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Wild Rivers Outpost Let's try and figure out what's happening in Del Norte and Curry counties, shall we?

10/01/2025

Thumbnail photo by Paul Critz Though one public participant questioned the point and another warned of lawsuits, Crescent City Harbor commissioners on Tuesday endorsed a proposal to incorporate prayer into their bi-monthly meetings. The proposal came from one of the Board’s newest members, John Ev...

09/01/2025

Students from Del Norte High hosted their peers from Takata High School this week. A student delegation of nine visited from Rikuzentakata, Japan to further the sister school relationship between the two communities. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews The relationship between Del Norte and Takata hig...

06/01/2025

CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS BETWEEN DEL NORTE TEACHERS ASSOCIATION, DNUSD STUCK OVER SALARY INCREASES

Contract negotiations between the union representing local teachers and Del Norte Unified School District have hit an impasse with a dispute over salaries being the primary roadblock.

DNUSD is offering a one-time cash bonus of $750 per certificated employee. Del Norte Teachers Association negotiators are pushing for ongoing salary increases for union members. But with COVID dollars having run out and the potential for millions in budget cuts in the next few months, DNUSD officials say the district can’t afford the union’s ask.

Read more: https://www.redwoodvoice.org/contract-negotiations-between-del-norte-teachers-association-dnusd-stuck-over-salary-increases/ -7920

03/01/2025

Thumbnail: Cain, a member of Crescent City Police Department’s volunteer K9 team, works on his human remains detection skills at the Lake Earl Wildlife Area. Above: The human members of the K9 crew, Cathy Schneider, Jenna Phillips and Gloria Bobertz pose with their canine counterparts. | Photos co...

31/12/2024

A rain-soaked Middle Fork Smith River at the Nels Christensen Memorial Bridge on Sunday. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews The atmospheric river that drenched the North Coast and Southern Oregon over the last few days dumped nearly 2 inches of rain on Jack McNamara Field between Thursday and Saturda...

27/12/2024

BREATHING LIFE INTO THE LOCAL FIGHT AGAINST SEXUAL ASSAULT; DEL NORTE SART TEAM WINS GRANT FOR NURSES, TRAINING, INTERVIEWING EQUIPMENT

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Scrawled on a whiteboard inside A’Lissa Scott’s office at the Del Norte County Courthouse is the following quote: “Children of all ages can tell us what they know if we ask them the right questions in the right way.”

Taken from a manual on the best practices of child forensic interviewing, the 30-year-old quote reminds Scott and her colleague Amanda LeBlanc that much of their job is about allowing, and trusting, sexual assault survivors to make the decision that’s right for them.

“One big thing about mentoring is there is no victim-blaming. That went out in the ‘70s or ‘80s, or it should have,” said Scott, a field investigator in the county’s Victim Witness Center. “We bring kids in that are going to have to testify and if they say, ‘I don’t want to do this’ We are never going to force them to testify.”

https://www.redwoodvoice.org/breathing-new-life-into-the-local-fight-against-sexual-assault-del-norte-sart-team-wins-grant-for-nurses-training-interviewing-equipment/

26/12/2024

Curry County’s Finance Director Faces Criticism Over Proposed Employment Agreement

Curry County commissioners declined to renew an employment contract with their finance and human resources director, Kiena Wolf, at last week’s meeting.

Wolf, who was in attendance at that meeting, found herself on the defensive against critics arguing that the county couldn’t afford the expense.

One critic, Michele Martin, a member of a Facebook group called Citizens For Curry Justice, criticized Wolf’s proposed salary of $130,000 per year and said the $15,000 professional development allowance it calls for is more than the training budget at the Curry County Sheriff’s Office.

Rod Palmquist, a representative for Teamsters Local 223, which represents sheriff’s office employees, repeated the statement regarding the training budget for Wolf’s department, comparing it with that of the sheriff’s office. He told commissioners that the proposed employment agreement prioritized bureaucracy “over the very safety of the community you were elected to serve.”

https://www.redwoodvoice.org/curry-countys-finance-director-faces-criticism-over-proposed-employment-agreement/

25/12/2024

A man whose “possible first name” is Andrew is wanted after allegedly brandishing a firearm and stealing a car at the Safeway parking lot, according to CCPD Chief Richard Griffin. | Photo courtesy CCPD Crescent City police are searching for a man they brandished a firearm in the Safeway parking ...

19/12/2024

Photo by Paul Critz Linda Sutter didn’t take kindly to a proposed set of guidelines governing public comment during Crescent City Harbor District meetings. Though the author of those guidelines, newly-elected commissioner Dan Schmidt, didn’t initially mention her by name, Sutter warned that any ...

