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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....

26/11/2024

Thumbnail photo by Paul Critz Mike Rademaker thought the Crescent City Harbor’s potential takeover of the ice plant was a good solution given the impending crab season — until the plant’s previous operator decided it was going to remove the equipment. The interim harbormaster received this new...

22/11/2024

Photo courtesy of the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office Four Crescent City councilors approved an updated agreement with Del Norte County on Monday to receive dispatch services from the sheriff’s office. The Council’s decision comes roughly a week after the Board of Supervisors agreed to the u...

22/11/2024

Cultural Center concept art designed by Greenworks Planning Consultants architect Ben Johnson, courtesy of Crescent City. Crescent City councilors applauded the friendlier Cultural Center architect Ben Johnson and his team at Greenworks Planning Consultants presented them on Monday. Johnson’s visi...

21/11/2024

Crescent City Mayor Blake Inscore supported a partnership with South Coast Community Aquatics in Brookings to give Del Norters a place to swim while the Fred Endert Municipal Pool undergoes renovations starting next month. But he said he was apprehensive about committing $35,000 toward the arrangeme...

20/11/2024

Photo and image courtesy of the Crescent City Harbor District An $8 million Port Infrastructure Development Program grant will allow the Crescent City Harbor District to begin constructing a new Citizens Dock. But, according to interim harbormaster Mike Rademaker, representatives with the U.S. Depar...

20/11/2024

Thumbnail photo by Paul Critz Del Norte County Sheriff Garrett Scott saw the tree limb coming before it shattered his windshield. Scott was on the 5700 block of Kings Valley Road at about 10 p.m. Tuesday guiding vehicles away from another large tree that had fallen across power lines. After seeing t...

19/11/2024

Del Norte High School performs at the Pride of the Northwest field show in Grants Pass on Oct. 12. | Thumbnail photo courtesy of Dan Sedgwick, video courtesy of Danielle Wood. Self-competition may be cliché in some circles — a motivational mantra personal trainers use to get clients off the couch...

15/11/2024

Del Norte Employees Association President Norma Williams accused county supervisors on Tuesday of being stingy when it comes to increasing salaries for rank and file employees. | Screenshot Norma Williams said she didn’t begrudge anyone a raise, but she criticized a proposal to increase department...

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