After a full festival dose of music, our teen correspondents Kaylee and Nick Savage-Wright report back from San Francisco’s massive Outside Lands Festival. Kaylee: Only a few hours after the first day ended, people were already reliving the events of the past 24 hours, already planning for next year, their talk full of words like […]
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg
Carrie Peyton Dahlberg was editor of the North Coast Journal from June 2011 to November 2013.
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Stealth Brewery Unveiled
You knew this was beer country. But did you know that the newest brewery in Humboldt plans to grow all its own barley and hops? And that it will sell shares of its production just like some farms sign up subscribers for boxes of fruit and vegetables? And that it will be pouring at […]
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Eat Well, Do Good
Locavores, piscivores, granivores — pretty much all flavors of vores — should find something tempting to nibble at a local food expo this weekend at Mad River Brewery’s tasting room in Blue Lake. The nosh fest benefits the Discovery Museum in Eureka, which will be sending a kid-captivating team to run a “Kid Zone,” complete […]
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Bird by Bird
Fish-oil-soaked pelicans are being cleaned, fundraisers are being held and a rehab aviary is planned — but no one really knows how much good any of it is going to do. It’s been almost 20 years since anyone looked rigorously at how well California brown pelicans survive after oil spill cleanups, and those results were […]
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Ducks! Lawnmowers! Bocce!
Celebrating everything that makes it both wild and woodsy, Rio Dell gets its romp on this week with Wildwood Days. The five-day festival has everything from racing lawnmowers to mustering firefighters, with plenty of alliterative events in between. (Parade, poker, penny scramble.) And it might even be sunny. Maybe. Things get started on Wednesday, Aug. […]
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Sex Assault Rumor Worries Reggae Organizers
Reggae on the River organizers are trying to sound a “safe, family event” note at the same time that they’re scrambling for more details about a reported sex assault in a campground south of the festival. The scramble hasn’t been made easier by an apparent mis-communication between Humboldt and Mendocino county sheriff’s departments. Back on […]
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Morning
Just a few steps, and the views are endless. Past the guy probing the edge of the parking lot with a metal detector. Past the two forms huddled green and blue in sleeping bags, deep in a dune swale. Past the sand flecked with charcoal and old fireworks. They were 6:45 a.m. This is 7:07. […]
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No Crime Here, Jury Says
In the first trial test of a new law, a Humboldt County jury decided this morning that the three people who lit candles outside the county courthouse after 9:30 p.m. did nothing illegal. The verdict comes despite the county’s attempt to ban most people from being on courthouse grounds between 9:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. […]
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Shell Out
Well, looks like that pretty ridge view is safe from those nasty turbines now. This from Shell: Shell exits Bear River Ridge Wind Project We would like to inform you that Shell WindEnergy Inc. has decided to exit the Bear River Wind Project due to unfavorable market conditions and issues pertaining to the transportation logistics. […]
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Jury Ponders … And Ponders
A jury is taking plenty of time thinking about a new law — specifically about whether it should convict three people accused of defying county limits on courthouse protests. Jurors went home at midday Tuesday with no verdict, and now have deliberated for longer than it took to try the three, who stood with lighted […]
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UnOccupied
On the last Friday in June, the courthouse lawn in Eureka is dotted with dandelions. Weeds battle lavender and daylilies in a concrete planter, and not a single soul sits on the benches once occupied by Occupy. It’s late morning, and a few of the remaining, sporadic protesters are inside the courthouse, where three are […]
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Guest Post: The Burned House
Ami Brusca lives in Sunny Brae, where she is raising her 7-year-old son and trying to start a community supported herbal farm. She blogs at redwoodcottage.wordpress.com. She writes: The wailing I heard in the neighborhood on Sunday morning was the kind of cry that wrenches your gut and tells you in an instant that things […]