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(Update) Amber Alert Issued For 12-year-old Boy Missing in Crescent City

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Update at 5 p.m. Wednesday: Shea Ramsey was found about an hour the California Highway Patrol issued an Amber Alert in the Crescent City area on Wednesday. The 12-year-old boy is back home with his parents, Del Norte County Sheriff Garrett Scott confirmed.

Scott credited the alert as well as new technology that allowed the sheriff’s office to put out a notice that Shea was missing so quickly.

“We appreciate all the public support — the people that reached out and gave us information, it’s amazing,” he said. “This is why we were able to find him, it was somebody that got that alert and they called us.”

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California Highway Patrol issued a localized Amber Alert in response to a 12-year-old boy that went missing from his parents’ Crescent City home Tuesday evening.

Shea Ramsey was last seen at about 9 p.m., according to the alert CHP issued on behalf of the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office. The boy’s parents reported him missing at about noon Wednesday, saying that he had walked away from the family home after a disagreement, DNSO Capt. Melanie Curry told Redwood Voice Community News.

Shea is about 5 feet 1 inch tall and weighs roughly 90 pounds. He has blond hair and green eyes and was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black pants and black shoes. 

The Amber Alert went to phones within a five mile radius of the Shea’s residence, which is near Crescent Elk Middle School, Curry said. If anyone sees him, they can call dispatch at (707) 464-4191 or they can contact 911. Any law enforcement agency will respond and make sure Shea is returned to his family, Curry said.

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Articles, Education, Health, Youth

Trillium Offers ‘Third Space’ For Teens In A Community Where Accessing Mental Health Support Is A Challenge

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Thumbnail Image Courtesy of Trillium Teen Center

Trillium Teen Center didn’t plant the idea for a youth-centered program focusing on online safety, but it did allow Annaliese Carrillo space to think it up.

Annaliese, an eighth-grader at Smith River School, said it was through a summer program at the Trillum Teen Center that she realized sextortion was a problem for kids. She was able to interview Ted Talk speaker Jesse Leon and is working on a program called Cyber Bite to educate families about online safety.

“Trillium feels like a place that can connect us to opportunities and resources like that and help us make our community safer,” Annaliese told Del Norte County supervisors on Dec. 9.

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Articles, Arts & Culture, Community News, Youth

Del Norte High Students Paint Miniature Kamomes For ‘Boats of Hope’ Art Tour

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Thumbnail photo: Del Norte High School senior Elle Jacot painted two Kamome replicas for the Boats of Hope art tour. One will be headed to Rikuzentakata during a student exchange in January. | Photo courtesy of the Crescent City-Del Norte County Chamber of Commerce

Four years after the friendship between Del Norte and Rikuzentakata found an international stage at the Tokyo Olympics, replicas of the fishing vessel that sparked the relationship will be featured in a local art tour.

The Boats of Hope art tour will feature seven mini Kamomes placed at various places throughout Del Norte County. The project is spearheaded by the Crescent City-Del Norte County Chamber of Commerce as well as Carol Zocchi, advisor for Del Norte High School’s Japan Club.

Zocchi put out a call for students interested in pitching a design and inspiration for their boat to seven partner agencies, according to a chamber press release. The students were also able to earn an artist stipend.

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Articles, Law, Youth

DN Probation Chief Asks Supervisors To Oppose Proposed Limit on Probation Period for Juvenile Offenders

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Thumbnail photo courtesy of Del Norte County Probation

Calling it a solution looking for a problem, Lonnie Reyman urged Del Norte County supervisors to oppose a bill that seeks to place a 12-month limit on the probation period for juvenile offenders.

The chief probation officer asked the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to send a letter to California Gov. Gavin Newsom requesting his veto on Assembly Bill 1376. The state’s juvenile justice system is already tailored to the youths’ individual needs, Reyman argued, and a judge determines how long they’ll be on probation.

“As stated in the letter, this takes away that authority for the court to determine what is in the best interest of that youth given all the information they receive,” he said, “both from my department, other agencies involved in the crime that occurred and any other entities and agencies that have input on the length of that probation and what that probation looks like.”

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Articles, Community News, Education, Transportation, Youth

Despite ‘Making Strides,’ Students Were Nearly An Hour Late To School, DNUSD Transportation Director Says

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Thumbnail photo by Paul Critz

Del Norte County Unified School District’s transportation director painted as optimistic a picture as he could when describing the first week of school for trustees.

But, though he said things have improved, Chris Armington admitted to cases where students were nearly an hour late getting to school.

“We are making strides to make sure that communications do go out to the parents,” he told trustees on Thursday. “I work with [DNUSD communications director] Michael Hawkins on communicating our shortages and our lates to the community, and we ask parents to assist if they can take their students rather than them being super late.”

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DNUSD Recap: Trustees Create Budget Committee, Discusse Science Instruction and Climate Change

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Among the items discussed at Thursday’s Del Norte County Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting:

Standing Budget Committee:  Trustees approved the creation of a formal budget committee with dedicated meetings that will focus on how to be transparent about the district’s financial situation with all stakeholders, including parents.

Coming two months after he and his colleagues approved a 2025-26 budget amid warnings that DNUSD faces a slow decline in revenue and an increase in expenditures, District 5 Trustee Michael Greer said the meetings will be public.

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Articles, Local Government, Youth

Staff Vacancies, Increased Detention Costs, Relocation of Juvenile Services Pose Challenges to Del Norte Probation, Chief Says

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Thumbnail photo courtesy of the Del Norte Probation Department

Though his department has an overall vacancy rate of 33%, Lonnie Reyman said Del Norte County probation will be screening more than 20 potential new recruits.

The county’s probation chief offered this ray of optimism as part of an otherwise complex budget report to the Board of Supervisors on Monday. 

Probation and Re-entry Services, which includes the Youth Opportunity Center and detention services, is also expecting an uptick in the number of juvenile offenders that are in custody and are expecting the cost to house them to increase, he said.

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Low-Power FM Station Continues To Broadcast Local Voices, News to ‘Crescent City, Del Norte County and Beyond’

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Health Matters wasn’t Lynn Szabo’s idea.

Paul Critz, co-founder and director of KFUG Community Radio, had visited Redwood Urgent Care to discuss underwriting possibilities. Next thing Szabo knew she had a spot on the air to discuss all things health and why Del Norters should care.

“It was kind of amazing,” she said. “He came up with a show idea and for me to do [it]. He took a minute and a half to come up with it.”

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Del Norte High School’s 2025 Graduation Ceremony

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It was a picturesquely sunny day when Del Norte High School held its 132nd annual graduation commencement for the Class of 2025. Families and friends filled the home side of Mike Whalen Field on Friday and then some to see their graduates. 

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DiRT & Glitter to Provide Free Summer Arts Adventure Program to Native and Del Norte Youth and Community

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Disclaimer: KFUG & Redwood Voice are actively working with DiRT & Glitter to provide the 10-week sound design course as part of its program.

A press release from DiRT & Glitter:

“Local Environmental Arts Non-profit DiRT & Glitter to Provide Free Summer Arts Adventure Program to Native and Del Norte Youth and Community: Program funded by Yurok Tribe’s Klamath Promise Neighborhood Initiative Strengthens Community Health”

Local environmental arts non-profit DiRT & Glitter is offering free arts adventure programming for native and local Del Norte youth all summer long, thanks to the support of the Yurok Tribe’s Klamath Promise Neighborhood Initiative (KPN). 

The organization’s Youth Art and Adventure Program is providing youth and community opportunities to learn new skills, acquire job training, connect with professional arts and adventure experts and experience our local wilderness, all with the aim of strengthening the health of our community.

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