Author: nick
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A recap of the Scott Feller Witch Hunt
By Samuel Strait – May 24, 2017 It looks like the Triplicate and its editor Robin Fornoff have finally felt that they have milked the Scott Feller witch hunt in Crescent City of 2017 for all its worth and are moving on to the mundane and their normal course of fare that is boring us…
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King Howard
By Linda Sutter – May 24, 2017 – In the 15th Century King Henry the VIII would commonly chop off your head, or hang you till nearly dead, then chop off your head, then drawn and quartered you to disperse where ever they saw fit. Today, Chairman Chris Howard of the Board of Supervisors, can’t…
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Positive changes at Jedediah Smith Square
By Donna Westfall – May 24, 2017 – “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi The Jedediah Smith Center is most commonly referred to as the Safeway Shopping Center. Plagued with controversy over the last 4 years for a variety of claims including shopping…
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When Judge Follett leaves (Thank God) who will run?
Opinion Piece by Donna Westfall – May 22, 2017 – Calls of recall and resignation resound as a result of the wildly unpopular sentence Judge Follett gave Nolan Bruder (20 year old who drugged and raped his 16 year old sister). It became national news and put Crescent City on the map for another disaster…
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Norovirus, learn it’s symptoms
By Donna Westfall – May 21, 2017 – If you experience any type of nausea, vomiting, stomach pain/cramps, watery or loose diarrhea. malaise. low-grade fever with muscle pain you may be infected with the norovirus. The symptoms can last from 1 to 2 days. Since there’s currently an epidemic in YOLO County that has affected nearly 1,000…
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The Coup Against America
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – May 18, 2017 – I have been pondering the situation our American society finds itself in. Most of you in the public probably don’t care about politics. My proof is the continued election and re-election in California of Democrats bent on destroying California as a microcosm of what the…
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People v Bruder
NOTE: May 19, 2017 – Snopes.com has picked up on this case and even credited Crescent City Times with filing this report. May 17, 2017 – The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced that Nolan Bruder (20) of Crescent City was sentenced this afternoon by the Honorable William H. Follett to the low term of…
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Portland French Musician Eric John Kaiser Releases Latest CD locally
Portland based musician, Eric John Kaiser, has carved a unique niche in the Americana scene with his signature blend of songs written in French and English lyrics. An international hybrid, they exude European smokiness and poetry jacked up on pure US-of-A rock energy, with the boldness of hip-hop and tempered sometimes with a reggae lilt.…
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Recidivism – the tendency of a convicted criminal to reoffend.
By Donna Westfall May 15, 2017 – Things you didn’t know or probably forgot about Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP). Built for $277.5 million, it has an annual budget in excess of $190 million. PBSP is located on 275 acres on the North Coast of California, 13 miles from the Oregon/California Border. It was opened for business in…
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FREE BRUSH pick-up
The City of Crescent City picks up brush FREE once a year right around Memorial Day. This year you can start weeding, pruning and sawing AND put all that brush out on the street next to your curb. Don’t bag it. Don’t box it. Just lay it out in the street next to your curb…