You’ve gotta get that caffeine somewhere tomorrow, right? Well, know that Dutch Bros. is donating its Oct. 1 proceeds to the Humboldt Community Breast Health Project. That is all. The press release is here: EUREKA, Calif. (Sept. 30, 2013) — On Tuesday, Oct. 1, Dutch Bros. Coffee locations in Humboldt County will donate all proceeds […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Water Theft Shuts Down School
Bridgeville Elementary School closed on Tuesday because it didn’t have running water after thieves emptied its entire 20,000 gallon water tank, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday. The press release is below. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 09-03-2013, approximately 12:20 p.m., the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a call from the superintendent of Bridgeville Elementary […]
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Illegal, Secret e-Meetings by School Trustees?
School district trustees may have broken the state’s public meeting law by exchanging e-mails about how to handle a plagiarized graduation speech by one of their own, the Arcata Eye and McKinleyville Press reported last week. The emails reveal a group of school board members eager to make the problem go away as quickly as […]
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Dog Owner Fail [Update: Suspect Identified]
UPDATE: From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has positively identified the suspect in this case as Salvatore Ted Arena, age 42, of Freshwater. The three dogs, Angel, Becky and Ginger, had belonged to Arena’s brother who passed away suddenly in February of this year. Arena began trying to surrender the […]
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Feeling Nosy?
State Controller John Chiang is up to his old good government tricks again, updating all that government salary info that some of us love to snoop into.The state site has useful big picture data on cities, counties, state government and the state university system. HSU, it tells us, had 3,656 employees in 2012 and paid […]
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Watershed Worries
Fears of another massive fish kill are growing as tribal officials and biologists size up the combined effects of a low water year and high demand from upstream farmers and local pot growers, the Two Rivers Tribune is reporting. “Dangerous conditions on the Klamath and Trinity become the new normal,” warns the headline in this […]
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A Time to Embrace
With chants and kazoos, cheers and party horns, revelers sent up a joyful noise in Eureka and Arcata on Wednesday evening, celebrating a pair of Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage. Outside the Humboldt County Courthouse in Eureka, drivers honked in shared jubilation as they passed, and Susan McGee marveled that the support had begun […]
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The Big Sandy
From castles to koi fish, squid to sunbathers, sandy creations sprung up alongside the sea in Manila today — only to disintegrate as the waves advanced. Among the ephemera were two giant, lanky bodies, seaweed hair steaming down their shoulders, who looked so relaxed they tempted one person after another to lie beside them. If […]
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Rallies Hail Gay Marriage Decisions
With chants and kazoos, cheers and party horns, more than 100 people sent up a joyful noise in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse this evening, celebrating a pair of Supreme Court rulings on gay marriage. Drivers honked in shared jubilation as they passed, and Susan McGee marveled that the support had begun sounding the […]
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Welcome, Jennifer
Jennifer Fumiko Cahill, who has written for the Journal about everything from redevelopment to zombie Thanksgiving wrestling to her grandfather’s miso soup, joins our staff this week. She grew up in New York State and earned a Master of Fine Arts in creative writing from Columbia University in New York City. Jennifer was a book […]
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Longer Walk to Some Redwood Park Trails
Redwood National Park is closing two unpaved roads, starting on Monday, June 3, saying it doesn’t have the money to maintain them properly. Hikers and cyclists will still be able to use the roads to reach their favorite trails, but driving to those trailheads is out.San Francisco Chronicle outdoors writer Tom Stienstra has a note […]