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5 days ago | 
shastascout.org | Joe Lanane |Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Clint Curtis, Shasta County’s newly appointed chief elections official, came to the position with no direct management experience in elections and no local roots. He’s licensed as an attorney in New York. Curtis has dabbled in election law but says he’s only won one case. Four days into his appointed tenure, Curtis announced his campaign for the June 2026 election to permanently fill the Registrar of Voters (ROV) office.
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1 week ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shasta County healthcare consultant Chriss Street last worked in a healthcare-related field a quarter-century ago. Nevertheless, a majority of county supervisors believe Street has discovered the key to solving a long-standing and widespread problem: increasing healthcare access in rural regions like Shasta.
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1 week ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An Anderson fire that started this afternoon, June 20, in the area of Happy Valley Road and Amber Ridge Drive is threatening structures. The fire began around 3:15 pm with evacuations ordered for zone AND-7610. An evacuation order means you should leave now. Find your zone here. For those at risk, best sources for urgent information include Watch Duty, and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Facebook page. This is developing coverage. Check back for updates.
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1 week ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A vegetation fire in Cottonwood that started this afternoon, June 19, in the 3900 block of Rancho Estates Road has spread to 40 acres. Evacuations have been ordered in AND-9750 and COT-9660. An evacuation order means you should leave now if you live in an effected zone. Evacuation warning have been issued for zones AND-1800, AND-9590, COT-9710, COT-9720, COT-9730, COT 9740. Find your zone here.
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1 week ago | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli |Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A committee that was formed by the Board of Supervisors late last year, formerly known as the “Youth Prevention Council,” was rechristened to CORE (Community Opioid Response and Education).
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2 weeks ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Community members danced, sang, played music and instruments, brought their children, walked their dogs and occasionally shouted out slogans during a “No Kings” protest in Redding that began at 9 am on June 14. The event was one of more than 2,000 similar protests across the nation today. At least 1,600 people attended the event.
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2 weeks ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis appeared before county supervisors this week during budget hearings. His presentation about the election office’s approximately $5 million budget raised more questions than it answered, but Curtis says he’ll have additional information for supervisors soon.
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2 weeks ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A fire in Anderson that started Friday afternoon, June 13, off the 5500 block of Clement Court in Happy Valley has already prompted evacuations. According to Cal Fire, the Clement Fire was approximately 20 acres as of 2:45 pm and is now burning in the Hawthorne Avenue and China Gulch area of Happy Valley. The fire is threatening multiple structures and evacuations have been ordered for three zones including HAP-7800, HAP-7930 and HAP-7940.
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2 weeks ago | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... “You should donate!”On May 24, newly-appointed Shasta County Clerk and Registrar of Voters (ROV) Clint Curtis suggested a Shasta Scout reporter donate to his campaign. His comment came moments after he told a crowd of about 75 gathered at a private “town hall” at the Redding Library that he needed their money to help him defeat his opponent, Joanna Francescut, next year. At the time, Francescut was his right-hand staffer at the election office.
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3 weeks ago | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli |Annelise Pierce
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... On Tuesday, May 27, the Honorable Judge Benjamin Hanna formally ruled against petitioners Daniel Ladd and Laura Hobbs in Shasta County Superior Court, dismissing the bulk of their case against the Shasta County Election Office. The court found that Ladd and Hobbs complaint largely scrutinized parts of the election process that are up to the discretion of election officials.
