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PG&E Moves Forward with Eel River Dam Removal
It now looks like two iconic North Coast rivers will flow dam free by the end of the decade. Just weeks after the first of four dams was removed from the Klamath River as a part of what will be the largest dam removal effort in the nation’s history, Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed…
EPD: Additional Info on Fatal Police Shooting to be Released by Week’s End
The county’s multi-agency law enforcement Critical Incident Response Team continues to investigate the Eureka Police Department’s fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man, with EPD Assistant Chief Brian Stephens saying the department likely won’t release more information until the end of the week. Details about the shooting remain scant, mostly confined to a 257-word press release…
CHP: Two Killed In 101 Crash North of Orick
The California Highway Patrol is investigating a head-on crash that left two people dead north of Orick on U.S. Highway 101 yesterday morning. According to a press release, CHP received a report of the crash between a semi-truck and a car north of Lostman Creek shortly before 8:30 a.m. An initial investigation indicates a 2015…
EPD Investigating Police Shooting
The Eureka Police Department is investigating a police shooting that occurred near the main branch of the Humboldt County Library this morning. According to a social media post from the department, officers have closed off traffic on P Street between Second and Third streets, and is asking the public to remain clear of the area. There…
In With the Future
Well, it’s that time of year, when I must once again appeal to the reason of my fellow Americans and suggest we not only can but must do better regarding which holiday we choose to celebrate this week. Things change and historical reassessments have produced a staggering amount of evidence that Thanksgiving is built on…
Acorn Gathering for Yurok Sovereignty
Annelia Hillman, food village coordinator for the Yurok Tribe’s Food Sovereignty Program, loves her job. “I get to be outside and connect with the land and I’m learning so much more about food and processing,” she says. “It’s really good for the mind and the soul to not be behind a computer all day.” About…
Kambing and Kennedy
It was probably early morning but it felt like the middle of the night when we were awakened by the guards. We had only been in bed a few hours because of the vigil for Kambing, the baby goat who had magically joined our household one day, tiny and spindly legged, marked just like our black…
Thanksgiving is a Turkey
THANKSGIVING. The scream and spatter of slasher movies hasn’t spoken to me for most of my horror-viewing life. It’s not the violence or the blood alone that turns me off — my action movie palate is unencumbered by those. It’s that slashers so often strike me as too fascinated with female torture and/or unable to…
‘Price to Quality Ratio’
Editor: Perhaps a more apt title for this article would have been “Why Would Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant?” (“Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant,” Nov. 16). When I was working my way through school, I made good money waiting on tables. Even then, about 50 years ago, I viewed this job as the best one…
‘Funny as F****’
Editor: Jennifer Fumiko Cahill is a real asset to the NCJ with her reviews of restaurants and film. She can be a bit profane at times, but she is funny as f***. John Dillon, Eureka
‘There Would be No University’
Editor: Responding to Brad Butterfield’s “A View from the Van” (Nov. 16), he states that Long Beach City College has a safe parking program that allows students to sleep in their vehicles on campus. Wow, my mother, Maxine Francis Koenig, born in 1917, was the first female student body president at the college. This is…
Why Not Eureka?
Editor: I read that Hambro Recycling has just opened a CRV buyback center in Redway to go along with the previous Humboldt County locations in Arcata, Fortuna and Willow Creek (“Hambro to Open CRV Center in Fortuna,” Jan. 25). I understand that Eureka has no buyback center because the Humboldt Waste Management Authority needed to…
Light Pollution
“The thought of light traveling billions of years from distant galaxies only to be washed out in the last billionth of a second by the glow of the nearest strip mall depresses me no end.” Sönke Johnson, Ecologist at Duke University Are you appreciating the Milky Way these winter evenings? Beyond your dark-accustomed eyes, you…
Granny’s Porch
I barely remember seeing the night, Like an old, dry Autumn Not going away. Help me turn this knob, Sliding back, To the waiting moon, Eating at sunset’s table. Let us turn this season, Facing the wind: Fading, Faltering, Disappeared. Now come help us mend this place, Spilling our anxious tears as one, To gently…
