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Pride in Full Stride

On the heels of Pride celebrations in Eureka and Redway earlier this month, Lost Coast Pride’s celebration of the LGBTQ+ community stretched out over the weekend of June 24 and 25. Saturday’s festivities began at the Arcata Plaza, where a modest caravan of decorated vehicles took off, horns honking, headed to Fortuna’s Rohner Park. There, […]

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McKinleyville, Inc.?

Although McKinleyville is the third-largest community in Humboldt County, it is not legally a city. It does not have a city council and cannot pass local ordinances, collect sales tax, police its residents, plan its development or even fix its own roads. All its major decisions are made by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors, […]

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‘Unapologetically’

It was at a meeting in mid-April when things came to a head in Ferndale. For months, some residents had been pushing the Ferndale City Council to pass an anti-hate resolution, a statement of community values declaring that everyone is welcome in the Cream City, regardless of sexual orientation, gender identity, race, religion or ethnicity, […]

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‘Not Invited to the Table’

Cal Poly Humboldt will soon begin implementing recommendations from a Title IX audit in an effort to improve campus investigations into sexual assault and discrimination cases. A group of 10 students, faculty and staff are tasked with informing how recommendations should be fulfilled in their respective areas of campus. But on this team, students and […]

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Launching Nigilax̂

The air was wet with mist and the crashing waves created a rhythm as the traditional vessel of the Unangan people from Unalaska touched the waters of Sandy Cove. The vessel is a large open-skin boat called a nigilax̂ and was launched at the Alaska Native Day celebration in Metini, or Fort Ross in the […]

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‘To Celebrate Our Sovereignty’

To hear former Yurok Tribe General Counsel Amy Cordalis tell it, her tribe’s path to reclaiming its full sovereignty and right to self-governance began with one woman’s simple desire for fish cheeks, a Yurok delicacy. Geneva Brooks Mattz loved to eat fish, Cordalis says, and the whole family’s way of life revolved around catching, preparing […]

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‘A Single Purpose’

At the mouth of the Klamath where the river jets cool, fresh water into the Pacific Ocean, several carved wooden salmon were dipped into the waters and ceremoniously blessed before beginning their symbolic journey upriver, carried with prayer by runners on foot. Runners passed the carved salmon batons for more than three days and 350 […]

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Caring for the Condors

On May 12, all eight of the North Coast’s California condors were inside the release enclosure where they began their new lives — and from which they took off on their first flights into the wild — after being enticed back by offerings of carrion in preparation for their twice-yearly exams. Along with the chance […]

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