Category: Harbor
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WHO CARES? I CARE
Opinion Piece By Linda Sutter – November 28, 2021 Back in the days when I worked as a Correctional Officer, I can remember getting a new job that required counting the inmates throughout the night. It is a rule that inmates’ windows and cell doors be free from covering because you must be able to…
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Re-launching of the Gladnik
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – October 27, 2021 After some seven months in refurbishment at Fashion Blacksmith at the Crescent City Harbor, The Gladnik Crab vessel is near completion. Plans are to launch this “Tough Boat” mid- November, pending the highest maximum level of high tide, in time for the beginning…
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Does the Harbor Commission Ever Consider Topics Germain To Operating The Harbor?
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – October 5, 2021 Seems like now the Harbor Commission has a solar installation limpingalong in the harbor, every crack pot energy idea is fair game toconsider rather than a functioning harbor and its facilities. Withhundreds of millions of dollars in past due deferred maintenance hangingover its head, dredging…
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The Stumbling, Bumbling, Fumbling, Harbor Commission
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – September 24, 2021 Seems as though Crescent City’s current version of ineptitude resideswithin the august walls of the Harbor District’s Board Meetings lately. Fresh from the questionable activities surrounding the District’sventure into RV Parks where suddenly there is an immediate need for highend accommodations at Redwood Harbor Village, and…
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Standing Room Only at Harbor meeting
By Roger Gitlin – EYE ON DEL NORTE – August 3, 2021 SRO capacity at Tuesday’s Crescent Harbor District meeting. As our local governments ween off ZOOM in favor of personal attendance, Harbor president Brian Stone requested folks use the honor system and wear a face mask, when speaking in public, if not inoculated against…
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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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Update on Harbor Conditions
By Roger Gitlin – May 6, 2021 Alas, the bathrooms at Whaler’s Island / boat ramps are now Open, Covid signs removed. It is unfortunate EYE ON DEL NORTE has to continually remind the Harbor District to clean up feces and urine deposits outside the closed restroom at the boat ramps but as of 4pm,…
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What’s wrong with the Crescent City Harbor?
By Roger Gitlin – April 30, 2021 Some weeks back, I received phone calls and a few emails of complaints of closed restrooms and fecal and urine matter at the closed bathrooms at the boat ramps. I personally observed these conditions and upon conversation with the interim Harbormaster, was told the restrooms near the boat…
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PART 2: The Harbor
By Samuel Strait – Reporter at Large – January 24, 2021 When commercial fishing struggles to pay its bills, the harbor will notbe far behind. In recent years as the commercial fishing fleet hasscrambled to overcome shrinking seasons, regulations, high fuelcosts,insurance and a host of other responsibilities, so has the harborstruggled to pay its bills. …
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Part 1: Harbor – It’s Crab Season, But NO Crabs
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large Normally this time of the year so shortly after the beginning of theDungeness Crab season the Crescent City harbor is bustling with franticactivity as commercial fishermen get the last of their crab gear loadedand into the waters off Crescent City. The fuel dock is busy and boatsare normally lined…