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.
May 30th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: prescribed burns near the 101 to begin June 2nd; an attempted shooting occurred Wednesday night and what we know about it now; the marine update from Fishing the North Coast; problems with bus routes spark debate whether schoolchildren should have an Arcata field trip; the Steven’s Prairie Restoration Project is off to a big start; insights on the Tolowa Dee-ni’ general election; West Coast salmon fishing regulations have been announced; Pacific Power encourages customers to prepare for wildfire season; how HR1 affects rural hospitals; and a report from the California Department of Technology about California’s automated systems. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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May 29th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; a suspect has been identified in Wednesday night’s shooting; a safety update from the Del Norte Unified School District; items discussed at last week’s Del Norte Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting; with DNUSD bus routes being regularly delayed or cancelled, the feasibility of upcoming field trips is questioned; an update on the Blue Creek Prairie Restoration from the Yurok Tribe; stats from the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation’s May 17th General Election; the National Marine Fisheries Service publishes the West Coast salmon fishing regulations for 2025; Pacific Power encourages customers to prepare for wildfire season; if proposed Medicaid cuts are approved rural health centers and hospitals may have to shut their doors; and agencies across California use what can be classified as high risk AI systems without reporting them as such. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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May 28th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; info on last Thursday’s DNUSD Board of Trustees meeting; Curry County voters reject property tax levy to further fund local patrol deputies and dispatchers; items discussed at the Brooking City Council meeting; the Yurok Tribe hosts a Upriver Community Project Update meeting tomorrow; local condors get showcased on NBC’s “Wild Kingdom”; the National Marine Fisheries Service has published updated fishing regulations; the Journal of the American Medical Association finds women are now binge drinking more than men; and an update on potential birthing center closures in rural Oregon. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Thumbnail photo: Members of Del Norte Unified School District’s AI Task Force discuss a draft policy with the Board of Trustees in this April photo. | Photo by Guiming Xiong
Superintendent Jeff Harris was absent. Among the items discussed at Thursday’s Del Norte Unified School District Board of Trustees meeting.
DNTA negotiations begin:
Del Norte Unified School District is not in a position to offer salary increases to teachers during the 2025-26 fiscal year, Superintendent of Business Jeff Napier told trustees.
Napier presented DNUSD’s first proposal for its 2025-26 contract with the Del Norte Teachers Association a little more than two months after a stalemate between the two parties concluded with help from state mediators.
Melissa Endert went before the Del Norte Unified School District Board of Trustees two days after bus service to her children’s school was canceled.
Endert, who lives in Crescent City while her kids attend Smith River School to be near their father who is a special education teacher, said finding out at the last minute that the bus wouldn’t be showing up was a sacrifice for her and left many parents scrambling.
“That’s a hardship for community members who are not like myself, who don’t have a spare car or don’t have time set aside to get their kids to school,” she said. “The district stresses that students should come to school every day. If buses aren’t running they can’t attend school. If they come to school an hour late, they’re missing breakfast, they’re missing time and they’re stressed, they’re hungry, they’re anxious and they’re worried and it’s already a long bus route.”
May 27th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from Caltrans District 1; a proposed ordinance to restrict camping or loitering on sidewalks is turned down by Eureka City Councilors; Curry County voters reject a law enforcement levy for the second year in a row; items discussed at the recent Brookings City Council Meeting; the Yurok Tribe will be holding an Upriver Community Development Project Update Meeting this week; last weekend NBC aired an episode of Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” featuring the Northern California Condor Restoration Program; a proposed California Bill, Assembly Bill 55, would allow Birth Centers to take Medi-Cal; a recent study shows women are more prone to binge drink than men; the potential closure of two Oregon hospitals is announced following Medicaid cuts; and Green Point School District in Humboldt County is to cease operating July 1st. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Literacy means resiliency, stability and survival for Del Norte County, Terrin Musbach wrote in a letter she plans to send to state library officials.
Musbach, program coordinator for Del Norte Reads, read her letter before library trustees on Monday about six weeks after the California State Library recommended the local program not participate in the state’s literacy program.
But, while trustees agreed to partner with Musbach and petition the state to let Del Norte Reads rejoin California Library Literacy Services, they also received a letter of resignation from their library director, Phyllis Goodeill.
