Category: Del Norte County
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The Crescent City Harbor meets Tuesday: May 18th at 2pm, via Zoom meeting.
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – May 17, 2021 Many of you are following EYE OF DEL NORTE as it closely monitors less than satisfactory conditions at the Harbor: closed restrooms and poorly maintained landscape maintenance, overgrown weeds, potholes on Anchor Way. Indeed it is somewhat of a challenge to navigate the…
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CFPD’s Parcel Tax Revisited
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 14, 2021 In the course of the past week following a series of articles on theCrescent Fire Protection District’s new parcel tax proposal, a wealth ofnew observations and comments were received and the parcel ownersaffected were not happy. It appears that they have a number of issuesrelated…
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In With The New Out With the Old Fire Departments
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 9, 2021 In the course of the past week much was learned about what occupiesnearly all current fire districts, dwindling resources, both materialand financial, diminishing numbers of volunteer firefighters, additionalburdens of regulation, and a distinct change in what is meant for firedistricts to be responsible for when…
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Oh, No Not Another Story About the Fire Assessment, Part Three the Grand Finale
By Samuel Strait – May 7, 2021 Over the course of the past week since news of the Crescent FireProtection District’s ballot and pamphlet’s impending appearance inmailboxes through out it’s district boundaries, the Crescent City Times has beendipping its proverbial toe in the waters to test the response from thosethat will feel the bite of…
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Oh, No, Not Another Story About The Fire Assessment, Part Two
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 7, 2021 It is important to understand that as time goes on and circumstanceschange, your local fire district is operating under those same kinds ofchanges. It is the District’s position that the changes to be made toits current operating structure include a hybrid volunteer fire andemergency team…
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Oh No, Not another Story About the Fire Assessment: Part One
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 7, 2021 Nearly everyone affected by the decision of the Crescent Fire ProtectionDistrict to pursue another effort at passage of a increased fireassessment on property taxes has now received both their ballot and theinformation pamphlet that arrived with it. Confused, baffled, orbewildered, do not despair. In a…
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ANOTHER TAX WHAAAT?
By Linda Sutter, Opinion Piece- May 46, 2021 In October 2020 the Crescent Fire Protection District sent out ballots to pass a benefit assessment (tax) on a group of 5000 residents. This tax failed. It should be noted that the cost for that election including the ballots and informational pamphlets cost taxpayers $164,000 which included…
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What is happening at the Veterans Memorial Hall?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – May 3, 2021 Recently a call from a concerned citizen put me in touch with JerryJohnson a long time Marine Veteran who has advocated for Veteran affairsfor many years. Mr. Johnson, the former and long time president of theVFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, had become concerned upon returning…
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TAXATION WITHOUT EDUCATION #5
By Donna Westfall – May 2, 2021 Just about the time you think you understand cancel culture and woke politics, now it’s an effort to try to understand Critical Race Theory. QUICK REVIEW: CANCEL CULTURE: Being ostracized. Most common use is being thown out and banned on social media such as what happened to former…
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Are shortages coming? Is it time to hoard food? What food to hoard?
By Donna Westfall – April 30, 2021 Now that illegal President Biden has stated in his speech of April 28th that the January 6th run on the capitol was a greater tragedy than 9/11, we can all realize that this fool is taking our country down the wrong path. His historic deficit spending with increases…