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Crescent City’s Front Street Gateway Project Proceeds Though El Niño May Cause Issues For Storm Drain Component

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Thumbnail image: Crescent City Manager Eric Wier outlined what a change order to the Front Street Gateway Project would entail at Monday’s meeting. | Image courtesy of Crescent City

The Crescent City Council on Monday took a crucial step in the Front Street Gateway Project.

Councilors unanimously approved a change order that includes erecting nine banner poles, installing the gateway’s electrical system, widening the California Coastal Trail near the Cultural Center as well as ensuring the Point of Honor flags stay illuminated at night. But Tidewater Contractors’ primary focus this summer will be on the storm drain system underneath Front Street, City Manager Eric Wier said.

Still, acknowledging that the North Coast is facing an El Niño year, Wier said if the rains do hit before the street is repaved, hopefully the storm drain will do its job.

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Crescent City To Start More Storm Drain Work on F Street

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Thumbnail photo: Crescent City is using CDBG and Measure S dollars to complete a storm drain replacement project on F Street from the mid block of 3rd Street to 5th Street. | Image courtesy of the City of Crescent City.

With the final two blocks of Front Street nearing completion, Crescent City staff on Monday say they finally have the Community Development Block Grant dollars needed to start another long-awaited project.

It involves replacing the storm drain on F Street between the mid block of 3rd Street to 5th Street. It’s the third phase of the original Front Street storm drain improvement project, Public Works Director Dave Yeager told the City Council. 

In addition to extending the new storm drain system to 5th Street with new inlets and junction boxes, new sidewalk will be installed as will ADA-compliant street corners

“We’re trying to abandon the lines that are running underneath private properties and put them on a proper trajectory toward Front Street,” Yeager said.

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Crescent City Council Recap, Aug. 3, 2026

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Thumbnail photo: Del Norte High School’s digital sign. On Monday, the Crescent City Council allowed Crescent Elk Middle School to display an electronic sign of its own. | Photo by Monique Camarena

Councilman Steve Shamblin was absent. Among the items discussed at Monday’s Crescent City Council meeting:

Digital Signs, School Edition: Councilman Jason Greenough voted with the rest of his colleagues to allow Crescent Elk Middle School to display a digital sign, but not before he noted how ridiculous he thought the topic was.

Coming after the City Council in February approved an ordinance governing the size and location they would allow such electronic displays, Greenough said the regulations were unnecessary. Allowing Crescent Elk to have a digital sign is an exception for another governing body, he said.

“We don’t have a huge problem with signs, but we passed an ordinance to regulate them for our businesses and so, well, our businesses and everyone else,” Greenough said. “The schools are an unintended victim of our regulation of everybody’s ability to have just a sign in front of their property.”

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County Supervisors Adopts Drought Resilience Plan, Task Force

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Thumbnail photo: A rain-swollen Smith River from Slant Bridge. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews

Though he said drought isn’t a major concern in Del Norte County, Sr. Environmental Health Specialist Houawa Moua introduced the Board of Supervisors to a resiliency plan for preventing water shortages in vulnerable communities.

The Del Norte County Drought Resilience Plan applies to domestic wells and water systems that have between five and 14 service connections, he said Tuesday. The plan includes a risk assessment and short-term and long-term strategies for responding to a potential water shortage. 

The state legislation requiring communities to adopt a resiliency plan — State Senate Bill 552, which was signed into law in 2021 — also requires counties to establish a drought and water shortage preparedness task force.

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Del Norte County Board of Supervisors Recap, July 28, 2026

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Right: Retiring correctional deputy sergeant Gary Potter (middle) received a proclamation celebrating his 24-year career with the county from District 5 Supervisor Dean Wilson (left) and Sheriff Garrett Scott (right). | Capt. Jennifer Campbell

Among the items discussed at Tuesday’s Del Norte County Board of Supervisors meeting:

Gary Potter: Before he read the proclamation celebrating Gary Potter’s 24 years with Del Norte County, District 5 Supervisor Dean Wilson noted that he had administered the oath of office to the retiring correctional deputy sergeant.

Potter began working for the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office in 2001. For the past 17 years, Potter has been a correctional deputy sergeant, according to the resolution.

