Kneeland Road at post mile marker 4.8 will be closed on June 23, 2020, due to pipe installation, from 8 am to 5 pm. This is near Showers Pass Road in Bridgeville.
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The Bridgeville Beat
Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy Ben Filippini is 24 years old and just three years out of College of the Redwood’s Police Academy. Beneath the back of his short blond hair, his neck is sunburned a dark red where a tactical helmet and mask did not cover his skin at a recent outdoor training session. He’s […]
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UPDATED: State Route 36 Crash Kills Mad River Man
UPDATE: The victim of the fatal collision has been identified as Joseph Daniel Westcott, 43 years old, of Mad River, CA. Previously: A 43-year-old Mad River resident was killed around 6 a.m. today in a head-on crash with a fully-loaded log truck while he was driving a Honda Civic in the wrong lane of State […]
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TL;DR Five Things You Need to Know About This Week’s Cover Story
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from the cover to get you caught up. (And a few things that didn’t make it into the issue.) The tiny town of Bridgeville (85 acres, population about 25, located on State Route 36 about an hour east of Fortuna) first rolled across international headlines when […]
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Peat Miner Must Pay
A complaint filed over a long-time allegedly illegal peat-moss mining operation in Bridgeville has resulted in two Humboldt County residents — peat moss miner Daniel Wojcik and landowner Robert Wotherspoon — entering felony and misdemeanor pleas yesterday for violations of the Surface Mining and Recovery Act and Lake and Streambed Alteration permitting process and of […]
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Water Theft Shuts Down School
Bridgeville Elementary School closed on Tuesday because it didn’t have running water after thieves emptied its entire 20,000 gallon water tank, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The press release is below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 09-03-2013, approximately 12:20 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the superintendent of Bridgeville Elementary […]