George L. Winship, Editor

A vacant Anderson building, originally intended for a Kenworth truck dealership in 2008, is drawing some fresh interest from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The South County site is being viewed as a possible replacement for the ...

How far do you think you would get in your career if you informed your boss that you would do 26 percent of your job?Ludicrous! Ridiculous! You would most certainly be laughed out of the room, if you managed to ...

Ben Nematzadeh, chief executive officer of Warner Food Management Inc. in Hawthorne, Calif., is apparently doubling-down on his investment of Jack in the Box franchised restaurants.

Shasta County's incumbent Auditor/Controller since January 2007, 57-year-old Connie Regnell will once again face opposition in her bid for re-election during the June primary.

Representatives of at least three law enforcement agencies conducting a routine parole compliance check Wednesday, March 3, converged shortly after 2 p.m. on an Anderson residence where they found and later arrested two people, Eric Lee Cooley, 43, and Kelli ...

Representatives of at least three law enforcement agencies conducting a routine parole compliance check Wednesday, March 3, converged on an Anderson residence shortly after 2 p.m. where they found and later arrested two people, Eric Lee Cooley, 43, and Kelli ...

Randal Faulkner, 57, of Palo Cedro has declared himself a candidate for the June primary election of Shasta County Auditor-Controller although, as of press deadline, Faulkner had yet to file official paperwork for the position currently held by Connie Regnell, ...

I wasn't prepared to be impressed.Ho hum. Another Winter Olympics, I thought.Wow, was I ever wrong.The last two weeks of NBC telecasts from Vancouver, B.C., Whistler, Cypress Mountain Resort and other venues in and around Vancouver have proven to be ...

Donate a pint of blood Wednesday, March 3, between 4 p.m. and 7 p.m. at the Frontier Senior Center in Anderson and enjoy a free dinner provided by the Anderson Rotary Club. Contact Jay Davis at 356-4042 to sign up ...

Pacheco middle school students in grades four through eight will perform twice this weekend in a madcap musical, "Flapper," set in the 1920s. Both performances are in the Performing Arts Center at Anderson Union High School. Admission is $5 per ...

A narrow vacant lot between the Firehouse Lounge and Allen & Dahl Funeral Chapel in downtown Anderson may soon be home to an open-air veterans memorial honoring service members from World War I to Iraq and Afghanistan, if City Councilman ...

Taking a welcome President's Day District Work break from the 111th Congress as well as the snow and cold rain blanketing Washington, D.C., at this time of year, U.S. Congressman Wally Herger spent the better part of Thursday afternoon, Feb. ...

Daily, it seems, I am reminded of the advancement of old age.I promise to never bore you, dear reader, with descriptions of my own chronic aches and pains.

Due to illness, the Shasta Community Concert Association has rescheduled a performance of America's "singing policeman" Daniel Rodriguez to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, March 8, in the Redding Convention Center. Rodriguez was originally slated to appear Thursday, Feb. 18, but ...

Plain spoken and about as "aw shucks" shy as they come, Oregon logger Mike Pihl, 49, is as unlikely a television star as one might imagine.

Years ago, when my son, Timothy, now 21, was still in grade school, I served Cub Scout Pack 44 in Redding as an Assistant Cub Master and then two years as Cub Master.

Acting on a recommendation from City Attorney Mike Fitzpatrick, four of Anderson's five-member city council unanimously introduced a modification of the city's existing Motel Tax Ordinance to allow the city to place liens on motel properties if the motel is ...

Two strong Republican candidates - Doug LaMalfa of Richvale and Rick Keene of Chico - are competing for the hearts and minds of South County voters in filling the State Senate District 4 seat being vacated by Sam Aanestad of ...

More than 450 people turned out on a rainy Saturday afternoon, Feb. 6, to watch the 94-minute documentary "Food, Inc.," released to theaters last June but not shown publicly until screened at First United Methodist Church.

Anderson residents will soon see another round of construction along North Street as Phase II of the widening project tackles the incomplete west side of the roadway.

When Alaska's former Governor Sarah Palin arrives in Redding on Monday for two speaking engagements during the 61st Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, she will be surrounded and protected by members of Woolf Security and Investigations, Inc., of Anderson.

The south county's potential for growth, fueled in large part by proximity to the Interstate 5 corridor and implied promises of future home sales in The Vineyards of Anderson, has prompted Mercy Medical Center to establish a Patient Services Center ...

Anderson's five-member city council sat through an informative 45-minute budget workshop Tuesday, Jan. 19, at the midway point in the 2009-2010 fiscal year.

Atman Hospitality Group, Inc., doing business in Anderson as the Gaia Anderson Hotel, Restaurant & Spa, recently received word that it had missed its goal of Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council by one point.

As a stage performer, Bobby "Nearly Neil" Bruce is no Diamond in the rough.I caught his Jan. 20 tribute show to the early days of Neil Diamond at the Convention Center in Redding and now I'm a believer.

