Linda Plumlee struggled to look alert in her economics class. Her teacher was asking whether the students had heard about the recent closure of Silicon Valley Bank. (They had. On TikTok.) Plumlee, a bubbly cheer team captain and student body president at Modoc High School, sipped an iced oat milk caramel macchiato. She was exhausted. And she had to go straight to work — at one of her two jobs — after class that snowy spring day. She was waiting for college acceptance letters. She had a speech competition to prepare for. Homework to catch up on. Scholarship essays to write. And yet another...…Linda Plumlee struggled to look alert in her economics class. Her teacher was asking whether the students had heard about the recent closure of Silicon Valley Bank. (They had. On TikTok.) Plumlee, a bubbly cheer team captain and student body president at Modoc High School, sipped an iced oat milk caramel macchiato. She was exhausted. And she had to go straight to work — at one of her two jobs — after class that snowy spring day. She was waiting for college acceptance letters. She had a speech competition to prepare for. Homework to catch up on. Scholarship essays to write. And yet another...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The mask-clad dog walkers stop and look. So do the kids on bikes. And the joggers. And the couples out for a stroll with a glass of wine. In a leafy Sherman Oaks neighborhood, a little red easel by the curb, with a new watercolor painting every day, has provided something much needed as the formless days of the coronavirus stretch into weeks: something to look forward to.Every morning, artist Kathryn Pitt sets out by her driveway, then goes back inside. It’s contactless art in the age of social distance. She calls it the Passers By...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The mask-clad dog walkers stop and look. So do the kids on bikes. And the joggers. And the couples out for a stroll with a glass of wine. In a leafy Sherman Oaks neighborhood, a little red easel by the curb, with a new watercolor painting every day, has provided something much needed as the formless days of the coronavirus stretch into weeks: something to look forward to.Every morning, artist Kathryn Pitt sets out by her driveway, then goes back inside. It’s contactless art in the age of social distance. She calls it the Passers By...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When two teenagers from the tiny, majority-white Gold Rush town of Angels Camp posted a Facebook flier for a racial justice protest, the threats came immediately. There was a rumor that ultra-left antifa activists were being bused in from the Bay Area and that organizers were being paid $25 an hour. There were comments from people claiming they had “enough bullets” to take protesters down. There were menacing phone calls, including one from a man in nearby Mokelumne Hill who threatened to “burn down Angels Camp.”“At the end of it, he...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When two teenagers from the tiny, majority-white Gold Rush town of Angels Camp posted a Facebook flier for a racial justice protest, the threats came immediately. There was a rumor that ultra-left antifa activists were being bused in from the Bay Area and that organizers were being paid $25 an hour. There were comments from people claiming they had “enough bullets” to take protesters down. There were menacing phone calls, including one from a man in nearby Mokelumne Hill who threatened to “burn down Angels Camp.”“At the end of it, he...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Chase Kirby’s friends kept texting, kept asking him to go. It was early March, just days before the Trinity High School Wolves’ one and only football game of the season after the pandemic lockdown. But Chase, a strapping 6-foot, 210-pounder who had played defensive end and linebacker, wasn’t so sure he wanted to be there. “They’re probably gonna feel bad for me or something,” he said. “I just don’t like that kind of vibe.”For the 18-year-old Chase, football had felt like a ticket to a different life, a future beyond this remote town of 3,100...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Chase Kirby’s friends kept texting, kept asking him to go. It was early March, just days before the Trinity High School Wolves’ one and only football game of the season after the pandemic lockdown. But Chase, a strapping 6-foot, 210-pounder who had played defensive end and linebacker, wasn’t so sure he wanted to be there. “They’re probably gonna feel bad for me or something,” he said. “I just don’t like that kind of vibe.”For the 18-year-old Chase, football had felt like a ticket to a different life, a future beyond this remote town of 3,100...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The legend goes something like this: In 1897, the good people of Eastland, Texas, put a time capsule in the cornerstone of the courthouse being built downtown. In went a Bible, some newspapers, a bottle of whiskey. And a Texas horned lizard. The town grew and grew, and by 1928, it needed a bigger courthouse. The old one was torn down, and a couple of thousand people watched as the marble cornerstone was pried open. To everyone’s astonishment, the dusty critter buried 31 years earlier was still alive. They called him Ol’ Rip, after...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The legend goes something like this: In 1897, the good people of Eastland, Texas, put a time capsule in the cornerstone of the courthouse being built downtown. In went a Bible, some newspapers, a bottle of whiskey. And a Texas horned lizard. The town grew and grew, and by 1928, it needed a bigger courthouse. The old one was torn down, and a couple of thousand people watched as the marble cornerstone was pried open. To everyone’s astonishment, the dusty critter buried 31 years earlier was still alive. They called him Ol’ Rip, after...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The rebellion that took place inside a government building in rural Northern California happened the day before of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump.The Shasta County Board of Supervisors had planned to meet virtually Jan. 5 because of The supervisors’ chambers in Redding were closed. Seats had been removed. The public speakers’ microphone was disabled.But, in protest, a newly elected supervisor unlocked the doors. In poured dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury. Three supervisors attending virtually watched...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement The rebellion that took place inside a government building in rural Northern California happened the day before of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump.The Shasta County Board of Supervisors had planned to meet virtually Jan. 5 because of The supervisors’ chambers in Redding were closed. Seats had been removed. The public speakers’ microphone was disabled.But, in protest, a newly elected supervisor unlocked the doors. In poured dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury. Three supervisors attending virtually watched...WW…

Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The rebellion that took place inside a government building in rural Northern California happened the day before of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump.The Shasta County Board of Supervisors had planned to meet virtually Jan. 5 because of The supervisors’ chambers in Redding were closed. Seats had been removed. The public speakers’ microphone was disabled.But, in protest, a newly elected supervisor unlocked the doors. In poured dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury. Three supervisors attending...…Copyright © 2022, The San Diego Union-Tribune | | AdvertisementAdvertisement The rebellion that took place inside a government building in rural Northern California happened the day before of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Trump.The Shasta County Board of Supervisors had planned to meet virtually Jan. 5 because of The supervisors’ chambers in Redding were closed. Seats had been removed. The public speakers’ microphone was disabled.But, in protest, a newly elected supervisor unlocked the doors. In poured dozens of people, unmasked, to vent their fury. Three supervisors attending...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement They are frontline workers with top-priority access to the COVID-19 vaccine, but they are refusing to take it. At St. Elizabeth Community Hospital in Tehama County, fewer than half of the 700 hospital workers eligible for the vaccine were willing to take the shot when it was first offered. At Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills, one in five frontline nurses and doctors have declined the shot. Roughly 20% to 40% of frontline workers who were offered the vaccine did the same, according to county public health...WW…

Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When Happy Camp Elementary School in rural Northern California started class two weeks ago, it was one of the few in California to reopen classrooms for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abigail Yeager had worried at first whether sending her 6- and 8-year-old sons was the safe thing to do and whether wearing masks “was going to freak them out.” Those fears were quickly relieved. Her sons and other students were thrilled to be back in school, and it seemed like a major victory in Happy Camp, a Siskiyou County town of 800 people...…Copyright © 2022, Los Angeles Times | | | | Advertisement When Happy Camp Elementary School in rural Northern California started class two weeks ago, it was one of the few in California to reopen classrooms for children during the COVID-19 pandemic. Abigail Yeager had worried at first whether sending her 6- and 8-year-old sons was the safe thing to do and whether wearing masks “was going to freak them out.” Those fears were quickly relieved. Her sons and other students were thrilled to be back in school, and it seemed like a major victory in Happy Camp, a Siskiyou County town of 800 people...WW…