Editor: I was overjoyed to see Joseph Byrd’s piece on the Jazz Festival (“Regarding Local Festivals,” April 2). The quality of our local Blues and Jazz festivals has been going downhill since Glenn Maxon has taken over the helm. He has eliminated local bands from both. Our Blues Fest was the best, with two stages […]
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Rich and Creamy
Rich and Creamy Editor: Marcy Burstiner’s praise for The Ferndale Enterprise’s coverage of the Humboldt Creamery story was well deserved (“Media Maven,” April 2). I enjoy reading Ms. Burstiner’s column and appreciate her insights. She only read the Enterprise’s stories because the editor had put them online, which is unfortunate since it is through subscriptions […]
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Sweet Irony
The ham-handedness (-headedness?) of the opposition to Caltrans’ proposed realignment of Highway 101 through Richardson Grove, the stand of big trees at the south end of the county, has been previously noted in this space (see "Town Dandy," March 13). In essence, Caltrans proposes a minor tweak to the highway’s path that would allow industry-standard-sized […]
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Milk the Story
In the Eel River Valley of Northern California everyone is tied by blood or business. That was how New York Times columnist Dan Barry led a March 23 story about how the collapse of the Humboldt Creamery affects dairy farmers here. The column was 1620 words long — almost as long as the first five […]
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Get Less Poor!
A parking spot opened on F Street — good luck, as I needed to deposit my paycheck before the weekend’s debit card purchases overdrew my account. With money so tight, those $33 overdraft fees, besides being stupid, can kill a person. Exiting the car, I noted the restaurant across the street. Regret pinged through me. […]
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Post Mortem
You might argue that it wasn’t the most important issue that the county will face this year, and after a short but fierce bout, during which I manage to rip out one of your eyeballs before you shatter my elbow and grind my face into the pavement, I would concede the point. Nevertheless, it was […]
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Eye Popping
Editor: I know this is a distressing time for newspapers and their need to shave costs. However, some decisions made also shave readers. I’m afraid that the Journal is heading in that direction. The last edition is a case in point as more than half was mostly unreadable because of the tiny print, as well […]
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Bloody Pulp
There’s three classes of people who will be most affected by the near-certain fact that the Samoa pulp mill won’t be open for business until 2011, at bare minimum. Moving down the list, those classes are as follows. Number one: employees. Richard Marks — pulp worker, labor organizer and one-time Fourth District Supervisorial candidate — […]
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Searching
Editor: Ryan Burns wrote an article on the plane that went down, and told some info about the pilot "Lost," March 12). I am the daughter of the passenger Rick Gustafson, and wanted to thank Burns, personally, for that article. My stepmom and I just spent three days in Arcata, meeting with the Coast Guard […]
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Grovies Respond
Editor: How interesting to find you, Mr. Sims, editor of the wonderful NCJ, with the attitude of "you’ve seen one redwood, you’ve seen them all" ("Town Dandy," March 12). How else can we construe your casual description of the severing of the roots of 30 of the largest old-growth trees in Richardson Grove State Park […]
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Get Lost
Editor: Allow me to offer one minor addition to Greg King’s self-stirring narrative ("Mailbox," March 5) about his solo discovery of the Headwaters Forest (an event, along with publication of Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring, that some feel marked the beginning of the environmental movement). Greg King wrote, "The big grove was trackless with dozens of […]
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Ink By Barrel
Editor: As the writer for the competition with that feisty Independent, I’d like you to be aware that the community supports us as well, and in fact, we are more widely read than the Independent ("Media Maven," March 5). Your chauvinism is showing. Mary E. Anderson, Redway