Pacific Outfitters announced on Facebook that its downtown Arcata location has “succumbed to COVID-19” and will not reopen post-pandemic after nearly 50 years of operation in the city. Formerly called The New Outdoor Store and located on the Plaza, Pacific Outfitters has had a home in Arcata since the 1970s, according to the Facebook post. […]
Iridian Casarez
Iridian Casarez was a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2019-2023.
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Klamath River Tribes Open Mass Vaccination Site to All Residents, Including Non-Tribal Members
The Hoopa Valley Tribe, with assistance from the Yurok and Karuk Tribes, are leading an inter-tribal effort to vaccinate all Klamath-Trinity community members 18 years old and older, including non-tribal members, on March 27. The Hoopa Valley Tribe’s K’ima:w Medical Center has enough vaccine supply for all residents in the inland ancestral lands of Hoopa, […]
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McGuire Hosting COVID-19 Town Hall
State Sen. Mike McGuire will be hosting a virtual town hall for California’s Second District focusing on the COVID-19 vaccine distribution this Thursday at 6:30 p.m. The town hall will feature Timothy Brewer, a professor of Epidemiology at UCLA Fielding School of Public Health and a member of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Geffen […]
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Yurok Broadband Project Connects Reservation’s Most Remote Areas to High-Speed Internet
The Yurok Connect Broadband Project team finished installing a new 150-foot tower in Wautec yesterday, linking one of the remote parts of the Yurok Reservation to high-speed internet. “Access to high-speed internet will significantly improve the everyday lives of Yurok citizens and non-Indian reservation residents,” said Yurok Tribal Chair Joseph L. James. “This project will facilitate progress […]
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HSU Women’s Basketball Team Opts Out of Competing This Season
After Humboldt State University announced that student-athletes would return to competition this season, members of the women’s basketball team released a statement on their collective decision not to compete due to health and safety concerns, including injuries. HSU’s women’s basketball coach Michelle Bento-Jackson, who’s been coaching collegiate sports since 1992 and has been head coach […]
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It’s Time to Spring Forward
It’s that time of the year again to set our clock’s one hour ahead for daylight saving time beginning Sunday at 2 a.m. Although we’ll lose an hour of sleep, we’ll have one more hour of sunlight at the end of the day to enjoy the North Coast. In 2018, California voters overwhelmingly supported Proposition […]
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Native American Curriculum Aims to Bring Culturally Informed Education and Representation to Humboldt County High Schools
Save California Salmon, along with the Blue Lake Rancheria, the Yurok Tribe’s Visitor Center, Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District’s Indian Education Program, Humboldt State University’s Native American Studies Department and the Hoopa High School Water Protector’s club created a curriculum that meets California standards and responds to the state’s “urgent water, climate and educational crises” and […]
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California’s Stimulus Package is Bringing Aid to Immigrants, Undocumented Taxpayers Left Out of Federal Aid
Gov. Gavin Newsom has approved and signed the Golden State Stimulus package, which includes a one-time payment of $600 or $1,200 to low-income residents, including undocumented taxpayers. The one-time stimulus checks are slated to go to an estimated 5.7 million low-income residents making less than $30,000 a year. According to a release from the governor’s […]
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Food for People Begins Construction on the 14th Street Site
Food for People has announced that construction on its 14th Street facility, which was the epicenter of a sewer disaster that destroyed the building and everything inside last year, is set to begin in the coming weeks. Right before the COVID-19 pandemic began impacting everyone’s lives on Feb. 28, 2020, a city sewer drain pipe burst at FFP’s […]
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HSU Athletes Return to Play
Humboldt State University athletes are returning to the fields and courts as the university, National Collegiate Athletic Association and Humboldt County Public have set “strict health and safety guidelines” for players to return. In a media availability on Thursday, County Health Officer Ian Hoffman said that collegiate sports are governed by the NCAA, which sets […]
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Saving the Discovery Museum
Wednesday afternoon was their scheduled weekly supervised visit with their mom; every week they’d come into the same room with the same books and toys, while I sat on an office chair at the door jotting down notes. Before I became a staff writer at the Journal, I worked with Humboldt County youth at an […]
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‘Comida del Pueblo’
Centro del Pueblo is launching a new gardening program this spring that would empower Humboldt County’s Latinx community to learn and share their gardening knowledge says Karina Coronado, a Centro del Pueblo volunteer who is spearheading the program. “Comida del Pueblo” will provide herbs and vegetables for micro-gardening, spaces in community gardens for full gardening […]