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SERVING DEL NORTE COUNTY SINCE 1879 Crescent City, CA
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Another grant to assist at Beachfront Park BY RODNEY HARWOOD Country Media
Crescent City received $3 million in state Rural Recreation and Tourism grant dollars in 2022 and $5 million in Statewide Park Program grant dollars in 2021 toward the rebuild of Beachfront Park. Now it will add another grant to the city revitalization process, using nearly $3 million Clean California grant to create a gateway to Beachfront Park. The Clean California Local Grant Program is a Caltrans program that aims to beautify and improve streets and roads, tribal lands, parks, pathways and transit centers, according to the release. Caltrans awarded roughly $300 million to 105 projects in the first cycle. The department awarded about $100 million to 42 projects statewide in the second Please see GRANT, Page A2
Documentary highlights beauty of Crescent City BY RODNEY HARWOOD Country Media
CRESCENT CITY – Everywhere you look up and down the California Coast is a vision of picturesque beauty, the pounding surf, the landmarks and the stories in the spirit of the Endless Summer. Surfware Media’s DocuSeries: “What It Was California Coast,” isn’t about chasing waves around the world like the 1966 surf documentary “Endless Summer.” But the seven-episode series does take an epic road trip along the California Coast from the Oregon/California border through Crescent City, Trinidad, Eureka, The Lost Coast, Shelter Cove and the Humboldt Redwoods. It rolls in the spirit of that classic line from a Gordon Lightfoot song, “… Carefree highway. Let me slip away, slip away on you …” Season 1 features spectacular views, historical information, and amusing stories. The California Coast is considered a national treasure by those who dare to take the ride, director Rich Sumner said. “We did everything from the Oregon border south. The Crescent City piece was a nice segment,” Sumner said in a telephone interview from Huntington Beach. “We shot up there in
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The documentary series, “What it Was California Coast,” stopped by Crescent City and visited Battery Point Lighthouse among many other areas of the community.
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Homecoming celebration
Photos by Shawn Hedgecorth/The Triplicate
Del Norte High School students celebrated homecoming in style last week with a traditional homecoming parade to prepare for the school’s football game.
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