For its first concert of 2024 the Red Scarf Society for the Performing Arts is pleased to present a musical afternoon of ragtime, early jazz and the Great American Song Book with Adam Swanson on Sunday, February 4, 2:00 PM (doors open at 1:30) at St. Mark’s Preservation Hall, 304 […]
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Press Release: Senator Dahle Introduces State of Emergency Tax Exemption Bill
SACRAMENTO – Senator Brian Dahle (R-Bieber) recently introduced SB 927, which excludes settlement payments made in connection with any declared state of emergency from taxable income. When someone loses property to a fire, flood, or other catastrophe and receives a settlement as compensation, from a utility or other private entity, federal and state laws consider […]
SISQFair Theme for 2024 “Country Fair with a Golden Flare”
The 2024 Siskiyou Golden Fair “COUNTRY FAIR WITH A GOLDEN FLARE” will run August 7-11, 2024 in Yreka. YREKA – The 10th District Agricultural Association Board of Directors selected the Siskiyou Golden Fair theme “Country Fair with a Golden Flare” for our August 7-11, 2024 fair. Each year we have […]
Siskiyou Golden Jackpot Moving to Fall 2024
YREKA – The Siskiyou Golden Jackpot Show is changing dates for 2024 and moving to November 1-3, 2024. The Golden Jackpot committee has been busy looking at ways to improve the opportunity for exhibitors to show in Yreka. In recent years, more California fairs have moved their dates back into […]
Press Release: ORGANIZATIONS PETITION THE CA WATER BOARD TO SET PERMANENT INSTREAM FLOW REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SHASTA RIVER, A CRITICAL KLAMATH RIVER TRIBUTARY
Yreka, CA – As the largest dam removal project in history unfolds on the Klamath River, conservation and social justice organizations filed a legal petition seeking a permanent instream flow requirement for the Shasta River, an important Klamath River tributary. “The Shasta River was historically the most productive chinook salmon river […]
Rollercoaster weather shows why California needs better infrastructure for wetter years
Reprint: CalMatters NetworkJanuary 18, 2024 By Dan Walters As California’s traditional season for rain and snow began last fall, meteorologists and hydrologists predicted that the state would probably experience a second year of heavy precipitation. The previous winter had been a record-breaker that strained – and sometimes overwhelmed – California […]
OPINION: Have Americans Become Morally Bankrupt?
Do we even have the token amount of courage to honor our heritage wild horses and respect and protect them, as they so rightly deserve? Is it right that Money (mammon) has become the new God? The manner in which America treats its remaining heritage wild horses (less than 50,000 […]
County Sponsored Showers average cost of $281 per shower for homeless
In a 4-1 outcome. Ray Haupt voting nay, expressed his belief that the payment was just issued and questioned why there was a need for more funding. Haupt also raised concerns about the growing population in Yreka. In response to a lice outbreak, an experimental shower program was implemented with […]
The Magnitude of a Trillion in Time
I used ai to smooth out the kinksI wanted to explore numbers to time, since what is time? So I did what a lot of us do, a search of the internet. One of my first reads was an editorial written by a lady in Seattle in 1986 to The […]
PROPOSED EMERGENCY RULEMAKING: Establishment Order Authority in the Scott River and Shasta River Watersheds (Emergency Regulation)
Required Notice of Proposed Emergency Action The regulation would allow the Board to issue curtailment orders to junior water rights holders if needed to maintain the emergency minimum flows. It establishes priority groups for curtailments, first targeting post-adjudication water rights. Exceptions would be made for non-consumptive use and to meet […]