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Christine Sesnon is 66 and does not want to retire. She wants a job. “I want to be a part of a team, I want to work,” the Butte County, California, woman told Action News Now reporter Bella Barbosa in an August report from Chico. In the station’s video, she adds that she can work weekends and nights. The trouble started when she was laid off from a job she had held for more than two decades. Now she is back on the job hunt. “I’ve done some looking for work online for remote jobs across the country, I’ve been ghosted on those,” Sesnon said. She was careful not to overstate it. “I’m not saying that I’ve applied to five jobs a week,” she told the station, “but I am saying that the jobs that I’ve applied for on a regular basis, I’m getting rejections from, and this is concerning.” She says she is not the only one. According to Action News Now , Sesnon has watched friends in their 60s, people with years of experience and education, struggle to get hired too. “They’re door dashing,” she said. “They can’t find jobs, it’s absurd. It’s just bizarre.” All of those
Pacific Power has requested a rate increase of 57% next year in Northern California, an unprecedented price hike in the region and more than triple what regulators approved in 2023. The proposed rate would add around $120 to customers’ monthly bills, according to Pacific Power. The PacifiCorp-owned company said...
Correction: The announcement of no reportable action and direction to staff at the Susanville City Council’s Nov. 12 closes session meeting was made by Acting city Manager Chandra Jabbs, not by Mayor Mendy Schuster as we originally reported. This story has been corrected. LassenNews regrets the error. Facebook keyboard...
Need cheap rent somewhere in California that won’t drain your bank account?. These 10 towns offer small town living and prices that still make sense today. Red Bluff rests along the banks of the Sacramento River, tucked into the northern reaches of the state far from pricey coastal zip codes.
“If you remember back in the summer of 2024 … there was like seven or eight of us who said, ‘What if we chose a specific goal?’”. Supervisor Matt Plummer shared those words Tuesday, in front of a monthly meeting of the Shasta County Advisory Board of the NorCal Continuum of Care, a planning body that serves the homeless and spans seven counties. He was talking about the board’s decision last year to adopt a strategic plan known in nonprofit circles as “functional zero,” and the efforts that have been made under that plan since.
Publisher’s note: According to the numbers posted by the Lassen County Clerk on Nov. 9, Measure Y, the Lassen High School bond measure, remains just short of passage by a 55 percent majority with 3,836 yes votes and 3,245 no votes — less than 100 votes short. Last...
