Category: Del Norte County
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BREAKING NEWS: District Attorney Dale Trigg Resigns
June 1, 2017 – With no notice, our DA is leaving to move back to Misssouri…TODAY! His letter of resignation says it all:
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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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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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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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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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BREAKING NEWS: Supervisor Lori Cowan Served
By Donna Westfall – May 9, 2017 – During public comment at the Board of Supervisors meeting this morning, Linda Sutter announced that she was serving Supervisor Lori Cowan with a Notice of Intent to Circulate Recall Petition (“Notice”). The reasons given on the Notice that contained 24 signatures: “When a person is elected to the…
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Another successful clean-up
By Donna Westfall – May 8, 2017 – Take a Bite out of Blight has done it again. A resident in the Bertsch Track had a need to have a pile of accumulated materials removed and Roger Gitlin organized a crew. When men, women and children can all work together for a common goal, that…
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It’s time to save our rural schools and communities
By Donna Westfall – May 6, 2017 – On Wednesday, U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA), ranking member of the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, introduced a bill to reauthorize the Secure Rural Schools (SRS) program. Representatives Cathy McMorris Rodgers (WA-05), Jaime Herrera Beutler (WA-03), and Derek Kilmer (WA-06) introduced similar legislation in the House.…
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A True State of Emergency
By Donna Westfall – May 4, 2017 For the last two years we’ve had a horrible crab season, in part, caused by a government shut down, and this year, the government has closed the salmon season. But wait, there’s more. Now Governor Brown wants to increase the landing fees by over 2,500%. Think about it…
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The Brown Act strengthens your 1st Amendment rights – Freedom of Speech
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – April 28, 2017 In 1953 the Ralph M Brown Act became the law in California. Most people believe that it is mainly to prevent mischief by government representatives conducting the business of the government in secret out of the view and control of the public. It seems that there…