Who knew that a back-to-the-lander gentleman hunkered down in hippy little Redway for the past 30 years would end up as a feature profile in a major business magazine headquartered at 7 World Trade Center, New York, N.Y.? For being among the top 5,000 U.S.-based entrepreneurs raking in the dough the fastest? The September 2007 […]
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Rock and a Hard Place — Independent gold miners fear extinction as a new wave hits the hills
Salmon River (Mining) District. This district, the largest in Siskiyou County, comprises its entire southwestern corner, and includes the drainage area of the Salmon River and its tributaries. Topographically, it is a tangle of mountain ridges separated by precipitous canyons and river gorges. … The main gold-bearing rock belt of the county crosses through the […]
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Karuk Leader Arrested
On Monday evening, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department arrested Karuk Tribe Vice Chairman Leaf Grant Hillman in Happy Camp. The previous Friday, Aug. 17, the Siskiyou County District Attorney’s office had filed a felony domestic violence charge against Hillman. Siskiyou County D.A. Kirk Andrus said Hillman, who lives in Orleans, is charged with one count […]
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Toy Test
It’s enough to make you want to rip off all your clothes and just run around nekked. And to tell your kids they can play only with … air — or, safer yet, only make-believe friends. We’re talking about poison clothes and toys. There’s the latest toy recall, this time by Mattel, of millions of […]
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Teacher’s Prep — Knuckling down for a hectic nine months as the school year starts
Whether welcomed or dreaded, the inevitable return to school arrives next week for thousands of elementary, middle and high school students in Humboldt County. As they approach their first day of class, many kindergarteners and students graduating to middle or high school will surely be anxious about fitting in and finding the bathrooms. For older […]
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‘A Broken Vessel’ — Who was Martin Cotton, and what happened to him?
Martin Frederick Cotton II was not homeless. The 26-year-old man, who died in the Humboldt County Jail on Aug. 9 shortly after a violent confrontation with the Eureka police, always knew that if he was in trouble, the only thing between him and shelter was a call to his father, Martin Fredrick Cotton, who lives […]
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Humboldt speaks
The day of discussion on health care reform was billed as an experiment in “deliberative democracy.” On Saturday, around 4,500 randomly selected Californians participated statewide in a high-tech teleconference with sites in eight cities facilitated by a group called CaliforniaSpeaks. Humboldt State University’s West Gym was the local site. There were around 470 attendees from […]
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Bye-bye kitty
The guy in front of me at airport security in Arcata wasn’t sure what to do with his cat. “Do I put her through?” he asked, eyeing the x-ray machine nervously. “No,” the TSA representative said. “Wait until the last possible minute, then take her out of the carrier. Walk through the metal detector with […]
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Disorientation Week — Your student guide to housing, transit, surfing and weed
Everyone’s so cool, and one dude’s brought his drum and they’re all just layin’ around in this way cool grove in the forest. Ferns are tickling, the sun’s out — what rain? — like some kind of benevolent blanket of warm glowing pizza dough just soft all over everything, and the grass … the grass. […]
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West End Story — An unlikely union between experimental artists and the City of Eureka
The formula was simple: Empire Squared plus The Placebo plus Synapsis equals a flowering of experimental performing arts in Eureka’s West End. Turns out, the equation was missing only one thing — a permit. In December of last year, the City of Eureka ordered the performing arts collective Synapsis to close its doors to public […]