There are two kinds of people: those who love weddings and those who don’t. Brooke Engel loves weddings — the planning, the little touches. For her own October 2019 wedding she handmade blankets for guests to cuddle under during the ceremony, placing them next to a sign that read, “To have and to hold in […]
Linda Stansberry
Linda Stansberry was a staff writer of the North Coast Journal from 2015 to 2018. She is a frequent contributor the the Journal and our other publications.
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The Sucker’s Club
Review IT CHAPTER TWO. When I realized I would have to wait two years between It and It Chapter Two, I was disappointed. The first movie, released in 2017, was tone-perfect in how it portrayed the first half of Stephen King’s lengthy novel about childhood friends battling a supernatural clown for the soul of their […]
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The F-Words
Reviews SHRILL. Hulu’s recent fun-size six-episode series Shrill, which loosely fictionalizes Lindy West’s autobiographical essay collection of the same name, is a collage of fun, brave and smart things that are ultimately hard to adore as a package. I say that with real regret because there’s no doubt that I’m in the bulls-eye of this […]
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Tripping
Reviews SORRY TO BOTHER YOU. I woke up thinking about this movie, which proves hard to forget. It leaves tracers behind the eyes, like staring at a too-bright neon light in a too-dark, too-late barroom, vestiges of its vibrant, driving, pointed, flawed, ugly, beautiful, street-style visual poetry. It’s appropriate for the directorial debut of Boots Riley, […]
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Tradition Demands Tupperware
Fog has socked in the coast and the stunning views of the Pacific Ocean usually visible when driving over the Wildcat from Ferndale to Petrolia are obscured by white. The fog gives the steep ridges with yellow grass of early summer a different feel, like prairies at the edge of the world. Dipping down into […]
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‘A Deluge of Expletives’
In the July edition of the Eureka City Newsletter, City Manager Greg Sparks discussed the outcome of the city’s annual strategic planning session. Among the positive accomplishments documented in the session were grants for trails and parks, community forums, financial planning and community events. Among the setbacks were syringe litter, “negative public narrative on some […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
You’re Doing Good
Dear readers, As of Wednesday, I’ll no longer claim the job title “journalist.” It’s not a title I ever thought I’d carry, but my team at the Journal thought I was worthy of it and it’s been a fun few years attaching it to my name. I’m going to a new job where I’ll get […]
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New Ban on Unsafe Target Shooting Approved by Supervisors
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors took what some might consider a long-overdue action Tuesday on the issue of shooting on unincorporated land, unanimously voting in favor of a county ordinance that would prohibit target shooting in any area that does not meet standards for safe shooting. Those standards require a 20-foot birm of packed […]
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The Jury is In
The Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury released 11 reports in the last two weeks that delved into subjects as diverse as jail safety, animal control, water quality and the very future of Humboldt County. Every year the HCCGJ conducts lengthy and thorough investigations into issues related to county government; the agencies or departments identified in […]
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Body Found on Centerville Beach Identified as Oregon Man
The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified a body found Feb. 24 on Centerville Beach as that of Jeremy Dimitri Vlahos, 37, of Eugene, Oregon. Vlahos was found wearing a shirt with the words “HumboldtANARCHO, STATE FREE- HA TE FREE – FIGHT BIGOTRY.” The sheriff’s office released a photo of the shirt on May 7 with […]
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‘Just Across the Bridge’
Rio Dell’s comeback story has been long in the making. The small city (population 3,400) on the banks of the Eel River was once the seamy playground for the company-town employees of neighboring Scotia, seeing booming business during the Prohibition era when it was an unincorporated area known as “Wildwood.” Incorporation in 1965 could have […]
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Sean Robertson Appointed as New Humboldt Bay Fire Chief
Humboldt Bay Fire has a new chief. Directors of the district’s joint power authority board announced yesterday that Sean Robertson has been appointed to the post, filling a vacancy created by the resignation of Bill Gillespie in November. Robertson has been with the department since August of 1998 and over the past two decades has […]