George L. Winship, Editor

Returning to the Shasta District Fair grounds in Anderson after a two-year hiatus in Redding, the 63rd annual Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference and Equipment Show (Feb. 8-11) is getting back to its roots in 2012, said conference President Mark Lathrop. Uncertainty ...

At least two dozen Patriot Guard Riders of Northern California, led by Ride Captain Jeff Nelson, gathered shortly before noon Saturday, Feb. 4, at the Veterans Memorial garden in Anderson River Park. Two by two, with American flags unfurled and ...

Flawlessly smooth vocals are the trademark of Country and Contemporary Christian music legend Collin Raye, who will headline entertainment at the 2012 edition of the Shasta District Fair, set for June 13-17, in Anderson, fair officials announced Thursday, Feb. 2. ...

Fourth-generation rice farmer Doug LaMalfa, 50, of Richvale, currently in the middle of his first four-year term as a California State Senator from District 4, recently announced he is seeking election to the U.S. House of Representatives to replace William ...

Average sale prices and total attendance were both up from previous years as the 71st annual Red Bluff Bull & Gelding Sale drew to a close Sunday at the Tehama District Fair grounds in Red Bluff. All in all, the ...

U.S. Attorney Benjamin B. Wagner of Sacramento was the featured guest speaker at Anderson City Hall Friday, Jan. 27, for an outreach program sponsored jointly by the U.S. Attorney’s Office and The Sikh Centre in Anderson. Wagner is the top ...

While visiting my mother recently in Spokane, Wash., I enjoyed a brief reunion with my fifth-grade teacher. We each enjoyed trading memories and stories that afternoon in the living room and kitchen of a comfortable home that Bruce Anthony, now ...

John Blacklock, Anderson’s new interim city manager, ended his first week on the job by beginning in earnest the process of finding a permanent replacement. “I’ve been hired to work my way out of this job,” Blacklock, 67, said Thursday ...

After 16 years on Anderson’s City Council, Norma Comnick has relinquished the title of Mayor for a third and quite possibly the final time. “It’s been a rewarding time for me to serve as Mayor and I have until the ...

A series of letters details a girls transformation into a US Marine

Marine Corps boot camp transforms girl

Instead of promoting Vice Mayor Melissa Hunt, the Anderson City Council broke with tradition and — on a 3-2 split vote — elected James Yarbrough as its next Mayor on Tuesday, Jan. 3. Debe Hopkins was then unanimously elected Vice ...

Word was received from the Pentagon Tuesday, Jan. 3, that U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Chad R. Regelin, 24, of Anderson was fatally injured about 11:15 a.m. PST Monday, Jan. 2, while serving as a bomb disposal expert in ...

Under current California law, if you live within 1,000 feet of a K-12 public or private school you can legally transport a handgun so long as it is unloaded and in a locked container. Under a bill introduced by State ...

An Open House held Tuesday, Dec. 20, at Anderson City Hall to say farewell to Anderson City Manager Dana Shigley turned into a roast when Assistant City Manager Jeff Kiser began handing out gag gifts from various staff members. “Many ...

Cops reach accord with city

It has taken several years, but the city and property owner are finally making substantial progress on cleaning up the River Cove Mobile Home Park on Claude Lane, just off the Sacramento River in northeast Anderson. All but one mobile ...

The birth of Jesus, the Christ, was prophesied nearly 700 years before it happened by the prophet Isaiah, who ministered in the kingdom of Judah from about 740 years B.C. (Before Christ) to 680 years B.C.

When the owner of The Green Heart, Anderson’s only medical marijuana collective, declined to voluntarily comply with a city zoning ordinance banning such activity, city officials stepped up their code enforcement efforts to force the collective’s closure. “Our Building Inspector, ...

The 200 chairs placed under a large, white tent in case of rain filled well before 3 p.m., start of a program to dedicate and open the Anderson Veterans Walk of Honor on Sunday, Dec. 18. City Councilman James Yarbrough, ...

Shasta Outlets in Anderson will be back in the movie business by Friday, Dec. 23, when the 11-screen complex reopens its doors as Valley 11 Cinemas, Clint Sanborn announced Thursday, Nov. 15. A native of Ely, Nev., Sanborn, 32, is ...

Saturday morning broke crisply with a light dusting of icy frost on windshields and car roofs. But that didn’t deter nearly 350 people from driving to the Northern California Veterans Cemetery to decorate grave markers and memorials with holiday wreaths.

After 11 years working in Anderson’s City Hall and spending the final two years as its chief executive, City Manager Dana Shigley leaves the city with a strong financial footing, a remembrance book filled with happy moments and only a ...

For the third year in a row, President Barack Obama hosted representatives from more than 500 of the nation’s 565 federally recognized tribes during the 2011 Tribal Nations Conference. Attending the Friday, Dec. 2, conference at the Department of Interior ...

Rain or shine, organizers are expecting close to 500 people today at the 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 18, dedication ceremony and ribbon cutting for the Veterans Walk of Honor memorial park in Anderson. The memorial park is located at 1901 ...

