Pelican lovers and meaning seekers, you have just a few more days to see the documentary Pelican Dreams at the Minor Theatre in Arcata. The film, by award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) is about pelicans but also much more than pelicans. Says the film’s website: “The film is about wildness: […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Redwoods by Candlelight
The luminarias held flickering LEDs, not wax candles, but the effect was nonetheless enchanting as hundreds of people traipsed into the dark forest at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park for the 25th Annual Candlelight Walk on Dec. 6. There was food and cider and warm fires. And it was a fundraiser for the park organization, […]
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Not Exactly Curtains for Richardson Grove Widening
The curtain lowered this week on Caltrans’ plan to widen U.S. Highway 101 through Richardson Grove — a plan so controversial it’s inspired numerous lawsuits and even mass naked supplications down among the lush giants. But it could rise again. In a news release, the Environmental Protection Information Center announced that “Conservation groups and local residents this […]
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Jack’s to the Waterfront
It’s a common tourist question Eurekans struggle to answer: Where’s a good place to dine on the waterfront? There’s no place, you answer, at first, before remembering the few anchors of hope in this bay-abutting town: the humble restaurant with a deck over on Woodley Island. Glass-encased, fancyish Bayfront, in Eureka proper. Shamus T Bones […]
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Korbel Sawmill Is Closing
The California Redwood Co. announced today it’s closing the Korbel sawmill in February. The company, a subsidiary of Green Diamond Resources Co., has been trying to sell the mill since mid-October. Local blogger and Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation & Conservation District Commissioner Richard Marks posted yesterday on his site that he’d heard from an inside source […]
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A Minor Celebration
The Minor Theatre — the oldest surviving multi-reel feature film theater in the United States — turns 100 this month. There likely will be no little girls with golden harps, no perfume christening and no flapping pigeons, as in the inaugural dedication. But there might be speeches. Possibly, the local smoky perfume will trickle in […]
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When the Waters Rose
It had been dubbed the flood of the century, when the rain came down in sheets in 1955 and Humboldt County’s rivers rose to gobble homes and towns. Nine years later, it happened again, but worse. By the start of December 1964, Humboldt was already wet. A series of storms in November had left the […]
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Ready, set, squash
Time’s a’creepin’ up on you Humboldt gardeners planning to put a little GMO oomph into your winter gardens — some genetically modified beans or broccoli, cabbage or cauliflower, perhaps? (We’re mainly looking at you, rebel Nathan Rex, and your promised GMO squash garden.) On Dec. 2, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors is set to […]
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A Better Life
The seizures started in the spring of 2013, right after Linda Cosey had two surgeries to remove a tumor from her spine and then rebuild her neck. They continued for months. Each time, her son, with whom she was living at the time, called an ambulance or took her to the emergency room himself. Cosey […]
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Strange, Happy Brews
Justin Whitaker’s booth, in the lobby, had first grabs at all of us rushing into the Eureka Theater for StrangeBrew Beer Fest 2014 last Saturday night. It helped that he was strategically placed across from Cypress Grove’s cheese table. “Everybody’s going for The Lush,” said Whitaker, who home brews with his wife, Eryn. Truth, though: Everybody […]
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UPDATE: FINAL Report: Measure P On Solid Ground
FINAL REPORT: Votes cast:28,653 Precincts reporting: 107 of 107 Yes: 59.43 percent No: 40.57 percent Fourth report: Votes cast: 26,140 Precincts reporting: 94 of 107 Yes: 57.91 percent No: 42.09 percent Third Report: Votes cast: 21,684 Precincts reporting: 69 of 107 Yes: 56.11 percent No: 43.89 percent It’s looking like P will win, as expected. The […]
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Ebola Prep
The ebola virus has killed more than 4,900 people and infected more than 13,500, mostly in West Africa, in this latest outbreak, according to the World Health Organization. Just four people in the United States have come down with ebola: one who died (he contracted it before coming to the U.S.), two who contracted it […]