Halloween

Host Jennifer Jewell had the great joy of visiting Wild Dreams Farm & Seed this past summer and is so pleased to welcome Jen Williams to Cultivating Place this week on the seasonal harvest-to-winter transition, life-and-death-and-life-again-cycle celebration day of All Hallows Eve/Samhain.

NSPR spoke with candidates running for the Chico Unified School District school board this fall. They spoke about the topics most important to them and how they would represent families and educators. Today we hear from Teisha Hase who is running for Trustee Area 3. Also, a student filmmaker from Chico details his opportunity to attend one of the biggest film festivals in the world, and Shasta County election officials say they discovered an error in the printing of some ballots.

Decorative sugar skulls, mariachi, tamales, pan dulce, and colorful displays that would make a rainbow jealous, ‘tis the season of Dia de los Muertos.

Shasta County officials continue to debate how ballots will be counted, with a special election coming up in less than a week. Also, Chico is planning to issue more anti-camping enforcement notices to those experiencing homelessness and living in tents or makeshift shelters on sidewalks and other public spaces in the city, and yesterday students from Chico elementary schools had a blast watching pumpkins being thrown off a crane at Chico State’s 34th annual Pumpkin Drop.

The 34th annual Pumpkin Drop took place at the university this afternoon, which is put on by the Society of Physics Students and the Department of Physics.

A nonpartisan coalition of voting rights advocates has requested California’s Secretary of State to oversee Shasta County’s special election next week. Also, a whistleblower has told Shasta Scout that Shasta County’s new public health officer isn’t the person the hiring committee recommended, and there are so few chinook salmon returning to spawn this year that some state biologists worry about extinction.

You may think sign language is beautiful, but do you think it’s necessary? That’s the question artist and activist Valerie Rose is posing to the Chico community in her new “Sign Sign Mural Project” on Park Avenue. Also, Chico State will celebrate Halloween with a smash as it hosts its 34th annual pumpkin drop tomorrow, and California’s Democratic state lawmakers have largely resisted efforts to increase criminal punishments but as retail and car theft surges they’re looking for other ways to crack down.

Halloween is just days away. But a new study out this week might make you think twice before letting your kids dive into their candy.The study from UC San…