Category Archives: Crescent City

Articles, Crescent City, Economy, Infrastructure, Local Government

Contractors Selected For City’s RV Park Revamp; Coastal Conservancy-Funded Project Includes Two Cabins, Renovated Apartment

September 18, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail photo: Crescent City is using a California Coastal Conservancy grant to install two ADA-compliant cabins at its Lighthouse Cove RV Park. | Photo courtesy of the City of Crescent City}

After they weren’t able to reach a consensus on vacation rental regulations, Crescent City councilors last week approved contracts to install cabins and renovate an apartment for rent at the city-owned RV park.

Paid for through a $835,000 California Coastal Conservancy Explore the Coast Overnight grant, the project isn’t meant to compete with locals who own Airbnbs or VRBOs, Public Works Director David Yeager said at the Council’s Sept. 8 meeting.

Though the rates have yet to be set, Yeager described renting the cabins and apartment as a “lower cost opportunity” than booking a privately-owned vacation rental.

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Articles, Crescent City, Emergencies

(UPDATED) Family Organizes Search Party For Missing Crescent City Woman

September 15, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail photo courtesy of the California Highway Patrol}

Updated at 3:06 p.m. Wednesday

Stephanie Atchison was found safe Wednesday morning and is being treated at Sutter Coast Hospital, Undersheriff Devin Perry told Redwood Voice Community News.

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Friends and family have turned to the community to help find 24-year-old Stephanie Atchison who was last seen at her Parkway Drive home last week.

Atchison left her home at Parkway Drive and Railroad Avenue at about 12:30 a.m. on Sept. 9, Del Norte County Undersheriff Devin Perry told Redwood Voice Community News on Tuesday. The Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office has entered her into its missing persons system, Perry said, and had conducted a ground search that was unsuccessful despite requesting pings on her cell phone to try to locate her.

Atchison is described as a white female, 5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 130 pounds with brown hair and brown eyes. She was last seen wearing a black jacket, black pants and a white beanie, according to

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Articles, Crescent City, Economy, Local Government

Crescent City Council Fails To Agree On Vacation Rental Ordinance

September 12, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

Though he shared Candace Tinkler’s sentiments concerning vacation rentals, Crescent City Councilman Steve Shamblin couldn’t convince his colleagues that ensuring “everyone’s paying their fair share” was common sense.

Shamblin, and Tinkler, the city’s mayor pro tem, argued for an ordinance that would capture the addresses of Airbnbs, VRBOs and other short-term rentals operating within city limits. But after the city manager and finance director on Tuesday concluded that short-term rentals make up about 2.8% of Crescent City’s overall housing stock, councilors Jason Greenough and Ray Altman said enacting stronger regulations was a waste of time.

“The city should mind its own business and leave property owners alone,” Altman said, repeating a statement he made about two months ago. “Staff should be working on stuff that’s way more important.”

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Articles, Crescent City, Crime, Local Government

‘Our Information Is Not Sold To Anybody Else’; CCPD Allowed To Keep Axon Automated License Plate Readers

September 11, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

Crescent City’s police chief convinced policymakers Tuesday that the automated license plate reader cameras installed in his department’s patrol vehicles are not the Flock Safety cameras residents raised concerns about last month.

Richard Griffin told city councilors that the Axon ALPR devices the Crescent City Police Department uses helped a dementia patient get home to Southern Oregon and a MythBusters host recover a stolen vehicle.

They’re not stationary like the six Flock Safety cameras the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office has posted throughout the community, he said. Any agency that wants access to the data must go through him.

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Articles, Crescent City, Infrastructure, Transportation

Transportation Commission Pitches Helps Crescent City Seek Funding For U.S. 101 Plan

September 4, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

As the second phase of its downtown revitalization plan takes shape, Crescent City is now eyeing U.S. 101.

The city is pursuing a Caltrans Partnership Planning Grant to complete its U.S. Highway 101 Multimodal Land Use Plan with help from the Del Norte Local Transportation Commission.

