LAPEER The Lapeer County Community Foundation (LCCF) is dedicated to attracting and managing permanently endowed funds serving a wide range of charitable purposes in order to strengthen the quality of life in Lapeer County. As part of the Foundation’s focus on education, it maintains a growing scholarship program. Applications are available at area schools
Thursday, May 20. I’m Laura Newberry, and I’m writing from Los Angeles.
The city of Redding has long been known for its 300-plus days of sunshine each year and proximity to lush hiking trails and alpine lakes.
Now, the Shasta County community has become a political tinderbox. Residents are increasingly divided over the health risks posed by the pandemic, governmental power and the degree to which a local armed militia should be able to take matters into its own hands, write my colleagues Anita Chabria and Hailey Branson-Potts.
Tensions came to a head on May 4 when Carlos Zapata a high-profile militia member and a leader in a movement to recall three Republican Shasta County supervisors who supported Gov. Gavin Newsom’s pandemic health orders allegedly assaulted Black Lives Matter activist Nathan Pinkney at a trendy local restaurant.