Saturday night, while you were at the hip hop hoedown or whatever at the Mateel — or did you decide to go to that punk masquerade thingy in Manila? — an overflow crowd was enjoying the real-big musical event that night, at Christ Church, Episcopal, in Eureka. I know, you didn’t know about it, or […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Bomb threat at HSU
Once again — what, the last time was just in May? — the threat of a suspected pipe bomb had Humboldt State University all bound up and tense earlier this evening as men and women huddled in bright vests near the danger zone and others — campus security and campus housing staff hastily stuffed into yet more […]
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St. Joe’s Says No
Eureka physician Lee Leer about had a conniption recently when he heard through the grapevine that St. Joseph’s Health System was going to ban condoms. St. Joe’s, Leer heard, had phoned Six Rivers Planned Parenthood to tell it not to bring condoms and birth control educational materials to the hospital’s future community health fairs. (The […]
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Disappointing Drills
Remember last year when those guys were driving and helicoptering all over the Eel River Valley with dynamite and cables to test the geologic underworld for its natural gas potential? And how they were telling people — Eel River Valley people whose property they wanted to do the seismic testing on, or whose mineral rights […]
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Curved
Just before noon on the Friday before Labor Day weekend, a truck carrying an empty 90,000-pound nuclear waste cask to the Humboldt Bay Power Plant came to a slow halt on a sharp curve on State Route 36. It happened near Buck Mountain on a shoulderless, narrow, steep section of road flanked by a rising […]
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Lady Blaze
Keeping watch over the forest from a mountain-top fire lookout is one of those spittle-pay but romantic, go-nowhere-but-be-exactly-where-you-wanna-be part-time career choices that holds perpetual appeal for certain lonesome, oft-literary types who get itchy around too many people. Of course, the gig is a diminishing prospect as technology trumps practical romance. But in this High Country […]
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Memorial ride for killed cyclist
This Sunday, a group of cyclists will be riding in memory of Greg Jennings, who was killed by a car Monday, Aug. 26, while he was commuting home to Blue Lake from work on his bike. Tim Daniels, president of the Bigfoot Bicycle Club, put out a notice, copied below, of the ride on his […]
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More images of ICE raid at Sun Valley
As ICE continued to search and arrest people at Sun Valley today, three people observing the raid from the road by the main entrance linked arms and stood in front of one of the white vans, with most of its windows whited out, as it began to exit the company compound onto Upper Bay Road. […]
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What Now, Treesitter?
An eerie dreamlight slanted in from the west, a spray of pale gold shot through a crack in the late-day cloud ceiling. It struck a small remnant of ancient redwood forest, where one sky-vanishing tree towered taller than the rest, wider, older — 2,000 years old, some say. Straight up, up, until its bulk was […]
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Cyclist’s Death Rallies Advocates
Greg Jennings was bicycling home to Blue Lake Monday evening after work, on Highway 299, when a pickup drifted onto the shoulder and struck and killed him. Jennings’ death has sent shock waves through the tight-knit community of bicycling commuters, and beyond, with many people saying it’s time the community at large gets serious about […]
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The Anti-DNC
About two months ago, Jake Green packed up his belongings and said goodbye to Arcata. He’d lived there two years. It was time to move on — first stop, Denver. While in Arcata, Green was active with Redwood Curtain Antifascist Action. In Denver, he planned to join with Unconventional Denver to prepare for the Democratic […]
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Troubled Times At Silvercrest
On July 21, around noon, Silvercrest resident Kathleen Buchanan was preparing to distribute cat food to fellow cat owners in her apartment complex. She was waiting outside the cargo elevator on the ground floor as another resident, David Kelly, rode his electric scooter on ahead of her. Suddenly the elevator began to rise, although the […]