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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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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.
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Feb 12, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Annelise Pierce |Nevin Kallepalli
Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Rain in recent days, compounded by releases from the Shasta Reservoir that were needed to manage heavy inflows from the foothills, have created damaging flood conditions across parts of Shasta County. During the first six days of February alone, even as rains slowed, the Shasta Reservoir rose by 22 feet as water flowed in from surrounding elevations.
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Jan 15, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
“Accountability” was the central theme of a new custody plan presented by Shasta County Sheriff Michael Johnson at yesterday’s Board of Supervisor’s Meeting. The presentation was listed on the Board’s agenda as a discussion of Proposition 36 but Johnson used the opportunity to float the idea of a new “Corrections and Rehabilitation Campus” that would create space for more people to enter Shasta County’s carceral system.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
Farmers in parts of Shasta and Tehama counties have officially entered a new contractual agreement with a party which many in the District view as an existential threat: the federal government. On January 9, the five-member board of the Anderson Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) voted unanimously to opt into a federal Drought Protection Program (DPP).
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Jan 10, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
On January 7, 2024 the sun rose over 848,000 acres of California wilderness that’s been newly protected from the encroachment of industrialists. The land includes the sites of two new national monuments that were just signed into law by President Joe Biden as part of the America the Beautiful initiative. The new monuments federalize Chuckwalla, close to Joshua Tree National Park, as well as the Sátíttla Highlands in California’s far north.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
The traumatic memory of California’s devastating 2022 drought is back on the minds of Shasta County irrigators. Members of the Board of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) told water users a few weeks ago that they’ll decide in January whether to sign a federal Drought Protection Program (DPP) agreement that would reduce ACID’s water rights in “critically dry” years while providing funds for infrastructure improvements.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
The traumatic memory of California’s devastating 2022 drought is back on the minds of Shasta County irrigators. Members of the Board of the Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District (ACID) told water users a few weeks ago that they’ll decide in January whether to sign a federal Drought Protection Program (DPP) agreement that would reduce ACID’s water rights in “critically dry” years while providing funds for infrastructure improvements.
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Jan 4, 2025 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli
On January 1, around 6 pm, two unnamed Shasta County Sheriff’s deputies shot and killed a man after responding to a call at a Redding residence. The victim, identified as 52-year-old William Clark Littlefield, was shot outside of a residence on Bob’s Mountain Road.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
shastascout.org | Nevin Kallepalli |Annelise Pierce
About a month ago, the Shasta County Board of Supervisors held a marathon discussion about opioid settlement fund use that included rapid-fire six-minute pitches by 20 organizations. Now a few select individuals and organizations with an interest in youth prevention will present before the Board tonight, December 19.
