surfer. Hello, friends! This is going to be the temporary home of the North Coast Journal blog. We’re going to get this party started here on Wordpress before that glorious day when we make the jump to our own homepage. How long will we be here? Maybe a couple of weeks. Probably a month or […]
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Not on my land!
Photos by Yulia Weeks Until recently, county residents living just outside of Rio Dell’s city limits didn’t think there was any reason to worry about the machinations of Rio Dell’s public works department. But now, because of tightening regulation of the city’s sewage system, some property owners in the bucolic Metropolitan Road area — nestled […]
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Tales from the Madaket
Relaunching the Madaket , 1989 The Motor Vessel Madaket harbors a veritable boatload of stories in its weathered Doug fir planks. From 1910, when she was built, to 1972, when the Samoa Bridge went up, the Madaket (originally named the Nellie C ) ferried scores of mill workers and their families and other folks back […]
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Views of the Bay
A boat is a hole in the water you pour money into. At least that’s what I’ve always been told. But when it comes to the five candidates running for the Humboldt Bay Recreation and Conservation District Commission, that saying is one of the few things they can agree to disagree with. All of them […]
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It’s the Algae, Dear
Oh, drear, more gloom and bad cheer — that’s what you’re thinking if you’re a SAD Brit hunkered down in your centuries-old stone house staring out the fortress slit at yet another gray day. What is this mist before your eyes, tears or rain? So you punch on the computer and randomly search for sunny […]
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BIGFOOT TRAPPED BY NORCAL FANATIC!
When I awoke one morning last month, it hit me. Oh my God, I can do this. The next day was Saturday, Sept. 15, practically a holiday in the Humboldt Nation. Opening day of deer hunting season on the North Coast. The lightbulb moment: I would pose as a deer hunter. While thousands of legit […]
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The Wordy City
The New York Times ’ wordsmith William Safire would have a field day if he visited Fortuna now. That’s because the City Council there is pulling out its hair over how future generations might define the phrase “preserving small-town qualities,” as contained in the city’s General Plan Update (GPU). At its Oct. 2 meeting, the […]
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Durant, Durant
Everyone knows that October is harvest month, and that good food and marijuana abound. The 2007 National NORML Conference was strategically scheduled right smack dab in the middle of this magical time, down in Los Angeles. For those of you who aren’t hip on weed knowledge, the first thing you must know is that the […]
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Grab Your Pitchfork
Boy, that was a burly editorial in last Wednesday’s Eureka Reporter. Headlined “Professor’s depreciation theory not supported by North Coast history,” the editorial excoriated HSU Economics Professor Erick Eschker for daring to suggest that Humboldt County home prices may fall in the coming years. Earlier in the week, the Reporter had published a story about […]
