Posts Tagged ‘Orick’
Ryan Sundberg, candidate for 5th District supervisor, is holding a free spaghetti feed on Saturday from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Orick Community Hall. Kids and questions are welcome at the evening of spaghetti, salad and French bread.

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In the continuing struggle to find new places to trim school budgets, the Orick School District is now looking at a rarely used option — moving to a four-day school week.

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Humboldt County is pushing federal emergency officials to take another look at draft flood maps that project the little town of Orick will be under water during big floods, which threatens to force property owners to buy insurance.

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Following the closure of its mill in the wake of a waning lumber industry, the community of Orick was still able to open its hearts and pocketbooks to those in need.

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The woman killed in a collision north of Orick last week has been identified as Dorothy Louise Wilkerson, 68, of Bangor, Calif. Wilkerson was driving a 2006 Dodge Ram 3500 truck northbound on Highway 101 at an unknown speed at about 2 p.

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One person was killed and two others injured in a collision Tuesday afternoon on U.S. Highway 101 south of Davidson Road near Orick. An unidentified person was driving a 2006 Dodge Ram 3500 truck northbound on Highway 101 at an unknown speed at

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ORICK — An ornery-looking machine called a feller buncher reached out its arm and grasped the base of a small fir tree, sliced it from the ground and laid it onto a deck of logs along the side of a road.

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About 2,050 Pacific Gas and Electric Co. customers in the Orick, Big Lagoon, Trinidad and Westhaven areas lost power after some trees fell on power lines Thursday morning.

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The California Redwood Co. will close its Orick sawmill on Oct. 15 as the lumber market continues to lag and the company looks at creating a leaner operation.

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The identities of two Crescent City men have been released after a three-vehicle accident near Dry Lagoon proved fatal Saturday. John Vickers, 63, was killed immediately on impact when 58-year-old Thomas Jon Timmer’s Nissan Sentra crossed the

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Two Crescent City residents were killed in a three-vehicle traffic accident near Dry Lagoon on Saturday afternoon. According to a report from the California Highway Patrol, a driver in a Nissan Sentra heading north on U.

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When the announcer at the Orick Rodeo asked the crowd how many in attendance had never seen mutton bustin’, it looked like half raised their hands. I hadn’t seen it either, but I had a strong feeling right then that half of that crowd was

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Christopher Grant, 49, and his mother, Bobbie Grant, 63, both of Klamath, received major injuries Saturday morning in a single-vehicle accident on U.S.

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New Federal Emergency Management Agency requirements for flood insurance maps will likely mean the deaccreditation of Orick’s Redwood Creek levees, resulting in a huge increase in flood insurance costs and a dampening of development activity

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The Bald Hills are aglow with the purple fire of riverbank lupine. It’s one of the best displays to be seen in years in the grasslands and oak woodlands southeast of Orick, say Redwood National and State Parks personnel.

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