The Bay Citizen reports that the Oakland City Council last night caved to pressure from the feds and suspended plans to license four large-scale industrial marijuana grows within its city limits. According to the Citizen, city staff is going to rejigger the proposal to smooth out potential conflicts with state law, then bring it back before […]
Hank Sims
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The Train Geeks Return
You know what I just remembered? It’s nearly 2011! And do you know what that means? It means that the North Coast Railroad Authority is just a few short months away from relaunching railroad freight service to and from Humboldt County. Yes, the repairs must be nearly all in place. The tracks between here and […]
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Ad Con
If Bill Morrill was hoping for satisfaction — some kind of closure, maybe, or at least an acknowledgement that he had been wronged — he would be disappointed. Morrill, a salesman for Eureka Television Group and host of Fox 29’s popular “101 Milestones” feature, made sure to be there in Humboldt County Superior Court last […]
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Trial Briefs in the Martin Cotton Case
Last week we previewed the upcoming federal civil suit over the strange death of Martin Cotton II back in 2007. Cotton died of a subdural hematoma in the Humboldt County Jail following a violent struggle with the Eureka Police Department. After the jump: The three trial briefs filed with the Federal District Court of Northern California. […]
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Weird Midnight Encounter on 101 at Benbow Leads to Shooting
From the Sheriff’s Office: Late last night Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report that a man had been shot on US Highway 101 near Benbow. At about 11:45 p.m., deputies arrived and found that a man had been shot; and the man who shot the other man was the reporting party. The driver […]
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Cotton Suit Going to Trial
Over three years after the violent altercation with police and others that landed Martin Cotton II in Humboldt County Jail, where he died of head injuries, a lawsuit brought by his relatives is nearing trial in Oakland federal court. The suit, which was brought by Cotton’s daughter and his father, charges that officers with the […]
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Final Election Results — Nothing Changes
Sundberg, Gallegos, Newman hold on with ease. Meserve makes a dash, but comes up short. Unoffical results here.
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Smiles Screwed On
Thanksgiving week: According to time-tested newspaper tradition, this is the week to mope about the economy. Unlike our colleagues at every daily newspaper in the country, the Journal will not brave the 4 a.m. Black Friday rush at Target and the like to gather evidence that the world is still headed straight into the dumper. […]
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DIY Willits Bypass
Chances are that they’ve finally cleared that ghastly, traffic-snarling accident in Willits by now, in which a propane truck went head on with another vehicle, overturning and dumping its contents all over the roadway and necessitating a response from a Hazmat team on one of the busiest traveling days of the year. Reports from the […]
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HSU Professor Killed Near Willits
A car accident just north of Willits took the life of Humboldt State University Chemistry Professor William Golden Friday night, according to a Humboldt State University press release. HSU press release follows. ^^^^^ William G. Golden, 58, of Sunny Brae, Professor of Chemistry and Chair of the Departments of Chemistry and of Physics and Astronomy […]
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KGO-TV Wraps Richardson Grove
Pretty decent summary of the Richardson Grove controversy from a Bay Area television station, including comments from Kerul Dyer, Rob McBeth, Kim Floyd and Lost Coast Brewery. Somehow I missed the nude-in.
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The Eureka Inn Axe Attacker’s Tragic End
Back in 2003, a 29-year-old man named Cody Alan Dwire attacked someone with an axe outside the Eureka Inn. It was pretty startling at the time, as the attack seemed to be random and likely would have been fatal had another man not intervened. Recently, a reader alerted us to the shocking last chapter of Dwire’s […]