UPDATE (6:37 p.m.) After trouble-shooting myriad technical difficulties with the City’s Zoom feed and audio, the Eureka City Council directed staff to proceed with work on the draft budget for the 2020-2021 fiscal year. Another public hearing will be held July 7. Mayor Susan Seaman encouraged members of the public to give feedback and public […]
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Eureka Looks to Save Nearly $500K with Six Early Retirements
The Eureka City Council will look Tuesday at approving so-called “golden handshake” offers for six employees as the city braces for some difficult budget decisions in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak. According to the agenda, the retirement offers will save the city nearly $500,000. The employees talking early retirement include longtime Sequoia Park Zoo […]
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UPDATE: Panda Found
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department announced this morning that Masala, the 18-month-old red panda on the lam from the Sequoia Park Zoo since Thursday, was found last night and returned to the zoo safe and sound. From the EPD’s Facebook announcement: “Masala is home safe! From Sequoia Park Zoo Manager Gretchen Ziegler: For those who […]
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UPDATE: Zoo Seeks Volunteers for Panda Search Party
2nd UPDATE: The Sequoia Park Zoo is looking for volunteers to join a search party that’s going to set out tomorrow to find Masala, the 18-month-old red panda that escaped from its zoo enclosure Thursday. In a press release, the zoo asked that volunteers show up tomorrow at 8:30 or 10 a.m. at the zoo […]
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Red Panda Escaped from the Zoo
Masala, a young red panda, is missing from the Sequoia Park Zoo and thought to be in the Sequoia Park forest. City staff and the Eureka Police Department are searching for her. Gretchen Ziegler, zoo manager, said staff got a report late this afternoon from “someone in the community that they saw a red panda […]