Month: November 2019

Photo by Andre Byik Robert Catalano, president of the Honey Run Covered Bridge Association, says foundation work on the bridge rebuild could begin next spring. As is tradition during Thanksgiving week each year, the Chico […]

Californians have all but adapted to a new normal. In the last four years, the state has experienced 10 of the most destructive wildfires in its history. The Camp Fire destroyed nearly 19,000 structures and […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Kevin Phillips, general manager of Paradise Irrigation District, updated residents on the status of the water in town—half of the lines serving standing homes have been tested; the rest is estimated […]

Photo Andre Byik The Paradise Town Council broke ground last Friday (Nov. 8) on Hope Plaza, a permanent Camp Fire memorial located on town-owned property at Skyway and Foster Road. Backers of the memorial—designs of […]

Without power, David Dewey has trouble sleeping. The 66-year-old uses a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device to help him breathe through the night. The machine plugs into a wall, but during PG&E’s last intentional […]

Last week, print and TV reporters from around the nation parachuted into Butte County for the one-year anniversary of the Camp Fire. It was a bit of media circus. Readers can catch a glimpse of […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Butte Valley neighbors (left to right) Danny Cuneo, Ryann Newman and Gail Tozier are property owners dependent on the Miocene Canal. Gail Tozier has been living without a steady source of […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Paul Gosselin, director of the Butte County Department of Water and Resource Conservation, will instruct work to stop on a pipeline from Paradise to Chico. Chairman Steve Lambert interrupted his colleagues […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Jenna Murray (left) and Kyla Awalt launched the Camp Fire Zone Project in March to help the Ridge rebuild and stay connected. For Kyla Awalt, Paradise has felt like a “small, […]

Photo by Andre Byik PG&E was the target of a group of environmental activists that honored victims of the Camp Fire last Friday (Nov. 1) at Children’s Playground in Chico. More than a dozen environmental […]

Photo by Ken Pordes David Zink leading a group of players in the Norton Buffalo Hall, which was destroyed in the Camp Fire. Just one month after the Camp Fire had destroyed the Norton Buffalo […]

Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Michelle Evans, Enloe’s director of case management (left), and Transitional Skilled Unit Nurse Manager Debbie Strukan stand in a room at the Enloe Rehabilitation Center reserved for patients needing skilled-nursing care. […]

Tomorrow the town burns down. And I’m no more ready for it now than I was the first time. All week up here: remembrances, memorials, commemorations, tributes, groundbreakings, displays. But none of them really touches […]

The weeks leading up to this awful anniversary have been difficult, to say the least. Not nearly as rough as actually going through it, of course, but all the memories have been flooding back. Driving […]

“Just get past Nov. 8.” That’s what I’ve been telling myself for the past month. Amid the buildup of the Camp Fire one-year mark—my anxiety growing with each day lacking rain—that refrain has kept me […]