If you hang around the downtown Chico bar and restaurant scene at all, you’ll probably recognize Rasheed McNeal. He’s been working at Bella’s Sports Pub and, more recently, at sister restaurant Parkside Tap House, since […]
It’s strange how food can make you feel at home. I recently returned to St. Louis, where I grew up, to visit family. My mom had toasted ravioli waiting for me. A local “delicacy,” it’s […]
When it comes to ensuring there’s enough money to pay faculty and staff, purchase equipment like microscopes and projectors, and keep the lights on in Chico State’s classrooms, Debra Larson is your woman. As provost […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Cal Fire’s Gus Boston is spearheading several forest management projects, including one in Concow. Several things became clear early on during last week’s Wildfire Safety Planning Summit in Paradise. Among […]
Photo by Melissa Daugherty CN&R Managing Editor Meredith J. Cooper at Lookout Point at the tail-end of a long day in Paradise on Nov. 9. In late 2013, my ex-husband and I moved back to […]
Photo by welcomia/iStock Folks in Paradise must apply for a temporary use permit to continue camping without hookups on their properties. The application will be available on makeitparadise.com by week’s end. Cinda Larimer has been […]
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 […]
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 […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Cindi Dunsmoor, Butte County’s emergency services officer, encourages everyone to have a “go bag” filled with essentials in the case of a speedy evacuation. When the Camp Fire ignited nearly […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper As a pyrogeographer, Zeke Lunder is an expert at mapping fires. Forest management has made a lot of headlines of late, what with wildfires growing in intensity and frequency, particularly […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Bernie Sanchez and one of her doggy visitors at Paw Springs Resort, aka her home in Orland. For two decades, Bernie Sanchez worked as a perinatal technician at the Birth […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Laura George started a petition to urge the county to fix Centerville Road, which is one lane in one portion and completely washed out in another. When the Camp Fire […]
Richard Towne builds modular homes for a living. So, while he hadn’t set out to make headlines for being the first person—along with his wife, Kathy—to move into a newly constructed house in the Camp […]
Photo by Meredith J. Cooper Andrew Whelton holds an example of a water meter that melted into its plastic box and other debris during the Camp Fire. Kelly Towne and her family have been staying […]
I’d driven by the new store on Main Street across from Chico Natural Foods a dozen times before I finally stopped to check it out. The sign on the window said “WTS”—and since it looked […]
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