Jessica Cejnar / Wednesday, March 17 @ 12:30 p.m. / Local Government
5 Percent Rate Increase Proposed for Most Recology Del Norte Customers; Town Hall Meeting Set to Discuss Changes
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Most Recology Del Norte customers could see their rates increase by about 5 percent starting July 1 pending approval from the Del Norte Solid Waste Management Authority.
The new rate structure will also require customers to pay roughly $5 extra for a recycling bin that’s larger than their garbage bin, according to DNSWMA Director Tedd Ward.
“It used to be that if you signed up for the current service and you were a residential customer, you got a 30 gallon trash cart and you could get up to a 90 gallon recycling cart for no additional charge,” Ward told the DNSWMA Board of Directors on Tuesday. “Because recycling is costly and because some customers were using it for additional trash, we remove the incentive by charging for the e
The facility, on the Samoa Peninsula, is the company s second proposed land-based operation in the United States. It is also building a facility in Belfast, Mai
Lanphere Dunes. | Photo courtesy the Humboldt County Visitors Bureau.
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On Tuesday, the final day of the Trump administration, Secretary of the Interior David L. Bernhardt honored the natural beauty and ecological value of Lanphere and Ma-le’l Dunes by designating them national natural landmarks.
The National Natural Landmarks Program, managed by the National Park Service, recognizes sites that have “outstanding biological and geological resources” while encouraging their conservation.
“It’s a way of recognizing truly special places that are of national significance,” said Mike Cipra, executive director of the nonprofit Friends of the Dunes.
The undulating sand mounds, woody swales and verdant wetlands of Lanphere and Ma-le’l Dunes, located on the Samoa Peninsula west of Arcata, are home to a remarkably diverse array of native flora. Coniferous and riparian forests rise above patches of pale green reindeer lichen, blooming sand verbena and Menzies wallflower,
OBITUARY: Robert Charles Durfee, 1941-2021
Robert Charles Durfee, 79, of Fairhaven, passed away on January 16,
2021, surrounded by his family, after a valiant fight against
Alzheimer’s. He was born to Bradford and Agnes Durfee on June 9,
1941, in Fall River, Massachusetts.
Bob attended
school in Fall River, graduating from Durfee High School in 1959. He
had joined the Navy prior to his graduation and upon completion of
his basic training, became the sailor who never set foot on a ship,
working on heavy equipment as a “Sea-Bee” with duty stations in
Port Huaneme and Okinawa, before ending his Naval career at
Centerville Naval Base in Ferndale. Upon his discharge in 1963, he