Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival this Weekend
The uber-festive Humboldt Artisans Crafts & Music Festival returns for its 41st annual event this weekend, transforming Redwood Acres Fairgrounds into a holiday marketplace filled with all the comfort and joy you hope for at this time of year. The annual tradition happens the first weekend in December, so that means this year, it’s happening…
Oberon Plans its Final Weeks
Nicholas Kohl, owner of Old Town’s Oberon Grill, has announced the restaurant will close its doors for good after December. The business will be open through at least Dec. 31, during which time he and the staff will be juggling one last round of holiday parties. A number of factors played into the decision, according…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Dec. 1
New venue alert, for this column, anyway. Here’s a cozy restaurant gig to ease you into the last month of the year. The Boardroom in Ferndale is hosting Deckhands, a mostly acoustic trio featuring guitar, mandolin and pedal steel. If you’d like to know more about the band’s sound, roll through at 6 p.m. to…
Holiday Haps This Week
O little towns of Humboldt … It’s December and cities and towns across the county are hosting hospitality or open house events this month with many starting this week. Here’s where you can go to feel all aglow. McKinleyville says hello to Santa at its Christmas Celebration, happening Thursday, Dec. 1 from 5 to 7:30…
NCJ Preview: Shopping Local, Mushrooms and Seasonal Snark
This week we peek at the annual Gift Guide, from Sasquatch stuffies to Guy Fieri merch. We’re also sharing a dispatch from the Mushroom Fair, including a warning about a poisonous shroom cropping up in our county, and taking shots at Starbucks’ seasonal drink specials. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on stories from all over…
Screening for Adverse Childhood Experiences is Increasing, but are Patients Getting Treatment?
In 2020 the state launched the adverse childhood experiences initiative, with the goal of cutting the number of those experiences in half within one generation. Today the number of doctors screening patients for adverse experiences is growing, but the state is failing to track whether patients receive the follow-up services or support they might need.…
Frigid Temps on the Coast Tonight, Winter Storm Watch in the Interior Wednesday
Interior areas of Humboldt County above 2,000 feet will be under a winter storm watch beginning Wednesday afternoon, according to the Eureka office of the National Weather Service. “Heavy snow possible above 2,000 feet,” the weather message states. “Total snow accumulations of 7 to 24 inches possible. Winds could gust as high as 40 mph.”…
Alvina ‘Lee’ Perkins 1932-2022
Alvina “Lee” Perkins died peacefully on Oct. 20, 2022, at the age of 90 in her home in Los Angeles with her daughter holding her hand. Lee was born in Chicago, Illinois on July 2, 1932, to Carl and Erna Guettler. Carl moved the family to Ferndale, California, around 1937 to be close to Erna’s…
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Take a deep breath and a shot of eggnog — the season of giving is just ahead, which means the season of shopping is upon us. No need for it to be a slog that obscures the genuine pleasure of picking out something that will bring a smile to someone who makes you smile. Step…
Feds Give Dam Removal Final Approval
After more than two decades of fighting to save a main artery of their cultures from feared ecological collapse, Klamath River tribes are on track to see the lower river run freely for the first time in more than a century by 2025. On Nov. 17, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission gave its final nod…
Thanks
I like it when people get together to share a table, I really do. For years, though, I struggled with Thanksgiving and not just because of the whitewashed history of the holiday. In 1999, when I was 17, my mother died on Thanksgiving night, having succumbed to the cancer that had been eating her away…
‘What Happens Now?’
Editor: Thank you for reporting on the ongoing elder abuse that is taking place in the euphemistically labeled “skilled nursing care facilities” here in Humboldt County (Profit and Pain, Nov. 17). What happens now? This level of criminal neglect surely warrants intervention sooner than the legislative process allows. The timeline indicated by Assemblymember Wood, “we have…
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