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Gloria Steinem: making it all count

Gloria Steinem: making it all count

Commentary: Loss of an icon
Gloria Steinem died at age 92 on Sept. 2. If you’re like me, when someone we loved, admired or deeply respected dies, that momentous news sparks personal memories. Sometimes that review brings realization about how profoundly that person changed lives. My own reflections on how this amazing woman affected me stretch back to the 60s and 70s, when we still …

Public meeting on solar farm plan set

Cenergy Power, the Orange County-based company intending to build an approximately 1,200-acre solar farm off Skyway, will hold a public meeting from 6-7:30 p.m. Sept. 22 at Lakeside Pavilion in Chico.

Cenergy plans to submit its application to the California Energy Commission at the end of the month, circumventing the county permitting process.

Read ChicoSol’s breaking story that explains what we know about North Chico Solar LLC, which was formed by the Orange County-based Cenergy, to construct a solar farm on the 1,700 acres acquired in Butte County.

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