ARCATA — One arrest has been made following a robbery that occurred Dec. 2 in the Sunset Residence Hall on the Humboldt State University Campus.

HSU student Benjamin Beilin, a freshman from Valencia, Calif., was arrested Friday after the investigation led University Police to believe Beilin was involved with the incident.

Beilin was not present at the time of the crime, but is suspected of providing information to the three other suspects involved in the incident, according to an HSU press release. Beilin was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to commit a felony, first-degree robbery of a dwelling and false imprisonment.

filmDELNORTE, Del Norte County’s film commission since July, has launched its website.

The commission is the liaison between film productions and the county.

“We have officially hung out our ‘open’ sign to the rest of the world announcing that Del Norte has incredible diverse locations and is film friendly,” said Cassandra Hesseltine, filmDELNORTE’s film commissioner.

It begins.

After a contentious two-year review, the board of the agency responsible for trash, recycling and monitoring a closed landfill has a new and expanded roster.

The first meeting of the new  Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority Board is Wednesday at 3:15 p.m. in the Flynn Center.

In October, members of the county Board of Supervisors and the Crescent City Council voted to make themselves the interim authority board to evaluate the operations of the Solid Waste Authority.

Del Norte County was recently awarded a $780,000 grant from the California Forest Highway Tri-Agency to support replacing the George Tryon Bridge, a steel arch over South Fork Smith River on South Fork Road, originally built in 1948.

Hardhats are still a long way off. The Tri-Agency won’t release any funding for five years, which means the design process won’t get started until 2016, said Rosanna Bower with the Community Development Department.

Rumiano Cheese recently acquired a six-unit apartment building at 820 F St., and this week the City Council agreed to change the its zoning from residential/professional to downtown commercial.

The site is adjacent to the cheese factory.

“We now own the whole block,” said Kirk Olesen of Rumiano Cheese. “We thought it was prudent to become one zone, not necessarily for anything we want to do or anything huge coming up.”

Starting date is now Jan. 16

For the first time in at least a decade, the opener for the commercial Dungeness crab season will be pushed to mid-January on the North Coast.

Quality tests from this week show that the crabs will not be meaty enough to harvest by the current Dec. 16 opening date, which will be delayed to Jan. 16, said Marija Vojkovich, marine regional manager of the California Department of Fish and Game.

“What we’re now experiencing is very random occurrences of crab being definitely full in one port and the next port is in the toilet,” said Vojkovich. “It’s been very odd.”

Woman gets arrested, man is still sought

A woman who spotted an unfamiliar vehicle parked at her brother’s house Thursday helped authorities arrest one woman and identify another suspect connected to a burglary.

Tahnee Thomas was driving past her brother’s house on the 2100 block of Mosley Road around 2:20 p.m. when she noticed a 2010 Chevrolet Impala, sheriff’s Commander Tim Athey said.

Thomas called her brother, and he didn’t know whom it belonged to either, Athey said.

No descriptions released so far

The Crescent City Police Department has suspects in the Nov. 20 stabbings that sent five men to the hospital.

No arrests have been made, and descriptions of the suspects are being withheld.

Police officers have questioned several people but are still seeking more information about what occurred the night prior to the early-morning stabbings, Police Chief Doug Plack said Friday.

Continental Bakery will close its doors Dec. 17 after more than 30 years of serving up fresh baked treats at the corner of L Street and Highway 101 in Crescent City.

“Basically the economy has finally hit us in the gut,” said co-owner April Martin, who runs the business with her husband, Brandon.

Martin estimated the price of sugar, flour and milk has increased 300 percent since the couple bought the bakery from Andre and Debbi Kompier seven years ago.

Lions Club lot raises funds for locals in need

Chris Sanders gets some tree-shopping help from Connie Scott. Del Norte Triplicate/Emily Jo Cureton

He’s one of many people who have visited the Lions Club and Habitat for Humanity Christmas Tree Lot on U.S. Highway 101 across from the Del Norte County fairgrounds lately, in pursuit of the perfect tree.

Sanders carefully leans the giant grand back against the rails and moves on to the next row, taking in his options: about 200 fresh Oregon fir trees, cut and delivered to the lot just after Thanksgiving.