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june 19, 2008
Pool Stories
by Heidi Walters
Everybody's got a swimming story — where they learned, the crazy way they could've been buried alive under a pile of wet kids, how it makes them feel to swim: ...
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Old School and New
by Hank Sims
Well, Rich Somerville, welcome to Humboldt County. Here's a briefing from The Town Dandy, and don't say I never did you any favors ... I sincerely hope you stay for ...
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Fire, No Driver
by Heidi Walters
A call came into the Willow Creek Volunteer Fire Department last Sunday: There was a fire just past Titlow Hill. Volunteers rushed to the station. And then waited. And waited. ...
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Angels and Insects
by Karen Sack
Four miles south of Batavia, Ohio and 25 miles east of Cincinnati in a lush green valley formed by glacial deposits, participants, spectators and 17-year cicadas interfaced at Harsha Lake ...
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Our Gas Plight
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: Who owns the tank farms in Eureka ("Crude Figures," June 9)? Why are gas prices lower inland, with higher distribution costs? Hint: competition from Redding or Oregon. [Former Humboldt ...
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Horse Bites
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: You're too old to continue working? You're sick and it's going to be expensive to keep you alive? Why not just send you to the slaughter! It's a cheap ...
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Another Horse Bite
by North Coast Journal Readers
Editor: There have always been a wide range of ways to care for and use horses here in Humboldt County and through out civilization. There always will be. One thing ...
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A Commie Writes
by North Coast Journal Readers
(Ed. note: We received the following handwritten letter a couple of weeks ago, but it was temporarily forsaken and forgotten in the wilds of my desk. Many apologies to Michael ...
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Of Course We Do
After years of waiting, same-sex couples wed
by Meghannraye Sutton
When Cheryl Rau and Pat McCutcheon first began their relationship back in the 1980s, they never dreamed that one day they would be married as wife and wife. At that ...




















