Gwen Neu, a teacher who lives in Eureka, attended StrangeBrew in quest of the gender she found sadly under-represented in the Journal’s recent beer judging. Anyone reading the North Coast Journal a few weeks ago might think beer is a manly sort of beverage. Not so fast. Plenty of women were sampling, savoring and sometimes […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Pretty Fine Pilobolus
Horizontal became vertical, electricity became visible and chairs morphed into the only solid ground in a slippery world on Tuesday, when Pilobolus dancers leapt, slouched and spun across the Van Duzer Theater stage. The Connecticut-based troupe reached into a repertoire that spanned most of its 40-year existence and pulled out one dazzling winner and mixed […]
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Go, civil liberties!
A passing shout-out to Arcata from a writer who dared to read the Fourth Amendment of the Constitution in a New Mexico airport when TSA wanted to scan, scan, scan: People walking to the gate stare wide-eyed, but no one stops. In my hometown of Arcata, someone would have whipped out a cell phone and […]
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Chickenpox, anyone?
For the folks who think that natural immunity beats a vaccination,Trinidad Elementary School has turned into a textbook lesson on how to grow your own outbreak. Chickenpox has spread swiftly through the 180-student school, apparently contracted so far by at least 16 children and adults. The numbers aren’t surprising given that roughly 20 percent of […]
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Dollars for Docs
When she’s learning about new medications, Karen A. Moulton likes to order the salmon. That’s her favorite at the Sea Grill in Eureka, where candlelight and cream-colored tablecloths await doctors, nurse practitioners and physician assistants being hosted by drug companies. The drugs being described vary, but the hosts are consistent: Pharmaceutical companies pay for the […]
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Class action money
Another round of payments has gone out in the Skilled Healthcare nursing home settlement, potentially triggering fresh confusion over how to keep as much money as possible without losing government benefits. Many people getting compensated for time they spent in understaffed nursing homes, including five homes in Humboldt County, receive disability or medical coverage that’s […]
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Captivatin’ Cultivatin’
Think of outlaws, gardens and Humboldt, and just one plant might pop into your mind. Well, weed that mental image out of your thoughts, and conjure up instead deep yellow black-eyed Susans, dusky purple smoke bushes, and an exotic Australian pine that’s not a pine. Many of the flowers and trees flourishing at the Humboldt […]
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Wanted: Garbage Collector
Almost a year after opening its new power plant in Eureka, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. invited the neighbors in on Saturday to take a look. A more unusual sight, though, was a few hundred yards away behind a cyclone fence: Humboldt County’s very own nuclear waste dump. It’s the resting place for 390 spent […]
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Whale, CSI
It probably will be at least two months before marine mammal specialists get enough lab results to make an educated guess about what killed the whale that circled for so many weeks in the Klamath River. One set of tests will look for toxins produced by freshwater algae. Another batch will assess blubber for contaminants […]
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Vanishing Congressman
OK, Mike Thompson’s running. But not here. And he’s sad to leave us. Read all about it in his press release: Congressman Mike Thompson (CA-1) today announced that he will seek re-election from his life-long home in the reshaped Fifth Congressional district map. California Congressional district maps, drawn by a voter approved independent commission, were […]
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Vulnerable — Part 2
Second of two parts Drifting languidly through the halls at Seaview Rehabilitation & Wellness Center, the poles are as brightly colored and as aimless as reef fish. They waft forward, idle, then reverse. The poles are paint-roller extension handles, the kind used to reach high ceilings, except these are draped with flowers and ribbons. They […]
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Corrections
A report online and reprinted in last week’s Journal overstated the degree of knowledge that City Manager David Tyson had regarding the identity of the new tenant at the Bayshore Mall. The report should have read: But some people who may be able to confirm the identity of the tenant can’t talk. Tyson said he […]