North Coast Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) hosted four panel discussions this afternoon at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center in Eureka about the prospect of offshore wind farms — a concept that isn’t new but still holds some mystery. Exactly when the turbines are set to be constructed depends on the multiple environmental assessments by various […]
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Remembering Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was a man of love, compassion and a commitment to peace that never wavered in his later years. Born in San Francisco on May 28, 1929, Thompson died at his Bayside home Dec. 24. He was 89. Thompson graduated from Vista High School in Southern California and went on to earn a BA […]
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A Community Remembers Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was a man of love, compassion and a commitment to peace that never wavered in his later years. Born in San Francisco on May 28, 1929, Thompson died at his Bayside home on Dec. 24 at the age of 89. He graduated from Vista High School in Southern California and went on to […]
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A Local Chocolate and Cannabis Pairing
The idea of chocolate edibles isn’t new but in an area that’s marketed itself as the cannabis capital of California, making a point to stay local is significant — especially for a region where farmers feel stifled by shifting regulations and the challenging financial cost of coming into and maintaining legal compliance. That’s one main […]
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Frustrations Mount in Klamath-Trinity School District
It’s pouring rain in Hoopa. The roads are slick with ice and snow is about to fall as roughly half a dozen people shuffle into a small room for the Klamath-Trinity Joint Unified School District Board meeting in mid-February. The crowd is small but those attending carry the voices of their children, their community and, […]
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Measure Madness
While it’s always the candidates that generate the most buzz, there’s a lot at stake in Humboldt County on Nov. 6 beyond who ultimately ends up taking seats on city councils and the harbor district. A total of eight local ballot measures will decide tens of millions of dollars of local funding decades into the […]
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EPA Considers Hoopa Mine for Superfund Designation
Yellow tinted water flows out of a mine shaft located below a small stretch of State Route 96, just outside of Hoopa. A metallic smell engulfs the mountainside as the water trickles into the Trinity River. It’s part of the discharge from the now defunct Copper Bluff Mine. According to a press release from the […]