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Editor's Note: It’s all about The Catch
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If you have to wake up in the dark – and that’s hard to avoid this time of year – there’s at least a visual reward as you trudge into the cold to get the newspaper. The lingering cloudless weather means the stars are vivid in the predawn sky.
And if you happen to be looking out to sea, there’s an additional light show courtesy of fishing boats as their crews continue to pull up pots full of plump crabs. No apologies here for hitting the crab story hard last week, with three front-page centerpieces. It’s a bumper crop and the harbor is buzzing. This week we’ll try to tell you more about how to enjoy the fresh catch, starting with the publisher’s take on crab cakes in today’s Neighbors section. Frankly, I have a hard time getting over how fortunate I feel to have landed in a place where the big story is The Catch. When reporter Kurt Madar checked out the bustling nocturnal scene at the harbor last week, he brought home the story in more ways than one: As he drove away, two crabs were still fighting it out in his trunk. The Triplicate’s Rick Postal was second in line to buy fresh crab on opening day. The guy in front turned around with his purchase and asked if he should put it on ice. “How far are you going?” Postal asked. “Napa,” the guy replied. He ended up wrapping his crab and some ice in his jacket for the long ride home, then displayed an additional bit of naivete when Postal plunked down a little extra money and asked that his crab be cleaned. “The backs come off?” Mr. Wine Country asked as the process unfolded. Hope he made it home OK. LATEST POLL NUMBERS
Someone recently expressed the concern that it’s possible to stuff
the ballot box in The Triplicate’s online poll. Unfortunately, that’s
unavoidable, and a good reason why the highly unscientific poll results
should be taken with a grain of salt – or maybe a little butter sauce
left over from that crab dinner.
We’re on the honor system here, folks. And with that disclaimer, here’s a rapid-fire look at some of the results: • Figuring out ways to divert more of California’s water southward to help the agriculture industry wins out 460-323 over working to keep the water we’ve got to protect northern rivers. (Sounds surprisingly generous of us Northerners to me.) • In a tight one, a few more respondents support (379) rather than oppose (348) water fowl hunting in Tolowa Dunes State Park. (C’mon folks, the Ducks are going to the Rose Bowl.) • An amazing (unbelievable?) number of votes were cast on the question of allowing motorized, off-highway vehicles in the Smith River National Recreation Area. It came down like this: 2,226 supported lessening the access, 1,267 supported increasing it, and 96 supported making no change. (The overwhelming turnout requires additional grains of salt, although this issue was left on the Web site for voting longer than most.) • And finally, in a landslide (612-45), respondents agree that “the Crescent City foghorn is a quaint reminder of our nautical nature and fun to listen to” rather than “a noisy, all-night nuisance that we should consider silencing.” (Now what about those barking seals?) |
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