Articles, In Media Res

What the Heck Happened to KFUG??

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As many in the community have noticed, the FM band at 101.1 megahertz is all static, and not the usual mix of static and music that would signal the low-power presence of KFUG Community Radio. What happened? Where did KFUG go? 

There is a certain amount of sorcery involved in the complicated process behind shoving an antenna into the sky and subsequently hearing a voice come out of a paper cone several miles removed. Maybe it’s the panoply of compounding variables that gives broadcasting this numinous quality, but after twenty years of radio-living, I can confidently assert what I have learned: Radio is NOT science. Sure, it incorporates wires and circuit boards and math, but really it’s witchcraft. And just as with Elphaba, this witch’s bane is water.  

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Articles, Community News, Transportation

Supes Add Proposal To Lower Speed Limit Through Gasquet, Hiouchi to Legislative Platform

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Del Norte County Supervisor Chris Howard hopes a slate of new legislators, and potential support from one of them, will alleviate a problem that’s plagued Hiouchi and Gasquet for years — cars speeding through  at 55-plus mph.

Howard, whose district includes those communities along U.S. 199, asked for his colleagues’ support on Tuesday, pointing out that those safety concerns will persist if change isn’t made at the legislative level.

“Legislation was attempted here two-and-a-half years ago and it failed to give the county a voice into our state highway system and, more importantly, setting up speed [limits],” Howard told his colleagues. “So why not get more specific? Why not focus on a specific area where those public lands are impacted?” 

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Activism, Radio

Crescent City, CA People’s March 2025

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Recorded 1-15-25 for KFUG Community Radio’s “Community Service” segment: a conversation with Lupe Gutiérrez and Kevin Hendrick, organizers for 2025’s “People’s March.”

The Crescent City, CA event will take place Saturday January 18th 2025. Participants will meet at the Cultural Center on Front Street. Doors open at 10:30 AM, with speakers taking the stage at 11 AM. At 11:30 AM participants are invited to march (on the sidewalks) northbound on Highway 101 before crossing at Cooper street and returning south on Highway 101.

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Harbor’s New Code of Conduct for Public Comment – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 15th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; a weekly update from the Superintendent of DNUSD; Del Norte High School Warrior wrestlers placed high in out of town tournaments; Del Norte County District 2 Supervisor loses nomination for Chair of Board of Supervisors; Crescent City Harbor Commission discuss a code of conduct for public comment; The Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation ask for tribal citizens input on annual TTP funds; Charter Communications use drones to work on power lines until the 28th; the Biden Administration officially sign off two new national monuments in California; the IRS announce special rebate credit for those who didn’t receive a COVID stimulus payment; the Yurok Fire Department aids in ongoing SoCal fires; a report from The Climate Center unearths the truth on “Water’s Edge” tax policy; and nonprofit Trans Can Work expand operations after a near shutdown last year. 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!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of KFUG Station Manager Paul Critz, which has been edited.

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News, Economy, Environment

‘The State Won’t Work With You’; Long-time Shrimper Says Lack of Infrastructure Is Forcing Fleet, Processors Out of California

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Randy Smith says he understands why Pacific Seafood shuttered its facilities in Crescent City and Eureka.

The same regulations the Clackamas, Ore.-based processor gave as its reasoning for abandoning Humboldt and Del Norte counties have also forced Smith and other local fishermen to land their catch elsewhere.

Smith, owner of the Mistasea and member of the Crescent City Commercial Fisherman’s Marketing Association, the California Dungeness Task Force and, up until last year, the Newport, Oregon Board of Shrimp Producers, said he bought a house in Oregon about two years ago because “I’m up there more.” The harbors in California are a place to park a boat and do some repairs, he said, but there’s no infrastructure anymore.

“You can’t blame Pacific Seafood for doing what they did,” said Smith, whose father was one of the first fishermen to work with the company when its CEO opened the Eureka processing facility about 39 years ago. “You don’t know how many pots you’ll get to fish with and you don’t know when you’re going to get to fish…. The state won’t work with you and Fish and Game won’t work with you.”

