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The Care Continuum
When asking people to fill out a survey, it's polite to offer an incentive. So when a group of volunteers set out in late January ...
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Subscribe 'Til It Hurts
When you live in the only place in the country where three faults meet, you should keep a larder stocked with gallons of water and ...
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Airborne With the Guardies
Perilous Plunge fans lined the docks, waving as the helicopter descended. Our flight mechanic, U.S. Coast Guard Petty Officer Rick Vige, and rescue swimmer, Petty ...
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Creamery in Curdle
It looks as though the questions that have been roiling the Humboldt County business community -- particularly in dairy country -- should start to be ...
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Due credit
The photo of Rick St. Charles dressed up like a burglar and acting goofy on page 7 of last week's Journal should have been credited ...
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The Millipede Massacre
Editor: Heidi Walters did a good job summarizing the complex history of Headwaters Forest ("Headwaters Forest at 10", Feb. 26). However, a notable inaccuracy occurred ...
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Adopting Reform
Editor: In reading the Feb. 19 letter to the editor titled "Not a Pretty Picture," I was saddened to hear that Ms. Rigge has experienced ...
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Hospital With Heart
Editor: How appropriate that the Journal depicted a heart on its cover for its lead story on St. Joseph's Hospital in your Feb. 12 issue ...
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Aw, Shucks
Editor, Your Feb. 19 issue was a real treat for me. I read it from cover to cover, a kind of newspaper detective case investigated ...
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