Thumbnail photo: Crescent City Police K9 Sgt. Murtaugh keeps the streets safe in this Dec. 22, 2024 photo. CCPD and the Del Norte County Office of Education are partnering together to fund a school resource officer for the schools within city limits. | Photo courtesy of Crescent City Police Department
Among the items discussed at Monday’s Crescent City Council meeting:
School Resource Officer: Crescent City and the Del Norte County Office of Education will share the cost of a school resource officer when grant funding for the program expires in June.
The Council’s decision to enter into a two-year agreement with the DNCOE was unanimous. The school resource officer, an employee with the Crescent City Police Department, will work 40 hours per week providing services to Crescent Elk Middle School, Del Norte High School and Joe Hamilton Elementary School. They’ll also be available for after-school activities.
April 10th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; the registration deadline approaches for DNUSD’s Summer Program; Curry County will be hosting a cyber security summit; items discussed at the recent Del Norte County Board Of Supervisors meeting; CalTrans District 1 & 2 are seeking input on their evacuation preparedness plans; the Yurok Tribe initiates a soft launch of it’s new Yurok Tribal Member internet portal; tips to keep seal pups safe during pupping season; a private jet makes a crash landing at the Southwest Oregon Regional airport in Coos Bay; to address the $21 million budget gap, Multnomah County plans major public health cuts; and Grants Pass City Councilors discuss the locations for new designated homeless camp sites. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Curry County is hosting a cybersecurity summit that will feature information from experts who helped the county get back on its feet from a ransomware attack that crippled its network about two years ago.
Chief Information Officer Phil Dickson told commissioners on Wednesday that he invited representatives from special districts within Curry, Coos and Del Norte counties to attend. In addition to providing information about multi-factor authentication and good backup practices, the summit hosts will conduct an assessment of every attendee’s network, he said.
“It’s not something to get you in trouble or go, ‘Oh, gotcha!’” Dickson said, adding that about 40 participants have registered to attend so far. “This is going to be a moment where we can have a baseline. What these professionals are going to do is spend 10 to 15 minutes with each individual district and say, ‘This is what I recommend you look at first, this is what I’d recommend you look at second…’”
April 9th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; a rundown on Saturday’s Hands Off Protest; registration for DNUSD’s Summer Program closes soon; watch out for Pacific Harbor seals this pupping season; the Yurok Tribe installs a new mobile communication tower; Curry County Commissioners find a 2007 Court appeal ruling relevant to ongoing dispute with a Josephine Sheriff; Caltrans District 1 and 2 want community input on an evacuation preparedness project; lead paint found on Curry County Jail bunk beds reduces facility capacity; a private jet crash was reported in Coos Bay; Multnomah County’s public health cuts impact first time parents and disease prevention programs; the U.S. Department of Agriculture cuts two federal programs that will affect Oregon schools and food banks; and April’s skies will see stellar wonders. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Among the items discussed at Tuesday’s Del Norte County Board of Supervisors meeting:
Salary Issues: Norma Williams, president of the Del Norte County Employees Association, took issue with proposals to hire Department of Health and Human Services employees at a more advanced step in the salary schedule.
The proposals to hire two medical records clerks and a behavioral health specialist at Step C rather than Step A appeared on the consent agenda. Supervisors approved them without discussion.
April 8th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; a look into the Hands Off protests; the Yurok Tribe’s IT Department installs a new communications tower to bolster wireless signal strength in the Klamath Glen area; more on the dispute between Curry County Commissioners and Sheriff John Ward; lead paint found on bunk beds in the Curry County jail further cuts it’s capacity; Nautical News from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; new California Legislation will require dealerships to list the full price of a product; Federal Funding cuts to the US Department of Agriculture leave Oregon food banks and schools without local food purchase assistance programs; and this month four celestial events will be visible in Northern California. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Though the outcome of a declaratory judgment against the sheriff is still pending, Curry County’s newest commissioner told his colleagues of a 2007 Oregon Appeals Court ruling that may apply to the current situation.
Referring to an ongoing dispute between the Board of Commissioners and Sheriff John Ward, Commissioner Patrick Hollinger said he and Director of Operations Ted Fitzgerald received information about Daniel v. The Board of County Commissioners for Josephine County.
“A lot of the back and forth, or the lack of back and forth, between the commissioners and the sheriff is [about] who has authority over what and why,” Hollinger told his colleagues Wednesday. “And as we all know, we have a declaratory judgment that we’re still waiting to have happen, but this covers a couple of those items within our declaratory judgment. And that would be positions within the sheriff’s department and who picks and chooses those positions and how those positions are funded.”
April 7th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; a look into the successes and struggles of Del Norte’s new Providing Access to Hope program; bunk beds painted with lead paint force Curry County jail to cut down on it’s inmate capacity; Curry County Commissioner Brad Alcorn announced his resignation; the Yurok IT Department erects a 60 foot communications tower to boost signal speeds in the Klamath Glen area; fish related facts and figures from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; due to assessed entanglement risk, the California Department of Fish & Wildlife announces changes to commercial and recreational Dungeness crab fisheries; and Pacific Power will be applying climate credit to customers’ electricity bills. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Between three and four hundred people, most waving homemade signs, lined the sidewalk in front of the Del Norte County Fairgrounds on Saturday. The gathering was part of a nationwide series of events – a day of action, organizers called it – collectively called Hands Off. Across the nation there were more than 1,300 individual demonstrations coordinated by a coalition of groups headed by MoveOn!, and including the likes of the American Civil Liberties Union, the League of Women Voters and the Planned Parenthood Action Fund, among others. The events were meant to protest what the participants and organizers see as the decidedly authoritarian bent of the second Trump presidency.
Standing in the shade outside Java Hut, Crescent City Councilmember Candace Tinkler explained why she was attending the event: “I’m here because it’s my job, it’s all of our jobs, to make the world a better place for the next generation, and I’m not seeing it going that way. I’m here not so much for me, but for every young person in this community.”
Keven Bingham operates the “Glen’s on 3rd” food trailer that serves as a pop-up mobile storefront from which he sells baked goods to the masses. This small business is the most recent incarnation of a long-standing community institution known to locals as “Glen’s Bakery”.
“I have folks from all faiths and political affiliations who come,” Bingham told Redwood Voice.
