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A Fort Bragg woman was killed and four others were seriously injured Thursday morning in a foggy head on crash on Highway 101 south of Willits.
The crash occurred near Hollands Lane just before 7 a.m.
Tags: ca, California, coast, Fort Bragg, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, Willits
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Joining the tea party [Daily Triplicate]
Hundreds turn out in Crescent City, waving flags, signs
A sea of tea party-goers congregated at U.S. Highway 101 and Front
Street on Thursday, waving flags and signs, including one that said,
“Stop bleeding off our children’s future.”
One of the organizers, Mary Wilson, estimated more than 300 people showed up throughout the day.
It was the local version of tea parties held throughout the country on the day U.S. income taxes were due.
Tags: ca, Crescent City, Highway 101, Humboldt, Local, taxes
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Two Fort Bragg children lost their mother in a head-on crash that closed Highway 101 south of Willits for two hours early Thursday morning.
Tags: ca, California, Fort Bragg, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, Ukiah, Willits
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Two Fort Bragg children lost their mother in a head-on crash that closed Highway 101 south of Willits for two hours early Thursday morning.
Tags: ca, California, Fort Bragg, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, Ukiah, Willits
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A Eureka woman was killed after she was ejected from her vehicle Wednesday night as it rolled over on U.S. Highway 101 near Metropolitan Avenue. Mary Louise Gayman, 47, was driving her 1999 Dodge Caravan southbound on U.
Tags: ca, Eureka, Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local
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Caltrans started the next phase in the construction of the Alton Interchange Project on Monday, with three U.S. Highway 101 detours in place for eight hours a day.
Tags: ca, caltrans, Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local
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The following items were compiled from reports prepared by law enforcement agencies:
Willits Police Department
March 29
Report: 7:24 a.m. Mentally disturbed man sitting over the rail with one leg over the side on intersection of Walker Road and Highway 101.
Tags: ca, California, Highway 101, Humboldt, law, law enforcement, Northern California, Willits
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Lucky 7 enlarging [Daily Triplicate]
1st phase nearly done; future plan calls for a hotel
Smith River Rancheria is in the process of an $11 million project to renovate and expand Lucky 7 Casino.
The tribe is also planning to eventually build a hotel, which would create a resort right on U.S. Highway 101.
Smith River Rancheria has had “a lot of stuff happening,” Kara Miller, chairperson of the tribal council, said at the Economic Summit last Saturday.
Tags: ca, casino, Highway 101, Humboldt, Smith River, tribal
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Multiple crashes and fender benders littered U.S. Highway 101 Tuesday when violent hail bursts pounded the road. Around 1 p.m., at least seven vehicles were involved in three separate collisions just north of Clam Beach.
Tags: ca, Clam Beach, Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local
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You may have seen the billboards lit up along Highway 101 telling you there would be a tsunami warning test Wednesday.
Tags: ca, California, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, tsunami, Ukiah
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Shallow salt beds cover a 1,436-acre former salt production site in Redwod City where agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. and Arizona-based DMB Associates want to build up to 12,000 housing units. More than 100 environmental and political leaders have singed a petition opposing the project.
REDWOOD CITY – A proposal to construct the largest housing development on the shores of San Francisco Bay in more than 40 years has run headlong into a phalanx of environmentalists and politicians who want to derail the project even before initial environmental studies begin.
The so-called Saltworks 50-50 Plan would build as many as 12,000 housing units on about 1,400 acres of what is now a retired salt production facility just east of Highway 101, not far from the San Mateo Bridge in Redwood City.
The proposal, being pitched by agribusiness giant Cargill Inc. and Arizona-based DMB Associates, has come under political fire in recent weeks by more than 100 environmental and political leaders who signed a petition asking Redwood City officials to cease any further consideration of the proposal.
“Nothing so breathtaking in size or misguided in scope has been proposed in half a century,” reads the preamble to the Feb. 26 petition circulated by Oakland-based Save the Bay.
“Salt ponds are not land to be paved,” the petition continues. “They are part of San Francisco Bay to be restored to tidal marsh for wildlife habitat, natural flood protection for our communities, cleaner water and recreation areas for everyone to enjoy.”