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Articles, Community News, Local Government

Starkey Snubbed For Board Chair, Nomination Fails To Get A Second

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Though she congratulated her colleague Joey Borges, Valerie Starkey didn’t hide her disappointment at being passed over for chair of the Del Norte County Board of Supervisors.

Starkey, who was sworn into her second term as representative of Del Norte County District 2 earlier this month, was nominated on Tuesday to preside over the Board’s meetings by District 1 Supervisor Darrin Short. That nomination died due to lack of a second.

“I’m only responsible for District 2 and District 2 has supported me and I know where I stand with them,” Starkey told Redwood Voice Community News. “But we go where the need is — we don’t just work in our districts. I have to say that if the supervisors in districts 3, 4 and 5 are not confident in my abilities, then that’s between them and their constituents.”

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The Providence Strike Perseveres – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 14th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; Del Norte County is seeking Measure R Oversight Committee members; Crescent City Harbor District Commissioners discuss enforcing a code of conduct; Harbor Commissioners approved a resolution to start their meetings with a non-denominational invocation; the Tolowa Dee-ni’ Nation is requesting feedback from Tribal Citizens about the use of the annual Tribal Transportation funds; information on the upcoming Wild Rivers Film Festival; President Biden signs in two new officially designated monuments in the state of California; Yurok DNHS student James Junior Gensaw becomes the first Del Norte wrestler to be signed into a four year university straight out of high school; the Yurok Fire Department aids in firefighting efforts in Southern California; the Providence healthcare worker strike hits its fourth day; climate advocates push to eliminate Water’s Edge tax break for multinational oil companies; and the Trans Can Work foundation re-opens after receiving a 3 year grant. 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!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of KOBI-TV NBC 5, which has been edited.

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Yurok Tribe Sends Aid for SoCal Fires – Redwood Voice Community News

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January 13th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; the Measure R Citizens Oversight Committee is seeking new members; the first delegation from Rikuzentakata since COVID-19 arrived in Crescent City last week; harbor Commissioners approved a resolution to start their meetings with an non-denominational invocation; Nautical News from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; information on upcoming Wild Rivers Film Festival events; Yurok Fisheries Department Director Barry McCovey is named one of eleven indigenous change makers by Indian Country Today; Yurok DNHS student James Junior Gensaw becomes the first Del Norte wrestler to be signed into a four year university straight out of high school; Yurok Fire Department Engine 9434 makes its way to SoCal to aid in fighting the fires; and a California tax exemption saves oil companies millions. 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!

Today’s newscast image is courtesy of the Yurok Tribe via their Facebook Page, which has been edited.

Articles, CC Harbor, Community News

Crescent City Harbor Adopts Guidelines For Public Comment

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Crescent City Harbor commissioners hadn’t gotten that far in their agenda last Tuesday when Board President Gerhard Weber asked a public commenter to leave.

The commenter, Alicia Williams, had stepped up to the podium a second time seeking to rebut statements a previous speaker had made concerning invocations at public meetings. She refused to step down after Weber reminded her multiple times that she had already spoken.

Weber wound up telling Williams to leave, saying she was disrupting the meeting.

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Arts & Culture, Guest Submission, In Media Res

The Providence of Nosferatu

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This article is a guest submission. To submit your own work for consideration, send your piece to redwoodvoicedn@gmail.com. Thumbnail photo courtesy of Focus Features, from the film Nosferatu (2024).

Written and submitted by Urma Fassinger.

This article contains spoilers for the film Nosferatu (2024). 

From the streets of Wisborg, Germany to the forest of birch trees in Transylvania, Nosferatu (2024) is strikingly beautiful, haunting, and nauseatingly disgusting. Gothic horror has been on the fringe of cinema until Robert Eggers showed the world how valuable it is. This isn’t the director’s first project that could be described as strange and off-putting—films such as The Lighthouse (2019) and The VVitch (2015) have stunned and mystified audiences who seek out the dark. 

Nosferatu (2024) is a faithful adaptation of Nosferatu (1922), which was a creative adaptation of the novel Dracula written by Bram Stoker and published in 1897. Many believe that Dracula is the first modern vampire novel, but it is not; it has two predecessors: Carmilla by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, published in 1872 and The Vampyre by John William Polidori, published in 1819. 

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