The Humboldt County Grand jury is calling for Sheriff Mike Downey to enact changes to the county jail’s release policies, including a recommendation to end late-night and early-morning releases. “The people of Humboldt County would be better served if Humboldt County Correctional Facility stopped releasing inmates between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m.,” reads a report […]
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Reggae Daze (Photos Part 3)
Saturday evening at Reggae on the River continued with one of reggae’s oldest performing groups, Third World. After its one-of-a-kind performance, sunshine-reggae group Iration further livened up the crowd and got guests ready for the living legend and reggae icon Jimmy Cliff. Cliff’s performance was elaborate, beautiful and electrifying to say the least. After returning […]
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Rio Dell Can Drink Again
Hey, Rio Dell: Stick a glass under that tap, turn it on, fill ‘er up and take a nice, long pull. Then maybe take a shower. Go ahead: According to a news release from the City of Rio Dell, the State Water Resources Control Board has lifted its drought-panic order forbidding the City from drawing water […]
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Reggae Photos Round 2!
With the fires in Southern Humboldt the festival buzz, attendees partied on well into Saturday morning. The first evening of the 30th Annual Reggae On The River featured performances by internationally renowned artists from around the globe. Highlights from the evening included outstanding performances from Sly & Robbie and The Taxi Gang and Michael Rose. […]
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Goodbye, Jack Mays
Artist Jack Mays, colorful chronicler of Ferndale, has died, The Ferndale Enterprise reports. Mays had battled cancer since 2004 — living nearly a decade longer than the doctors had predicted he would, and doing all sorts of inspiring and lively things in that time. He captured every inch of Ferndale and many of its people in elaborately […]
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Look, an LFL!
That’s a “Little Free Library” to the uninitiated. And, according to our very own master of the field notes, Journal contributor Barry Evans, there’s a new one in town. Evans and his wife, Louisa Rogers, are in fact responsible for the thing, which resides on the Snug Alley backside of the Redwood Curtain Theatre. But […]
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Updated. Our Miss California Contender
Tonight, at the William Saroyan Theatre in toasty downtown Fresno, the winner of this year’s Miss California pageant will be crowned after a buoyant Broadway-themed spectacular. And among the 54 contending young women is one of our own: Humboldt State University kinesiology student Kathryn Faull, Miss Central California Regional 2014. If she wins, she competes […]
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UPDATED: Official: Sewage Spill Won’t Spoil Oysterfest
Friday afternoon, on the eve of Oysterfest, the Humboldt Community Services District dropped a bombshell of a press release, alerting the public that a massive sewage spill occurred in the Humboldt Hill area and that some may have flowed into Humboldt Bay, spurring the California Department of Public Health to halt oyster harvests as of […]
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Photo Contest Countdown
Hey Humboldt, you have just seven days left to snap a portrait for the Journal’s Faces of Humboldt photo contest! From May 29 through June 20, use your camera, tablet, phone or any other snazzy device you may to capture the faces of Humboldt County. Photos should be submitted as high-resolution JPEGs via email to […]
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McKinleyville on Parade
McKinleyvillians grabbed their lawn chairs, blankets and tailgates Saturday and headed down to Central Avenue to catch the annual Pony Express Days Parade. Surprisingly short on ponies (only one by this reporter’s count), the parade made up for it with a plethora of horses, floats, fire trucks, dancing children and grown men driving very small […]
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New Subversive Graffiti Stickers Popping Up
Remember those “Eureka Stinks” stickers and T-shirts? (This shirt collector has one featured on his Tumblr.) Well, without that pulp mill smokestack to befoul the city’s air, there’s less motivation for malodorous maligning of the city. Perhaps, with election season sharpening every flaw in the city’s facade, a message like this — reserved, but embracing — […]
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A Patriot Among Us
The North Coast Journal’s own Media Maven, Marcy Burstiner, recently took home the Redwood Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union’s 2014 Patriot Award for her support of free speech rights and open government. Burstiner, who chairs the Humboldt State University Journalism Department and is the faculty advisor to the university’s newspaper, The Lumberjack, is […]