The list of petition signers reads like a Bay Area who’s who, including state Sen. Mark Leno and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano of San Francisco, Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, and David Chiu, president of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
Officials from all nine Bay Area counties have signed it, including 13 mayors, 11 members of the Association of Bay Area Governments and eight members of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission.
David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, called the project unprecedented since a 1965 state law called the McAteer-Petris Act gave birth to what is now the 27-member Bay Conservation and Development Commission. The law has served as the key legal provision preserving the bay from being indiscriminately filled.
“We don’t pave over restorable wetlands. We don’t need an EIR to tell us that,” Lewis said, using shorthand for a state-required environmental impact report.
To be sure, officials acknowledge that the bay is one-third smaller than it was during the state’s Gold Rush of 1848-1855 as a result of developers filling in the waterway.
But according to David Smith, a DMB Associates vice president, the project wouldn’t be built on either bay fill or a former tidal marsh, but on land used in industrial salt production since 1901.
“We’re perplexed as to why these Bay Area environmental groups and these political leaders would want to stop the CEQA process,” Smith said, referring to the California Environmental Quality Act, which requires environmental review of such development. “If anything, you would think they would want to get all the facts out about this project.”
Smith says Minnesota-based Cargill and DMB see the proposal as a chance to build high-quality, transit-oriented housing for Silicon Valley-area workers who now commute from far away. As currently designed, the development would accommodate about 30,000 people and feature a large number of upscale apartments and condos.
Saltworks project proponents have been floating the idea around Redwood City for the past three or four years. What’s changed in recent weeks is that Redwood City officials have started looking for consultants to put together the environmental impact report that CEQA requires. It’s expected to take from 18 to 24 months to complete.
Redwood City Mayor Jeff Ira says the environmental study must be allowed to proceed.
“I appreciate how passionate people are about this – I really do,” Ira said last week. “But the study will provide us with important information that we don’t have now. … Only then, with that information, can we make the best decision possible.”
Even so, Lewis and other critics say they plan to keep pressuring Ira and the Redwood City Council until the panel drops the Saltworks project entirely.
If the coalition is successful, Lewis said, the next step would be for federal authorities or a nonprofit conservation group to buy the land and let it revert to a tidal marsh. Examples of similar efforts dot the South Bay and Peninsula shorelines and surround the Saltworks property.
Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors President John Gioia, a veteran member of the Bay Conservation and Development Commission and one of the eight commissioners who signed the petition, agrees.
“This proposal is a direct assault on the whole Bay Area,” Gioia said in a statement. “We all have a stake in what happens in Redwood City. It’s about habitat (and) biological diversity. The bay defines our quality of life and who we are.”
A drainage site.
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The Daily Journal
Firefighters quickly extinguished a vehicle fire about 9 a.m. Thursday near Talmage Road and an on-ramp to Highway 101.
Tags: ca, California, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California, Ukiah
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Hwy. 199 reopens after slide [Daily Triplicate]
Traffic is rolling on crucial route
Del Norte County’s main connection between U.S. Highway 101 and Interstate 5 is now open after a rock slide caused by winter weather shut it down for a day and a half.
Tags: ca, Del Norte County, Highway 101, Humboldt
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A Eureka woman died Tuesday night, hours after her van collided with a truck as she tried to drive across Highway 101 in southern Petaluma, the CHP reported Wednesday.
Lonetta Sayers, 62, and her husband Russell Sayers, 62, Tuesday afternoon had pulled off of the highway at a gas station near Kastania Road, CHP Sgt. Allan Capurro said.
Tags: ca, California, CHP, Eureka, Highway 101, Humboldt, Northern California
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A Eureka woman died Tuesday night after her car collided with another vehicle on U.S. Highway 101 near Petaluma. According to the California Highway Patrol, Loretta Sayers, 62, attempted to cross the southbound lane of U.
Tags: accident, ca, California, California Highway Patrol, Eureka, Highway 101, Humboldt, Humboldt County, Humboldt County News, Local
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