Editor: I agree that a compassionate, supportive and responsive community is a good ideal (Mailbox, Feb. 2). History doesn’t show that happens just yet. Meanwhile, I am worried that resisters to bullies and tyrants may not have the support of our whole communities. We have just elected a bully who surely knows how to take […]
North Coast Journal Staff
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Thomas Maxwell Kohler
Thomas Maxwell Kohler, 87 years old, of Rio Dell, California, died after a brief illness on Jan. 17, 2025 in Eureka, California, with his wife by his side. Tom grew up in Petaluma, California. The son of Maxwell and Mary Kohler, he was in the U.S. Navy Reserve Seabees (“We Build, We Fight”) for eight […]
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Gary David Noar: 1958-2024
Gary Noar, age 66, of Trinidad, California, passed away from complications of kidney cancer and pulmonary embolism on Dec. 06, 2024. Gary was an adventurous spirit and avid hiker. He loved motorcycles and exploring the great outdoors. Gary was a loyal friend, brother and uncle, and was a loving pet-parent to his cat Max, aka […]
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Donald Allyn Wente Junior
Born Aug. 8, 1957, in St. Louis, Missouri, to Donald Allyn Wente, Sr. and Rebecca Vise Tilinski, Don passed peacefully from his earthly life on Dec. 23, 2024, in his home in Arcata, California, with two of his most beloved friends by his side. Don grew up in St. Charles, Missouri, and the neighboring towns […]
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Camille Marie Kopriva Regli
Camille Regli, a beloved mother, grandmother, friend and artist, passed away peacefully at the age of 86 on Jan. 14 in Fortuna, California. Surrounded by her loving family, Camille passed after a long battle with lung complications caused by Alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and a recent battle with Multiple Myeloma. Born on July 18, 1938, in […]
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Evelyn Joyce (Throop) Adams
Evelyn Joyce Adams passed away peacefully at Sequoia Springs Assisted Living surrounded by family. She was born in Maricopa, California, and was the youngest and last surviving child of Lewis and Lucia (Bowlden) Throop. She grew up in the Taft/Maricopa area attending local schools until her senior year. She graduated in 1951 from Technical High […]
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Horse Racing Crossroads, A Better Crab Season and Chinese Expulsion Monument
Eureka Chinatown Project to Create Chinese Expulsion Monument, Fishers Make the Most of a Better Crab Season, The Humboldt County Fair is at a Crossroads
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Re: Rick
Editor: Gosh, what a caustic review of election season and including the fire tragedies from R. Brennan (Mailbox, Jan. 30). As an antidote, I’d love to see a copy in print of the Episcopalian bishop’s address I hear about from the inauguration. Susan Pence, Eureka Editor: Rick Brennan of Eureka seems to be ignorant of […]
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‘The Wrong Invasive Species’
Editor: So let’s see If I understand this. The westward migration of the invasive European human species resultedin trees being planted all across the Great Plains. Those trees, in turn, paved the way for the barred owl to migrate westward across the continent to invade the old growth forests on the West Coast (“‘Complex Tradeoffs’,” […]
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‘A Long and Desperate Fight’
Editor: Feb. 6 through Feb. 9 marks the 140th anniversary of the Eureka expulsion: when anti-Chinese activists engineered the expulsion of 300-plus Chinese community members (about 5 percent of Eureka’s population at that time). On Feb. 6, 1885, an argument between a few Chinese men escalated into a shooting, and a Eureka City Council member […]
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‘It’s Doable’
Editor: Tired is a modest term for what we consider a wearying repetition of the “OMG, ain’t it awful; the state of health care in Humboldt (and the rest of the nation).” Once again we hear policy experts and healthcare leaders bemoaning the reality of a system that ope rates like a business where profit […]
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‘Support the Good Guys’
Editor: Americans are deeply divided by their beliefs, often supported by untruths or poor arguments (Mailbox, Jan. 30). We allowed ourselves to become so divided today because we don’t question our sources. We waste our time (at best) arguing without the facts? As I said before; “Let’s remind ourselves that we are responsible for the […]