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Paradise Gleaners provided gifts for more than 1,800 people The Paradise Gleaners helped make the 2020 Ridge Kids Christmas a success by bringing many volunteers together. Posted: Dec 26, 2020 6:03 PM Updated: Dec 26, 2020 7:47 PM Posted By: Lorraine Dechter OROVILLE, Calif. - The Paradise Gleaners gave away more than 1,800 gifts at their annual Christmas giveaway event. The Paradise Gleaners is made up of Camp Fire and Bear Fire survivors. Organizers said they combined the efforts of the 10t...

  Posted12/24/2020 3:00 AM See the best national and international images of 2020 from the photojournalists of the Associated Press A protester carries a U.S. flag upside down as he walks past a burning building in Minneapolis on May 28, 2020, during a protest over the death of George Floyd, a Black man who died after a white Minneapolis police officer pressed a knee into his neck for several minutes. Associated Press Voters mark their ballots at First Presbyterian Church in Stamford, Co...

Tony Toso Tony Toso’s cattle gather at a watering hold after the Detwiler Fire in Mariposa County, Calif., in 2017. During disasters, ranchers need access to their livestock to ensure they are out of harm’s way and have food and water. Growers provide firefighters with detailed access road maps, receive ID cards for use in emergencies. When the Detwiler Fire broke out near his familys ranch in 2017, Tony Toso was home to take defensive action to protect his family ...

Berry Creek Elementary students receive early Christmas gifts Thanks to donations from all over, Berry Creek students were gifted with brand new bikes and a full box of wrapped gifts to try and help make their Christmas a little brighter. Most of the kids have no idea they will be receiving the new gear. Posted: Dec 18, 2020 6:57 PM Posted By: Amy Lanski OROVILLE, Calif. - Thanks to donations from all over, Berry Creek students were gifted with brand new bikes and a full box of wrapped gift...

Noah Berger/AP I got a call recently from one of my oldest friends, a retired rancher in Montana. As iconoclasts go, Ansel set the curve. We became friends during graduate school at the University of Virginia. One time he was delivering a seminar paper on William Faulkner’s narrative techniques when he paused, dug in his thick, black hair and yanked. “Tick,” he announced calmly, before tossing it in a wastebasket and finishing his talk. Later, he explained that he’d been squirrel hunti...