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The annual Snow Goose Festival begins tomorrow and it’s attracting visitors from well beyond the North State. Also, Shasta County’s Registrar of Voters said the county will today begin checking all election equipment, ballot counting and recording procedures ahead of the primary election, and more than 350,000 Californians get fire insurance through the California FAIR Plan. That means the number of policyholders has almost tripled in the last five years.
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One neighborhood in Paradise joined the “Firewise USA” program last year. This year, 20 new neighborhoods are expected.
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The Paradise Town Council will let Camp Fire survivors live on their properties for another year without rebuilding. Some survivors are only now beginning to return, in trailers. Also, the California State University and California Faculty Association reached a tentative deal last night after professors, lecturers and other staff walked out on the first day of classes on all 23 CSU campuses yesterday, and the National Weather Service has lifted flood watches for the North State and the next storm isn’t expect to raise flood risk.
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In rural Butte County, wildfire survivors who moved into RVs after their homes burned down face a deadline to rebuild or relocate. But affordable housing is hard to find in the burn scar. Also, the election results for the controversial Tuscan Water District were certified this week with the proposal winning approval, and the Butte County Sheriff’s Office is having trouble filling open corrections positions. To remedy this, the department is offering $10,000 and $30,000 bonuses for new recruits.
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A new early warning siren system in Paradise to help people evacuate during wildfires is scheduled to be completed next month. It was one of the town’s top priorities following the 2018 Camp Fire. But after officials in Hawaii decided not to sound their sirens during recent wildfires there, NSPR’s Jamie Jiang wondered how Paradise’s siren system will work in a future emergency.
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Show Love Thrift was forced to relocate Friday after the Chico City Council approved a new cannabis dispensary earlier this year. Also, many survivors of the 2018 Camp Fire have been watching the news of wildfires in Maui with a sense of disbelief, and Chico State says for $20 you can pick as many peaches as you want Wednesday at the University Farm.
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Health officials are warning that the concerning veterinary tranquilizer xylazine is being used to lace street drugs in Butte County. Also, the U.S. Forest Service says lightning strikes over the weekend led to at least two new fire starts in the Klamath National Forest, and northern California is expected to see limited impacts from Hurricane Hilary.
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Chico State’s new president Stephen Perez discusses his goals for the university with NSPR ahead of his Fall Convocation speech yesterday. Also, concerns of a bomb threat at Paradise High put the school on lockdown on the first day back, and the Yurok Tribe’s 59th annual Klamath Salmon Festival takes place tomorrow.
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The Chico City Council voted to approve another year of ice skating in the city’s downtown plaza. Also, property owners in Paradise now have one less bill to worry about after Cal Fire awarded the town nearly $2.5 million to help remove hazardous trees after the Camp Fire, and a Caldor Fire survivor is helping others in the burn scar file claims for damages against the federal government.
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The town of Paradise conducted the first test of its new emergency evacuation siren system Thursday. NSPR sent reporters to different locations throughout the Ridge to gauge who heard the siren test and who didn’t.