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New Year's Eve

jan. 1, 2009

Saving Sam

dec. 25, 2008

Falling Trees Ahead
jan. 8, 2009

inside

music

Don't Want To Hear No Blues

THE HUM by Bob Doran

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poem

Solstice

POEM by Eric Park

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books

Hot, Flat and Crowded

BOOKNOTES by Lucas Garcia

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books

Emotional Awareness: Overcoming the Obstacles To Psychological Balance and Compassion

BOOKNOTES by William Kowinski

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garden

Dirt 2009 To-Do

DIRT by Amy Stewart

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food

Hard Boiled

TABLE TALK by Simona Carini

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arts-arcata

Second Friday Arts! Arcata

ARTS! ARCATA by North Coast Journal Staff

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field-notes

Reach Out and Touch Someone

FIELD NOTES by Barry Evans

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review

Sunday At Devil Dirt

IN REVIEW by Mark Shikuma

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movies

Happy Days, Here Again

FILMLAND by North Coast Journal Staff

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news and views

O, Eucalyptus!

We pause now to interrogate a couple hundred of our longest-enduring residents. Experts tell us these old-timers are in the way. Creaky old limbs. Messy. ...

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Drive-Thru Redwoods

The public-comment process for Caltrans's proposed realignment of U.S. Highway 101 at Richardson Grove began with a low-key meeting in late September 2007, held at ...

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the town dandy

This Means War

"Don't imagine your cool new president is going to give you a pass," we said a week after the Nov. 4 election, in re the ...

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short stories

Nancy's Day

"I'm so deeply sorry," said Steven Daniel Hash, the thin, soft-spoken man in the orange jump suit, his words barely audible to the woman sitting ...

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short stories

Madoffed?

The victims of Bernard Madoff's alleged Ponzi scheme continue to pile up at the base of the cliff, a sad tangle of duped philanthropic organizations, ...

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mailbox

It’s a Weed

Editor: As much as I like the photography and artistic creativity of the New Year’s photo essay, I feel the need to express how old ...

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Sam

Editor: I want to thank you again for last week’s article about Sam Price (“Saving Sam,” Dec. 25). I agree with Jessie Brownlee’s comment that ...

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Rx for St. Joe

Editor: While I wouldn’t have used the term “fed-up,” I am extremely disappointed by the conduct of the Board of Trustees of St. Joseph Hospital ...

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Media Moron

Editor: I seriously don’t think I have ever read anything in this paper as wild as “Zombies of the ER,” by Marcy Burstiner (Jan. 1). ...

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Caveat Lector

Editor: I have been reading the NCJ for as long as it has been published. I look forward to each new edition arriving in time ...

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Computer Glitch

Because of a computer error, the URL given in Cindee Grace’s letter last week (“Mailbox,” Jan. 1) was printed incorrectly. The true address at which ...

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