Author: nick
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Profit Centers at the Wastewater Treatment Plant?
By Donna Westfall – March 3, 2016 – Are there ways to save ratepayers on their sewer rates? During the 2007 workshops on how the $43.8 million loan was to be repaid, former Public Works Director, Jim Barnts, told us that the laboratory, which cost $2.5 million to build, would pay for itself in 2…
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Serial Killer/Rapist Behind Bars Again
By Donna Westfall – March 1, 2016 She was only 17 years old when she was kidnapped and raped by a serial killer. For the moment, we are keeping her identity anonymous because of current court cases, and so that her family can maintain their privacy. I’ll call her Ava. She’s in her 40’s. A…
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Fluoride is Not an Essential Nutrient
Written in 1999 by now deceased Dr. John Lee The Honorable Arlen Specter U.S. Senate Suite 2031 Federal Building Pittsburgh, PA 15222 8 January 1999 Dear Senator Specter, Thank you for your efforts in prompting Bruce Alberts, PhD, and Kenneth Shine, MD, to respond to the letter by Professor Albert W. Burgstahler, PhD, et al.,…
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Referendum: The Next Step to Stopping Sewer Rate Increases (History Lesson)
Opinion and Commentary Originally Published By Donna Westfall – February 29, 2016. Updated December 27, 2023 due to expected sewer rate increase in 2024. How many people relish the thought of existing on only four hours of sleep a night for 45 days for no pay just to try beating another sewer rate increase? Coordinating…
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DA’s office names Sarah Asbury as Law Enforcement Officer of the Year
The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced today that Crescent City Police Department Officer Sarah Asbury has been awarded the DA’s Law Enforcement Officer of the Year award for 2015. Ms. Asbury will be recognized at the annual awards ceremony to be held at the Crescent City Cultural Center on March 22, 2016 at 5:00…
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Hwy 199/197 Project: Troubling conflicts with Friends of Del Norte?
By Samuel Strait – February 24, 2016 – While it no longer appears to be the task of the local newspaper, The Triplicate, to question anything that is published by the “Environmental Lobby” within its pages, or “Heaven Forbid” have one of its vaunted reporters ask questions about the many troubling conflicts of information supplied…
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Is our planet wrapped in a cocoon of doom?
By Dale Bohling The Waltz Of The Flowers is still like it was when it was composed by Peter Tschaikovsky for his ballet The Nutcracker in 1892. But sadly it is less so in the 21st century world which the flowers, we and the bee occupy. Biologists have voiced alarm over the disappearance of nature’s…
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Sorry
By Guest Columnist, Michael Ceremello – former Vice Mayor/councilman from the City of Dixon. Note by Editor, Donna Westfall. Highlighted is a portion below dealing with “sludge.” Is our city missing out on an opportunity to create a revenue source by our super expensive, white elephant, the wastewater treatment plant? While the names are different,…
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Is the City playing games for a change?
Opinion piece by Donna Westfall – February 16, 2016 – with UPDATE February 18th.- 2,023 protests against the proposed 20% increase to sewer rates were pronounced counted and in her possession by City Clerk, Kymmie Scott, at the Crescent City, City Council meeting held Tuesday night at the Flynn Center. To win, 1,716 valid protests need to…
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Joey Young Found Guilty
Del Norte County District Attorney, Dale Trigg – February 11, 2015 – A Del Norte County jury found Joseph Aaron Young (41) of Crescent City guilty of two felony counts and two misdemeanor counts this afternoon related to an inappropriate intimate relationship he had with a juvenile male who was 17 at the time. Young,…