BEST IN SHOW 2025 🏆
Being the BEST ain’t no game — it’s a title you earn.
To claim your spot as Humboldt’s Best in Show, you’ve got to get votes — and not just once. The BEST don’t just sit back — they show up, stand out, and let the whole county know they’re in it to win it.
It’s time to VOTE for your favorite people, places and things in Humboldt. Vote once per day through June 30th. Go to boh.northcoastjournal.com and start nominating today.
🐾 READY TO RUN WITH THE BIG DOGS?
This is your time to shine. Rally your people — staff, friends, family, loyal customers, friendly baristas, and that one superfan — and campaign for those nominations!
✓ Post on social media ✓ Send out newsletters ✓ Hang posters in your shop ✓ Offer perks to customers who help spread the word ✓ Tag it all with #ncjboh25
We’ve made it easy: Grab campaign posters and social media graphics here!
WANT TO GO BIG?
Advertising works. Reach even more voters with an ad on the ballot or in the pages of the North Coast Journal.
📧 Email advertising@northcoastjournal.com to learn how to boost your visibility.
Let the games begin. 🐾 Do you have what it takes to be Best in Show?
Round II, Vote! June 4-30, 2025
Winners: Published in the North Coast Journal Aug. 7 edition.
This article appears in Glory Over Land and Sea.


Lotta Dispancery on hw 36. This guys have most unique flavors
How is Chris Ortega nominated for best Police officer in Arcata?? that man helped a very violent rapist at the Recology center get away with rape, in collusion with the DA Maggie Fleming and St. Josephs hospital that refused me a rape-kit.
And then, what is Elaine Firpo being nominated for best lawyer?? She literally filed complete and total Lies about me in my family law case, and through my kids and I into a CWS case! She botched my family law case! Worst lawyer ever!!