News From Around The County
Guest Writer Spotlight: Jeremy M. Tuggle: Shasta Historical Society Above: an early photograph of Shingletown. From the collection of Jeremy Tuggle. Shingletown was first called Shingle Camp, it was established in 1848 as a tent community, and its name derives from the first production of shingles and shakes in Shasta County. Due to the abundance of sugar pine and cedar […]
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Guest Writer Spotlight: Jeremy M. Tuggle The building at 1629 Market Street in Redding was once the official headquarters of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company. According to Redding Electric Utility the building, which is located in between Yuba and Placer Streets on the east side of Market Street, is still in use to this day. This building often attracts […]
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Guest Writer’s Spotlight: Jeremy M. Tuggle The historic and deadly Carr Fire erupted into flames around 1:30 p.m., on July 23, 2018 at the intersection of Highway 299 West and Carr Powerhouse Road, due to vehicle malfunction failure. It ravaged everything in its course of destruction in Shasta County as it entered nearby populated places traveling into Shasta. Spot fires […]
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From Holly Ober, University California Riverside/UCRToday RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A University of California, Riverside, computer scientist has received reinforcements in his battle against fake news. Snap Research, the research division of Snap, Inc., has made a $7,000 donation for Evangelos Papalexakis, an assistant professor of computer science and engineering in the Bourns College of Engineering, to continue improving an algorithm […]
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By Iqbal Pittalwala RIVERSIDE, Calif. — An international team of scientists that includes University of California, Riverside, physicist Hai-Bo Yu has imposed conditions on how dark matter may interact with ordinary matter — constraints that can help identify the elusive dark matter particle and detect it on Earth. Dark matter — nonluminous material in space — is understood to constitute […]
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By Melissa Cartew A few years back, no one would have imagined how social media would evolve to be what it is today – a powerful tool of interaction. People relied on one–on–one encounters or by calling via phones. Today, most communications are done online through emails and chats on social media platforms like Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram, Twitter, Telegram, […]
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Adapted from Facebook, with permission. People often say I lead the most colorful and interesting life, but I really just don’t see it. Usually. So, the other day I had just picked my dog Molly up from the vet and we were heading home as the sun was setting when I happened to stop at a red light. Stuck in […]
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Guest Writer’s Spotlight: Maureen Noble In a recent MSN news article, “Hillary Clinton explains why she really lost to Trump“, Clinton cited a number of reasons explaining her loss to Donald Trump for the U.S. Presidency; largely citing these four factors for her defeat: – Russia. “A foreign power meddled with our election,” she said, labeling it “an act of aggression.” She […]
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Adapted with permission, from a Facebook post by Rita Slayton. Indulge an old lady for a minute. I was a little girl in the 60’s. When I was in kindergarten we were learning about different colors. Red, blue, green, white, orange, black, yellow. One Saturday I was going to the rock quarry with my father when he stopped for […]
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My entire life, I have been fascinated with the paranormal. I have heard and seen things no one around me could. I had an “invisible friend” named Risa until I was about 8 years old. I had conversations with her, sang with and to her, and she was with me everywhere I went. She was my best friend. She was as real […]
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