Runner Up: Arcata Liquors So many bottles of booze — single-malt scotches, tequilas, vodkas, Humboldt-made spirits and more — you walk out choice-drunk (but with sober plans to slowly sip your exclusive, single-barrel bourbon tasted, picked and bottled by owner John Baddeley). So many cigars, glowing in their leaf skins inside the walk-in humidor, you […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Best Place to Buy a Used Car
Runner Up: Bob’s Fine Cars Some wait for providence to place a good, broken-in steed in their path — for sale on the sidewalk, friend of a friend’s. But most of you head over to Craigslist to discover that 1982 Oldsmobile Regency Brougham or that 1999 Custom Dodge Ram. What’s cool about Craigslist is that you can […]
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Rio Dell Can Drink Again
Hey, Rio Dell: Stick a glass under that tap, turn it on, fill ‘er up and take a nice, long pull. Then maybe take a shower. Go ahead: According to a news release from the City of Rio Dell, the State Water Resources Control Board has lifted its drought-panic order forbidding the City from drawing water […]
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A Well Driller’s Life
Talk to a well driller long enough, and his devotion to making water gush up for yet another happy homeowner (or farmer or dope grower) becomes infectious. Makes you want to chuck everything and wade into the mud with a geology handbook to become a driller’s apprentice. “I still get a tickle in my stomach […]
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Crime in Eureka
The Eureka Police Department is releasing quarterly crime reports of data and trends in order to, as an EPD news release says, “drive a greater awareness of crime and demonstrate [the department’s] desire to work with the community.” Here’s the latest data: Some of the trends noted by the EPD, between January 2013 and June 2014, […]
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UPDATED Highway 96 Open, Fire Almost Out
SECOND UPDATE: Six Rivers National Forest reports that the Sugar Bowl Fire should be 100 percent contained by 6 p.m. this evening, July 28, and fully controlled by 6 p.m. July 29 The road is now open with no restrictions, although motorists “should be aware of potential hazards of rocks or debris rolling down from the […]
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More Sparkle Than Eureka Can Handle
One of the biggest gem, bead and jewelry shows in the country ended up in little old Eureka this weekend. But at closing time Saturday inside Franceschi Hall at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, Gem Faire vendors were feeling the fizzle. As some began to drape cloth over their wares — colorful skeins of bright and sparkly beads, humongous […]
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The Search For Jeff Joseph
LA Weekly has a story this week about a family’s search for their missing relative, Jeffrey Keith Joseph, an “L.A. man on probation for running a rogue pot shop in Venice.” Relatives fear Joseph might have disappeared on a trip to Hoopa, judging by calls made on his cell phone, including the last one placed […]
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The Fairest of Them All
Indeed, there was never any doubt, but this is just to say Humboldt County took the gold medal again (won last year, too) at the California State Fair 2014 for its booth promoting Humboldt goodness. The booth, a creation of the Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau and Humboldt Made, featured products made in Humboldt set in […]
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Goodbye, Jack Mays
Artist Jack Mays, colorful chronicler of Ferndale, has died, The Ferndale Enterprise reports. Mays had battled cancer since 2004 — living nearly a decade longer than the doctors had predicted he would, and doing all sorts of inspiring and lively things in that time. He captured every inch of Ferndale and many of its people in elaborately […]
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Our Owl Problem in Nat’l Geo
Once again, our owl problem is in the news. National Geographic Daily News has a story today about the experiment to give northern spotted owls a chance at keeping a talon-hold on their habitat by killing barred owls. And, once again, the tale stars Green Diamond wildlife biologist Lowell Diller and his spaniel, Riley. Diller, it must be […]
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Big Trees
About 70 forest lovers and tree studiers gathered recently up at Humboldt State University to listen to two “gurus” of the old growth forest realm engage in a discussion about how forest stewardship can promote old-growth functions that benefit “climate, wildlife, water, and a sustained resource economy,” as the Pacific Forest Trust’s invitation to the […]