Category: Del Norte County
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17 Year Old Rapist Facing 34 Years in Prison
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office – June 23, 2016 – The Del Norte County District Attorney announced that a Del Norte County jury returned a guilty verdict of Rape in Concert and found true a special allegation of kidnapping for the purpose of rape against Wilson Lor (17) of Crescent City this…
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Latest Sentencing – Krystal Evans
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s office – June 16, 2016 – The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced that Krystal Starr Evans (35) of Crescent City was sentenced this afternoon by the Honorable William H. Follett to serve nine years, four months in state prison for conspiracy to commit theft and possessing methamphetamine…
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Major roadwork scheduled
CalTrans District 1 – Major roadwork scheduled Friday, June 17 through Thursday, June 23 The following scheduled roadwork has been verified at time of release. Please keep in mind work is weather permitting and subject to change. For updates to this list, visit: www.dot.ca.gov/dist1/d1rib.htm , or check with the California Highway Information Network (CHIN) at…
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Should Sutter Coast Hospital Pay It’s Fair Share in Property Taxes
Submitted by Roger Gitlin, Supervisor 1st District – June 15, 2016 – Sutter Coast Hospital operates 24 hospitals and other facilities, almost all exclusively in Northern California.. Sutter is a non-profit hospital, but is firmly in the black reporting $10.8 in profits in 2014. Sutter reported $81 million in net revenue on $11 billion in…
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Why has Recycling become a Religion in Del Norte County?
By Samuel Strait – June 10, 2016 – I think we all must remember that time in school when the custodian, janitor back when I was in school, started putting that separate garbage can near the window where we took the remains of our cafeteria school lunch to be disposed. Back then, we were only to…
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Thoughts on 5th District Race
Submitted by Bob Berkowitz – May 9, 2016 – I want to thank all of you who voted on Tuesday. Voting is a right that we enjoy and it gives you the power to express your feelings in a meaningful way. By voting for Linda Sutter, Terri Colton and me, over 60 percent of you…
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Public’s Assistance Requested
Submitted by Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office – May 7, 2016 – The Investigations Bureau of the Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office is seeking the public’s assistance in locating David Ken Lee and Peter Meng Lee as persons of interest in an ongoing kidnapping for rape and rape in concert investigation. David Lee…
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This Is Why Roger Gitlin Needs to Be Re-Elected
By Samuel Strait – June 6, 2016 – Over the past couple of weeks the letters to the editor in the Triplicate regarding current supervisor Roger Gitlin have put me in mind of those seminar callers who call radio programs and trot out the same spiel over and over again in order to establish a…
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Bad Judgment On The Part Of McClure?
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – June 1, 2016 – In the midst of all the other things that have gone wrong for Ms. McClure in the past couple of weeks, two other items of note have come to the surface which speak to her lack of judgement when it comes to the financial health of…
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Failure of the Fourth Estate and our Political Elite as Well
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – May 31, 2016 – Having taken a bit of time to look around in someone else’s local political patch, I’ve come to realize that the kind of things we have unfolding on a regular basis here in Del Norte County have become the norm in politics in rural America and…