Writers of ridiculously tiny prose, your time is running out. Friday — aka Oct. 31, aka Hallowe’en, aka (over there yonder) Nevada Day — is the last day to enter our flash fiction contest. It’s too late to snail mail those suckers to us, so e-mail them to fiction@northcoastjournal.com. Or, if you have to, drop them […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Albert and the Baskets
The women in her family made baskets — Yurok, Karuk and Hupa women who, since time immemorial, went into the woods and hills to gather sticks and bark, lily stems and other materials, then pounded, split, dried, dyed and bleached them and wove them into beautiful, strong tools. Baby carriers, hoppers, cooking and eating bowls, […]
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Update to Two Homicides Investigated: Victim ID’d
Partially skeletonized human remains discovered Oct. 14 in a Garberville transient camp next to U.S. Highway 101 have been identified as 30-year-old Robert James Flaherty of Sugarcreek, Ohio, according to Humboldt County Deputy Coroner Trevor J. Enright. Flaherty’s death, of gunshot wounds, is believed to be homicide, says a news release from Enright. Previously: Two […]
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Little Sips of Water
This Wednesday and Thursday, Oct. 15 and 16, the Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District will be hooking up a new connection between its water transmission main and Arcata’s water system. A handful of addresses won’t have water at all, and they’ve been notified already, says the district. The supply line to Arcata, McKinleyville, Eureka, the Samoa […]
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Korbel Mill For Sale
California Redwood Co., a subsidiary of Green Diamond Resource Co., has put its Korbel sawmill up for sale. “In a recent meeting, company president Douglas Reed told employees it makes sense for the sawmill to be owned or managed by a company that has deep knowledge of Douglas-fir manufacturing and marketing for the California market,” […]
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Stand Down
To “stand down” in combat is to take a recuperative break from the action. Events such as the North Coast Stand Down, held Oct. 3 through Oct. 5 at the Humboldt County Fairgrounds, offer respite and help for veterans engaged in the battles of civilian life: coping with service-related trauma, homelessness, joblessness and more. The […]
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Flash Fiction Contest!
Inside your brain is a very tiny story (but it’s BIG, baby, real big). We want to read it. Our judges want to judge it. Fame, publication, a prize — these could be yours. So get the thing out of your head, make it 99 words or fewer, and send it to the North Coast […]
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Fear vs. Hope
On a recent Friday night in September, less than two months from election day when voters will decide whether to ban the growing of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Humboldt County, Mark Wilson stood between a bright screen and his audience inside a lecture room at Humboldt State University. Wilson, a professor of microbiology and […]
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Two Young People Die in Collisions
Officials have released the names of two young Humboldt County residents who lost their lives yesterday, Sept. 22, in two separate vehicle collisions. Rio Dell resident Rynn Smith, 24, died when the 1991 Toyota pickup he was riding in crashed on Van Duzen Road. According to the Weaverville office of the California Highway Patrol, in […]
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Still Itching to Clean Some Place Up?
Maybe you didn’t get your fill of trash at this past Saturday’s coastal cleanup. Or maybe you missed out — sad! Never despair, because here is yet another opportunity to be part of the September Good Crew: Volunteer to help clean up Horse Mountain Botanical Area on the Six Rivers National Forest. It’s for National […]
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Gettin’ All the Trash Out
September is when our good citizens’ tidy-cat impulses really kick in and hundreds voluntarily patrol the shores of our rivers, bay, sloughs, marshes and ocean to clean up after those sloppy, ill-behaved “others.” You know, the ones who think it’s perfectly fine to drop their cigarette butts anywherever (if only we could divert street-drain flows […]