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

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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, Infrastructure, Local Government, Transportation

Airport Authority Discusses Projects List, FAA Funding and Fuel Farm Rehabilitation

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Thumbnail photo: Inside the Del Norte County Regional Airport terminal. Photo by James Brooks

Sean Rosenthal unveiled a five-year list of capital improvement projects he said may be eligible for $15.5 million in federal funding.

But, while the Border Coast Regional Airport Authority would be responsible for a 5% local match for most projects, things are different for a long-awaited rehabilitation of a fuel farm at Jack McNamara Field, the airport authority director told commissioners Thursday.

About $600,000 in Airport Infrastructure Grant dollars are available for the fuel farm project, Rosenthal said. Though the total estimated cost for the project is $1.2 million, the airport director told commissioners that figure isn’t finalized. Still, BCRAA will be responsible for figuring out how to pay for what the AIG grant doesn’t cover, he said.

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Articles, Crescent City, Infrastructure, Transportation

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

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

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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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Del Norte Supervisors Appoint Gerry Hemmingsen to Airport Board’s Public Member Seat; JPA Voted For Someone Else

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Four Del Norte County supervisors on Tuesday chose their former colleague, Gerry Hemmingsen, over Cal-Ore Life Flight employee Mark Weaver to serve on the Border Coast Regional Airport Authority’s governing body.

Their action ran counter to a 5-3 vote BCRAA commissioners took after multiple split decisions on Aug. 6 to appoint Weaver to Del Norte’s third seat on the joint powers authority with Hemmingsen serving as his alternate. 

According to District 3 Supervisor Chris Howard, who sits on the BCRAA Board with District 1 representative Darrin Short, there currently isn’t a mechanism for the JPA’s public member to have an alternate. 

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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

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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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Crescent City Council Recap For Aug. 17, 2026

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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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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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School Board, City Council Seats Still Open To Candidates; Crescent City Harbor District Lineup Set For November Election

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Thumbnail photo: Del Norte County’s Veterans Memorial Hall was used as a polling place during the June primary. | File photo by Monique Camarena

A slew of director and trustee positions are still available for candidates who want to help shape policy concerning local water use, fire protection and the education of Del Norte County’s youth.

The filing period for two of the three seats up for grabs on the Del Norte County Unified School District Board of Trustees has been extended until 5 p.m. Wednesday. The incumbents in both the Trustee Area 1 and Trustee Area 5 seats did not file their election paperwork by Friday’s deadline.

So far, two candidates — Briannon Fraley and Ron Bates — have filed election papers for the Trustee Area 5 seat that represents Klamath and communities south and east of Crescent City. Incumbent Michael Greer is seeking the California State Assembly District 2 seat currently held by Chris Rogers and is not seeking another term on the DNUSD Board.

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Commenters At City Council Meeting Raise Concern Over DNSO’s Automated License Plate Reader Camera At Northcrest and Washington

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Thumbnail photo: The Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office’s automated license plate reader camera from Flock Safety at Northcrest Drive led to questions from the public at Monday’s Crescent City Council meeting. | Photo by Heather Polen

Del Norte County’s sheriff says he understands the concerns commenters raised before the Crescent City Council on Monday about an automated license plate reader (ALPR) camera at Northcrest Drive and Washington Boulevard.

But in a rural area with few safeguards and only three deputies on duty during a shift, having “those eyes out there” to foil a kidnapping or any other crime is worth it, he told Redwood Voice Community News on Tuesday.

“For now, it’s a three-year safeguard,” Sheriff Garrett Scott said of the six Flock Safety cameras his office purchased in May 2025. “If, God forbid, we do have a kidnapping or something horrific at one of our schools or in the more populated areas, they’re a proven resource.”

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