Water, Dirt and Time
Bluff dwellers get relief but what will the meandering Mad do next?
Cover Story
Water, Dirt and Time
Northcoast Journal Mailbox March 15, 2007 Editor: I represent the non-governmental defendants in the Mad River Bluff litigation featured in your last cover story and I would like to set the record straight ("Water, dirt and time," March 8). I feel sorry for all of the homeowners affected by the erosion of the Mad River…
In the Dark
The power in Garberville first went off Tuesday morning, probably around 10 a.m. Within a half hour, the power had been restored. Then, shortly after 11, we lost it again, and this time it was gone for 28 hours. The PG&E hotline was scant on details, stating only that the outage was caused by "winter…
In the Dark (II)
It will always amuse me that people who live in a temperate rain forest are seemingly never prepared for what pours down from a February sky. As often happens on the North Coast at this time of year, our power went out on a particularly stormy afternoon last week, and wasn’t restored until two days…
Taming the Wildearth
In this ongoing series of Humboldt County gardeners telling it like it is, Eureka gardener and landscape designer Donna Wildearth (right) has stepped up to bat. She owns Garden Visions Landscape Design and she teaches at College of the Redwoods. "Between my business and my teaching," she says, "I feel happily immersed in the world…
Love Times Three
Somewhere in this space a few weeks ago I mentioned that a new restaurant, 3 Foods Café, had finally opened behind the Arcata Co-op. I had not yet eaten there, and as I noted, I had no idea what the three foods in the name might be. At this point I’ve been there three times…
Whose Blues?
The blues. Who’s the audience for it in this day and age? Who are the players? At a time when plenty of young musicians are sawing on fiddles and picking up and picking on mandolins and banjos old timey style, a scant few seem interested in playing the blues, and if they do, it’s more…
Growing pains in Cutten
Attorney John Belsher, of San Luis Obispo, was looking a little tense-jawed Monday night as resident after resident stood up inside the Cutten ElemenSchool auditorium to give him and his Forster-Gill fellows what-for over the mixed-use development – with up to 1,442 homes – they’ve proposed for north of Ridgewood Drive and south of the…
Bypass the State
My dad told me in 1956 that the Willits bypass would not be built in his lifetime. He died in 1980. Now it appears the bypass may not be built in my lifetime. Last Wednesday (Feb. 28) the California Transportation Commission derailed a $177 million funding plan for the bypass and gave that money to…
