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 […]
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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‘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 […]
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2nd UPDATE: Southbound 101 Reopened Near Willits, Homicide Suspect in Custody
2nd UPDATE: The Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office has identified the victims in Monday’s shooting on U.S. Highway 101 and announced a suspect is in custody. According to the sheriff’s office press release, police arrested 23-year-old Ubaldo Ramirez at about 1:30 a.m. in Covelo on suspicion of fatally shooting his father, 51-year-old Calixto Ramirez, and critically […]
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Planning Commissioner Arrested on Suspicion of Public Intoxication
Humboldt State University Police Chief Donn Peterson confirmed that one of his officers arrested Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Noah Levy in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 1. Peterson said Levy was observed by an officer on the 1000 block of G Street (close to the Arcata Plaza) and arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public, […]
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Fatal Single-Car Crash Near Alderpoint Kills One
The Garberville office of the Highway Patrol reports that in the early morning hours of July 1, a 47-year old man from Olympia, Washington, let his westbound vehicle leave Alderpoint Road and collided with a tree. The man was driving a 1970 Chevrolet C50 box truck. The wreck was not discovered until the mid-morning, Cal-Fire […]
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A City Attorney’s Controversial Tenure Comes to an Abrupt End
The Eureka City Council “received and accepted” the resignation of City Attorney Cyndy Day-Wilson on Tuesday after a hastily called closed session meeting to discuss the potential firing or discipline of an employee. In making the announcement, Mayor Frank Jager thanked Day-Wilson for her service, saying the separation was effective immediately and includes a yet-to-be-finalized […]
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Freeman House, Influential Restorationist, Dies at 80
Freeman House, author of Totem Salmon and founder of the Mattole Restoration Council, died Saturday, June 23. He was 80. House was part of a cohort responsible for what is considered to be the “first community-based restoration effort in the state of California.” David Simpson, co-founder of the MRC, recalls meeting House in the 1960s, […]
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Controversial Eureka City Attorney Resigns, Effective Immediately
The Eureka City Council emerged from a special closed session meeting this afternoon called to discuss the potential firing or discipline of an employee to announce that the council and City Attorney Cyndy Day-Wilson have mutually agreed to part ways. Mayor Frank Jager thanked Day-Wilson for her service and City Manager Greg Sparks called the […]
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Eureka Man Indicted for Child Pornography in Oregon
The Multnomah County Circuit Court has indicted a Eureka man on six counts related to child pornography after he allegedly posed as a classmate of a minor in Portland, Oregon, and obtained nude and explicit photos of her. Jeramey Todd Walkley, 40, was apprehended by the Portland Police Bureau’s Sex Crimes Unit in Eureka, with […]
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Arson Suspect Arrested After Allegedly Barricading Victims Inside Home
A Myers Flat man is being jailed on suspicion of arson of an inhabited structure, false imprisonment and threats to commit a crime. According to the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, on Saturday Michael Jay Merriman, 66, allegedly became angry with his neighbors in the area of Orchard Way and Boy Scout Camp Road when they declined […]
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Missing Man Found Dead in McKinleyville
Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a call at the 1500 block of Hiller Road in McKinleyville this afternoon after receiving a report of a dead body in a field. The body was subsequently identified as that of Demetrious Gabriel Goodwin, 44, who was reported missing June 17. Foul play is not suspected, according to the […]