Category: Del Norte County
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Removal of the dams on the Klamath RIver
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – March 16, 2019 – I see by the reporting in the Triplicate and upon reviewing the most recent Board of Supervisors meeting that there is much missing from the rush to remove the dams on the Klamath River, and much more to be concerned about beyond silt issues and their effect on…
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Stop Bird Hunting on the Lake Earl Wildlife Refuge
Opinion Piece and Petition By Randal South – March 9, 2019 – Go to this site to sign petition: https://www.thepetitionsite.com/613/953/649/stop-bird-hunting-on-the-lake-earl-wildlife-refuge/ To be delivered to Jeffrey Stoddard, Program Manager, Charlton H. Bonham, Director, Governor Gavin Newsom, The California State House, The California State Senate. We the undersigned request that California Department of Fish and Wildlife end hunting…
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SACRAMENTO CUTS TIES WITH SPECIAL DISTRICT FAIR BOARD
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – February 28, 2019 – I attended the Special District Fair Board meeting the morning of September 26th. As a reminder, this Special District was created by adding a 1/4 cent sales tax to help keep the Fairgrounds open becauses Sacramento stopped funding for Fairs in 2011. I was shocked…
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Eddie Hughes arrested for murder
By Donna Westfall – February 19, 2019 – Emiley Hughes was reported missing by her grandmother in December, 2018. Her mother reported on February 2nd that she was alive and well and with a boyfriend in Eureka, but the Sheriff’s Department still considered her missing since they had not spoken with her directly. It wasn’t…
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Ending Homelessness
PRESS RELEASE – February 15, 2019 – Beginning in the Fall of 2017, True North’s Local Organizing Committee (LOC) began meeting to search for answers to the critical problem of homelessness in Del Norte County. We hold to the belief that seeing all people, regardless of socio-economic status, as having intrinsic worth and the right…
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$40 million to finalize environmental impact report for Last Chance Grade requested by McGuire, Wood, Huffman and Caltrans
February 8, 2019 – Sacramento, CA – For decades, the residents of Del Norte and Humboldt Counties have been in search of a permanent fix for Highway 101’s Last Chance Grade as it continues to slide into the Pacific. The Last Chance Grade is the lifeblood of Del Norte County’s economy and a catastrophic failure would…
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Robin Hartwick discloses successful homeless program
By Donna Westfall – February 8, 2019 – At the monthly meeting of the Del Norte County Republican Women Federated group luncheon held at the Apple Peddler Reataurant Thursday, February 7th, the guest speaker was Robin Hartwick. She began by telling us she was born and raised in Del Norte County and continues to love…
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Take the school survey!
February 1, 2019 – Want to have some input into the public schools? You can do that by going to this link and submitting your responses. Matter-of-fact, it’s really important that you do this. Go to this link https://www.dnusd.org/about/our_district/lcff-lcap and take their survey. And, they’ll want your email address. Do you know why they are asking for…
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Another clean-up
Submitted by Supervisor First District, Roger Gitlin – January 29, 2019 This morning, 15 Del Norte County jail inmates and eight Del Norte County probationers removed tons of long-standing accumulated trash from a County-owned parcel next to the Wal-Mart parking lot in Crescent City. Take a Bite out of Blight founder Del Norte County District…
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What’s Happening?
By Donna Westfall – January 19, 2019 – Del Norte Triplicate Editor, Robin Fornoff, is in the news for a DUI (driving under the influence – alcohol) . On Friday, January 18th, Fornoff was arrested by the California Highway Patrol. He has since been released. Fornoff, as you may recall from previously published articles, had…