In the wee hours of Tuesday morning the portable toilets in the Bayshore Mall’s north parking lot burnt to almost nothing. So says the press release from Humboldt Bay Fire, which responded to a call at 5:28 a.m. to find the plastic potties completely destroyed by fire. But Richard Marks, who serves on the Humboldt […]
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Humboldters to Get Brief Break from Historic Wetness
In the midst of a historically wet winter, and after being pummeled by rain, hail, lightning and thunder last night, Humboldt County’s in for a bit of a break. Kind of. National Weather Service Meteorologist Shawn Palmquist said the area should see showers taper off throughout the rest of today. Tomorrow should be mostly dry, […]
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Humboldt Bay to Turn Red in Name of Science
Some water testing next week may leave those in and around Humboldt Bay seeing red. The California Department of Public Health and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that they will begin a series of water tests March 14 that will include dumping a non-toxic, fluorescent red dye — Rhodamine WT — into the […]
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TL;DR : Five Things we Learned from our Winter Photo Contest
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from this week’s cover story to get you caught up. This week’s cover story showcased the top 10 finishers in our Winter Photo Contest and, frankly, it taught us a few things – and reinforced a few others – about why we call Humboldt home. In […]
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Harbor District to Present on King Salmon Dredging Plans
The Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District is holding an informational meeting on Wednesday, March 2 to discuss its dredging plan for the channels in King Salmon. The district decided in a January meeting that it would dredge the King Salmon main channel, and said in a report, “dredging activities for the King Salmon […]
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The Van Kirk and Vinyard Research Collection: HSU Honors Humble Heroines
Susie Van Kirk would probably not have approved of Humboldt State University’s plan to immortalize her. The decades-long activist for homeless and environmental rights was not a fan of the spotlight, according to all who knew her, going as far as to ask her son not to hold a memorial service or write an obituary […]
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Want to Win a Night at the Benbow Inn (Plus Wine and Chocolate)?
Did you blow Valentine’s Day? Are you sitting in your cubicle right now wondering why that chocolate rose and repurposed post card didn’t do the trick? Or maybe you’re at your desk, contemplating a lifetime of loneliness because you showed your partner the door after he/she showed up with a heart shaped pizza, a bottle […]
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Photo Contest!
It’s been a wet winter, and I don’t think we’re alone in saying we’d kind of forgotten what that felt like. But now that back-to-back months of double digit rainfall totals have jolted us back into winter life in Humboldt, we’d like to preserve what that looks like. You know, in case it doesn’t come […]
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Arcata, HSU Eying $3.2 Million Property
The city of Arcata and Humboldt State University are researching the potential purchase of a plot of land that butts up against the city’s Community Forest and the school’s campus. The 58-acre property on Bayview Street, which recently hit the market with an asking price of $3.2 million, has long been on the city’s radar, […]
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Feds Announce New Klamath Accord to Remove Dams by 2020
A new deal has been reached to remove the four hydroelectric dams that clog the Klamath River and revive the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, the federal government announced today. According to a joint press release, the federal government, the states of Oregon and California and PacifiCorp — the energy company that owns […]
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Arcata Recycling Center to Close
The Arcata Resource Recovery Center — better known as the spot on 10th Street where you can drop off your recyclables and get your deposit back on glass bottles and cans — is closing. As the Mad River Union first reported, Rick Powell, the general manager of Eel River Resource Recovery — which owns and […]
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UPDATED: Birders Flock to Great Gray Owl
UPDATE: Local birder Rob Fowler was kind enough to send out some directions to the Great Gray Owl’s current location, as well as some tips to follow to make sure the bird stays happy and safe during its Humboldt visit. Find Fowler’s tips copied at the bottom of this post. PREVIOUSLY: The Humboldt County birding […]