Category: This Weeks News

  • UPDATE: To supervisor securing hard liquor

    By Samuel Strait – January 11, 2017 – Update:  “Supervisor is doing something about securing hard liquor” as reported in the Crescent City Times on January 6, 2017. WalMart is putting security caps on its hard liquor bottles, not all, but most.  The reason for the lack of universal application is simply some bottles are not…

  • Should Jeff Session Become US Attorney General?

    Should Jeff Session Become US Attorney General?

    By Donna Westfall – January 11, 2017 – You can watch 10 hours of video footage from the Sessions confirmation hearing held Tuesday, January 10th; or you can spend 10 hours researching what Sessions is all about on the internet… or you can do both. Being born and raised in Southern California is NOT the…

  • Christopher Gregory Bail Set at $140,000

    Christopher Gregory Bail Set at $140,000

    From Del Norte District Attorney’s Office – January 10, 2017 The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced today that Christopher Joseph Gregory (31) of Crescent City has been charged for first degree residential burglary with special allegations of a person present and a vulnerable (elderly) victim, elder abuse, assault with force likely to result in…

  • Thank You, Public Works!

    Picture and thanks by Heidi Kime – January 10, 2017 Truly, thank you to our public works department in Crescent City! This is a before and after taking the kids to school. With all the infrastructure problems we are currently experiencing, I am so impressed they had this tree limb out of the road as…

  • The People v. Moodie

    The People v. Moodie

    From Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office – January 10, 2017 – The Del Norte District Attorney’s Office announced today that Jason Moodie (32) of Crescent City was held to answer charges of sexual assault on a child under 10 years of age and oral copulation on a child following a preliminary hearing this morning…

  • The true costs of recycling

    Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – January 10, 2017 – It seems like it was only yesterday, not two years ago, when I found myself sitting next to Jordan Kekry waiting to be called in for Jury Duty in the Del Norte County’s Court House.  I knew of Jordan, but beyond his distribution business, and of…

  • Christian man attacked by best friends son

    Christian man attacked by best friends son

    By Donna Westfall – January 9, 2017 – Sunday evening, January 8th, long time Crescent City resident, Paul Richard (“Dick”) Pearcey, age 79, was brutally attacked and beaten in his Crescent City home. His best friends son and neighbor was booked for assault with a deadly weapon, cruelty on an elder adult, first degree burglary, and obstruction/resisting…

  • Cold Cereal: The biggest success story of the food industry

    By Donna Westfall – January 9, 2017 – What could be easier than opening a box of cold cereal, dumping it into a bowl, adding milk and you’ve got breakfast? 154 years ago, that wasn’t the case. There was no cold cereal until 1863. By 1970, there were 160 varieties of cold cereal and the…

  • Supreme Court Rules on Disclosure of Legal Fees

    By Donna Westfall – January 8, 2017 with credit to Dixon’s Independent Voice, published January 6, 2017 –  Unlike Crescent City, where a ballot measure to vote on the 20% sewer rate increase was defeated by nearly 60% of the voters; the City of Dixon filed a lawsuit to prevent the voters  from exercising their constitutional right of…

  • IN THE CASE OF HIGHWAY PATROL OFFICER CLEMANN

    By Linda Sutter – January 6, 2017 – WHO DONE IT?  CASE# CRF16-9212 WARNING:  What you are about to read is straight from the court record with questions not on the Officer charged, but the DA’s Office, as well as other CHP Officers. On November 28, 2016 the Attorney General Deputy Peter E. Flores submits to the…