If negotiations between Humboldt Creamery and the union that represents most of its employees were not acidic enough, a complaint filed with the National Labor Relations Board threatens to sour the process further. Last Friday, a day after the Fernbridge dairy cooperative’s union employees voted 94-1 to authorize a strike, Redding-based Teamsters Local 137 fired […]
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Fighting Demons
The guitar player is dressed head to toe in black. Flanked by a drummer and a key-board player at a Eureka coffee-house on a Saturday night, he rips into a set of music he describes as “zombie surf rock.” He starts with a number called “Zombie Songs” and works his way through “Haunt This World” […]
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About a Worm
A mid last week’s news that the fed-eral government has mandated in-stallation of fish ladders as a condition of the government’s relicensing of PacifiCorp’s Klamath dams, some of the region’s top fisheries scientists gathered in Fortuna to talk about a worm. They met for two days to swap information about a tiny, translucent, squid-shaped class […]
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Moon on You
Well, shall we start with the moon? It hovered, just past full, at the far end of the long corridors between rows of Old Town buildings, lighting up alleys and casting blue tones onto the already lamp-lit streets. You’d walk alongside one old brick edifice – perhaps darting inside to check out an art exhibit, […]
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Star Gazer
PLEASE NOTE. Algonquin Books, the publisher of Flower Confidential, graciously allowed us to put an exclusive excerpt online until March 1. Find out more about the book and where to buy it at http://www.algonquin.com/catalog/?isbn=1565124383, or visit Amy’s website at amystewart.com. – The Journal Journal columnist Amy Stewart will be appearing at Northtown Books (957 H […]
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Do You Hear What I Hear?
A strange phenomenon descended upon the Arcata Community Center Saturday morning as the fourth weekend of youth basketball got underway. It was … quiet. Once, when play ceased on both courts, there was a moment of pure, breath-holding silence. It was downright eerie. Sure, during each game you could hear the players calling to each […]
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Constructing Solutions
Making a building is a loud undertaking. Drills whine and hammers strike up an odd beat, quickening at the end of each sequence to drive the nails flush. Compressors kick, their motors changing pitch. The low light of a gray day is just enough to illuminate the dust. Finishing time at the emerging store – […]
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Loud Pavement
On a clear and breezy Friday around rush hour, Gerridina "Dinie" Lean was finishing the last of the day’s chores. The sun was beginning its descent behind the hills and a few more horses still needed to be fed. On Lean’s 42-acre Tompkins Hill ranch in Fortuna about a mile from Highway 101, the Ferndale […]
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White Pavement
Fhyre Phoenix awoke in the middle of the night, brain ablaze. He had an idea for saving the world! Again. But this time, he thought, the solution was one that ordinary citizens could enact with ease. There was just one minor, niggling obstacle. So let’s hark back to where it all began: in the letters […]
