A story in the July 27, 2023, edition of the North Coast Journal headlined “Willow Creek Pharmacy Closes” contained inaccurate information. Patients of Open Door’s Willow Creek Community Health Center can have their prescriptions filled through Open Door Rx, which allows them to be picked up at the Willow Creek facility during normal business hours […]
North Coast Journal Staff
Posted inArt Walks + Festivals
Trinidad Art Night
Featuring the duo Flynn Martin performing familiar favorites at Saunders Plaza East, and a variety of art exhibits and music throughout town. Activities include food/wine tastings, skate park and face painting. In Trinidad Town Hall, enjoy paintings by Toni Magyar and listen to eclectic music by Willie Nightstar on synth-violin, beat-box, loopers, guitar, violin and […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
‘Must Try!’
Editor: Hawaiian food truck Pineapple Express sounds yummy (“Pineapple Express Goes North,” July 20). Must try! Call me crazy, but I even like Spam, Hawaiian style. John Dillon, Eureka Related Stories
Posted inLetters + Opinion
In Praise of Barry
Editor: I think that praise and appreciation is long overdue for Barry Evans. His columns are interesting and informative and are good reading. One of the first things I do when I get my NCJ is thumb to the back pages to see if there’s an Evans article and, if so, I am a happy […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
Take ‘the Pulse of Arcata’
Editors: The interim working version of the draft Gateway Area Plan has been presented to the Arcata City Council. The planning commission and city committees have all put in lots of hours to get to this point, but many of the largest issues remain. Including: How are we going to see housing in the Gateway […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
Priorities
Editor: Thanks for all the great info! I’m often thrilled with the breadth of topics covered. I don’t usually complain but I was especially upset to read that Humboldt has decided to allocate funds to repair the horse racing grandstand with moneys set aside for general maintenance in Humboldt (“Supes Pony Up $1 Million in […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
‘Good Job’
Editor: I was amazed that 60 percent of California State University undergraduates pay no tuition (Mailbox, July 13), that the Schneider house will be torn down (“PlanCo Approves Permits to Tear Down Schneider ‘Dream Home,’” July 13). (Can’t something positive be made from it — a native cultural center, a medical clinic, or perhaps just […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
‘Bravissimo Kudos’
Editor: Right now, when our collective cuckoo clocks seem turned back half a century regarding civil rights, tolerance, and basic human decency, it is so refreshing to finally witness first hand an American tradition take a progressively firm stance in favor of all our LGBTQ+ fellow-Americans. Of course I refer to American rodeos and specifically […]
Posted inLetters + Opinion
‘However …’
Editor: Thank you for publishing the excerpt from Kaitlin Reed’s book Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California (Black Snakes, July 6). It’s good that Native people are giving their perspective on “settler-colonial destruction” of their ancestral homelands. However, the piece contains this incorrect statement: “… the tragic 2002 fish kill […]