Yurok Social Services will host the Tribal Community Fall Feast and Wellness Gathering in two locations Monday and Tuesday.

The first will be at the Weitchpec office from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Monday, the second at the Klamath office from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.

At both events, there will be a turkey and deer meat dinner, cultural storytelling, demonstrations, rock ’n’ roll trivia and free family portraits. The Social Services Education Departments, Tribal Court and Tribal Council are sponsoring the event.

Law authorities hear concerns of local residents

More than 100 people crowded into a “Crime Prevention Town Hall” at the county fairgrounds on Monday night in response to what authorities are calling a rise in residential burglaries in Del Norte County.

Audience members were given the opportunity to share burglary concerns before being addressed by local law enforcement officials.

Many speakers talked about their rights if confronted by a burglar in their home. Authorities disseminated information about suspects and their vehicles while encouraging residents to band together and watch for suspicious activity.

Legally blind, DN’s Adams will help anyone

Dan Adams spots Johnny McDonald on the bench press during a recent session at Del Norte High School. Del Norte Triplicate/Bryant Anderson

Adams, 46, is the strength and weightlifting coach for the Warriors football team. He opens the weight room at 7 a.m. each school day and is there after school as well as during the summer months for the football program.

But it’s not just the football players he works with.

The Del Norte County Unified School District Board today will discuss making changes to the Smith River Elementary School gym project to lower the cost of construction.

Bids to build a new gym at the school in Smith River came in $900,000 over the cost estimate.  Construction was estimated to cost about $2.3 million.

The school district, the gym’s architect and the Smith River community have been discussing ways to change the project to lower costs.

A bird finds a perch as dredging of the outer boat basin continues at Crescent City Harbor. Del Norte Triplicate/Bryant Anderson

Dredging of tsunami-deposited silt from the inner boat basin was finished Friday, and the overall project might be completed this week.

Dutra Group scooped more than 120,000 cubic yards of silt and sediment from the inner boat basin and an estimated 4,000–5,000 cubic yards will be pulled out of the outer boat basin before the project ends, said Ward Stover of Stover Engineering, which is overseeing the reconstruction of the inner boat basin.

Silt is scooped from the outer basin after inner basin dredging was completed last week. Del Norte Triplicate/Bryant Anderson

Harbor commissioners unanimously approved the final plans for the Inner Boat Basin Reconstruction Project on Tuesday night, a project more than four years in the making.

“It’s a huge milestone that’s just been passed,” said Harbormaster Richard Young.

A local man surrendered to authorities Wednesday after being pursued for several hours in Smith River.

Jamie F. Darlington, 34, of Smith River, was arrested on suspicion of a parole violation, but the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office originally sought him in connection with a separate incident.

A man in Smith River called authorities around 9 a.m. reporting that another man was pointing what he believed to be a rifle at him at 3 a.m. at his residence on South Indian Road, sheriff’s Commander Tim Athey said.

A bomb threat triggered the brief evacuation of the Del Norte County  Courthouse at 12:50 p.m. on Tuesday.

The premises on H and 4th streets was cleared and surrounding downtown streets closed off to traffic for about an hour.

No explosives were discovered by officials from the California Highway Patrol, Crescent City Fire Department, Del Norte Sheriff’s Office, Crescent City Police Department and the District Attorney’s Office.

Judges Follett and Weir disqualify selves from case

Former District Attorney Michael Riese has more time to turn himself in to authorities after his arraignment scheduled for Tuesday was postponed until Dec. 13.

A complaint has been filed  by the state Attorney General’s Office accusing Riese, 48, of one count of driving under the influence of drugs, two counts of child endangerment and a single count of public intoxication, all stemming from an Aug. 22 incident.

His arraignment was postponed after Del Norte County Superior Court judges Robert Weir and William Follett disqualified themselves from the case.