Gasquet News

A Klamath man was transported to the hospital after being hit by a vehicle on Wednesday while crossing U.S. Highway 101 in Crescent City.

24 fruit trees at Mountain Elem. will provide food About 40 local residents worked together Saturday to dig soil and rocks out of the ground and plant a crop of fruit trees for Mountain Elementary School in Gasquet. In about two hours, 24 apple, pear, plum, peach and cherry trees were planted, creating an orchard for the K-5 school. In a few years the trees will provide fruit for the school and the Gasquet community. The trees were purchased with a $500 grant from Jamba Juice that First 5 Del Norte applied for to use for Mountain School, said Connor Caldwell, a First 5 Service Corps VISTA who is a development coordinator for the Community Assistance Network (CAN).

Brynn Marie McMillan was born Dec. 22, 2011, at Three Rivers Hospital in Grants Pass, Ore.

While most of the heavy rains predicted for this week in the Willits area scooted north, the Thursday storm dropped more rain in one day than experienced in all of December.