The land-use plan for the highway corridor will analyze motorized and non motorized uses between Wilson Avenue and Anchor Way, Crescent City Manager Eric Wier told Redwood Voice Community News on Thursday.

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Articles, Community News, Crescent City

Del Norte Library Writes New Chapter, Preps For Move To Former Ben Franklin Building

September 1, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail photo: The Del Norte County Library has purchased the former Ben Franklin building and plans to turn it into the new library. Library Board President Andrew Napier said the library has about two years to renovate it. | Photos courtesy of Andrew Napier}

Three years after its board decided that staying in Downtown Crescent City outweighed the tsunami risk, the Del Norte County Library will eventually move into the old Ben Franklin building.

At just under 15,000 square feet, Library Board Chair Andrew Napier says he envisions a maker space with access to 3D printers, laser engravers and button makers. There’s office space for Del Norte Reads, room for community meetings and, potentially, a Friends of the Del Norte County Library cafe.

But right now, the building at 1072 3rd Street is an empty shell, Napier told Redwood Voice Community News on Thursday. The library has about two years to renovate it and move its 50,000-plus books, periodicals, movies and other materials in, he said.

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Articles, Business, Crescent City, Infrastructure

Residents, Planning Commissioners Say They’re Wary Of Sartori’s Plan To Bring More Delivery Trucks To Rumiano Cheese Plant

August 27, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail photo by Heather Polen}

_{Crescent City Planning Commission’s Aug. 20 meeting}

Matt Dochterman urged Crescent City Planning Commissioners to think big picture about a proposal to bring more trucks to the Rumiano Cheese factory.

In addition to recruiting for up to 25 new jobs, said Dochterman, vice president of operations for Sartori Cheese, more trucks means the plant at 511 9th Street will get more milk with which to make more cheese.

“We actually have an opportunity — a great thing for the community — that says we can expand production, make more product, expand the Rumiano brand into larger areas of the country and actually create more exposure for Crescent City,” he told commissioners at a special meeting Aug. 20. “We bring more milk in, it runs more hours per day, produces more cheese and (we don’t) have to expand the infrastructure of the site or anything else to do that.”

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Articles, Crescent City, Housing, Local Government

Crescent City Joins SoCal Cities In Effort To Combat ‘State Overreach’ In Housing, Land-Use Matters

August 22, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail photo: Battery Point Apartments near Joe Hamilton Elementary School is one of a handful of housing projects in Crescent City that is being developed as part of California’s statewide housing goals. | Photo by James Brooks}

A statewide proposal that has its origins in a Riverside County community and aims to enforce local authority over California’s housing and land-use initiatives put Crescent City’s mayor pro tem at odds with her colleagues on Monday.

Citing the University of California and Harvard University’s Joint Center of Housing Studies, Candace Tinkler noted that the Golden State is home to six of the top metropolitan areas with the highest share of cost-burdened households.

About one in three renters in the Los Angeles metropolitan area spends more than 50% of their post-tax household income on rent, she said, and as of last year there were 1,000 more homeless people in San Francisco than in all of Missouri.

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Articles, Crescent City, Infrastructure, Local Government

Crescent City Council Recap For Aug. 17, 2026

August 22, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{Thumbnail image: Conceptual art shows the fish and canoe node that will be part of the Tolowa Cultural Trail at Beachfront Park. | Image courtesy of Crescent City}

_{Video by Monique Camarena}

Among the items discussed at Monday’s Crescent City Council meeting:

Tolowa Cultural Trail Milestone: Councilors recognized the completion of the first initial contract associated with the Tolowa Cultural Trail in Beachfront Park.

City Manager Eric Wier pointed out that despite unanimously approving a notice of completion associated with the project, it’s work that Tidewater Contractors did to lay the foundation for the trail that councilors are recognizing.

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Articles, Community News, Crescent City, Infrastructure, Local Government, Parks

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

August 21, 2026 Jessica Cejnar Andrews Leave a comment

_{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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