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1 week ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Construction of a roundabout and other traffic improvements in the immediate area surrounding the intersection of 12th Street and Newburg Road has been approved by the Fortuna City Council. City leaders approved the design plans, developed by GHD engineers and the project’s environmental document at a meeting on April 7. Caltrans is also a partner in this project.
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2 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
A familiar face in the Fortuna Public Works Department will be taking over as interim director, the Fortuna City Council voted unanimously this week. The consent agenda item was approved without discussion to appoint General Services Superintendent Bob Natt to lead the department, since Public Works director and city engineer Brendan Byrd has stepped down to become the executive director of the Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG).
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2 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
A grant from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife will soon allow the California Conservation Corps in Fortuna to add a fisheries habitat position to its staff. According to Fortuna District CCC Fish Habitat Specialist Brian Starks, the $273,000 grant will fund a fish habitat assistant position for three years. He applied for and secured the grant from CDFW’s Fisheries Restoration Grant Program.
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3 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Along with the social aspects, education has for many years been a focus at the annual gathering of the Redwood Region Logging Conference (RRLC). This year RRLC was held in Ukiah, March 13–15 and recognition was given to the three women who established Education Day at the conference. Maribelle Anderson and Diane Ogle, of Mendocino County, and Jan Benbow, of Humboldt County, established Education Day at the conference in 1987 and were selected as this year’s achievement award recipients.
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3 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Springtime was in full bloom at the Fortuna River Lodge and Conference Center during the Fortuna Garden Club’s 48th annual Daffodils by the River event on March 22 and 23. “It was a great show and well attended,” Fortuna Garden Club representative Judy Sloma said.
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3 weeks ago | 
forestnet.com | Mary Bullwinkel
POLLOCK PINES, CALIFORNIA – Dan Arens and Son Inc., a logging contractor in northern California, is a key business partner to Sierra Pacific Industries (SPI). In recent years the loggers have been helping SPI salvage timber on forestland ravaged by fire. The Arens family has been in the logging business for more than 75 years, after Ken Arens bought a logging truck and began hauling logs in the Redding area in the early 1950s. His sons, Dan and Larry, worked for their father until the mid-1980s.
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3 weeks ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Fortuna Police Lt. Matt Eberhardt has been appointed as the Interim Police Chief of the department, effective Saturday. The announcement was included in a news release issued by the Fortuna Police Department on Thursday evening. Eberhardt will step in to fill the vacancy left by the departure of Fortuna Police Chief Casey Day, who is taking the chief of police job in Pacific Grove.
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1 month ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Seven women received special awards recently from Soroptimist International of Eel River Valley (SIERV). The club handed out the Violet Richardson, Kathleen Turner Award for Resilience, Ruby, and Live Your Dream awards, along with two Women’s Opportunity awards.
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1 month ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
Clendenen’s Cider Works in Fortuna has become the latest to be dedicated as a historic landmark by the Native Sons of the Golden West (NSGW). Ferndale Parlor No. 93 NSGW planned the celebration, and on February 15th, the plaque was affixed to the Fortuna business and dedicated in a ceremony presided over by Gary Padgett, NSGW Grand President. “Basically, what we’re after is we’re trying to keep history alive,” Padgett said. The bronze plaque outlines the history of Clendenen’s Cider Works.
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1 month ago | 
times-standard.com | Mary Bullwinkel
18 students were recently recognized at the annual awards celebration of the Eel River Valley chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). “It is an honor to recognize these wonderful youth for all their accomplishments they have made and I’m sure will continue to make,” said DAR Regent Shirley Lipa. Awards were given to good citizens, a junior American citizen, American and cursive penmanship essay winners, and Constitution Week poster winners.