“Potter was an experienced correctional sergeant that kept things running with safety and security in mind,” the resolution states, “he was a real pillar of excellence in our Del Norte County Jail.” 

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Front Street’s Completion Is Ahead, Though Motorists Will Have To Contend With A Couple Detours

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Motorists will soon encounter a detour on Front Street near the Cultural Center and on K Street near the Redwood National and State Parks visitors center.

“This coming Monday, a week from today, we’re going to be looking at the closure of Front Street,” City Manager Eric Wier told the City Council on Monday, stating that the storm drain reconstruction project is moving ahead of schedule. “It’s good in the fact that our project is progressing and we’ll be able to get it done this year, but it is going to be an inconvenience. For that, we apologize to the community.”

Front Street will be closed from U.S. 101 to Play Street starting Wednesday, Wier told Redwood Voice Community News. K Street will also be closed between 2nd Street and Front Street. Motorists should expect the closure to last through November.

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Crescent City Commissions Water Capacity Study As Elk Valley Rancheria Looks To Start Hotel Construction

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Thumbnail photo: Elk Valley Rancheria tribal building. | Photo courtesy of Andrew Goff

Crescent City councilors took a first step Monday toward helping Elk Valley Rancheria build its new four-story 93-room hotel.

It’s a project the tribal nation has been working on since the early 2000s when it took the Martin Ranch through the fee-to-trust process, Elk Valley Rancheria CEO Crista Stewart told Redwood Voice Community News on Wednesday. Ground breaking is expected to take place in about a month, she said.

“It’s going to be really rustic,” Stewart said. “We’ll have a beautiful one-story lobby with open ceilings that’ll open up into a beautiful backyard patio with a fire pit overlooking the ocean. We’re also going to have two areas for meetings. (There) will be a smaller board-room style room for smaller meetings and we’ll also have a larger meeting event room for guests up to 100 for weddings and trainings and conferences.”

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State Dollars City’s Sewer Plant Upgrade May Be Less Than Initially Expected, City Manager Says

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Crescent City met the deadline to apply for a $50 million forgivable loan to bring its sewer plant into compliance with updated National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System requirements.

But the likelihood the city will receive $50 million from the State Water Resources Control Board is questionable, City Manager Eric Wier told councilors on Monday.

“The total amount of funding that is available in this round has been reduced significantly,” he said. “The $50 million will represent a significant portion of the total funding that they have overall. Hopefully we’ll know in the next six months.”

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With Pac Power Unable To Support A Microgrid, SitelogIQ Proposes Solar Panels For The Jail, Flynn Center

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Thumbnail image: SitelogIQ had proposed using photovoltaic solar panels and battery backup to create a microgrid in the northern area of Crescent City that would power the school district, Sutter Coast Hospital, the airport and the Crescent Fire and Rescue fire hall. | Image courtesy of SitelogIQ

Two years after outlining microgrid projects that would keep Del Norte County’s critical infrastructure functioning during a power outage, SitelogIQ representatives told supervisors that a facilities-based approach would be more feasible.

Despite spearheading successful projects in Pacific, Gas & Electric territory, including four in Humboldt County, SitelogIQ’s governor affairs and community development representative Kristy Coughlin said Del Norte County’s utility, Pacific Power, would be unable to manage a microgrid.

“Pacific Power determined they did not have the capacity, resources, personnel or infrastructure to support a community microgrid,” Coughlin told supervisors on Tuesday, adding that the company had met with Pacific Power in March.

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Del Norte Supervisors Accept Harbor District’s Facilities Plan, Enabling It To Use Measure C Dollars For Maintenance

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Thumbnail photo: The federally-funded reconstruction of Citizens Dock is one of the projects the Crescent City Harbor District’s facility plan lists. | Photo by Jessica Cejnar Andrews

Del Norte County supervisors accepted the Crescent City Harbor District’s facilities plan on Tuesday.

A necessary step for the Harbor District to be able to use Measure C tax revenue for maintenance, Board Chairman Joey Borges noted that the previous iteration CCHD officials presented to them in December “lacked a few items.” 

The revised version, completed in May, includes a list of potential projects as well as costs and timeframes by which Harbor District officials would like to see them accomplished, Borges said.

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