Orleans

Before the sun had yet started a new day, Karuk Council member Crispen King McAllister began an arduous run that would span over the entirety of the Karuk Ancestral territory. McAllister began the over 230 mile run in Orleans (also known as the village of Panamnik) on March 17 and ran up Highway 96 through the town of Happy Camp. From Happy Camp he continued on to Karuk housing in the town of Yreka. From there he turned around and returned to Orleans on March 21. Read More →

Local food supply-- How to keep it secure and make it healthy—was explored by a dozen projects along the Highway 96 corridor last week in a meeting at Orleans Elementary School. Read More →

Stomachs growled from hunger and excitement in Orleans Friday night at the Panamnik building when a cozy group of fire-minded locals gathered to celebrate the upriver community’s new ‘Firewise’ status. Read More →

This year’s buzz word is “sustainability.” No surprise in this era of oil shortage and job shrinkage, of climate change and street heat from Cairo to Wall Street. Read More →

On Jan. 4, at 10:30 pm Sheriff Deputies assigned to the Hoopa area were dispatched to a reported stabbing near the 37000 block of State Route 96 in Orleans. Read More →

In the 20 years since the present owners bought the Sandy Bar Ranch in Orleans, sport fishing has dwindled so much that the work for 22 local recreational fishing guides has shrunk to two or three still in business. Read More →

Diarrke Vacouba was born in Bourkina Faso into a family of Griots (Gree-ohs), the wandering singer-storytellers of West Africa. His own wanderings have brought him to the United States and this fall to the town of Orleans where he helped accompany an ongoing class of African dance... Read More →

The Mid Klamath Watershed Council runs programs as diverse as fuels reduction, youth education, and fisheries restoration but the busy non-profit has spent the week restoring its own Orleans headquarters. Read More →