Anticipating the federal government’s desire to consolidate health services for Northern California veterans closer to the new Veterans Home, a managed care facility nearing completion on Knighton Road, former State Senator K. Maurice Johannessen announced Friday that he had recently ...

The Anderson City Council unanimously moved forward on naming John S. Blacklock as interim city manager as it searches for a permanent replacement for City Manager Dana Shigley, who is taking a similar position in American Canyon near Vallejo.

A preliminary design was recently approved for the U.S. Air Force Memorial that will someday grace the Northern California Veterans Cemetery in Igo. Sculptor Gideon Carl Turner III of Redding received a green light from the California Department of Veterans ...

Former Anderson resident Matt Horner, 28, recently traveled to Cape Canaveral, Fla., to watch as a favorite work project — the Mars Science Laboratory — blasted off Nov. 26 into deep space atop an Atlas V 541 rocket. A 2002 ...

Except for a brief period in the mid-1990s, the City of Anderson has always maintained its own police dispatch service. But that may change soon as the council was scheduled to discuss Tuesday whether to consolidate such services with SHASCOM, ...

Call me what you will, but I have never been a fan of crowded shopping malls, long lines at cash registers or the crush of customers fighting for the last item of its kind on the shelf. Sure, I understand ...

Santa arrived in Anderson Friday, Nov. 25, promptly at 6 p.m. and just in time to light the community Christmas tree, which was decked with strings of LED lights courtesy of the town’s 14 volunteer firefighters. Cory Cox, president of ...

The City of Anderson lost its first court skirmish Tuesday, Nov. 22, when Shasta County Superior Court Judge Stephen H. Baker, District 3, denied the city’s emergency request for a temporary restraining order to close a medical marijuana collective operating ...

City of Anderson to join Shasta County Air Pollution Control Board

For the fifth time since The Sikh Centre opened in Anderson in April 2007, adherents will gather Nov. 19-20 to celebrate the birth of Sri Guru Nanak Dev Ji, founder of the faith, with various ceremonies, community meals and a ...

Kudos to musical director Nancy Dutton, director John Truitt and choreographers Roni Grandell and Susan Romero, who also served as stage manager, for an outstanding production of “Once Upon a Mattress.” Accompanied by my wife, Kim Chamberlain, I attended the ...

Anderson City Attorney Ann Siprelle has officially notified Joe and Gina Munday, owners of the Green Heart, a medical marijuana collective in Anderson, as well as the property’s landlord, that the collective is now operating in violation of the city’s ...

More than 1,000 Shasta County residents gathered at the Northern California Veterans Cemetery to mark Veterans Day 2011 with solemn dignity and some laughter as Korean War hero-soldier Jack Tolbert recounted some of his service exploits.

Denim and leather were the uniforms of the day when nearly 600 bikers from 22 motorcycling clubs made their annual trek from the Anderson Wal-Mart SuperCenter to Anderson River Park. Newly purchased but still unwrapped toys of all sorts were ...

Federal and state officials visited the Northern California Veterans Cemetery Tuesday, Nov. 8, to present a $900,174 check for construction of 10 more columbaria walls, each containing 200 niches for cremated remains. Construction on the columbaria walls began shortly after ...

Anderson native Richard Alan “Rick” Bosetti, 58, is running in a three-way race, so far, for a seat in the newly redrawn California State Assembly. “I am in the race,” Bosetti told the Valley Post via telephone on Wednesday, Nov. ...

Creating jobs is high on the priority list for Dan Logue, R-Lake Wildwood, who announced Wednesday, Nov. 9, that he is formally seeking re-election to a third term in the California State Assembly, but this time from the new 1st ...

It’s exciting to see work progressing at such a rapid pace at the Veterans Walk of Honor memorial park in downtown Anderson. “The contractor is pouring concrete today and we hope he will be able to pour some more tomorrow, ...

Veterans from all services and conflicts were celebrated and remembered Saturday morning, Nov. 5, with a 94-entry parade along Shasta Dam Boulevard in the City of Shasta Lake.

Hope. It’s what all Vietnam Veterans carried with them during each day of every tour of duty, said combat veteran and sculptor Carl Turner, 64, of Jones Valley, who recently designed an imposing monument titled “Hope” for the Northern California ...

Businessman Gregory Cheadle of Happy Valley is one of three challengers hoping to unseat William Walter “Wally” Herger, Jr., of Chico, in the June 2012 primary election.

During a ceremony last month at the Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, D.C., the USO honored Anderson native Chad R. Regelin, 24, as its Sailor of the Year for 2011.

Ready or not, the holiday season is rapidly approaching with plenty of community events to mark on your already busy calendars.

Anderson’s City Manager for the past two years, Dana Shigley, 48, has accepted a similar job in the City of American Canyon, a suburb of Vallejo in the Napa Valley. Shigley will replace Richard Ramirez, 59, who was originally going ...

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