An important election will take place this June to decide who will serve as Shasta County's Registrar of Voters for the next four years. Clint Curtis, the current Shasta County Registrar of Voters (ROV), was appointed on April 30, 2025, by the Board of Supervisors after the retirement of Thomas Toller (who only held the position for approximately 10 months). Before Toller, ROV Cathy Darling Allen held the position for two decades and retired, citing health issues related to job stress. Until Curtis's appointment, citizen election observers were treated poorly, kept behind metal fences and other barriers, and unable to observe the election process meaningfully. Dozens of citizen election observers repeatedly expressed their dissatisfaction with how the elections were being run at Board of Supervisors meetings and signed affidavits about these problems.

In a stunning disclosure that is already sending shockwaves through Shasta County, former Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones has revealed that Sheriff Michael Johnson quietly retired from CalPERS in 2022 — right in the middle of his re-election year — and began collecting a full pension while continuing to draw his entire county salary as an elected official.

Have you ever made careful plans—only to watch them crumble? Maybe a job fell through, a relationship ended, or health news arrived that left you reeling. In moments like these, the words of Scripture become an anchor for the soul. The Lord declares in Jeremiah 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

In a stunning disclosure that is already sending shockwaves through Shasta County, former Shasta County Supervisor Patrick Jones has revealed that Sheriff Michael Johnson quietly retired from CalPERS in 2022 — right in the middle of his re-election year — and began collecting a full pension while continuing to draw his entire county salary as an elected official.