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Reports from the Grand Jury
Every year a group of 19 volunteers comes together to form the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury in a civilian oversight tradition that dates back to the Magna Carta. Wielding the power of the subpoena…
Outlaw Rodeo at the Fair Marred by Two Horse Deaths
Without horse racing for its second year in a row, the 130th annual Humboldt County Fair replaced the thunder of hooves on the track with Saturday’s Outlaw Rodeo College Invitational. While it attracted a strong…
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Music Tonight: Saturday, Aug. 22
If you have ever wondered what kind of magic lurks in our local electro music scene, you could hardly hope for a better showcase than tonight’s shindig in the Swan Room at the Shanty at…
Music Tonight: Friday, Aug. 21
The Arcata Playhouse is presenting a Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett Tribute Concert tonight at 8 p.m. The music will be provided by local jazzbos RLA along with Gary Lewis on saxophone and flute, while…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Aug. 20
Robert Henry and the Repeaters are a country act from Portland, Oregon, that incorporates all the best parts of swing and honky tonk to kick up a good time like a pack of dust devils.…
You Want It Darker
I’m writing this around the 90th anniversary of the murder of the Spanish poet Federico Lorca during the Spanish Civil War by the brutal Nationalist forces under the command of eventual dictator Francisco Franco. I…
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Cooking While Traveling, Summer Edition
My favorite place to be in the summer is Humboldt County, both for the amazing produce our farmers bring to the markets and farm stands, and the fog that keeps us comfortable. This year, however,…
Coming Together for Obon
A large crowd showed up under lightly smokey skies from wildfires on Sunday afternoon at Arcata’s Creamery District to celebrate Obon. The Japanese Buddhist festival honoring the spirits of one’s ancestors is a recent tradition…
My Very Own Sit Spot
I’m lying on a bench underneath an arbor, looking up at the wisteria on the trellis. Sun peeks through the cracks of the bench. I sit up and look at the tree to my left,…
You Might Go Home Again
GAIL DAUGHTRY AND THE CELEBRITY SEX PASS. Wet Hot American Summer (2001) is as much a tenet of my marriage as any of the shared values upon which it is founded. For a quarter century,…
HCAOG Appoints Rob Holmlund as Executive Director
The Humboldt County Association of Governments (HCAOG) is pleased to announce the appointment of Rob Holmlund as its next Executive Director, effective Aug. 17, 2026. With more than 20 years of planning experience in both…
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Where you sat.
How the skies finally moved…We can only hope right now.Shifting through these longing daysWhere grace is faint.Found in the work of sand and water.Where wind once came,And still visits,A story remains.Tell me now,Fingers tracing this…
Richard Scoville
Richard William Scoville passed away suddenly and unexpectedly on July 22, 2026, at the age of 63. Rich, as he was known to family and friends, was a generous, empathetic soul, a joyful, larger-than-life presence…
Gary Ray Langdon
Gary was born on November 26, 1941 in an Albany, Calif. hospital to Lloyd and Elizabeth Langdon. He died June 28, 2026. He was preceded in death by his five year old daughter, Kimberly Louise…
California Lawmakers Kill Grizzly Bear Reintroduction Bill
This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. Lawmakers on Thursday killed a controversial plan that could have allowed grizzly bears to one day return to California. The Assembly Appropriations Committee…
Mary Jo Johnson
Mary Jo (Hall) Johnson passed away on July 23rd, 2026, in Albany, Oregon, at the age of 86. Mary Jo was born on November 10, 1939, in Greenville, California, to Joseph S. Hall and Virginia…
‘The Next Wave’
When a powerful earthquake off the North Coast generates a life-threatening tsunami, time will be of the essence for those in its path. In the most serious scenarios, including the “big one,” a magnitude 9.0…
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Letters & Opinion
Changing Course
It has long been observed, “Life teaches us how it should have been lived” and…
Oysters, Wildlife and the Reindustrialization of Humboldt Bay
On Aug. 14, the Humboldt County Fair hosts Shell-ebration, celebrating all things related to oysters…
‘Duh’
Editor: Rumble Over the Redwoods.Idiotic.Climate change.Duh. Dan Levinson, McKinleyville
Corrections
A photo caption in last week’s cover story (“Folk in the Fresh Air,” July 30,…
‘Shout-out’
Editor: At a time when all the news about government seems so bleak, this is…
‘Commitment to a Dream’
Editor: Your lead article about the Arcata Playhouse was greatly appreciated (“20 Years at the…
Together Again
It’s been more than half a year since a devastating Jan. 2 fire engulfed an entire block in downtown Arcata. The fire took more than the corner of 10th and H Street; it took homes…
Into the Great Wide Open
Everyone gets the blues, they just come in different tones and intensities, and like every color and feeling, appear different in the summer. I am no different in this respect and have recently discovered the…
Annie and Mary and Ladies and Crows
The Mad River Old Crows (aka the Old Crows), a Blue Lake men’s group/social club “with no hierarchy, agenda or rules,” emerged on the scene 13 years ago to enjoy each other’s company and to…
Revisiting the Whorf Hypothesis, Part 2
“The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis says that if you immerse yourself in another language, you can rewire your brain.” — Jeremy Renner’s character in Arrival Last week, I discussed the strong and weak versions of the Whorf Hypothesis.…
“Super Troopers 3” Keeps it Stupid
SUPER TROOPERS 3. One might rightfully wonder — as I did, while watching Straight Time (1978) on the Criterion Channel on Saturday Night — if there is any reason to go see a third installment…
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