If you hunt and you still use lead bullets – well, we get it. Lead, as Yurok Tribe biologist Mike Palermo tells the Times-Standard today, is “very dense and very malleable … [t]hat’s what makes it a fantastic projectile. When it hits a deer, it expands and mushrooms out.” But you really should switch to non-lead […]
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Dog Abandoned on Samoa Beach Dies
One of the three dogs found abandoned on Samoa beach last month died Friday. A veterinarian euthanized “Becky,” a black Labrador retriever, after discovering she was bleeding internally from invasive nasal cancer, the Sheriff’s Office reported. Veterinary records gathered by Animal Control indicate Becky had been experiencing symptoms since at least May 2012. “Angel” and “Ginger” […]
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Un-occupy the Courthouse
Crews from Humboldt Bay Fire evacuated the courthouse this morning when an elevator motor apparently started spewing smoke into the building. A few Sheriff’s Office deputies waiting outside said they smelled strong smoke on the first floor of the courthouse before the building was emptied. Firefighters found the source of the smoke and were preparing […]
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Come on, robbers, return those keys
Inside a house on a corner lot in Eureka, a resident patiently (we presume) waits. And waits. And waits. Or maybe gave up. The sign — “Robbers, please put the car keys in mailbox” — has been up for months and months. There’s a similar sign on the garage-door side of the house. An old pickup’s in the […]
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Oyster Hysteria Roundup
Attendance numbers are still an open question for tomorrow’s Oyster Fest on the Arcata Plaza, but when it comes to community engagement, this sucker’s already a blockbuster. Ever since the Journal‘s Bob Doran broke news of this year’s $10 admission fee, the community has been atwitter (and, uh, Twittering, Facebooking, etc.) with opinions, questions, concerns […]
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Hodgson Issues Call for Supervisor Challengers in KHUM Interview
Elaborating on her op-ed piece in this week’s issue, Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson took to the airwaves this afternoon, telling KHUM’s Mike Dronkers that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors’ recent vote to replace the guiding principles in the general plan update was “one of the more blatant power grabs that I’ve seen in all […]