Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from the cover to get you caught up. It’s been two and a half years since St. Bernard pastor Eric Freed was killed in his church rectory home. With his killer now convicted and sentenced, the Journal wanted to find out how the congregation has recovered, […]
Grant Scott-Goforth
Grant Scott-Goforth was an assistant editor and staff writer for The Journal from 2013 to 2017.
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Huffman Thumps Trump
North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman blasted presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s planned visit with the leaders of the Westlands Water District in an absolutely scathing press release sent out this afternoon. “Donald Trump, who continues to refuse to release his tax returns and show the public his personal accounting, will be sitting down with […]
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Buzzkill: That’s Not the World’s Tallest Tree
If you’ve logged on to Facebook in the last couple days, you’ve probably seen that photo to the right. It’s real, it’s beautiful and it’s in Humboldt County. It’s not, however, the tallest tree in the world. For whatever reason, the picture has been circulating like crazy lately, and it seems to always be accompanied […]
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Eric’s Law
By now the story is familiar, though no less ghastly. Shortly after midnight on Jan. 1, 2014, Gary Lee Bullock walked out of the Humboldt County jail. By dawn, St. Bernard pastor Eric Freed was dead. While a parish reeled with the loss of its leader and a community tried to make sense of the […]
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Greeting the Pot Czarina
A line of more than 100 eager attendees snaked out of the entrance to Arcata’s D Street Neighborhood Center to meet the chief of California’s newly formed Bureau of Medical Marijuana Regulation. The czarina, Lori Ajax, started the meeting, explaining to a mostly jovial crowd that the bureau was in its infancy. “I started with […]
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The Defender
Inside the drab, weather-beaten shingled public defender’s office — which could be described as the architecture of obscurity — is a windowless office that public defender Heidi Holmquist has turned into a little beacon of buoyancy. In her pink-striped office, she sits at a desk piled with stacks of criminal case files, the records of […]
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The Thrilling 3rd
Humboldt County’s 3rd District covers a portion of the county north and east of Humboldt Bay and includes the cities of Arcata and Blue Lake, as well as the unincorporated communities of Freshwater, Kneeland and Manila. With sitting 3rd District Supervisor Mark Lovelace’s decision not to seek re-election, two contenders have thrown their hats in […]
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3rd UPDATE: Man Shot By Police in Arcata
3rd UPDATE: The Arcata Police Department held a press release this afternoon to release more information about yesterday’s officer involved shooting. The suspect, who was shot four times after allegedly charging an officer while wielding a metal cane, remains in stable but critical condition. See the full press release at the bottom of this post […]
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Korbel Mill Sold
The Korbel Mill, which has been for sale for almost two years and closed down last February, recently sold to the Trinity River Timber Company. Green Diamond Resource Company, which owned the sawmill, announced the sale — which includes the fixed mill assets, a lease of the property and associated log and lumber yards and […]
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Leaving Humboldt in the Dust
The sleepy, dusty desert east of Los Angeles may be looking like a threat to Humboldt County’s marijuana industry. While the arid landscape may seem inhospitable to plants, two small cities in the region have been making strides to entice large-scale commercial marijuana farmers. Land prices have skyrocketed in Desert Hot Springs and Adelanto since […]
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Mold School
A mold epidemic has struck schools from Hoopa to Pecwan, shuttering classrooms and cafeterias, shuffling kids into less-than-ideal temporary rooms, prompting impromptu days off and sparking a multi-million-dollar repair project. Jon Ray, the superintendent of the Klamath Trinity Joint Unified School District, which oversees eight schools spread over 1,000 square miles, including Hoopa high school […]
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Selling out to Big Soda
It was with incredulity that Journal staffers gazed on a slender green can of caffeinated pop dressed up in gaudy packaging that arrived last week. There, in front of us, was a piece of bona fide swag. A well constructed box with a green ribbon pull, embossed lettering, and printed with a somewhat ominous countdown: […]