Cpl. Crystal Landry has a cold. It’s just a sinus thing, she says, something she picked up from one of the other officers on last week’s shift. She blots her nose with a tissue and pecks at the keyboard of her computer, typing a Be On the Lookout for a stolen dirt bike. “They took […]
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‘Never, Ever, Ever’ Again
It appears Travis Schneider’s permit problems may have just doubled in size and gotten decidedly dirtier. The local developer’s efforts to get a permit and permit amendments necessary to lift a county stop work order and resume construction of his family home on Walker Point Road south of the Indianola Cutoff had already been complicated […]
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Welcome to NCJ Burger Week 2022!
Join us as we revel in our annual celebration of the hamburger. This year, 24 restaurants are participating in the revelry — using everything from locally-foraged chanterelle gravy to chili garlic pineapple chutney to donut buns — to offer up mind-boggling creations. And the bacon. So much beloved bacon. So many burgers, so little time. […]
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Supes Censure Embattled Planning Commission Chair
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Sept. 20 to censure Planning Commissioner Alan Bongio and ask him to step down from the position of chair due to his repeated outbursts at the commission’s Aug. 18 meeting that many have condemned as racist and inappropriate. First District Supervisor Rex Bohn made the motion to […]
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Sara Bareilles Comes Home
In “Saint Honesty,” for which Sara Bareilles won a Grammy for Best American Roots Performance in 2019, she sings the praises of rain on one’s face, of it coming in through the windows: “How wild it was to find it/ to finally feel the climate/ instead of only staying dry and warm.” And when she […]
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‘Dire’
Local and state officials are raising concern and demanding answers about PG&E’s professed inability to provide new electric hookups across the southern portions of the county, threatening major economic development from Fortuna down to the Mendocino County border and putting future projects, including a new Garberville hospital, at risk. Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell and […]
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44 Feet
Forty-four feet isn’t all that high. It’s halfway up the tall side of the county courthouse. If you stacked Guy Fieri seven-and-a-half times on top of himself, his platinum blond hair would reach 44 feet high. Forty-four feet is also the height above today’s sea level where 37 tons of radioactive waste from the former […]
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Zoellner Civil Case Lurches Toward Trial
With a trial date approaching for a civil lawsuit Kyle Zoellner brought against the city of Arcata in the wake of his 2017 arrest, the recent deposition of Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming has become a point of contention, prompting Zoellner’s attorneys to seek sanctions from the court as the city’s lawyers accuse them […]
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‘Outcry’
When embattled Arcata City Councilmember Brett Watson announced last month he would be seeking re-election in November, he cited “all of the encouragement from members of the community” he’s received, but that “encouragement” is all but absent from the public record. In the wake of Watson’s announcement, the Journal submitted a California Public Records Act […]
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Uniting for Ukraine
Like many in the United States and the world, Humboldt native Ryan Knight spent much of early 2022 watching Russian forces gather on the western border with Ukraine with a sense of disbelief. But Knight knows the country far better than most, having spent a couple of years in the country — witnessing the birth […]
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‘Chipping Away’
If you get in a wreck or have a heart attack, chances are the first rescuers on the scene will arrive in a big red firetruck. And if you live in Arcata or McKinleyville, at least one of those rescuers may well have been on duty for 72 hours straight. Hopefully, they will have had […]
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Cal Poly Paid Triple Appraised Value in Land Purchase
Two months after officially becoming the state’s third polytechnic university, Cal Poly Humboldt signed a March 22 purchase agreement for a 16-acre vacant lot on the eastern edge of the Arcata Bottoms, putting down a $54,000 deposit on what campus officials have described as a “strategic” investment. The parcel was apparently considered essential enough that […]