June 3rd, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Cal Trans District 1; the Brookings-Harbor Farmers Market is declared a dangerous building; information on this year’s seamless summer food program in Del Norte; a look into Del Norte’s first Community Science Fair; Del Norte Supervisors proclaimed May Mental Health Awareness Month; Crescent City Police are still searching for the assailants linked with last week’s Safeway shooting; more recently Supervisors discussed whether the County should maintain privately owned roads; Crescent City Harbor Commissioner Annie Nehmer spoke out against the continued employment of Harbormaster Rademaker; registration for the 18th annual Dee-ni’ day is now open; the City of Brookings announces improvement plans for Bud Cross Park; the California Department of Fish & Wildlife is seeking public comment on the draft Guidelines for Recovery Planning; the California Senate is considering a bill to extend the State’s Habitat Conservation Fund through 2035; and conservation groups speak out against the timber industry’s push to remove Northern Spotted Owl protections. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Two years after receiving nearly $3 million in Prop. 64 grant money, Del Norte’s probation chief will enlist the County Office of Education to help figure out how to use those dollars to benefit local youth.
Del Norte County Chief Probation Officer Lonnie Reyman said he hopes to develop programs centered around youth,substance abuse prevention and early intervention as well as treatment and rehabilitation.
Since the grant dollars come from the Control, Regulate and Tax Adult Use of Marijuana Act approved by California voters in 2016 as Proposition 64, the programs will focus on marijuana, he said.
It was a peaceful spring morning when staff, clients, and friends of Del Norte Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) walked down Pacific Avenue to the Flynn Center to receive a proclamation for Mental Health Awareness. On May 13, the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors proclaimed May as Mental Health Awareness Month, with the aim to ”raise awareness and understanding of Mental Health and to increase access to Mental Health services by offering hope to those in need.”
The Del Norte Unified School District, in partnership with the Klamath Promise Neighborhood (KPN) and True North Organizing Network recently invited the community to discover the wonders of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) at the very first Community Science Festival, on May 3rd at the Del Norte County Fairgrounds.
As the school year draws to a close, the Seamless Summer Food Program is gearing up to make sure youth throughout Del Norte still have access to free nutritious meals over summer vacation. The program, which is a collaboration between the Del Norte and Tribal Lands Community Food Council, Wild Rivers Community Foundation, Del Norte Unified School District, and Champions for Change, will provide breakfast and lunch for kids and teens ages 0-18 six days out of the week over a three month period.
June 2nd, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Cal Trans District 1; a prescribed burn advisory from CalTrans District 1; the Brookings-Harbor Farmers market received a dangerous building tag; Del Norte Supervisors discussed whether the County should provide road maintenance on private roads; Crescent City Harbor Commissioner Nehmer suggests ousting Harbormaster Rademaker; Del Norte High School will see increased security following the shooting at Safeway; registration is now available for the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation’s 18th annual Dee-ni’ Day; the City of Brookings announces its improvement plans for Bud Cross Park; nautical news from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; and the California Department of Fish & Wildlife is seeking public comment on the draft Guidelines for Recovery Planning. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
We’re broadcasting on KFUG 101.1FM and kfugradio.org every day at 12PM, with a rebroadcast at 5PM. We’re also airing on KZZH 96.7FM at 6AM, and KCIW 100.7FM at 6PM!
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Russell Walters Jr. (left) and Russell Walters Sr. (right) | Courtesy CCPD
Crescent City police are still searching for 17-year-old Russell Walters Jr. and his father Russell Walter Sr., 65, in connection with last week’s shooting at the Jedediah Smith Shopping Center.
Police have also arrested a third person, 32-year-old Joshua Roberts, who they say helped the two suspects evade police, Crescent City Police Chief Richard Griffin told Redwood Voice Community News on Monday.
“We have evidence of him picking [Walters Jr. and Sr.] up after the shooting and driving away from the house,” Griffin said. “He’s on parole and a search was done and that’s where the firearms, an AR-15 and semiautomatic handgun were located with ammo and he was arrested [on suspicion of] aiding and abetting.”
The day before she accused Mike Rademaker of falsifying public records, Harbor Commissioner Annie Nehmer formally petitioned the courts to halt the release of a report looking into the harbormaster’s alleged misconduct.
Nehmer also states in her petition for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction, filed Tuesday in Del Norte County Superior Court, that the Harbor District Board of Commissioners violated the Brown Act by not publicly reporting a May 13 vote to release the report.
The report is based on an investigation conducted by Sacramento consultant HRtoGO, and though Harbormaster Mike Rademaker states otherwise, it is not yet finished, Nehmer told Redwood Voice Community News on Friday.
“We have not received notification that it’s complete or final,” she said.
Before asking her colleagues to consider taking protective action against potential insolvency, Crescent City Harbor Commissioner Annie Nehmer stood at the podium, invoked state and federal whistleblower laws and said the port may run out of cash within four to nine months.
There’s been no spending freeze or emergency budget discussion, Nehmer said, and the Harbor District Board in April gave their CEO a $24,000 raise “without disclosing the financial impact or explaining the decision to the public.”
Nehmer urged her colleagues to think twice about continuing to employ Harbormaster Mike Rademaker and voted no when, at the end of a closed-session meeting Wednesday, they finally approved his five-year contract.
Despite her initial worry that approving a purchase for a private road would open a tin of segmented invertebrates, Valerie Starkey came around to the idea of contributing $1,500 in rock for the Carole Lane area north of Crescent City.
The Del Norte County District 2 supervisor had initially told County Engineer Jon Olson on Tuesday that she would oppose adding the purchase to the budget set aside for repairs to roads not maintained by the county. Starkey’s no vote turned into a yes after her colleague, District 1 representative Darrin Short, made a motion to approve the purchase but only if the rock were used on parts of Carole Lane that are public.
“Just the public road intersections of Carole, Monopoly and Embarcadero,” Short said.
