A gentleman with a neatly trimmed beard stands at the counter of an Arcata business on a weekday morning and asks the clerk for an eighth of an ounce of Trainwreck, a popular strain of sinsemilla marijuana. The young woman on the other side of a glass partition, who looks to be a typical Arcata […]
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Everyone Is Connected
Of all the luck John Haley has pushed away his breakfast plate, forked clean of its quiche, hash browns and biscuits. Billie Jo sits next to him, antsy. She keeps looking across the noisy, warm dining room inside Christ Church Episcopal at a doorway that leads to another hall from which an even louder hubbub […]
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Road to Bluff Creek
“Roger and Bob rode out that day / Their lives changed in every way/So did ours ’cause we got to see/A living Bigfoot, walking tall and free ,” sang Tom Yamarone, belting out the verses of one of his Bigfoot folk-historical ballads. Yamarone’s lyrics rang true inside the Willow Creek VFW Hall a couple of […]
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Not on my land!
Photos by Yulia Weeks Until recently, county residents living just outside of Rio Dell’s city limits didn’t think there was any reason to worry about the machinations of Rio Dell’s public works department. But now, because of tightening regulation of the city’s sewage system, some property owners in the bucolic Metropolitan Road area — nestled […]
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Views of the Bay
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. At least that’s what I’ve always been told. But when it comes to the five candidates running for the Humboldt Bay Recreation and Conservation District Commission, that saying is one of the few things they can agree to disagree with. All of them […]
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Durant, Durant
Everyone knows that October is harvest month, and that good food and marijuana abound. The 2007 National NORML Conference was strategically scheduled right smack dab in the middle of this magical time, down in Los Angeles. For those of you who aren’t hip on weed knowledge, the first thing you must know is that the […]
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BIGFOOT TRAPPED BY NORCAL FANATIC!
When I awoke one morning last month, it hit me. Oh my God, I can do this. The next day was Saturday, Sept. 15, practically a holiday in the Humboldt Nation. Opening day of deer hunting season on the North Coast. The lightbulb moment: I would pose as a deer hunter. While thousands of legit […]
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Origin Stories
The Humboldt County Historical Society will launch Two Peoples, One Place with a reception at the Humboldt County Library on Saturday, Oct. 13, at 1 p.m. Authors Ray Raphael and Freeman House will be on hand to speak and to sign copies of the book, which will be available for sale ($29.95). The Humboldt County […]
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Money On Trees
As the jury trial for the civil suit Kathryn Miller v. the Trees Foundation puttered to a start last week inside Courtroom 3 at the Humboldt County Courthouse, Shunka Wakan — a key witness for the plaintiff — spent mornings sitting on the hard wooden benches in the long hallway outside the courtroom. During breaks, […]
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Petol Power
In the event of a global economic collapse or catastrophic drop in the value of the U.S. dollar, Petrolia residents could be sitting pretty. That is, if they are savvy enough to invest in Petols, the newly minted silver currency slowly circulating in the Mattole Valley and beyond. Ken Young, a maverick Petrolia resident — […]
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Redefining the Project
The over 4,000 cattle being grazed sustainably at Sycan Marsh, located in the northeastern corner of the Klamath Basin, have no idea how much science has gone into the cud they’re chewing. But Craig Beinz does. At first glance, Beinz looks more like a rancher than an ecologist, but underneath his spotless cowboy hat and […]
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Campbell’s Account
If Fortuna ever builds a big box mega-mall, it’s likely that Clif Clendenen would be one of the prime beneficiaries. The lanky 54-year-old is the owner and operator of Clendenen’s Cider Works, a fruit stand and orchard that has been in his family for over 100 years. The Cider Works is located directly across 12th […]