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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 14, 2024
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CITY DECLARES EMERGENCY on Pebble Beach Drive
New slide area prompts emergency response
BY ROGER GITLIN The Triplicate
The City declared an emergency resolution due to continuous slide activity and the failure of Pebble Beach Drive between 7th and 8th Streets and authorize the City Manager to act pursuant public contract code.
The December 2016 storms caused significant Beach cliff erosion within the City along Pebble Beach Drive from Preston Island to 6th St. This was evidenced by the visible road cracks indicating loss of road foundation and loss of bluff. By August of 2021, the design contractor had achieved 30 percent plans and the first Coastal Development Permit (CDP) application
was submitted. Based on Coastal staff’s responses, the scope of the project increased from a soil nail truss system with riprap to a soldier pile retaining wall with tiebacks over the 6th to 8th street and the 9th to Preston Island portions of the project. The 9th street section of Pebble Beach Drive (containing the Brother Jonathan Please see EMERGENCY, Page 12 Photo provided by: Doug Westfall
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Del Norte wrestlers won their first-ever NCS dual meet championship over the weekend after placing second in each of the past four seasons.
Warriors win historic first-ever NCS championship on the mats
BY RAY HAMILL That’s a wrap! The feature film known as the BC Project wrapped after 11 days of filming on the redwood coast. “They are still wrapping out of some of the locations and area in general, so you might still see a truck or two, but filming is now complete,” expressed Cassandra
Hesseltine, the Humboldt-Del Norte Film Commissioner. The film commission was first notified by the location team for the studio feature film in April of 2019. “We are honored to have been on their radar for all these years and for the project
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The Del Norte Warriors are bridesmaids no more. After placing second at the North Coast Section Division-2 Redwood Empire Wrestling Championships in each of the past four seasons, the Warriors finally got over the hump with a
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championship-winning performance at Eureka High School on Saturday (Feb. 3). “We finally got it,” Del Norte head coach Clinton Schaad said. “It was an exciting day.” Even more gratifying was the fact they beat Ukiah in the final, the same school that had edged the Warriors in each of the previous four section finals.
And to make matters even more exciting, the final went down to the last match of the day, with Del Norte’s Reynaldo Martinez securing the team victory in thrilling fashion. “Rey had to go out and wrestle his best, and as long as he didn’t get pinned we would win,” Please see WARRIORS, Page 2
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