Four years ago, your reporter undertook a sort of sociological analysis of the Eureka city elections (“City Asunder,” Oct. 26, 2006). The division I identified at the time — between old Eureka power and the lefty newcomers — continues to fester, at least in certain circles, as this year’s massive election in the city approaches. […]
Hank Sims
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Settlement Announced in Skilled Health Care Case
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office has just announced a settlement in the omnibus lawsuit against nursing home operator Skilled Health Care. In addition to payments to members of the class-action lawsuit against the company, which was found guilty of maintaining illegally low levels of staffing at their facilities, prosecutors in the case will be […]
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Human Suspension: The Video
This week’s Journal features a cover story about the Eureka human body suspension scene by our own Ryan Burns. Entitled “Hooked,” the issue is moving out to newsstands now and will hit the Web tonight at midnight. Here’s a video that Burns and the Journal’s Andrew Goff produced about a human body suspension event at Empire Squared […]
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Final Tally: One Arrested, One Injured, One Safe and One Dead
From the Sheriff’s Office: Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies continue to investigate the shooting that was reported to official this morning. At about 2:00 p.m. deputies found the body of a deceased adult male near a marijuana grow site. The preliminary cause of death appears to be a gunshot wound. Deputies do not expect to find […]
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Police Search for Kneeland Shooting Suspect
At least one man was severely injured in shootout in Kneeland last night, apparently in a marijuana-related dispute. Police didn’t hear about the incident until this morning, when the wounded man is believe to have shown up at Kneeland airport seeking assistance. He is being Medivaced to Redding as we speak. Stay tuned, however. We […]
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It’s Business Time
When news broke last Friday that Arcata’s world-famous Cypress Grove Chevre had sold to the multinational Swiss dairy giant Emmi for an undisclosed but surely significant sum, some local business-watchers instantly began to get the jitters. They furiously shot electrons at one another through copper wire and fiber optic cables, and when those electrons reassembled […]
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Cypress Grove Sold to Swiss Dairy Conglomerate
One of the biggest success stories in local manufacturing — Arcata’s Cypress Grove Chevre — has been bought by the Swiss giant Emmi, according to reports reeling off the food industry news tickers this morning. Says just-food.com: Emmi said it plans to continue its growth, focusing in particular on the Italian, German, Austrian, UK and US […]
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Water Snakes
Sometime in the next few weeks, the federal Department of the Interior is scheduled to issue an opinion on the question of whether Humboldt County can finally claim the annual 50,000 acre-feet of Trinity River water that it was promised in 1955, when Congress passed the legislation that built Lewiston Dam near Weaverville and began […]
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Sneaker Waves: A Public Service Announcement
Local artist Rick St. Charles — artist? I guess you could call him an artist — would like to remind local beachgoers about the danger of sneaker waves along our shores. And this is how he goes and does it. For a somewhat more sober but far less memorable take, DeAnza College has a good […]
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The Little Easy
“The Town Dandy” this week brings you the results of a week-long investigation, which involved more than a score of interviews and some 400 man-hours of exhaustive field research. In brief, the results of this unprecedented inquiry is this: The town of Orleans, up there in the upper-right-hand corner of our county, is one seriously […]
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Another Oxycontin Tweaker Holds Up Eureka Pharmacy
Yet another case in this year’s spate of Oxycontin robberies. Maybe it’s interesting to note that Limas Pharmacy, the scene of the crime, is just down from the recently shuttered Hummingbird Healing Center, a medical marijuana dispensary that the county obtained a judicial order to close. How many marijuana dispensaries have been knocked over recently? […]
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Pro-Marina Center Forces Gear Up for Ballot Measure Fight
Chris Crawford, local conservative politico, sent out a call-to-arms yesterday afternoon, rallying people to organize in support of Measure N, the Eureka city initiative on the November ballot that would change the zoning of the long-vacant Balloon Track property adjacent to Old Town. The zoning change would be a key step forward for the big […]