I haven’t been able to figure out why the citizens of the South County continue to moan about having nothing to do on the weekends. Just take a look at our weekly events calendar and you can see there are plenty of things to do and see.
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Happy Valley has had its share of sorrow, but the recent tragedy has shaken the small community again. The loss of an entire family in a small community has to disturb everyone, whether or not they personally knew them. Full story »

No matter how you look at it, Shasta County is everybody’s sweet dream. If it’s a bucolic lifestyle you seek, come and get it. Old timers and newcomers know a good thing when they see it and they want to hang on to it. The area’s natural beauty and its relatively low population levels make a winning combination. Full story »

“This is organized chaos,” Barry Espil, principal of West Cottonwood Middle School, informed me as we sat in the back of the seventh-grade science class during my brief tenure as “principal for a day.” Full story »

In two weeks, the Shasta County Planning Commission will make a decision that some say will set the tone and direction for the future of commercial development in the county. If they recommend the proposed Shasta Regional Auto Mall be built, both the land use designations and zoning for about 101 of the 107 acres in the project area will eventually be changed from agricultural to commercial. Full story »

Last week I renewed my appreciation of indoor heating after my newly purchased furnace gave up the ghost. Full story »

The time has arrived for retrospect, realism and resolve. We look back at the year past to sigh relief it's over and glean some learnings from what didn't go as planned. The past year at the Valley Post newspaper has been chock-full of changes, from technology to staff to paper design. Full story »

Time for another great American tradition -- holiday travel. It's inevitable, whether we're headed around the corner to a friend's for a party or across the country's heartland to Grandma. And, we're all trying to reach our destinations over the same few weeks, so airports are jammed, roads fill up and tempers grow short. Full story »