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  • Searching for knowledge by uncovering the past

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    Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 19, 2016 – So often as we enter the holiday season we are inundated with requests for some form of charity from groups near and far.  Very often we are hesitant, not knowing exactly how that donation is to be spent and whether or not “good works” will come…

  • THE DNSWMA to raise rates?

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    Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 18, 2016 Once again garbage rates are a topic of conversation in Del Norte County thanks our beloved State, and the fetish that our local Solid Waste staff and current Solid Waste commission have for recycling..  I don’t know how many times it has to be said that…

  • Guess who retired?

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    Among friends, co-workers, advertisers and other business people, Rene Shanle-Hutzell, radio station manager of KCRE FM, had a big send off Tuesday night, November 15th, to start her retirement. Connie Hannan McDonald said, “Thank you for working with me and my businesses over the last 20 years.” We wish Rene a happy retirement!

  • Suggestions needed on feeding the hungry and not wasting fresh food

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    By Donna Westfall – November 16, 2016 – Do you hate waste, particularly when it involves fresh produce that could be used to feed people.  We have a dilemma in this town.  It’s not a big problem.  It’s just that when Rural Human Services (RHS) has too much fresh produce, sometimes it goes to waste.…

  • ROAD CLOSURE

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    Road Closure Continues on Cooper Ave. Use of alternate routes necessary November 15, 2016: A drainage issue on Cooper Ave. between Hwy 101 and J Street has the road closed until further notice. City crews are working diligently to resolve the problem but it is expected that it may take several days. Plan on using…

  • California’s new pot laws

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    By Donna Westfall – Naovember 15, 2016 – Can anybody now go into a dispensary and buy pot? The answer is, “NO.” What?  But Prop 64 passed legalizing recreational sales. California, Massachusettes and Nevada all legalized marijuana on Tuesday, November 8th, joining 4 states that already legalized it: Alaska, Colorado, Oregon and Washington. What happens next?…

  • Understand Prop’s 62 and 66 as it relates to the death penalty

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    By Donna Westfall – November 15, 2016 – The Death Penalty propositions. In Prop 62, it asked the voters to repeal the death penalty.  California is one of 30 states in the union that has the death penalty. There are currently more than 750 death row prisoners and over 20 that have exhausted their appeals.…

  • Welcome New Deputy, Tobias Chittock

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    From the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office Facebook Page – October 25, 2016 – The Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office would like to introduce Deputy Tobias Chittock to the community. Deputy Chittock was born and raised in Del Norte County and graduated from Del Norte High School in 2004. Deputy Chittock was a local law…

  • Post election thoughts

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    Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 15, 2016 -While it didn’t come to me immediately, there is something about this election that should strike a cord for us here locally that is so often missing when it comes to Federal, State and local governance.  It has for sometime been a given that California as…

  • Fornoff chooses to print vile letter to editor

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    Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – November 14, 2016 – It seems that in spite of the General Election having come to its glorious conclusion nearly a week ago we are still being inundated with a continual barrage of sour grapes expressed both on TV and in the print media.  One would think that adult citizens…