January 22nd, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; information on traffic delays on Elk Valley Road; Crescent City Harbor gives a workshop tour to investors and the public; an overview of the People’s March; more Oregon firefighters get sent to aid with SoCal fires; industrial pollutants were possibly the cause of snow in Medford on Monday; the Oregon Nurses Association continue their strike; and Proposition 12 may be repealed by the upcoming Farm Bill. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Hilda Yepes Contreras fought back tears as she described how anti-immigration rhetoric during the first Trump administration reached her family.
“My grandson, he was 8 and he was in school and kids went up to him and said that he needed to go back to Mexico,” she said. “And he said, ‘But I don’t live there. I live here.’ And they said, ‘Well, you need to go back or you’re going to get your head cut off.’”
Speaking to more than 100 people at the Crescent City Cultural Center on Saturday — ahead of President-elect Donald Trump’s second inauguration — Yepes Contreras said her family wasn’t alone in enduring the racist rhetoric that was the norm the last time Trump was in the White House.
January 20th, 2025 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; information on upcoming Elk Valley traffic delays; Del Norte supervisors discussed the current speed limit through Gasquet and Hiouchi; nautical news from Kenny Priest of Fishing the North Coast; this last month multiple threats have sent Del Norte Schools into lockdown; the Coquille Tribe will soon be opening their first off-reservation casino in Medford; Del Norte Supervisors approved the transfer of one million dollars from CalPERS to create a trust fund with the private firm PARS; and winter weather leads to several car accidents along 199. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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Del Norte County supervisors backed a proposal to transfer roughly $1 million out of a California Public Employees Retirement System-managed trust to a private firm after a representative assured them that the county wasn’t abandoning the state’s pension program.
Matt Spooner, senior consultant with Public Agencies Retirement Service (PARS), said Del Norte County wasn’t leaving CalPERS’ defined benefits program, which offers pension and other retirement benefits to its employees.
Instead, county officials are seeking to establish a trust fund with PARS that would offer greater flexibility when it comes to paying its share of those pensions and other retirement benefits, Spooner told supervisors Tuesday.
Hours after two parents confronted the school board over last week’s lockdown, Del Norte County law enforcement investigated another threat they ultimately deemed non-credible.
A report came to the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office concerning a possible threat of violence at Crescent Elk Middle School, Del Norte Unified School District announced on Facebook at about 9:30 a.m. Friday.
The child that allegedly made the threats had been speaking with a friend from Humboldt County who was concerned enough to notify the Fortuna Police Department, Del Norte County Sheriff Garrett Scott told Redwood Voice Community News.
January 17th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; upcoming surveys of the county’s sewer collection system will cause minor traffic delays; Del Norte County Board of Supervisors hopes to use its legislative platform to lower the speed limit through Hiouchi and Gasquet; the marine update from Fishing the North Coast; state regulations drive away harbor processing in Northern California; Oregon approves the state’s first off-reservation casino to the dismay of many tribes; Oregon State Laws you ought to know about; and watch out for icy roads in Josephine County. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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January 16th, 2024 – For Redwood Voice Community News, a production of Redwood Voice Youth Media, today’s news: roadwork updates from CalTrans District 1; the 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; why did all the processing leave Crescent City Harbor; Charter Communications use drones to work on power lines until the 28th; upcoming Oregon laws you’ll want to know; and The IRS announce special rebate credit for those who didn’t receive a COVID stimulus payment. All this and our regular segments from the Pacifica Radio Network and National Native News.
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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?”
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.
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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.”
