The Journal’s own Heidi Walters has been named a national finalist for beat reporting by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. We entered just a few of her wonderful and diverse pieces of environmental reporting: Bright Bird, about research into bird intelligence; The World is Yours, Oyster Farmer, about aquaculture in Humboldt Bay, and A Place […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Finally, a Facelift?
The stucco is cracked and stained, with mustard yellow streaks dribbling over tan walls. One of three corner turrets is missing, pulled down years ago to make space for a neon sign. The roof leaks. For decades, Terry Coltra has hoped and dreamed about restoring the Carson Block building in Old Town Eureka, as visions […]
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Missing Bob
Many of you have heard that Bob Doran, the Journal’s arts and culture editor, suffered a stroke over the weekend and is being treated in Santa Rosa. His family is by his side there. We at the Journal, along with Bob’s many, many friends and fans, are all sending him our best wishes for a […]
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Go, Burns!
The Journal’s Ryan Burns is first in investigative reporting, first in local government coverage and first in writing, says the California Newspaper Association’s Better Newspapers Contest. And our whole staff comes in second in breaking news coverage, for our June 2012 election edition. The honors, for weekly papers in our size category from all over […]
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Photo Contest!
The North Coast Journal is looking for your best pictures of Humboldt at work. From now through May 15, use your phone, your tablet or even a real camera to capture images of Humboldt at work, whether it’s a rancher with his herd, a doctor in her scrubs or a grower tending his crop. Email […]
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Books, Books and More Books
Pamela Foster, who isn’t based in Humboldt now but sure knows the place, has written a delightfully cheesy but very fun novel called Bigfoot Blues. She’ll be among the authors out in force this weekend scrawling their names, your names and probably anyone else’s name you’d like into your very own copy. Once you buy […]
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A New Journal-ista
We’re all happy to welcome Grant Scott-Goforth, an Arcata native who will be writing, editing, comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable along with the rest of us here at the North Coast Journal. You might recognize his byline from the Times-Standard (sorry, Kimberly Wear, but hat tip for spotting and growing local talent). Grant […]
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Death
We’re all hurtling toward death, every minute of every day. Some Buddhists teach that fully grasping our transience, knowing we could go in an instant, is one key to living fully in each of our fleeting moments. At the end of all those moments, though, the people we love will have to deal with life […]
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Teen Collapses, Dies After Jogging
An 18-year-old HSU fresman died Saturday morning after jogging with a friend, the university is reporting. The young woman, Jessica Garcia, had been sitting in the bleachers at the Redwood Bowl when she was stricken. Fellow students and coaches tried to help before she was taken to Mad River Hospital, the university said in a […]
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Beasts and Children
It’s tough being the only vegan in fifth grade, maybe even the only vegan in all of St. Bernard’s Catholic School. Your friends keep talking about the yummy stuff they’re eating, and ask why you’d want to give that up. They’re not trying to be mean; they really don’t get it. But when you want […]
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Taking Pictures in Public
North Coast Journal Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg talked with Mickey H. Osterreicher, general counsel for the National Press Photographers Association, about taking pictures in public. Here is a condensed version of that conversation. North Coast Journal: You trained police in Tampa and Charlotte before the Republican and Democratic conventions in 2012 and also in Chicago […]