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The North State’s 4th of July Fireworks Light up the Night…The North State is gearing up for a dazzling array of fireworks shows that promise to light up the skiesRead More

Saving the Bees with SisQ Bee Club…Bees have a remarkable sense of community and cooperation. “They’re what’s known as a super organism, which means that one bee by itself won’tRead More

Plantable Nursery & Cafe Plants Seeds of Transformation…In Scotland, Kirkwood and Donna Hale fell in love with the United Kingdom version of a garden center that combines a nursery andRead More

The Beauty and the Benefits of the Sacramento River Trail…Talk with enough people on the Sacramento River Trail, and you hear the same words of wonder, of admiration and reasonsRead More

On the Range with the Wild Horse Fire Brigade…William Simpson II has had multiple careers as a pilot, Merchant Marine officer, and commercial fisherman. Now, at 71, with his ownRead More

Locally Sown at Tiffany Devault’s Kindred Garden“Locally sown to be locally grown” says the Kindred Gardens website, a family-owned plant nursery that operates on about a quarter acre in Weed.Read More

Rudy’s Boysen Berry Farm…With a maiden name of Boysen, Jeanette “Nettie” Boysen Fitzgerald knew she had a connection to the boysenberry plant via her grandfather, Rudy Boysen, who developed itRead More

Rebuilding Whiskeytown Environmental School…Between 1970 and 2018, some 134,000 fifth- and sixth-graders got to splash in Clear Creek, hike, camp overnight, marvel at star-filled skies and learn about the naturalRead More

Dan Greaney’s Bird Words Book…What Dan Greaney doesn’t know about birds could probably fit in a sparrow’s beak. Much of what he does know is featured in his recently published book, “BirdWords,”Read More

Hit the Trail for the Bigfoot Adventure Challenge…It’s gotta be the socks.How else to explain why nearly 400 people entered last year’s Bigfoot Adventure Challenge last year, completing some 3,050Read More

Know Your Farmer in Siskiyou County…The tagline on the Siskiyou County Cattlewomen’s website is “Top Beef from the Top of the State.” And if you ask a few of theRead More

The Mustang Project…In 1999, Tracy Mohr adopted her first wild mustang. She had grown up with horses, but all of them had been tamed. When Mohr ended up in NorthernRead More

Quinten DeJong Specializes in Personal Training for Race Car Drivers…Decades before NASCAR was born in 1948, there was dirt track racing. Started before World War I, but growing in theRead More

Camp Cinder Helps Integrate Women Into the Fire Service…When Katie Mason went out to find a summer job in her hometown of Yreka, her stepmother encouraged her to apply toRead More

Downtown Redding’s Bike Depot…Can you envision Redding transformed into a cyclist’s haven, linked to a network of trails that provide safe, easy access to your job downtown? You could rideRead More

Girls on the Run…At a regional park on a warm spring day, hundreds of girls of all ages are pumping themselves up to run a 5K. For many, this isRead More

Forging the Sacramento River from Mount Shasta to the Golden Gate Bridge…“When you find a good adventure buddy, it’s like hitting the jackpot,” says outdoor enthusiast and paddler Ari Kosel.Read More

Reaching New Heights with Shasta Mountain Guides…In 1856, the Shasta Courier proclaimed: “September 16, the famous mountain Shasta Butte was ascended by a party of ladies, where they celebrated theRead More

Shasta View Lodge in McCloud…A fairytale mountain wedding requires the perfect blend of seclusion, serenity and scenery, and the newly renovated Shasta View Lodge in McCloud offers all of itRead More

Rockside Ranch in Etna…“Restoration is the process of restoring what once was. And so, when I think of life restoration, I think things were going in a good direction andRead More