Fiction Contest

The Journal's First Annual Short-Short Fiction Contest is underway, and the entries are already beginning to trickle in. Join the party! We're talking short-short-short, here ...

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Sour Notes

The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors dealt with a couple of update-worthy matters at its Tuesday meeting, and did so in such a happily kumbaya ...

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The Big Spill

A couple of weeks ago -- on Tuesday, Jan. 13 -- Journal reader Rachael Brilbeck went for a stroll on the beach on the North ...

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Naval Gazing

Yes, yes, there may be a few more bombs bursting in air, or something like that, out there over the big blue sea that flanks ...

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Kinetic Rumblings

Editor: Most of the thick nonsense started with the HKA suit (“Hobart’s Children,” Jan. 22). Hobart was heavily medicated at that time. A mysterious Ferndale ...

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The Sibley Field Guide to Humboldt Motorists

Cartoon by Joel Mielke

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The Question Answers Itself

Editor: Wow. It must’ve been a slow news week if you are reduced to running nearly a full page of content to a “story” about ...

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Not That Gravel!

Editor: I must commend Mr. Sims on his colorful wit and vivid imagination, reflected in the Town Dandy piece (Jan. 15). We love to hate ...

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Houranied

Editor: Marcy Burstiner recently made some comments that questioned the inclusion in the Times-Standard of an editorial page that was a remnant of the defunct ...