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Commercial crab season opens Monday
December 13, 2013 08:34 pm

 

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Workers on the dock use a hoist to load crab pots onto small fishing boats at the Port of Brookings Harbor

Fishermen agree on a price of $2.65 per pound for crab that can be brought to port beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday

Commercial crab season in Curry County kicks off this weekend, with the start of the season beginning at 12:01 a.m. Monday. 

Boats were already in the water at 8 a.m. Friday. Fishermen are allowed to set their crab pots in the water 64 hours ahead of the beginning of the commercial harvesting season.

 

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Roadmaster wants Curry County commissioners to keep $33 million for roads
December 13, 2013 08:30 pm

Curry County Roadmaster Dan Crumley doesn’t want anyone touching one penny of the $33 million or so he has saved over the years to take care of the county’s roads.

“Oh, that’s no secret,” he admitted, with a laugh. “I recognize the county’s in a really difficult situation, but. …”

Crumley’s road fund is the only county coffer with a seeming abundance of money — and the only one from which county commissioners can take funds to help soften the fiscal blows that have come its way in the past several years.

To some, it appears to have become the trough at which the county rescues its floundering sheriff patrol services; to others, it’s a coveted pot of gold that could solve the county’s fiscal woes.

On both counts, of course, it’s not that simple, Crumley said.

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