Siskiyou County unemployment up to 9.7% in January 2021
Staff reports
Siskiyou County’s unemployment numbers rose slightly to 9.7% in January, according to revised statistics released today by the state Employment Development Department.
December’s jobless rate was a revised 9.5%, the EDD reported.
Most notably, jobs were lost in the farming industry as well as the mining and logging industries; construction; and the transportation, warehousing and utilities industries.
The unemployment rate in January of 2020 was 8.5%, the EDD reported.
Siskiyou County ranks 44th out of California’s 58 counties. Of a labor force of 16,450, 1,600 were unemployed, according to EDD statistics. Nearby Shasta County is ranked 24th with a jobless rate of 7.9%.
A historic day : Weed strikes deal for water source after years long battle
Mike Meyer
Mt. Shasta Area Newspapers
After years of uncertainty over its source of water, residents of Weed now have a guaranteed supply from the spring the city has been using for more than 100 years. It s a historic day for the City of Weed, said city manager Tim Rundel. We ve now secured water rights needed to provide water to the citizens of Weed indefinitely.
The Weed City Council approved a sale agreement with Crystal Geyser Roxane Thursday night for water rights to two cubic feet-per-second from Beaughan Springs.
Starbucks in Mount Shasta: Coffee joint owner hopes petition will keep it away
Mount Shasta Herald
The owner of a drive-thru coffee joint in Mount Shasta is hoping an online petition that’s garnered more than 1,000 signatures will keep Starbucks from coming to town.
Suzzanne Mendenhall opened The Coffee Brake in the Rite Aid parking lot 20 years ago. Starbucks is eyeing the dilapidated KFC/Taco Bell building, which is almost directly across W. Lake Street from the Coffee Brake.
“Multinational corporations have no place in our rural town – where the residents depend and rely on locally owned businesses,” said Amber Nelson, who created the petition for Mendenhall last week. “The opening of a Starbucks in Mount Shasta opens the door to further undue development. Mount Shasta will lose its essence, making it hardly distinguishable from a chaotic and bustling commercial city.”