In concert March 8, 2008, at the Van Duzer For some people in the crowd last Saturday night at the Van Duzer, the first half hour of the Greg Brown show was fraught with doubt, confusion, even a little disappointment. Who was that masked man up there on stage? He was good, but he sounded […]
Heidi Walters
Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.
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Tenants’ rights, postmortem
Wanda Taylor, 51, died unexpectedly on Wednesday Feb. 27, on her bed inside her apartment — No. 5, at 607 Summer Street in Eureka. Later that night, Taylor’s sister, Barbara Mitchell, received the news by telephone from their brother Michael. Mitchell lives in Orick. The rest of the family lives elsewhere in California and in […]
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Out-of-county experience
Now we know what happens to all those confiscated growlights — exported! In the ABC News story about the policeman’s preferred online auction site, Humboldt Sheriff’s property technician Bruce Slocum says, “We had some stuff here that is the result of dope-growing operations and we did not want to resell it locally.”
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Humboldt in Texas
Another dopey movie. Looks fun, though. Also, considering the price of gas these days, watching this movie might suffice for people who in glory days gone by might’ve just fired up the family wagon for a trip to our fair coast, you know, to dream for a week about escaping the rat race like we […]
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Believers and knowers unite!
Well, we don’t really know, do we? Bigfoot? No Bigfoot? Bigfatliars? Bigmisunderstoods? And in the spirit of open, collegial debate — indeed, in the interest of unfettered investigation by believers, if not scientists — U.C. Berkeley’s Hearst Museum of Anthropology has put on display the plaster casts of tracks that some say were made by […]
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I Drink Your Milkshake
Gold. It’s high, record high. Damned near reached $1,000 an ounce. Because oil’s high, high, and the dollar’s a nuthin. And it’s times like these when all us little folk, slumpin’ along worrying and whining about foreclosures and doctors’ bills and such, could steal a sip from that gold-dredgin’ guru who pissed off the Karuk […]
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Fortuna Moment
OK, so, the Fortuna City Council was well into its agenda Monday night, in what would be a four-hour meeting after all was said, ranted and done, when Sean Armstrong, project manager for Danco Communities, stood up to answer some questions about his company’s plans to build low-income housing on land the city had bought […]
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King’s pretty new map
Tim Daniels, of the Bigfoot Bicycle Club, just sent out a note on the club’s message board that the BLM-Whitethorn office has uploaded a map of its emerging mountain bike trail in the Paradise Ridge region of the King Range National Conservation Area. The trail won’t be completed until this fall, but there are some […]
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Rhody’s On
Well glory Betty be, the Rhody Parade is on after all. Just when my landlady’s rhodies were beginning to relax. Well, think again, dear shrubs, the parade is on and the plucking shall ensue. The town has rallied. Here’s the news release: —– Original Message —– From: Justin Bowser To: ‘Betty’ Sent: Friday, February 29, […]
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Life, live!
Cafeteria roenbergensis photo by Tamara Clark, CreativeCommons Have you been to the Encyclopedia of Life site yet? Yes, of course you have — you and hordes of others, causing the new “ecosystem of websites,” as they’re calling it, to crash. But it seems to be back up, so in case you haven’t been there, check […]
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Codes, Damned Codes
Down at the county courthouse there’s a file labeled The County of Humboldt v. Charles Garth and Does 1-25. It’s a code violation case — but there’s some dispute between the parties as to just exactly who’s violating whose code. On one side, there are the residents of a ferny, forested place they call Yee […]
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Redwood in NYC
Well, poor Johnny Redwood is gone, but one of his dreams, “Redwood Adventures TV,” is going straight to the top — New York — as a finalist in the TV pilot category at the NY International Independent Film and Video Festival, which starts this Friday. In case you’re there. More about it here.