August 2023

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Check Out Prairie Creek's New Electric All-Terrain TRack Chair! Aug. 1
Crescent City Harbor Seeks To Spread Out Fashion Blacksmith Payment Aug. 1
Brookings Planning Commission Denies St. Timothy's Appeal With One Member Calling the Church's Legal Aid Clinic A Business Aug. 2
Del Norte Judge Releases DUI Suspect, Cites 2021 California Supreme Court Case Regarding Cash Bail Aug. 2
Harbor Commissioners Reconsider Proposed Beer Garden and Food Truck Pod Location After Restaurant Owner Speaks Up Aug. 3
Curry County Contracts Research Firm to Gauge Voter Opinion On Potential Ballot Measure Aug. 4
Owner of Curry County's Only Pet Store Says New Law Aiming to Curtail Puppy Mills Could Shut Her Down Aug. 4
After Four Tries, Harbor Commissioners Grant Lease to Seafood Processor Aug. 7
Crescent City Harbor Awards Construction Contract For South Beach Restrooms Aug. 7
City Shuts Down Front Street As Reconstruction Project Starts Aug. 8
Del Norte Supervisors Green-Light Probation Department Reorg; Juvenile Hall Closure Date Still Undecided Aug. 8
Del Norte Officials Unveil $9 Million Project Priority List for the Jail, Though It Only Has $3 Million To Spend Aug. 9
Crescent City's ADU Ordinance Gets First Reading; Councilors Uphold Short-term Rental Restrictions Aug. 10
Paving Project On U.S. 199 Between O'Brien and Cave Junction Starts Sunday Aug. 10
Curry County Commissioners Discuss Regaining Public, Mental Health Authority Two Years After Ceding Those Powers to the State Aug. 11
Salmon Festival Celebrates Klamath Dam Removal, Healing of the River Aug. 14
Recent Point-in-Time Survey Results Show Del Norte's Homeless Population Continues to Increase; 694 Identify As Unhoused Aug. 14
Obituary: Patricia Diane Bowers, 1955-2023 Aug. 15
Del Norte Fishermen Are Pissed About Nearshore Groundfish Fishery Closure Aug. 15
Curry County SAR Member Aids Rafter During Nighttime Rescue Aug. 16
11 Active Fires Burning in Gasquet Ranger District, Largest 100 Acres Aug. 16
(Updated) Six Rivers NF: Holiday Fire North of Patrick Creek Burning at 528 Acres, No Threat to Life and Property Currently Aug. 16
Crescent City Council Members Say A Tobacco Retail License Won't 'Put the Hammer Down' On Local Businesses Aug. 16
Smith River Complex Sparks More Evacuations; No Estimated Time For Reopening U.S. 199, Caltrans Says Aug. 17
Curry County Commissioners Follow Jackson, Coos Colleagues in Saying Ballot Measure 110 Doesn't Work, Call For Its Repeal Aug. 17
Updated Smith River Complex Info: Pioneer Road, Panther Flat Campground Area Ordered to "Go Now"; Gasquet Elevated to Level 2 Evacuation Order; Hiouchi At A Level 1 "Be Ready" Aug. 17
(UPDATE) Most 199 Communities Under Evacuation Notices Due To Smith River Complex; Community Meeting Set For Saturday Aug. 18
Pacific Power De-energizes Transmission Lines Ahead of Smith River Complex Fires; Duration of Outage Unknown Aug. 18
Curry County Moves Forward With Puppy Mill Ordinance Following Comment-Free Public Hearing Aug. 18
State, Local Elected Officials, Pacific Power Promise Water, Personnel, Generators to Fire-Beleaguered Del Norte Aug. 19
Smith River Complex Update: Fuels Management, Firefighter Efforts Save Camp Six Repeaters; French Hill Residents Ordered to Evacuate Aug. 20
Smith River Complex: Gasquet Evacuation Described as 'Orderly'; Holiday, Kelly Fires Merge; Pacific Power Delivers on Generators Aug. 21
Crescent City Harbor Commissioners Ask McGuire To Help Modify Nearshore Groundfish Closure Order; County Supervisors Expected to Discuss Issue Aug. 21
County Supervisors Call For Better Communication From Pac Power During Fire Emergency; U.S. 199 Could Reopen To Controlled Traffic Next Week, Chris Howard Says Aug. 22
Fire Emergency Forces Supervisors to Delay Juvenile Hall Closure Aug. 22
CHP Expected to Discuss Status of 199 At Tonight's Smith River Complex Meeting; Evacuation Orders Updated For Residents On Both Sides of State Line Aug. 23
CDFW Scientist Addresses Nearshore Groundfish Closure, States Department Was Tracking Quillbacks But Landings 'Shot Up' Aug. 23
CHP Unveils Plan to Caravan Vehicles Up and Down U.S. 199 Starting Monday, But Only If It's Safe Aug. 24
Crescent City Searches For Options to Continue to Display Val Polyanin's Art Aug. 24
Thunderstorm Brings Lightning, Winds to the Oregon Side of the Smith River Complex; Del Norte Dodges Bullet, Fire Spokesman Says Aug. 25
Pacific Power Says They've Electrified Nearly All Del Norte, Crescent City Customers Aug. 25
Crescent City Awards 26 Housing Vouchers to DANCO Senior Apartments Project Aug. 25
OBITUARY: Thomas Lee Gahart, 1958-2023 Aug. 26
UC Cooperative Extension Seeks Answers on Wildfire Costs to Del Norte Residents Aug. 28
Two Found With Stolen Property in Evacuation Zone Aug. 28
DNSO Relaxes Evacuation Order for Low Divide Road Residents; Smith River Complex 6 Percent Contained Aug. 28
CHP, Caltrans Scraps Traffic Escort Plan For U.S. 199 Again; Fire Officials Hopeful For Gasquet Following 'Wind Test' Expected Wednesday Aug. 28
Mike McGuire Will be the Next Leader of the California Senate, Under New Deal Announced Today Aug. 28
Oregon Governor Declares Smith River Complex a Conflagration Aug. 29
Del Norte County Official Frustrated By Delay In State Disaster Declaration For Smith River Complex; Oregon Governor Mobilizes Additional Firefighters, Equipment Aug. 29
Gov. Newsom Declares State of Emergency in Del Norte and Siskiyou Counties Due to Fires Aug. 29
Del Norte Sheriff Hopes to Allow Gasquet Residents Home Soon; County Roads Superintendent Says French Hill, Patrick Creek Took Minor Damage Aug. 30
'Up In Smoke': UC Cooperative Extension Survey Finds That the Fires Have Cost Del Norte Citizens $1,790 and Businesses $6,371, On Average Aug. 31
Rare Plant Endemic to Del Norte's Sand Dunes Gets Federal Protection Aug. 31