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The Fearless Force
As those who knew Patty Berg best take time to reflect on her life and legacy in the wake of her Nov. 19 death at the age of 82, they call her many things. The term “trailblazer” comes up repeatedly, as they note Berg’s role as Humboldt County’s first sex-ed instructor, the founding executive director […]
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Election Results Update: Blue Lake City Council Race Still Tied
The Humboldt County Elections Office issued another round of results today, adding 2,166 votes to the tally, with 65,093 votes counted to date, which represents nearly 77 percent of registered voters. The elections office notes: “This is the final election report prior to the certification of the election.” According to the Elections Office, a total of […]
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Former CPH President to Focus on ‘Global Engagement Space’ as Professor
Cal Poly Humboldt students are currently enrolling for their spring classes and for the second time since he resigned his presidency to retreat into a tenured professor position, Tom Jackson Jr. is not listed on the schedule as teaching any courses. Jackson, who brought his tumultuous and controversial five-year tenure as the university’s president to […]
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County’s Third Post-election Report Has Blue Lake Council Race Tied
The Humboldt County Elections Office has issued its first post election report, adding 8,186 votes to the tally, with 62,927 votes counted thus far, representing about 74.26 percent of registered voters. The updated results don’t change much, but they do leave two candidates in a dead heat for the third of three seats up on […]
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NCJ Preview: Bitten, Food Will Not Bring Us Together, Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Digawututklh
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, News Editor Thadeus Greenson discusses the North Coast Journal cover story Bitten, by Erica Kate Terence Steinbring. Jennifer Fumiko-Cahill talks about protecting yourself from the drama that comes with Thanksgiving in her story Food Will Not Bring Us Together. Finally, Greenson wraps up the episode with a […]
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Evacuation Warnings Remain in Effect for Several Areas Due to Flooding
Evacuation orders issued yesterday for sections of the Eel River Valley have been downgraded but several zones remain under evacuation warnings, including areas around the Van Duzen and Mad rivers, due to flooding. In a storm update today, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office cautioned residents that they should “remain cautious and prepared to leave again […]
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Man Found Dead in Blue Lake Identified
A man found dead Nov. 2 at an abandoned Blue Lake power plant has been identified as Jason Quinton Miller, officials said today. According to a Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office news release, an autopsy confirmed the 50 year old’s death was caused by “electrocution with extensive thermal burns, [a] terminal fall from heights and chronic […]
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UPDATE: Evacuation Orders, Warnings as Eel to Hit Major Flood Stage, More High Winds on Tap
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has issued evacuation orders and warnings for sections of the Eel River area. Find the areas and further information here. For those who need to evacuate, the HCSO states: “The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services in coordination with the Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services […]
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Bitten
When the fangs sank in through my pistachio-colored Pink Floyd T-shirt and sports bra, piercing my flesh somewhere outside my right peripheral view, I had been petting my elderly cat, seated on the ground in the center of the garden I grew up in amid the Klamath Mountains near the Humboldt-Siskiyou county line. It was […]
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Another Close Condor Call
A9 — one of the North Coast’s 18 California condors — is once again flying free following weeks of intensive medical treatment at the Sequoia Park Zoo due to a potentially lethal case of lead poisoning. The Northern California Condor Restoration Program — a Yurok Tribe-led effort to reestablish a self-sustaining population of the bird […]
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Wiyot Tribe Celebrates the Return of Digawututklh
Since time immemorial, the Wiyot people have lived in the Humboldt Bay region, with their traditions and ways of life intricately linked to the land and waterways surrounding them. Now 350 acres of those ancestral lands on the Samoa Peninsula, a place the tribe knows as Digawututklh, are once again under their care — “an […]