Counterfeit travelers checks and fraudulent $100 bills have arrived in Anderson a little later this summer compared to years past, according to Anderson Police Department Captain Robert Kirvin.

Obituaries: August 6 - 7, 2008

The Anderson Aquagators youth swim team won their third straight NVAL Championship in the seasonal division.
The meet, which has been held for 25 years, is the culmination of a summer of hard work and dedication for youth swimmers.

Passers-by at Chris Broderson’s Happy Valley house might do a double-take as they witness a giant mound of dirt turn into a landing pad for death-defying freestyle motocross stunts.

Adrenaline. Speed. Big air.
This is what the new generation of local motocross riders thrive on, and this is what keeps them committed to their dreams of becoming professional motocross drivers.

Riders revved their engines, wheels spun dirt, and fearless drivers jumped their bikes into the air as they made the move to pass their opponents.
Hundreds of local motocross enthusiasts gathered in the Red Bluff fairgrounds grandstands to watch their favorite motocross riders in the Yamaha X-Treme Summercross Nationals.

When President George W. Bush made his recent trip to Redding, memories came flooding back of another presidential visitation here in Shasta County on Air Force One. The day was a very hot September in 1963 when President John F. “Jack” Kennedy arrived to dedicate Whiskeytown Dam. He arrived by helicopter on the dam itself.

We had a wonderful turnout for the annual volunteer appreciation dinner held here at the Frontier Senior Center on Monday, July 28. More than 160 volunteers were invited to attend the dinner and receive an award certificate for all of the hours of service that each person contributed during the past year.

Your July 30, 2008, editorial, “Schools turning out defective products,” certainly addresses an important issue that your readers should consider. But they deserve the whole story.

Law enforcement: June 30 - July 6, 2008

Why are there schools? This seems like a foolish question to any thinking adult because the answer is so obvious.
However, I have heard different answers from former students and others.
Too many young people would say, as one of my students did one day, “To be with my friends.” To her and others like her, school was just a social gathering.

My original thought was to launch this article stating you should have an official or unofficial chain of command, but I rescind that idea.
In my opinion, every business must have an official written chain of command in place. Chain of command, organizational hierarchy, responsibility ladder or corporate structure — the terms and phrases all mean the same thing and every organization has one.

My plan was to get us out of the heavy air created by North State fires burning for more than a month. So, my two grandsons and I headed west. Two years ago, I had promised the boys a camping trip, but it was put off for one reason or the other.

As any forester knows, there is little if any time to spare when it comes to harvesting trees damaged by wild fire.
John Sessions, a leading expert on salvage logging and a forestry professor at Oregon State University, argued that point in January 2004 after studying the 2002 Biscuit blaze that charred nearly 500,000 acres of Siskiyou National Forest.

Young Cottonwood residents Charity Groff and Justin Zacharias, both recent graduates of West Valley High School, were selected Tuesday, July 29, as student senators to represent, respectively, California’s 3rd and 34th Senatorial Districts during Sacramento Leadership Experience (SLE).

In the tenth chapter of John’s gospel, Jesus refers to Himself as “the good shepherd” (v. 14). This figure of speech (v. 6) illustrates His care for those who believe in Him for eternal life (v. 28). He said. “I came that they may have life” (v. 10) and “the good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep” (v. 11).

Cottonwood Community Library officials are thanking everyone who has participated in the Holiday Quality Foods Market WOW Point program and shown their support for the library.

His four badly burned paws still snuggly bandaged, “Li’l Smokey,“ an adorable black bear cub rescued earlier this month from a Shasta County wildland fire, is getting a little feisty as his wounds start to heal.

The deadline to file for candidacy for Anderson City Council is Aug. 8, since all incumbents — Phil Burnett, Norma Comnick and Melissa Hunt — have filed for election along with new candidate James Yarbrough.

A walk-a-about that took place last week was attended by 11 community members including three youths. Three areas were chosen by the walkers to see how safe were the routes.