Walker Road at about 1:30 Saturday afternoon. The vehicle has only five seatbelts, so two of the passengers were riding in the rear c

In 1911: C.C. Bush, president of the Bank of Shasta County, was arraigned in Superior Court on the indictment returned by the grand jury. He is charged with publishing a false statement of the financial condition of the bank. The indictment alleged that the amount of "demand certificates of deposit" set forth in the

Last winter saw a series of storms that took down many trees and large bushes at Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. Park crews cleared the developed areas of trees, cut them into rounds and transported them to a central gathering point. One pickup load per household will be given away at no charge on a first come/first

A man drove a stolen truck to a Court Date, then was later chased by Officers, according to Redding Police. 32-year-old Noel Holloway of Anderson reportedly broke into a storage building on Eastside Road at 11 O’clock Monday morning and stole a Dodge Ram 3500 Quad Cab One-Ton Dually Pickup Truck, which he drove to

If George W. Bush had ignored the views of his Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel to avoid complying with the War Powers Resolution, Democrats would be going berserk. Barack Obama, I suspect, would be going berserk.

The table.THREE MINUTES before guests started arriving, Coquette walked into the living room clutching a lot of tall grass and one live baby rabbit in her lips. I snatched the rabbit away and took it to the bushes, where I set it down. It looked

Millions of Americans believed all through his presidency that George W. Bush never deserved to hold that office — regardless of what the U.S. Supreme Court ruled and no matter who got a few hundred votes more or less in Florida. That was because Democrat Al Gore won more actual votes in the 2000 election than Bush, e

Back in 1879, a group of Redding civic leaders decided to establish a cemetery for their growing community. Under the direction of Chauncey C. Bush, Redding's founding father, the Masonic and Oddfellows' lodges combined efforts and formed the Redding Cemetery...

I wonder where Rep. Wally Herger was when AARP was backing a Republican-sponsored prescription drug plan under President Bush without funding.

Ernest Wirt: Redding on the edge of becoming a ghetto Ernest Wirt, Palo Cedro Redding on the edgeof becoming a ghetto When I arrived at Barnes and Noble on a recent morning to make a purchase, I found a man rolled up in a blanket sleeping on the sidewalk. I asked an employee about the man and was advised that they have been

Another eager bit of Project for a New American Century cheerleading from Charles Krauthammer on Friday.

It's been more than a decade, but Democrats still haven't forgotten the heartbreak of Al Gore's 2000 loss of the presidential election to George W. Bush. In that race, half a million more Americans cast ballots for the Democrat but the Electoral College nonetheless swung the race narrowly to the Republican.

Herewith President Obama's Thursday Middle East speech, annotated:

Remove the big bush in front of this 1910 built Duplex and realize an instant increase in value based on curb appeal alone. If only the rest of the renovation was that easy, this historic looking investment property would already be priced h

In 1962, President John F. Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which that date falls as Police Week. What beg

The right wing has already started trying to say George W. Bush should have the credit for getting Osama bin Laden. It is only fair, then, that he continues to get credit for the bad economy.

The Trial for a Siskiyou County man accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a three-year-old girl has been postponed. Kody Kaplon is suspected of kidnapping the girl from her home in March of 2009, prompting a Multi-State Amber Alert. Later that day, a group of miners working near the Oregon border found the girl s

Since Bush 43 gets blamed for everything by the Obama administration, do you think he will be blamed for the death of Osama bin Laden?

Our nation is facing a debt crisis that threatens economic growth and job creation. The debt under President Obama's budgets will exceed the total debt from Presidents Washington to Bush. Our government is borrowing 40 cents out of every dollar spent. Foreigners, led by China, now own 47 percent of our debt, making our

The bean scene is full of all sorts of interesting options. Dried and shell beans can be grown on plants that are bushy or on long, rambling vines. Here are tips for growing this vegetable garden favorite.

"CPPA" Shasta County, as usual, were attending and participating in the annual  "Take Back the Day, Take Back the Night" Event. Chapter head Lani Kitkowski and another member had been there all day, after the march Kitkowski and the other member came back to break down there booth, all the other groups that  parti

Several years ago when we had baby chicks, we cobbled together some plywood bins and called it a chicken house. Amazingly, the chickens thrived - produced many years of eggs, though their offerings were not always easy to find. We are older and wiser, now, and one of us has obsessive-compulsive tendencies whe

They say that records are made to be broken. President George W. Bush set a record by adding $3.2 trillion to the national debt over the course of his eight years in office. But Barack Obama has already beaten that record with $4.4 trillion in just his first three years in office

In his 2005 State of the Union address, President George W. Bush put Social Security privatization at the top of his agenda. As details of this plan were elaborated, the public turned against it. The plan was defeated in Congress and Republicans paid a price in the next election. The recent election gave Republicans control

In 1911: Redding Lodge of Elks, No. 1073 elected George W. Bush, now esteemed leading knight, to the high office of exalted ruler at the regular election. The election was marked by a large attendance and was an evening of social pleasure as well as of business.

A Redding man found a body Wednesday morning while fishing in a secluded spot on the Sacramento River.