Yesterday saw the latest installment of the perennial prostitution crackdown in Old Town, according to this EPD press release. On 7/28/10, in response to neighborhood complaints, the Eureka Police Department conducted a prostitution sting in Old Town Eureka. A female decoy was used, and the men were are arrested after agreeing to pay her to […]
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General Lee
One day last month, Richard Lee was able to snatch a few minutes of freedom from the chaos of his daily life at his Oaksterdam University, the centerpiece of Oakland’s marijuana district. In the previous 15 minutes he had checked the enrollment figures for a growing workshop he was scheduled to teach that weekend, made […]
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Poor Reception
“Ideally, this type of legislation would not be something that local government would pass,” said Councilmember Shane Brinton during the Arcata City Council’s regular meeting last Tuesday, as he pushed his fellow members to consider an ordinance that would require cell phone merchants to label the radiation output of their product. “This sort of labeling […]
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Falling Death at Confusion Hill Bridge
A Mendocino County public school administrator recently plunged to his death from one of the terrifyingly tall bridges that form the Confusion Hill bypass, according to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat. Kevin Jolly, who was just hired on as superintendent of Covelo’s Round Valley School District, was 45 years old. He had been missing since […]
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Top O’ The World
Up here in the second floor of the Omicini building, we can look out our big beautiful windows and watch life happen on the streets of Old Town. You hold in your hands the first issue produced in our incredible new offices, and we hope that it conveys some of the thrill we feel to […]
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Baykeeper, EPIC Sue Eureka Over Balloon Track Ballot Measure
… and the lawsuits keep coming! According to a just-issued press release Humboldt Baykeeper and the Environmental Protection Information Center have filed suit against the City of Eureka for sponsoring a ballot measure that would change the zoning of the Balloon Track — the old railyard where Security National wants to build its Marina Center […]
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On the Covers
“Movers & Shakers,” by Judy Hodgson. July 1990. It started out innocently enough. A Humboldt State professor, volunteering for a nonprofit, wanted to know who were the most powerful people in the county. This information could be useful in fund-raising, for instance. Jerald Krause oversaw the research by his students. He first ran a survey […]
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Pennisi Tree-Trimmer: ‘I Did The Job I Was Hired To Do’
Tom Head, owner of Coastal Tree Service, called into the Journal this morning to give his side of the illegal clearcut that happened last month on the Trinidad Bluffs, at the top corner of the city-owned archaeological site known as Tsurai Village and directly beneath the home of Trinidad Planning Commissioner Sam Pennisi and his […]
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Culling Bluffs
Was it a misunderstanding or a premeditated assault on a sensitive tribal archaeological site, currently the property of the city? That’s the question Trinidad is asking itself as the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office investigates whether Sam Pennisi, a member of the Trinidad Planning Commission and a former Arcata City Councilmember, hired a landscaping service to […]
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Skilled Healthcare Suit: The Background
The T-S today reports that a Humboldt County jury has penalized Skilled Health Care to the tune of over $600 million for health code violations. The for-profit company runs a chain of nursing homes with five local outlets. Wondering what the fuss was about? Read Journal freelancer Carol Harrison’s disturbing account of Skilled Health Care’s […]
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Trinidad Planning Commissioner Investigated in Tsurai Site Clearcut
Axel Lindgren III and his brother, Joe Lindgren, both descendants of the original inhabitants of Tsurai, examine illegal cuts adjacent to Trinidad’s Wagner Street Trail. On Saturday Tuesday, the Times-Standard wrote about the strange case of a landscaper who had clearcut a wide swath of vegetation, including a stand of mature trees, within the archaeological zone […]
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Bass Fails to Top 50 Percent in Final Vote Tally
Eureka Mayor Virginia Bass was within striking distance on election night, but final returns from the June 8 election, which were just released, show that she failed to reach the critical 50 percent + 1 threshold against incumbent Fourth District Supervisor Bonnie Neely. The two will compete in a November runoff elections. Meanwhile, it’s also […]