18/12/2024

The board chambers were filled with an outpouring of love Monday. Monday was the last day that Mayor Blake Inscore and Kelly Schellong-Feola were members of the Crescent City Council. The meeting started with a PowerPoint presentation from City Manager Eric Wier about the accomplishments of the two....

17/12/2024

Jenna Phillips and her K9 partner Juno — seen here in the middle with Catherine Schneider (left) and Gloria Bobertz — earned their AKC Canine Good Citizenship certification on Nov. 18. | Photo courtesy of the Crescent City Police Department. Thumbnail photo courtesy of GoFundMe. Jenna Phillips c...

17/12/2024

Photo by Persephone Rose Though she thanked trustees for taking her concerns seriously, Lisa Sedgwick rejected the idea that implementing a digital system for reporting and tracking mechanical issues in district vans would cost $70,000. Sedgwick, a teacher at Mary Peacock Elementary School, told Del...

13/12/2024

Photo courtesy of Valerie Starkey Eric Matson had tiny houses in mind when he and his wife approached Home Depot staff about turning a Tuff Shed into a second home. Since the “Tuff Shed guy” was at the store, Matson said he and his wife viewed base models and asked if the Denver-based company .....

06/12/2024

Cal Poly Humboldt Prof. Discusses Why Today’s 7.0 Temblor Spawned A 6-8 Inch Tsunami In Crescent City

Lori Dengler said she wasn’t surprised that Thursday’s magnitude 7.0 earthquake only produced a tsunami that topped out at roughly 8 inches in Crescent City.

But, while Dengler, geology professor emeritus at Cal Poly Humboldt, is still going through the reports and is speaking with the media about today’s temblor, she said one of the outcomes might be a rethinking of how the U.S. approaches tsunami evacuations.

“The Tsunami National Warning Center in Palmer, Alaska has developed a template for if an earthquake happens here and it’s in this magnitude range, this is what we do,” Dengler, whose expertise is in geophysics, earthquake and tsunami hazards and hazard reduction, told Redwood Voice Community News on Thursday. “Because this earthquake was so relatively close to the coast and their preliminary magnitude was 7.3, it immediately triggered a tsunami warning from basically Santa Cruz to Central Oregon.”

This includes the San Francisco Bay Area, though most seismologists knew that the tsunami the quake would produce wouldn’t be large enough to get through the narrow mouth, Dengler said. Still, “we all must err on the margin of safety,” she noted.

https://www.redwoodvoice.org/cal-poly-humboldt-prof-discusses-why-todays-7-0-temblor-spawned-a-6-8-inch-tsunami-in-crescent-city/

05/12/2024

Council Chooses Gateway Design, Urges Staff To Engage With Businesses Before Embarking On Street Name Change

After a community outreach campaign netted 561 survey responses and more than 100 shares on Facebook, Crescent City councilors chose a gateway that draws on its residents’ relationship with the ocean.

Seventy-six percent of those who responded to the city’s survey also supported changing Front Street’s name to Beachfront Drive, Crescent City Manager Eric Wier told the Council on Monday. But the potential name change could disadvantage local businesses, Wier said, costing them thousands of dollars.

“The hard costs are somewhere between $7,000 on the low end for the permitting, the licensing, all the changing of business cards — all those types of pieces,” he said, adding that he spoke with two business owners on Front Street. “Then if you get into search engine optimization and the actual loss of revenue if that’s done the wrong way or at the wrong time, it could be tens of thousands of dollars. Upwards of $50,000. It’s not a small item and it should be one that’s dealt with carefully and intentionally.”

https://www.redwoodvoice.org/council-chooses-gateway-design-urges-staff-to-engage-with-businesses-before-embarking-on-street-name-change/ -7656

05/12/2024

Map courtesy of the U.S. Geological Survey Coastal Del Norte County sought higher ground late Thursday morning after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake struck near Humboldt County at about 10:44 a.m. and generated tsunami warnings in Northern California and Southern Oregon. The earthquake struck about 61.5....

27/11/2024

The spokesperson for a Curry County citizens’ group behind a proposed law enforcement levy broke the numbers down for elected officials on Monday, stating if voters approve the measure, $1.2 million could go back into the general fund. But commissioners were no closer to supporting a levy than the...

26/11/2024

The old Fashion Blacksmith building at the Crescent City Harbor. | Photo by Gavin Van Alstine Among the items discussed at the Nov. 19 Harbor District meeting: Old Fashion Blacksmith Building: Harbor commissioners unanimously approved contracting with SHN, a Eureka-based consulting firm, to conduct....

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