Jessica Cejnar
Reporter
Reporter
I work for the Wild Rivers Outpost, a news website that covers Del Norte County. Previously, I reported for the Del Norte Triplicate, where I was one of two reporters covering a wide variety of beats including education, natural resources, health and tribal issues. I grew up in the Los Angeles area, but have felt more at home covering small towns as I feel everyone deserves access to quality unbiased news. I also feel that reporters in small communities can be held more accountable for their stories by readers because the readers are folks you run into at the local grocery store or post office. Many people in the community I cover also know where I live, so there's that too. You don't have a lot of anonymity covering a small community and that's something I've come to appreciate.I was a 2019 California Fellow.
Per-gish Carlson was within sight from his father’s house, where Blue Creek meets the Klamath River, where he recounted a story of Troy Fletcher and his ugly fish.
“We want to ensure that our kiddos that rely on the school year’s food get fed during the summer time,” she said. “We’ve seen and we know which kids sometimes don’t get meals when the weekend comes.”
We want to know how you get your food.
Highly rural, the communities outside of Crescent City in Northern California are food deserts. “I hear from staff all the time, these kids are hungry when they come to school,” one school administrator says.