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Muddy’s Hot Cup gets quieter
This official announcement (from Muddy’s Hot Cup) came in Tuesday morning. Look for further details in the Hum this week. – Bob December 4, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: No More Music at Muddy’s — Again? Live entertainment at Muddy’s Hot Cup of Northtown is cancelled until further notice. In a hearing with the department of […]
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Can Indonesia Save the Bay?
The Eureka Reporter seems to think so. In today’s paper, they give front-page coverage to a meeting that took place yesterday between Deddy Saiful Hadi, head of Chancery/Consul for Economics with the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia, and the City of Eureka. According to the report, the meeting was a success. Hadi, unprompted, […]
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More Ferndalian psychotherapy
If Freud had a psychotherapy practice in Ferndale — that is if he could get one — he might notice how fixated the town folk are on their very tall, living Christmas tree. He might think nothing of it. After all, sometimes a Christmas tree is just a Christmas tree. But then again, Ferndale has […]
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Cutbacks at the ER
Chris Durant and Kimberly Wear outside Times-Standard headquarters this morning. Photo: Al Eisenstadt. The war may not be over, but the Eureka Reporter ‘s big announcement this morning is pretty much as expected — a five-day-per-week publishing schedule and a bumped-up website. The days of fancy paper are long gone. Can the ER make it […]
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The Glory That Is Willits
This week in my column I wrote a little bit about Willits , my hometown, and how it’s become awesome all of a sudden: Willits is the new Garberville. Only bigger and even cooler. Ten years ago the tweakers owned the town. Now they seem to have been banished. Someone flipped some sort of switch […]
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FPPC To Investigate Campbell
The state Fair Political Practices Commission will undertake an investigation of Fortuna Mayor John Campbell, according to a press release sent out this afternoon by Mark Lovelace of the Humboldt Watershed Council. The investigation, in response to an HWC complaint, will center on whether or not Campbell has acted improperly by failing to disclose retirement […]
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To Trial Appellate-Level Oral Argumentation
If I read this right, it looks like the appellate court just set a trial date for appellate arguments in the case of People v. Pacific Lumber. That’s District Attorney Paul Gallegos’ suit against Palco for allegedly fraudulent actions committed by the company during the Headwaters Deal. Yes, the one that caused all the fuss. […]
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The Ferndale update…
Psychotherapist Stuart Altschuler is going back to the Ferndale City Council for a second round of verbal jousting. Altschuler was recently denied a permit for his home-based psychotherapy office. However, it might be an uphill battle since “The decision of the City Council upon an appeal is final and conclusive as to all things involved […]
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Duh. More water good for fish.
The research arm of the National Academy of Science (the National Research Council) has reversed its previous findings on Klamath River flows. According to a recent press release from OregonWild, a Portland-based environmental organization, the NRC has determined that increased flows in the Klamath River are likely to benefit salmon. OregonWild, once part of the […]
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The Essential Schlong
It once was one of my very favorite things in the world, but about 10 years ago my copy of Tumours, the song-for-song cover of Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours by the mighty Schlong , went missing. Then, a few weeks ago, I find it sitting there on a bookshelf like it had never left. My turntable […]
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Wednesday Morning Papers
Evergreen Pulp is back in the running for that defunct Weyerhaeuser pulp mill in Cosmopolis, Wash. According to the Daily World, Evergreen’s bid involves a joint deal with the local public utilities district. Evergreen would get the mill and the PUD would get the mill’s biomass plant. Reporter Aaron Glantz has a piece about the […]