One of Humboldt County’s few wooden covered bridges got a pardon this week, as the county abandoned plans to replace the bridge with a modern, two-lane, concrete or steel span. Maintenance of the existing bridge is expected to cost the county $400,000. The Brookwood Covered Bridge, which crosses Jacoby Creek in Bayside, allows access to […]
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The Back Slap
In case you missed it yesterday, the Times-Standard‘s Thaddeus Greenson delivered the definitive account of 3rd District Supervisor Mark Lovelace’s sarcasm-powered slap-on-the-back, which he delivered last week to fellow supervisors Virginia Bass and Rex Bohn at a meeting of the California State Association of Counties in San Jose. Lovelace was reportedly frustrated at being replaced by Bass […]
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Meet Your Next Eureka Councilmember via Facebook, Vol. 3
Today, in our third and final installment of Facebook-centric introductions to aspiring Eureka City Council candidates, we meet the social media profile of Barry Smith, president and founder of Barry Smith Construction. That “SARCASM” sign up top is his profile pic. It’s clear from a quick glance at his photos that Smith loves his chopper. […]
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Meet Your Next Eureka Councilmember via Facebook, Vol. 2
Yesterday we channeled Facebook to introduce you to Chet Albin, one of three candidates hoping to get appointed to the Eureka City Council next month by Mayor Frank Jager. Today, in our second social media intro, we check out the Facebook persona of local TV news veteran Leslie Lollich. (Click here and scroll down for her […]
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Meet Your Next Eureka Councilmember via Facebook, Vol. 1
UPDATE: Albin’s Facebook page seems to have disappeared: Original post: In less than a month, Eureka Mayor Frank Jager will select one of three candidates who have thrown their names in the hat, hoping to replace 5th Ward representative Lance Madsen on the Eureka City Council. Yesterday we showed you the applications each candidate submitted […]
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Developer Group Seeks to Rewind General Plan Update
In the wake of the recent rewrites of the guiding principles for the county’s general plan update, a politically active contractor association is asking the county to rewind the entire update process by sending the plan back to the county planning commission, a body that’s been stacked with the group’s political allies. The Humboldt Builders’ […]
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UPDATE: Eureka Council Candidates Named
UPDATED: Read the applications submitted by all three candidates . There are officially three candidates in the running for a soon-to-be-vacated council seat from Eureka’s Fifth Ward. They are: Chet Albin, who’s currently the vice chair of the Eureka Planning Commission; Leslie Lollich, a spokeswoman for the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services; and […]
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Last Day to Apply for the Eureka City Council
Today’s the deadline to get your name in the running for Eureka’s Fifth Ward council seat. Lance Madsen announced last month he will step down once a replacement is named. At the council’s Nov. 5 meeting, councilmembers agreed unanimously to select a replacement for the Fifth Ward seat, according to the Times-Standard, thereby avoiding the $30,000 to $35,000 it […]
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Humboldt County is About to See More Feds Hunting Marijuana
As we reported last year, Humboldt County Sheriff Mike Downey has long been asking the federal government for help tracking down and arresting marijuana growers, and now he’s gonna get it. Today the White House announced that Humboldt County has been lumped into the Northern California “High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area,” or HIDTA. What does that […]
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Eureka City Council to Issue Weird Non-Apology
In a special meeting Tuesday night, the Eureka City Council will promise to never again do something that it won’t admit to having done in the first place. As it’s phrased in the agenda, the council is scheduled to adopt a resolution “of unconditional commitment to cease, desist, and not repeat past action that is […]
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UPDATED: Billboard Company Unleashes Lawyers Who Use Big Words
Looks like the company that owns all those billboards between Arcata and Eureka just recently found out that the Coastal Commission wants them all torn down. It’s response? “You can’t make us!” That’s a rough translation of the comically wordy lawyer-speak contained in from attorney Anthony M. Leones of Miller Starr Regalia on behalf of CBS Outdoor Inc., […]
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Gun Owners Grousing
Were one to judge by the first moments of last night’s presentation on new firearm regulations, Humboldt County gun owners would appear to be an extraordinarily polite set of people. Dozens of them, many wearing mossy oak camo, jammed into Pacific Outfitters in Eureka, sitting in the folding chairs clustered around the stairwell or standing […]