Category: This Weeks News
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Chris Renner Pleads Guilty To Sexual Abuse Upon a Child
The Del Norte County District Attorney’s Office announced today that Christopher James Renner (58) of Crescent City, pleaded guilty this morning to continuous sexual abuse upon a child under fourteen and admitted three special allegations for having substantial sexual conduct with the child, for use of force and that the statute of limitations for the…
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BREAKING NEWS !
By Donna Westfall – Credit to LA Times.com – July 19, 2016 – California Coastal Commissioner, Martha McClure, facing possible $630,000 fine in transparency violations Spotlight on Coastal Corruption is a nonprofit organization. Their slogan is “Protecting the Coast Requires Integrity at the California Coastal Commission. (CCC)” Their existence was a result of corruption at the…
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Mosaic in the news again
By Donna Westfall – Credit to www.reuters.com and Fluoride Action Network- September 17, 2016 – For decades Mosaic has been selling cheap fluoridation chemicals to public drinking water systems across the U.S. Crescent City was smart enough to vote in a moratorium in 2012 to stop over 44 years of fluoridation chemicals in our public…
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Does the public have a right to know about an elected officials addictions or mental illness?
By Donna Westfall – September 16, 2016 – Like it or not, we are a heavily medicated society. Alcohol, caffeine, marijuana, anti-depressants and tobacco are just a few of the substances we turn to. Over 61 million American’s suffer from mental illness and of those about 13.6 million live with a serious mental illness such…
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Politicizing Safeway
Opinion Piece By Samuel Strait – September 17, 2016 – [cincopa AQEATvNtCp6F]Apparently the Triplicate’s editor, Robin Fornoff and what appears to be their only reporter now, Tony Reed, didn’t score the political points from their first story about Safeway and Roger Gitlin’s efforts to clean up that store’s frontage in a front page story, “Gitlin,…
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KFUG Moving
KFUG will be off air Sunday, September 18, 2016, to move its equipment to their new location at 573 Elk Valley Road, Crescent City, California. Samuel Strait says, “My show will not air this weekend, but will resume Sunday the 25th with an interview of Bob Berkowitz and Roger Gitlin.” KFUG FM radio station at 101.1 started broadcasting…
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Inmate attacks officer at Pelican Bay State Prison
September 12, 2016 – CRESCENT CITY – Officials at Pelican Bay State Prison (PBSP) are investigating an assault by an inmate that sent three employees to the hospital. At 7:15 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 10, inmate Eliseo Pichaco, 32, entered a correctional sergeant’s office and attacked him, striking his face and upper body. Two other correctional…
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Do Democrats have a history of racism?
OPINION PIECE BY SAMUEL STRAIT – September 11, 2016 – As one well versed in methods of historical research, another letter to the editor, to be found in the Triplicate is again guilty of playing fast and loose with history. In his letter (Triplicate, Letters September 8th) titled “‘Racism’” fits Republicans more than Democrats” Mr.…
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Annual Household Hazardous Waste Roundup Today, Saturday Sept. 10th till 2 PM
On Saturday, September 10, 2016, the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority will sponsor a one-day Household Hazardous Waste (HHW) Collection Event at the Del Norte County Transfer Station from 9 AM until 2 PM. This service is free to Del Norte County residents only, and is not intended or available for commercial hazardous waste…
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Trashing Roger Gitlin? Trashing Safeway? Trashing……
Opinion Piece by Samuel Strait – September 9 2016 – I suspect that it should be clear to anybody not born under a political activist’s rock that the Triplicate’s pretend angst over Roger Gitlin’s repeated calls to have Safeway, or rather SOMEONE to do something about the Looooooong standing mess that occupies the space immediately south…