Four members of the Northern Humboldt Union School board voted Nov. 14 to publicly reprimand fellow trustee Jennifer Knight, using the most severe remedy at their disposal to address what several described as a pattern of unacceptable behavior that left no other recourse. Board President Colleen Toste told Knight that an isolated incident here or […]
Kimberly Wear
Kimberly Wear is the assistant editor of the North Coast Journal.
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Body of Missing Canadian Found by His Father
The body of a Canadian man who was reported missing nearly two weeks ago was found by his father on Monday in a heavily vegetated area of the Arcata Marsh, according to the Arcata Police Department. Felix Desautels-Poirier, who would have turned 26 on Dec. 27, was traveling through the area with a friend from […]
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NoHum School Board Censures Trustee Amid Resignation Calls
Four members of the Northern Humboldt Union School board voted to publicly reprimand fellow trustee Jennifer Knight last night, saying her unacceptable behavior over the last two years left them with no other choice. Board President Colleen Toste told Knight that if she had violated one board policy or bylaw here or there perhaps that […]
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Eel River Drowning Death ID’d as Russian Man
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified a man whose body was found in South Fork of the Eel River near Redway on Oct. 6 as Dordzhi Sandzhiev, a Russian citizen who frequented Southern Humboldt and was known to deputies, according to a press release. Sandzhiev, whose cause of death was determined to be drowning, […]
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NoHum Trustee Faces Censure Over Conduct
He’s a popular Arcata High basketball coach lauded for setting high standards on and off the court. She’s a social worker and mother of four who volunteered to serve on a Northern Humboldt Union High School District athletic committee. Both became the target of a single trustee who questioned whether they were qualified for those […]
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Squireses File for Bankruptcy as Auction Looms
Eureka’s most notorious landlords Floyd and Betty Squires filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week in an apparent bid to prevent more than two dozen of their properties from hitting the auction block later this month. According to the bankruptcy forms, the couple owes between $1 million and $10 million — the same as […]
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Squireses’ Properties? Going, Going, Gone?
The city of Eureka originally selected Santa Monica-based attorney Mark Adams to help bring more than two dozen properties owned by Floyd and Betty Squires up to code. Now he’s hoping to see them auctioned off — and he intends to buy them himself. If that were to happen on the scheduled Nov. 27 sale […]
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Play It Forward
When Ernesto Cappuccio arrived in Arcata with his family just over four years ago, a lot about his life changed. There were all the usual things that such a move entails for a fifth grader, which in this case included starting over at a new school in a small town where everyone seemed to have […]
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Eureka Man Dies in Solo 299 Crash
A 40-year-old Eureka man died Monday night in a solo-vehicle crash on State Route 299 after apparently making an unsafe turn to the right that sent his truck and trailer into an embankment before overturning, according to CHP. Daniel Ryan Cox was wearing a seatbelt and traveling westbound in a Ford F-250 with an attached […]
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Needles, Needles, Needles
The stark reality of the local heroin epidemic spilled into the streets of Eureka last spring when the public restrooms in Old Town overflowed, clogged with thousands of syringes and other paraphernalia that had been stuffed down the toilet. Located near the gazebo in the heart of city’s tourism zone, the bathrooms have long been […]
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UPDATE: Two Juveniles Arrested in Dinsmore Homicide
2nd UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, in conjunction with the Arcata Police Department, arrested two juveniles on Monday, Oct. 16 in connection with the homicide of Richard Falk. The Journal has reached out to the sheriff’s office to confirm whether or not the juveniles, one male, one female, were related to Falk, and will […]
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McKinleyville Man Suspected of Triple Homicide in Nevada Arrested
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has arrested a McKinleyville native who is wanted in Nevada for allegedly killing a woman and her parents at two different locations over the weekend. According to news reports out of Silver Springs, the suspect, Scott Alan Baskette, 48, had been in a long-term relationship with homicide victim Rebecca Driver, […]