Category: Crescent City
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This and That
Opinion Piece By Donna Westfall – June 12, 2021 We paid $3.19/gal to gas up our truck in Brookings, Oregon on Friday, June 11th. The Patriot station in Crescent City was $4.29/gal. Someone suggested we make Del Norte County an Enterprise Zone. What does that even mean? An enterprise zone is a geographic area that has been…
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Chief Gillespie to speak at Republican Women’s meeting today
By Donna Westfall – June 3, 2021 The Fire District Tax has been in the news with pros and cons of adding $74/year to property owner’s tax bill for single family owners. BUT, one of the biggest controversies has been about the multi-family apartment owners having their bill capped at $1,000/year. If you think this…
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FRIVOLOUS SPENDING OF MEASURE S TAX FUNDS
By Linda Sutter – May 6, 2021 In the Del Norte Triplicate dated April 30, 2021 an article by Knox Keranen revealed how the oversight committee of former City Council Members Heidi Kime and Kelly Schellong, plan to spend your money. And the Categories are: Police who will receive approximately $1,646, 885 over 5 years.…
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Reflections on the Life and Death of Bernie Madoff – Master of the Ponzi Scheme
By Donna Westfall , Opinion Piece- April 25, 2021 Bernie Madoff is dead at 82 Quick recap. He swindled investors out of billions of dollars. How many billions? About $65 billion but that includes fake profits. How he did it for so many years is a mystery since the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) investigated…
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The City of Dixon is not that different from Crescent City/Del Norte County
By Michael Ceremello – April 23, 2021 We are at yet another crossroads in Dixon. I am not speaking of smaller issues but of general long established concepts. Many are questioning whether this is the same America we grew up in. Considering that relinquishment of freedom is much the same as putting up with taxation,…
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Should City and County Consolidate?
By Jeff McCaddon Copyright Jeff McCaddon, March 26th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. Consolidation of City and County governments is not a new or extremist idea; such mergers have been done throughout the United States, and in many other Countries. Our own California State Capitol of Sacramento consolidated with Sacramento County in 1974. Such government mergers…
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Crescent City: Decaying, Deteriorating Downtown…Is it doomed to perpetual mediocrity?
By Roger Gitlin – April 2, 2021 As a City resident and retired County supervisor, I have long-lobeyed for a renaissance of our downtown community and District 1 downtown which I represented. My pleas for beautification through programs like Pride in Community and Take a Bite out of Blight, attracting hundreds of phenomenal volunteers has…
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Boston Tea Party
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 25, 2021 – picture credit to history.com I suspect that men like Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, and William Molineuxwould be appalled by what is happening in this country today. Don’tknow who they are? On December 16. 1773, these three men and aboutsixty others moved from a meeting…
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Government overreach harming our economy?
By Donna Westfall – March 20, 2021 Let me tell you a story about a man named Rusty. He and his family and friends have been vacationing in Crescent City at Shoreline RV Park for a month to six weeks for over 30 years. Several stays as long as two to three months. In the…
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Drug Sales with Loaded Firearm Arrest 3-15-2021
On 3-15-2021 at about 1740 hours Officers from the Crescent City Police Department (CCPD) responded to 665 L Street for a report of known female subject with a firearm. Management on scene had called for assistance in removal of the subject known as “Natalie” who was not a resident and was reportedly selling drugs in…