Shortly after the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors convenes in the New Year, it will face a massive and controversial package of zoning changes that will bring new land use designations to almost 500,000 acres throughout the county, after board discussions on the matter stalled Dec. 11. That meeting saw more than 50 members of […]
Elaine Weinreb
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Supes Set to Consider Large-Scale Zoning Changes
The Mad River Grange meeting hall in Blue Lake was packed with about 100 worried residents on the evening of Dec. 6 who intently watched three county planners explain proposed zoning changes in Glendale. The small, unincorporated community between Blue Lake and Fieldbrook along the Mad River, near where the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District’s […]
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Don’t Let Access Humboldt Go the Way of Net Neutrality
Humboldt is in grave danger of losing its public access television station. Operated by Access Humboldt, the station is the sole outlet for the artist who creates her own video programs, the teacher who wants to show his class a special documentary, the scientist describing her most recent discoveries and, most important for our democracy, […]
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The New Zealand Invaders
About the last thing Northern California needs right now is another environmental crisis, especially one that affects the already beleaguered salmon population. Consequently, scientists were not happy to learn that New Zealand mudsnails, which have the unpleasant habit of taking out the algae at the bottom of the aquatic food chain, have invaded local waterways. […]
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McKinleyville Water Rates Set to Spike
Some McKinleyville residents are up in arms overp increases in their water and sewer bills. The new rates, which go into effect Jan. 1, will continue to rise each year until January of 2023. About 10 residents appeared at a public hearing held by the McKinleyville Community Services District on Nov. 7 to make their […]
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After Heated Meeting, Planning Commission Sends Zoning Changes to Supes
For the second time this year, Mercer-Fraser Co., a well-known road construction company, aroused public alarm via a requested zoning change that some fear could endanger the drinking water of more than half of Humboldt County’s population. The company owns a parcel of land next to the Mad River intake wells of the Humboldt Bay […]
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Visions Collide at Harbor District Forum
Two candidates for the Fourth District seat on the Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District board exchanged tersely worded comments at a forum held on Oct. 17, sponsored by Access Humboldt and the League of Women Voters. The forum occurred at Access Humboldt’s TV studio, and viewers phoned in or emailed their questions for […]
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MCSD Candidates Square Off at Forum
Candidates for three open seats on the McKinleyville Community Services District Board of Directors met at an Oct. 16 forum at Azalea Hall sponsored by the McKinleyville Chamber of Commerce and the League of Women Voters. Candidates answered questions asked by the members of the public who were present, or who phoned in their concerns. […]
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Residents Raise Water, Design Questions About Scenic Drive Hotel Project
For the second time in less than a month, about 100 local residents filled Trinidad Town Hall on Oct. 15 to ask questions about a large hotel being planned on the bluffs above Scenic Drive by the Trinidad Rancheria. The meeting was co-sponsored by the Trinidad City Council and by the Trinidad Rancheria. All five […]
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Trinidad Rancheria to Host Meeting on Hotel Project
Those concerned about the Trinidad Rancheria’s plans to build a six-story hotel on the bluff above Scenic Drive will have another chance to ask questions at a second public meeting scheduled for tomorrow. People will then have a week to send comments to the Bureau of Indian Affairs before the public comment period on the […]
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Casino Hotel Project Concerns Neighbors
Trinidad Town Hall’s big room gradually filled on the evening of Sept. 27 as residents of Trinidad, Westhaven and the Trinidad Rancheria drifted in. Members of the Humboldt Alliance for Responsible Planning (HARP), the organization hosting the meeting, kept adding rows of folding chairs to the audience area. After those were filled, people stood in […]
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Commission OKs Asphalt Plant Near Big Lagoon
The Humboldt County Planning Commission has approved plans for the continued operation of an asphalt plant less than a half-mile from iconic Big Lagoon despite objections that all the relevant data about the plant has not yet been received and over requests to postpone the decision until next month. The plant has been operating for […]