COVID-19
Kill it with the chorus
Sing a 20-second tune as you wash away viruses. […]
Year: 2020
Camp Fire
Message from Paradise
The film starts 50 years after Nov. 8, 2018, the day the town of Paradise was leveled by the Camp Fire. The narrator harkens back to the time before blaze, when residents lived in isolation […]
Camp Fire
Stuck in survival mode
Juliette Chestang came back home to the Ridge in 2017. She’d been away for about 15 years, but after a long-term relationship didn’t work out, she turned to family for stability. She rented a room […]
COVID-19
Going viral
Though novel coronavirus has doctors and public health officials alerted, other diseases—namely, influenza—pose a higher risk. […]
COVID-19
Preparations
Exercising extra caution when it comes to coronavirus. […]
Camp Fire
Returning in style
Frank Nunes evacuated Paradise the morning of Nov. 8, 2018. It was raining fire outside his barbershop and Nunes—aka Frank the Barber—told his wife, Nilene, it was time to close up and get out. The […]
Camp Fire
Grant funds food truck
Funded by a Camp Fire relief grant to combat hunger, the Butte County Office of Education (BCOE) unveiled its mobile teaching kitchen Tuesday (Feb. 25) in Oroville. BCOE will use the truck to deliver fresh […]
Camp Fire
$23 million for Paradise housing
Town of Paradise officials learned Monday (Feb. 24) that the municipality received a $23 million housing grant from the state to aid low-income residents. The CalHome funds, from the Department of Housing and Community Development, […]
Camp Fire
Homecoming
Vince and Kristina Clarkson firmly believe in destiny, that things happen for a reason. Seven years ago, a decade into a satisfying career as a helicopter machine gunner in the Marine Corps, Vince answered the […]
Camp Fire
‘All about Paradise’
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Nicki Jones opened Nic’s restaurant after the Camp Fire to create a comfortable gathering place for survivors. After the Camp Fire, it never occurred to Nicki Jones that she wouldn’t return […]
Camp Fire
Starting over
Ridge business owners have had to do some serious soul-searching post-Camp Fire. For those whose enterprises were lost or damaged in the mega blaze, among the biggest decisions has been whether to re-establish in the […]
Camp Fire
Disaster response continues
CN&R File photo City park reservation fees—for events like the Chico Bicycle Music Festival in Cedar Grove—are slated to increase significantly for the first time in 27 years. It has been 15 months since the […]
COVID-19
How to respond to coronavirus
Do’s and don’ts for the American public. […]
Camp Fire
Tree removal deadline pushed
Property owners in the Camp Fire burn scar now have until Feb. 21 to submit right-of-entry or inspection access forms to ensure burned trees that threaten to fall on public rights-of-way will be or have […]
Camp Fire
Shared vision
Photo by Ashiah Scharaga Shelby Boston, director of the Butte County Department of Employment and Social Services, and Scott Kennelly, interim director of Butte County Behavioral Health, say the goal of the new Community Services […]