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ChicoSol·Oct 16·By Chris Hutton

Academic Senate discusses Mechoopda plan for Mansion site

Chico State's Academic Senate discussed the Mechoopda Tribe's proposal to return Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park to tribal ownership and replace the mansion destroyed by arson with a Maidu village educational site.

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ChicoSol·Oct 16·By Chris Hutton

Academic Senate discusses Mechoopda plan for Mansion site

Charred. Fractured. Contested. The Bidwell Mansion’s bones have ignited a discussion on whose history to honor. Across the creek from the state historic park, a group of educators and students sat around a table shaped like an elongated horseshoe and discussed whether to endorse the Mechoopda Tribe of Chico…

ChicoSol·Oct 15·By Lindajoy Fenley and Patrice Berry

Sunny’s Podcast: Oct. 10-14

“Operation Safe California” lands a Chico construction worker in a detention center; CUSD Trustee Eileen Robinson steps down after serving 16 years on the Board of Education; a local geographer calls for airline service in Chico.

ChicoSol·Oct 15·By admin and Chris Hutton

At a volatile meeting, the water board doesn’t budge

The Vina Groundwater Sustainability Agency (Vina GSA) voted 3-2 — for the second time — not to raise its plan’s regulatory threshold amid a wave of public scrutiny. For months, people who rely on groundwater from the Vina Subbasin have publicly shown disapproval of the board direction on this issue.

ChicoSol·Oct 14·By Lindajoy Fenley and Leslie Layton

ICE detiene un trabajador de la construcción

Read this story in English here. Un residente de Chico, originario de Honduras, detenido por el ICE la mañana del 9 de octubre, está a la espera de ser deportado en el Centro de Procesamiento de Inmigración de California City en el condado de Kern, según informaron fuentes a ChicoSol. Cuando el inmigrante de 26 ...

ChicoSol·Oct 14

Vina GSA board meets today; plan reconsideration on agenda

The Vina Groundwater Sustainability Agency’s management plan is under review, and some of the parameters for groundwater management are a point of contention. Some Chico residents want a more cautious plan — one they believe would better protect the aquifer in drought conditions, for example.

ChicoSol·Oct 14·By Chris Hutton

Domestic well owners fear losing water under current plan

It was 2021 when Marianne Paiva’s domestic well on her 80-acre almond farm began pulling sand instead of water. The farm, and her home, ran solely on groundwater, and when the sand came up, water didn’t flow to the shower or almond trees. It was the second year of a statewide drought that forced communities ...

ChicoSol·Oct 13·By Katherine Kihiczak

Chicoans take groundwater concerns to City Council

The Vina Groundwater Sustainability Agency’s management plan is under review, and some of the parameters for groundwater management are a point of contention. Some Chico residents want a more cautious plan — one they believe would better protect the aquifer in drought conditions, for example.

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