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Guest speaker: ‘Criminal campus’ isn’t highest, best use for precious riverfront property

The purpose of my message is to encourage the Shasta County Board of Supervisors to reconsider their plans to locate the proposed Male Community Re-entry Program (MCRP), a multi-county detention facility, and “other unspecified items” on the City of Redding’s ninety-one acre riverside parcel downstream of Clear Creek’s Sacramento River nexus. Continue Reading

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Shasta College Honored with Board of Governors Energy and Sustainability Award for Composting and Clean Energy Efforts

Shasta College’s school color reflects its commitment to “green” innovations, and those efforts were recognized on March 24, 2026, by the Board of Governors in Sacramento. Superintendent/President Dr. Frank Nigro, along with Dean Mark Klever, Horticulture instructor Leimone Waite, and… Continue Reading

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50 years, and more than 1,200 births later, Saturday event to celebrate longtime Redding midwife

It was still dark outside, barely two days into February, when my phone pinged a text message notification that roused me from a deep sleep in the wee hours of the morning: “Good morning! It’s Nora the midwife. We’re having… Continue Reading

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Anderson High grad returns decades later to offer first-hand lessons about building, construction, and life

A few hours each school day, an industrial-level high-decibel racket emerges from the school’s cavernous woodshop in the 700 building that dominates a portion of West Valley Early College High School’s Cottonwood campus. If you dare, open the door and… Continue Reading