When President Bill Clinton first decided to come to town early last week, the news spread instantaneously throughout the county and left a good percentage of the population buzzing with excitement. For a very large segment of Humboldt County — the politically active, left-leaning segment — the news was like the call of a spring […]
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Children’s Services Organizes
Following up on our Jan. 10 story about a union drive Northcoast Children’s Services: Organizers just sent out a press release announcing that the drive was successful. Get the press release here (.doc). Northcoast Children’s Services is an umbrella organization that provides all manner of assistance to children and their parents. It has a $10 […]
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A conversation with Myra Melford
You could say 2007 was a good year for jazz pianist Myra Melford , who released two different albums that garnered acclaim and landed on jazz critics’ top 10 lists. Spark ! , for the Palmetto label, paired her with reed player Marty Ehrlich . On Big Picture (for Cryptogramophone ) she worked with bassist […]
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Bill Has A ‘Dream’
Classic NY Post — not one of their all-time greatest, but definitely pretty darn great. Don’t miss it.
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Awesome New Blog
If these walls could talk! Or better yet — blog! Check out the hottest new entry into the Humboldt County blog scene: Eureka Guest Apartment . It’s smoking hot and happening and it’s for the hip kids of today. Especially if their parents are coming to town.
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Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park Update
Residents of the 18 units of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria received letters yesterday from the rancheria announcing that there may be potential buyers for their trailers. Home owner Susie Holderman talked to Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Administrator Arla Ramsey this morning and, though interactions with the […]
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Celebrity Chaos
We’ll have more on last night in next week’s paper. How would you describe it in one word? Inspirational? Insanity? The word we want to use starts with “cluster…” and rhymes with “duck.” But this is a family blog. For now, we’ll just note that Darsh’s write-up over at the M-Town blog rang pretty true. […]
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‘Fish and chips’
After two years of sometimes tense discussion, the 26 disparate stakeholders participating in the Klamath Basin settlement talks released a proposed agreement Tuesday that they say provides for the diverse needs of irrigators, fishermen and Indian tribes. Craig Tucker of the Karuk Tribe is calling the Proposed Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement a "fish and chips […]
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Ferndale Redeemed
Ferndale therapist Stuart Altschuler got exactly what he wanted for his birthday: On Monday night the Ferndale City Council voted 4-1 to approve a home occupation permit for his psychotherapy office. That permit has been at the center of a four-month debacle involving Altschuler, his neighbor Shannon Leonardo and Shannon’s uncle Rich Leonardo, who questioned […]
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Willow Creek: The Comic
Mention the name Willow Creek and one thing immediately comes to mind: Bigfoot. If you’ve visited the area, you can easily imagine the stench-ridden man-ape living an elusive life in the surrounding mountainous forests as the townspeople happily go about their day. When 33-year-old Los Angeles writer Christian Beranek visited the town in April 2007, […]
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Aiy-yu-kwee, Goodbye
In December of last year, residents of the Aiy-yu-kwee Mobile Home Park — located on the territory of the Blue Lake Rancheria — were expecting to receive the usual season’s greetings: good tidings and Christmas cheer. Instead, they got eviction notices. When 76-year-old Sid Madjarac received his letter, the first thing he thought about was […]