Brendan Sloan Clarke Watershed Schoohouse in business since 2024 Watershed Schoolhouse in Chico was inspired by a gap Brendan saw in the standard school curriculum. Place-based education, community-building, personal development […]
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Thomas Harpham Bricks & Minifigs Redding
Thomas Harpham Bricks & Minifigs Redding in business since 2024 Thomas was inspired to start his business by LEGO® lovers of the North State. There was nothing like Bricks & […]
Mike Boyd Has Beans Coffee and Tea Company
Mike Boyd in business since 2022 Has Beans Coffee and Tea Company Retail-Wholesale est. 1976 Mike always loved coffee. A friend gave him a home coffee roaster and from there […]
Jody Bartley Omega Mortgage Group
Jody Bartley Omega Mortgage Group serving Red Bluff since 2003 I learned at an early age that I was good at sales and very good with numbers, so mortgage finance […]
North State Mamapreneurs 2025
North State Mamaprenuers 2025 Each year, North State Parent celebrates the entrepreneurial women of the North State who have integrated their own business or side hustle into the challenging and […]
Regional Women Business Centers: Impact with a Heart
Women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, accounting for 47% of all civilian workers as of March 2025. Despite this and the fact that women have been entering the […]
Mount Shasta Education Foundation: Citizen Collective Provides Vital Support to Local Schools
Funding for schools in California has been steadily decreasing since Proposition 13 took effect in 1978. But recent drastic federal cuts to school funding have had a devastating impact on […]
A More Meaningful Halloween: Teaching Empathy and Compassion Through Costumes and Candy
It’s easy to see Halloween as a blur of plastic pumpkins, costume stress and frantic trick-or-treating. But what if it could also be meaningful? What if Halloween allowed us to […]
Make Friends Like Your Life Depends On It
What if life depended on our relationships? Close positive relationships improve the quality of our lives, our physical and emotional health. These relationships promote healing and allow us to thrive. […]
Harvest Happenings 2025
Harvest Happenings 2025 Autumn is a wonderful time to celebrate the end of summer. All around the North State this month, families can enjoy fall season events and family farms […]
Freewheel Connection—Getting Tehama County Rolling
It is safe to say that, once sparked, you can never extinguish the passion for bikes in a little kid’s or a big kid’s heart. This has been the case […]
Dear Reader
Dear Readers, This month is North State Parent Magazine’s Anniversary month! When I started the magazine, there were very few other publications around and none that circulated widely and were […]
Be The Change — She’om Rose
“Some people,” says She’om Rose, “are guided to go to Mars, create AI or become world leaders. My path is a lot simpler. My part is to anchor the old […]
