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Saturday October 19 2019

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It’s storm watch season A

Carol Hungerford Publisher

Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor

series of storms sweeping in from the Pacific Ocean is ushering in fall weather along the southern Oregon coast. The intensity of the storms triggered a high-surf advisory Thursday and Friday from the National Weather Service. The storms produced breaking waves of 20 to 25 feet along the beach. The Weather Service advisory

High waves splash over the rocks along Harris Beach north of Brookings. Photo by Jeremy C. Ruark. said the large, breaking waves would sweep over the rocks and jetties, creating hazardous conditions along the surf zone. Higher-than-normal run-up could inundate beaches and low-lying shoreline, said the Weather Service, generating beach erosion and dam-

aging exposed infrastructure. Still, the dangerous conditions didn’t keep people off the beaches altogether. Several ventured onto the beach Thursday at Harris State Park just north of Brookings to see the surging waves. “It’s an angry ocean,” remarked one beach visitor.

Oregon State Park Department safety program specialist Robert Smith said the fall and winter storm watching brings observers to the More Storm on Page A5

Car crash takes life of well-known tackle shop, charter boat personality A

Max Greenfield.

Harbor man is still missing Linda Pinkham Staff Writer

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ax Greenfield hasn’t been seen since March 18, 2018. The Pilot contacted the Del Norte County Sheriff’s Office for an update. Commander Bill Steven said he was very familiar with the case, although he didn’t have any updates to add to what was already known other than “detectives were working a lead a month ago.” Last year, NBC Dateline featured Greenfield’s story on the show’s missing persons series. Steven was unable to say whether any tips had come from that nationwide exposure. Greenfield’s last known location was documented More Man on Page A5

Andy Martin

prominent local tackle shop worker from Brookings, who spent years working at tackle shops and charter offices in Santa Cruz, recently died in a car accident in the Smith River Canyon. Roland Robertson, 67, and his passenger, 44-year-old Travis Lea, were found dead Oct. 15 in Robertson’s battered Mazda pickup truck 60 feet down an embankment off U.S. Highway 199 near Gasquet, just north of Patrick Creek Lodge. The truck is believed to have been over the side of the winding road for several days before a California Department of Transportation worker discovered it in a heavily wooded area. The cause of George Morrison (standing) and Roland Robertson of Brookings show a the accident is unknown. 44-pound king salmon caught from the Chetco River. Courtesy photo. Robertson worked at the Brookings tackle shop fishing guide Jack Hanshop where he worked to the Chetco Outdoor Store while in town. son. “As a young man, he become the headquarters in Brookings. He was well “Worked many days was a pretty damn good for southern Oregon tuna known in the fishing comsurfer from the Santa Cruz fishing. munity in southern Oregon with him at Shamrock back in the day,” said Brett region.” He also was an accomand northern California, Shaw of Santa Cruz. “I Robertson moved to plished boat and shore both for his local fishing learned a lot about fishing Brookings from Santa salmon and steelhead knowledge and for his stofrom him. Many people Cruz, and lived at the At fisherman. Customers ries of working on charter Rivers Edge RV Park, next sought his advice on the boats in Santa Cruz, where can say the same thing. The memories are endto the famous Morris Hole best-color Spin-N-Glo to he had worked for Shamless.” on the Chetco. Anglers use, or best brine to use for rock Charters. “Caught a lot of fish would call him daily to salmon trolling. Robertson had a strong with the man,” said Steve find out how many fish Andy Martin is a following of anglers from Throop of Santa Cruz. “A had moved upriver the full-time river guide and the Bay Area who fished lore more because of him.” previous evening near his saltwater boat captain with the Chetco and Smith “I used to really enjoy home. Wild Rivers Fishing and rivers with local guides. talking about surfing with His expertise in albacore Brookings Fishing CharThey would always make Roland,” said Brookings tuna fishing allowed the ters, LLC. a point of visiting him at

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hen we purchased the Del Norte Triplicate and the Curry Coastal Pilot on July 1, I hit the decks running. Making decisions like crazy, many of which had been long delayed. From visiting with people in the community, it seemed clear their overwhelming preference was for strong news coverage of the local area, news they couldn’t get anywhere else. Knowing that, one decision I made was to focus our energy, resources and budget on just that – local stories. But to do that, and still ensure our newspapers would be financially sustainable over the long run, we needed to stop running costly syndicated features – thousands of dollars a year - so we instead could hire a larger reporting staff and still keep the budget balanced. Plus, without those costly syndicated features taking up space, we could find some room for more local news. Well, it turns out a significant number of our readers are willing to have less local news if it means they can continue to have a few comic strips, an advice column, maybe the word or number game they’d grown used to seeing. Now that we understand that, instead of hiring additional reporting staff we’re shifting the budget so we can restore a limited number of the syndicated features we had discontinued. (But certainly not all of them.) Here’s your chance to let us know your two or three favorites that we once provided. Send your suggestions by mail to The Pilot or The Triplicate, or email them to hrmanager@ countrymedia.net . We’ll bring a few of the most popular back, beginning with the Nov. 5 issue.

Get ready, property tax statements coming soon L

Jeremy C. Ruark Pilot Editor

ocal property owners are receiving their annual property tax statements late this week. Curry County Assessor and Tax Collector Jim Kolen said 20,000 of the statements were to be mailed

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out. “Most property owners will see a 3% overall increase in their maximum assessed value (MAV),” Kolen said. “However, Oregon law dictates that property owners will pay property tax on their MAV or their RMV, whichever is less.” The RMV noted on the tax state-

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ment is the assessor’s estimate of what the property would have sold for on Jan. 1, 2019 and is based on sales that occurred primarily in 2018. In 1997, Oregon voters approved Ballot Measure 50, which limited MAV to no more than 103% of the prior year’s assessed

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value. Measure 50 also froze the permanent tax rates of taxing districts, while allowing for variation to the tax rates that districts impose to pay for limited-duration, voterapproved bond measures. According to Kolen, property values are increasing throughout most of Curry County. This year,

the median RMV of single-family homes countywide is $277,300, compared to last year’s median value of $258,450. The 2019-20 median home values by city are $177,460 for Port Orford, $232,160 for Gold Beach More Tax on Page A4

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