All of a sudden, Chico’s Meriam Park neighborhood has a lot of options for satisfying cravings. Since last summer, Farmers Brewing Co., Savor Ice Cream and Chico’s first cannabis dispensary, Sweet Flower, have joined the […]
Asked in downtown Chico Mitchell Bensonself employed The one I’m doing now. I do building remodels and stuff like that. I’m basically a handyman. [I’d like to expand into] the electronics field, rebuilding circuit boards—electronic […]
Voices against Valley’s Edge Except for the four years I spent attending UC Santa Cruz, I have spent my entire life in Chico. I was born at Enloe Medical Center. As anyone who’s been here […]
If you oppose the proposed Valley’s Edge development, you have until Feb. 11 to add your signature in support of the Save Our Hometown referendum. On Jan. 3, the Chico City Council approved the 1,448-acre […]
With pandemic restrictions and midterm election campaigns behind us, the year ahead feels a bit like a blank slate. What stories will the Chico News & Review tell, and who will be making the news, […]
When Gayle Hutchinson became Chico State president in March 2016, optimism reigned. She made history as the university’s first woman president and the first openly gay president in the CSU system. More than that, she […]
Campground needed We have about 54 openings between the Pallet, Jesus and Torres shelters. We have about 175 people in homeless camps. Do we really want to do more for the homeless? Only if you […]
Asked in downtown Chico. Juliana Mejiabarista To start going to school, finally. I want to go to cosmetology school. I’m hoping that by the new year, I’ll have every thing a little more figured out. […]
What’s the theme of 2022 for Butte County? Maybe it’s recovery. Illness and death of the COVID-19 pandemic greatly diminished early in the year, leading state and local officials to lift most restrictions. People are […]
Don’t fence it in After an unsightly fence popped up around City Plaza in late 2021, the city of Chico and the Downtown Chico Business Association (DCBA) claimed it was necessary to enable construction and […]
As this issue headed to press, results from the November general election remained unofficial, but the final tally indicated who will sit on the Chico City Council the next two years. Tom Van Overbeek joins […]
Chris Hayashida-Knightnonprofit administrator I think getting back out in the world with my family, doing fun things again. We have been to Laxson to three or four different shows; we’ve been down to the Bay […]
Applauding the healers Re: “Rallying around the kids” (Feature, by Ashiah Scharaga, Nov. 3) I have to commend people like Kayden Schroyer and Carrie Dawes, those students and faculty who went through the 2018 Camp […]
Below is a regularly updated list of artists, venues, producers, promoters, owners/employees of arts-connected businesses, and customers/patrons who support a Chico News & Review proposal for an arts-coverage collaboration with North State Public Radio If […]
By Evan Tuchinsky and Ken Smith As Chico City Council candidate Addison Winslow helped with set up at an election night gathering Tuesday (Nov. 8) at Om on the Range downtown—complete with refreshments, live music […]
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