A successful collision center with a long history in Redding decided to open a second center in Anderson 18 months ago as the local economy was about to tank.

The allegations brought against former Anderson Fire Chief Joe Piccinini by members of his own department have finally been made public, thanks in no small part to a lawsuit brought by the Record Searchlight under the California Public Records Act.

Norma Comnick, 75, will spend half of her fourth term on the Anderson City Council as its Mayor, council members unanimously decided Tuesday, Jan. 5. It will be Comnick's third turn as mayor, previously serving one-year terms in 1998 and ...

From all early reports, the 40th annual Anderson Rotary Club Crab Feed held Saturday, Jan. 9, was another huge success this year despite the well-known conditions of the local, state and national economies.

Just days after the City of Anderson issued a conditional occupancy permit for two homes in The Vineyards at Anderson subdivision, prospective buyers like Frankie Crouse of Redding - one of 17 names on a waiting list - had a ...

Following several postponements to give city planners another chance to chat with store owners and managers at the Shasta Outlets shopping center, the City of Anderson finally held a public hearing Tuesday on a proposed $10 million traffic roundabout that ...

Norma Comnick, 75, will spend half of her fourth term on the Anderson City Council as its Mayor, council members unanimously decided Tuesday, Jan. 5. The council also unanimously elected as its Vice Mayor a relative newcomer, Melissa Hunt, 44, ...

Although careful budgeting and fiscal conservatism has helped Anderson escape many of the worst impacts from the federal and state economic crisis, what happens in 2010 will depend more on what the state does or doesn't do than anything local ...

Like a blank page, the new year 2010 beckons to each of us to shed failures of the past and move toward a more perfect vision of self.

An otherwise unremarkable gift exchange party Tuesday, Dec. 22, turned into an extraordinary surprise for the four children of a Cottonwood family. Inside a large, gift-wrapped appliance box, the Hogan youngsters found a life-sized G.I. Joe, only this time it ...

Because of a fourth-place tie, 11 stories were rated as the South County's Top 10 News Events or Stories by the Valley Post editorial staff. The stories were ranked according to headline play, news value and long-term significance by five ...

Redding police are seeking help from the public in identifying a man who is suspected of using stolen credit cards at three Anderson businesses as well as at two businesses in Redding. If anyone recognizes this person -- a white ...

For the fifth year in a row, Jen and Bart McCurdy of Anderson are preparing to host a community dinner on Christmas Day for anybody and everybody who shows up at the Frontier Senior Center in Anderson.

Hard on the heels of completing the North Street bridge, Anderson's City Council unanimously adopted a resolution authorizing Public Works Director Jeff Kiser to seek bids on Phase II of the street widening project.

Some 700 years before the birth of Jesus, the biblical prophet Isaiah was predicting the coming of a great deliverer, a mighty leader who would be the direct result of God's intervention to save the people of Israel, God's own ...

Nearly 2000 Shasta County residents turned out at noon Saturday, Dec. 12, to decorate more than 900 grave markers and memorials at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery.

Former assistant Shasta County Auditor Larry Fredrickson, now retired, and his wife, Terry, celebrated 50 years of wedded bliss on Saturday, Dec. 12.

Cottonwood resident Pete Stiglich, a U.S. Air Force Colonel (retired) and the Committee to Elect Colonel Pete for Congress recently opened a campaign headquarters at 1510 Hartnell Ave., Suite A, in Redding.

A dedication ceremony was held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 8, in Anderson to mark completion of the nearly $24 million, four-lane North Street/Airport Road bridge across the Sacramento River that replaced an aging and dangerously narrow two-lane structure.

Shasta County Superior Court District 4 Judge Monica Marlow ruled early Monday, Dec. 14, in favor of open public records in a lawsuit filed by the Redding Record Searchlight to obtain a sealed investigator's report from the Anderson Fire Protection ...

A severely injured boy, 7, was taken into protective custody and a Cottonwood woman was arrested Friday, Dec. 11, on suspicion of attempted murder, torture, mayhem and severely abusing the child at a residence on Rhonda Road, Shasta County Sheriff's ...

Clay Walker's many northern California fans won't be feeling lonely much longer as the Country star prepares to headline the 2010 edition of the Shasta District Fair set for June 16-20 in Anderson.

After losing their Bremerton, Wash., home and restaurant to severe winter floods in 2007, Venus and Brian Smith decided a few months ago to move to Anderson for a fresh start.

In a book released for sale Saturday, Dec. 12, Cottonwood author, teacher and parent Jamie Weil shares the story of her daughter, Amanda, who was diagnosed at age 12 with a bipolar disorder.

A severely injured boy, 7, was taken into protective custody and a Cottonwood woman arrested Friday, Dec. 11, on suspicion of torture, mayhem and severely abusing the child at a residence on Rhonda Road, Shasta County Sheriff’s Sgt. Lisa Shearman ...