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View Comments State transportation planners want the public’s input on a far-ranging plan to improve and make Highway 273 safer through Redding. To help collect comments, California Department of Transportation officials hosted a public bicycle ride Wednesday evening on part of the 6-mile route where improvements are anticipated on one of the city's main north-south thoroughfares. “We’re here because we, for the first time in Caltrans history, actually have dedicated funding to address our complete streets mobility needs,” said Tamy Quigley, a Caltrans planner. Comment opportunities M...

Local farmer directs America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation to Mountain Home SR High School Agriculture Department Tuesday, May 4, 2021 Mountain Home, ID (April, 2021) – Local farmer Eric Orr recently directed a $2,500 Bayer Fund America’s Farmers Grow Communities donation to Mountain Home Sr High School Agriculture Department. Since 2010, the America’s Farmers programs have awarded more than $59 million to community non-profits, aspiring AG students and public schools across rural America. Farmers are leaders in their communities, which is why America’s Farmers programs rely on th...

Photo by Monique Saenz English Professor Sherman Han was honored for working 40 years at BYU–Hawaii at the annual employee appreciation event, called Ho’omaika’i, which means “to thank” in Hawaiian. It was held on Jan. 28 via Zoom due to COVID-19 restrictions. BYUH honored, celebrated and recognized the years of service provided by employees and presented exemplary employee awards at the event. A part of the Faculty of Arts & Letters, Han said, “I am very grateful to have the opportunity to serve in this great University which has been like a dear family to me. As happy ti...

The artist discusses her use of mirrors and their ‘destabilizing’ effects Evan Moffitt: Mirrors recur throughout your work. What interests you about them? Barbara Bloom: I’m constantly working in both two and three dimensions, back and forth. Mirrors are two-dimensional objects, but they reflect the third dimension. When a person looks at a mirror in an artwork, they see themselves looking at the work. I’m trying to call awareness to the active sense of looking. EM: Is your understanding of active looking informed by modernism, which centres on the way artworks situate the viewer?...

Leadership team at Frederick Fisher and Partners. Photo by Amanda Ortland © Archinect For nearly 30 years, Frederick Fisher and Partners (FF&P) has occupied an enviable position within contemporary architecture as a design practice that takes on diverse and adventurous clients in realms that include residences, artist studios, universities, and other cultural institutions and foundations. The Los Angeles and New York City-based practice was founded in 1981 by Frederick Fisher, the son of an architect who initially resisted pursuing a career in design himself but reconsidered after having rea...