On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, news editor Thadeus Greenson talks about digital editor Kimberly Wear’s story on teen courts and offers an update the Jacobs middle school deal. Arts and features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill also talks about the new Asia’s Best grocery store in Fortuna. Read all this and more in […]
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A Jury of Their Peers
On a recent Thursday afternoon, two teenagers appeared in court after taking responsibility for minor offenses they committed in separate incidents that brought them into contact with law enforcement. While an official hearing, this one diverged from standard proceedings in several ways, most markedly in that the teens’ peers filled the roles of counsel and […]
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Eureka City Schools’ $6 Million Jacobs Deal is Dead
The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously in closed session Aug. 8 not to extend the escrow period for a $6 million property exchange agreement with a mystery developer in advance of a deadline the following day. On Aug. 9, the developer, AMG Communities-Jacobs, LLC, released an unattributed statement announcing it had “decided […]
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‘We Gotta be Somewhere’
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s message on homelessness in recent weeks has been clear: The state will no longer tolerate encampments, and cities shouldn’t either. Californians who live on the streets, as well as the outreach workers who support them, say they’re already feeling the difference. Places where someone used to be able to pitch a tent […]
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Mystery Developer Blames Eureka for Defunct Property Exchange Deal; City Official Says That’s ‘Laughable’
A day after the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously to deny the company’s request to extend escrow for a third time on the Jacobs Middle School property exchange agreement reached in December, the mystery developer AMG Communities-Jacobs, LLC, issued a statement confirming it is pulling out of the deal and blaming the […]
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Eureka School Board Denies Extension Request, Potentially Killing Jacobs Deal
The Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees voted unanimously in closed session tonight not to extend a $6 million property exchange agreement with a mystery developer in advance of tomorrow’s deadline for the deal to close. The district controversially entered into the agreement Dec. 14, 2023, agreeing to trade 8.3 acres of its former Jacobs […]
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Street Art, Measure F, Tandoori Bites Pizzas and More…
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we’re joined by Arts & Features Editor Jennifer Fumiko Cahill to talk about the cover story on the Eureka Street Art Festival, as well as the new Tandoori Bites Pizzas coming to Humboldt. We’re also joined by California Local Journalism Fellow Kelby McIntosh as he covers Measure […]
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Eureka Street Art Festival’s Last Splash
If there’s a drab, gray concrete wall in Eureka, it’s not the fault of Jenna Catsos, Michelle Cartledge or Swan Asbury. The three women have been the driving force behind the annual Eureka Street Art Festival for the past seven years. “It got started in 2018, when Michelle Cartledge was on the Economic Development Commission […]
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New $88 Million Microgrid Project Aims to Power Hoopa, Karuk and Yurok Tribes
A joint effort between local tribes, Cal Poly Humboldt’s Schatz Energy Research Center, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and the Redwood Coast Energy Authority just received $88 million in Department of Energy funding to bring a solar microgrid system to Hoopa, Yurok and Karuk tribal members in an area more prone to electrical outages than […]
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Correction
The Best Of Humboldt listings in the Aug. 1, 2024, edition of the North Coast Journal contained an error. Arcata’s The Carriage House — 937 10th St., carriagehousearcata.com won — the contest’s Best New Restaurant category. The Journal regrets the error. Related Stories Related Stories Related Stories
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Pro Parking Lot Campaign Spending Approaches $400K; Disclosure Forms Add to Web of Connections Between Measure and Jacobs Property Swap
Robin P. Arkley II’s Eureka-based Security National-backed ballot measure campaign has spent almost $400,000 this year in its efforts to block Eureka’s plans to convert 14 municipally owned parking lots into multi-family housing developments. According to campaign finance disclosure reports filed with the city of Eureka that detail campaign fundraising and spending through June 30, […]
