Second District Supervisor Estelle Fennell is coming out of the hospital today after a particularly nasty bout with E. coli. In a statement released today, Fennell said she’s one of five people in the county who came down with a “virulent E. coli strain” infection, which is not being considered an outbreak by Public Health […]
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Tyson’s Back: Eureka Re-Hires Former City Manager as Temp
Former Eureka City Manager David Tyson, who retired last December after 12 years in the position, has been temporarily rehired to help Interim City Manager Mike Knight. With the abrupt exit of Tyson’s successor, Bill Panos, who resigned on Oct. 4 after less than a year on the job, Knight said Tyson has been brought out of […]
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Johanna Rodoni Was at County Fair Board Meeting the Night of Her DUI Arrest
Johanna Rodoni, a local cattle rancher, executive director of the Buckeye Conservancy and a former county supervisor, attended a meeting of the Humboldt County Fair Association Monday evening before getting arrested for allegedly driving under the influence. Rodoni is a longtime member of the fair association’s board of directors. The board meeting adjourned at about 8:30 […]
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Arcata’s $4.5 Million Payment Plan
The Arcata City Council approved a plan this morning to pay back $4.5 million to the state in misappropriated redevelopment funds. Hank Sims at the LoCO did a good job of recapping the issue yesterday, which has also been covered by the Arcata Eye and Journal. The city’s plan: Pay the state Department of Finance […]
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Redwood Rush
Rush into them gleefully, that is — those tall, barked hunks towering in our national-park sides of the woods, for which we’ve so pined over the past 16 days. They are open! Shutdown be gone! For now. In non-giddy English: Without fear of reprimand or worse (by feds, anyway), you may now enter Redwood National […]
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Eureka Councilman Lance Madsen Stepping Down
Fifth Ward Councilman Lance Madsen confirmed this morning he plans to step down from the council after years of health problems. Answering his phone from Stanford, where he was awaiting a medical procedure, Madsen said, “I have to keep coming down here — it’s getting to the point where I’m missing committee meetings and council […]
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Stone Lagoon Revival
There used to be a sweet little campground at Stone Lagoon that you could boat to — the only one of its kind in Humboldt County, with six hideaway boat-in campsites across the water from the highway. Alas, in March 2011, the cash-strapped state park system closed it. Now a private tour operator, Kayak Zak’s, […]
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Jared Huffman Will Call You Tonight
That’s right — the North Coast Congressman is fielding questions about the government shutdown tonight in a “telephone town hall” meeting. Sign up here to get on the list, and Huffman will call you into the party line to discuss the party line at 7 p.m.
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Update: Solved! Eureka’s City Manager Mystery
UPDATE: Eureka Mayor Frank Jager says Panos has indeed left the building, and the items on next week’s agenda are strictly procedural. Jager says he put the items on the agenda per Councilmember Mike Newman’s request. The first item sounds like it stemmed from concerns Newman had over city council members going directly to the […]
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NCRA Director Gives Agency a Withering Indictment on his Way Out the Door
Anyone who even casually follows the exploits of the North Coast Railroad Authority has seen a particularly absurd example of government folly — a state agency led by a cabal of evangelical cargo cultists with an unfunded mandate to resurrect an insolvent rail line. In recent years, two members of the agency’s board of directors […]
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Huffman on the Shutdown
What’s Congressman Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael) doing to end the government shutdown? Well, he wants to tell you. Tomorrow. By Twitter and Facebook. Just thought we’d pass it along. Also, you can read his Oct. 1 statement to the House of Reps here. The news release: Huffman to Hold Twitter and Facebook Q&A Sessions, Discuss […]
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Show us yer growler!
Any growler will do, at any brewery — Lost Coast, Six Rivers, Redwood Curtain, you name it — come Jan. 1. That’s when Assemblymember Wes Chesbro’s growler bill goes into effect. A growler (shh, Kiwi!) is a glass beer vessel about 4-pints-hearty, in which beer connoisseurs and picky drunks enjoy refills of fresh-crafted local brews straight from […]