Category: This Weeks News
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Government overreach harming our economy?
By Donna Westfall – March 20, 2021 Let me tell you a story about a man named Rusty. He and his family and friends have been vacationing in Crescent City at Shoreline RV Park for a month to six weeks for over 30 years. Several stays as long as two to three months. In the…
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Newsom recall organizers submit 2.1 million+ signatures
By Donna Westfall – March 19, 2021 – Credit to TAL AXELROD – 03/18/21 10:28 AM EDT of TheHill.com Now that more than enough signatures have been collected what happens next? Per reporter, Tal Azelrod, “The signatures now go to 58 county elections officials for verification. Should enough signatures be verified, California Secretary of State Shirley Weber…
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Return students to schools already
By Samuel Strait, Report at Large – March 18, 2021 Recently the Del Norte Unified School District’s Superintendent, JeffHarris, offered his report to the District’s School Board withfrustrations over the lack of consistent messaging from the Stateregarding policy towards opening schools and getting back to educatingour youth. Part of his complaint is with policies which…
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What’s an escape clause?
By Donna Westfall – March 18, 2021 How can we trust our government officials when they repeat the same stupid mistakes ….that cost (us) taxpayer’s money? In January 2019, the local tax association had under NEW BUSINESS the issue of a $160,000+ penalty for a contract Heather Snow, Director of Health & Human Resources negotiated…
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Accident at Last Chance Grade.
By Donna Westfall – March 26, 2021 Yesterday afternoon a tree fell at Last Chance Grade and injured three people. Jesse Salisbury of Del Norte and Curry County Scanner Feed was the first to notify us of this accident around 2 pm. “3 CalTrans contractors were hit by a tree and 1 was pinned to…
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DEL NORTE LAW LIBRARY CLOSED TO PUBLIC; WHERE DOES THAT LEAVE LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING?
By Linda Sutter – March 15, 2021 The Del Norte County law library is closed to the public using Covid as the excuse. However, the Sacramento Law Library is opened to the public Monday through Friday 0900-1600 hours. Masks must be worn. Up until the first of March access to the LexisNexis program for legal…
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Drug Sales with Loaded Firearm Arrest 3-15-2021
On 3-15-2021 at about 1740 hours Officers from the Crescent City Police Department (CCPD) responded to 665 L Street for a report of known female subject with a firearm. Management on scene had called for assistance in removal of the subject known as “Natalie” who was not a resident and was reportedly selling drugs in…
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IS SHERIFF APPERSON HIDING FENTANYL DEATHS?
By Linda Sutter – March 15, 2021 – Picture credit to US Drug Enforcement Administration During the first week of January approximately 5 deaths occurred in our county. All were of approximate 20-30 age range. All deaths are pending investigation. But the public has not been informed. Why? One name was dropped as the seller…
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Covid in the News, Isn’t it Always
By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – March 14, 2021 As I was wading through the process of doing my taxes for the year, yes,I still do them not a tax preparer, I had Sunday’s CBS station tuned tocollege basketball and before I knew it the game had ended and “SixtyMinutes” was being aired. Ordinarily,…
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Front Lawn or Front Potager?
By Jeff McCaddon Copyright Jeff McCaddon, February 27th, 2021. All Rights Reserved. A uniformly mowed front lawn of green grass is the hallmark of every civilized suburban home in the United States of America. A uniform row of identical homes adorned with freshly manicured grass lawns has been been the standard since the 1950’s. Pete…