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Streetalk: Feel safe in Chico?

Asked in downtown Chico. It’s multifactorial. It depends on where I am, the time of day, if I’m with my husband, by myself, if I have my pepper spray. I had transients living in my […]

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor: Oct. 6, 2022

Reader endorsements With inflation at a 40-year high, with 22.4 percent of Chicoans living in poverty and in a state among the highest in expenses in the country, the City Council wants you to pass […]

Best of Chico

Best of Chico 2022

Step right up, ladies and gentlemen! Best of Chico, the Chico News & Review’s greatest show of the year, is back in town! The big tent is pitched, and the annual celebration of the most […]

Best of Chico

Best of Chico 2022: Goods & Services

Ag/Growing Supplies FIRST Place: Northern Star Mills510 Esplanade, 342-7661See Best Feed Store/Farm Supply.SECOND Place: Chico Ag Mart1334 Park Ave, 809-2367THIRD Place: Tractor Supply Co.2475 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy, 897-0669 Antiques Store FIRST Place: […]

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Best of Chico 2022: Food & Drinks

Asian Cuisine FIRST Place: Ginger’s Restaurant2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 100, 345-8862Huge portions of Chinese restaurant standards, served by an attentive staff, make Ginger’s a local go-to spot. Fast and friendly service during the pandemic has […]

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Best of Chico 2022: Nightlife & The Arts

Art Space FIRST Place: 1078 Gallery1710 Park Ave., 630-7522The 1078 Gallery’s community-building efforts seem to have hit full-stride in the post-lockdown era. By partnering at the Park Avenue space with Equilateral Coffee and Harvests & […]

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Best of Chico 2022: Health & Wellness

Acupuncture Clinic FIRST Place: Chico Community Acupuncture1815 Mangrove Ave., 345-5300Open since 2010, Chico Community Acupuncture has been a Best of Chico fixture. It’s a nonprofit and part of a national cooperative, People’s Organization of Community […]

Best of Chico

Best of Chico 2022: Community

Charitable Cause FIRST Place: Butte Humane Society13391 Garner Lane, 343-7917Butte Humane Society has focused on providing humanitarian care to dogs, cats and other animals since 1911. The nonprofit offers a wide variety of services, including […]

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Best of Chico 2022: Editors’ Picks

Best Artistic use of Natural Resources A Midsummer Night’s Dream Staging A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the edge of a meadow at Bidwell Park’s Cedar Grove for the return of Shakespeare in the Park was […]

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Editorial

Editorial: Council ballot moves don’t measure up

City officials got word in mid-August that the federal government would grant $12.4 million to Chico for disaster recovery from the Camp Fire. Those funds, for infrastructure projects, follow $22.1 million in COVID stimulus money […]

Opinions

Streetalk: Best day?

Asked in downtown Chico. Pritam Chakrabortystudent For me, a best day would look like: meeting with people that you really love and having fun with them. And, doing anything that you love. I love to […]

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor: Sept. 1 ,2022

Don’t ignore; help It has been said: “The quality of mercy is not strained” (Shakespeare); “Whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me” and […]

Editorial

Editorial: Being wise with our water

Fire season came early this year. As Howard Hardee details in this issue’s feature story (“The watcher”), North State smoke spotter Ken Jordan took his post in early May—month of the region’s biggest blaze so […]

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Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor: Aug. 4, 2022

No more NIMBY As we all know, Chico has a very checkered past handling our homeless population. Now, and only now, have we made a reasonable attempt to meet the requirements of Warren v. Chico. […]