
Annelise Pierce
Managing Editor and Community Reporter at Shasta Scout
Articles
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1 week ago |
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shasta County’s legal counsel, Joseph Larmour, took security matters into his own hands yesterday when he approached a public commenter at the chamber dais, pulling the microphone away from their face to prevent their comment from being heard. Larmour was assisting Board Chair Kevin Crye, who repeatedly interrupted the speaker before instructing the clerk of the board to cut the speaker’s microphone. The clerk didn’t.
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1 week ago |
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... This is a developing story. Assistant Shasta County Registrar of Voters Joanna Francescut has worked for the Shasta County Election Office for seventeen years. Today, Francescut was terminated by Clint Curtis, a newly appointed Registrar of Voters who’s never before run an election office. This is his fifth day on the job. Francescut said she learned of her termination this afternoon, May 27. It’s effective as of end of day today.
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1 week ago |
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In February of this year, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 to give former Orange County (OC) treasurer Chriss Street a short-term role as a healthcare consultant. The board’s vote stipulated that Street, who’s now a Shasta County resident, would be paid up to $40,000 for a six-month project to assess how best to address Shasta County’s severe lack of healthcare providers and relatively high rates of premature death.
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2 weeks ago |
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shasta County’s new Registrar of Voters (ROV), Clint Curtis, has been on the job for only four days. Curtis is a former software engineer and attorney who’s never lived in Shasta County or held a role in election management until he was appointed by Shasta County Supervisors last week after two other ROV’s stepped down mid-term.
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2 weeks ago |
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Tenessa Audette was the only Council member to join City Manager Barry Tippin in support of a riverfront concept that would allow part of Highway 44 to be transformed into a city boulevard. In contrast, Council member Dr. Paul Dhanuka called the idea a “pipe dream,” reiterating his complete opposition.
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