Category: This Weeks News

  I am a grandmother and grew up in Arcata area and in the 50’s and 60’s.  it was not uncommon to hear racial bullying at school. I for one always stuck up for the person being bullied. I thought as a country we had evolved to a better place dealing with racial issues. I…

Good Morning America- Wake up America:    The Brothers Tsarnaev have just delivered a pressure cooked meal of steel to the streets of Boston America as groggy citizens try to blink away incredulity from awe-struck eyes. Images of corpses and shredded flesh imbed on the national psyche as medical teams cart the human carnage away  to…

SUBMITTED BY GREG DUNCAN, M.D., CHIEF OF STAFF If you would like to support our effort by including your name on a list of local residents who oppose Sutter Health’s plan to take ownership and possibly downsize our local hospital, please read on. How Can You Help? The following letter will be published as an…

    Supervisor Roger Gitlin’s raising of the curtain of public scrutiny  on the issue of the lack of requirement for the Public Health  Officer of Del Norte  County to reside in this  county at  the April 23rd Supervisor’s meeting appears to be a tempest in a thimble rather than a teapot. All other supervisors…

The Library of Congress voted in the mid-ninety’s to make The Grateful Deads  Truckin’ which they released in 1970, to be a National Treasure

1st District Supervisor Roger Gitlin announced today two additional partners have joined the Take a Bite Out of Blight program. Recolology Del Norte and Rural Human Services of Crescent City will partner with Wal-Mart Crescent City store #1910 in assisting in cleaning up code-cited properties and removing eyesore debris, clutter, and trash and cutting back…

BY Donna Westfall How does this sound?  We elect government officials like members to the city council or board of supervisors.  Some of them decide to move out of the a area and come back into town for meetings twice a month.  Would you have have a problem with that? For the past 2 years,…

BY DONNA WESTFALL Every once in a while it’s good to make fun at a serious subject.  While Portland, Oregon fights their fourth go-around in battling the addition of fluoride to their public water, here is a tongue in cheek letter out of Australia. April 28, 2013 To whom it may concern, I am trying to…

Submitted anonyously by local reader.   Summer Clawson, Beth Henion, Bill and Carlina Horn have all missed the mark completely with respect to the removal of the District Attorney (Letters to the Editor published in the Del Norte Triplicate, April 11th and April 16th). Technically, Jon was not “removed” from office. He was ordered “inactive”…