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2024 California Ballot Measures: What You Need to Know
Much is expected of the California voter. In any given election year, we may be asked to dust off our labor lawyer hats, brush up on oil and gas regulations, reacquaint ourselves with decades of tax policy, or analyze infrastructure funding. We may have to weigh the moral pros and cons of capital punishment, marriage equality or pig protection and — over and over again — oversee all things dialysis clinic. This November,…
Carol Beth Colby: 1960-2024
Carol Beth Colby was born Aug. 4, 1960, in Oxnard, California, to Gerald Arley Colby and Sylvia Lorraine Colby. Carol passed away April 25, 2024. Carol spent her early childhood in Oxnard, and moved to Eureka, California, in 1972 with her mother and father and three sisters. It was in Eureka where Carol learned a…
Music Tonight: Friday, July 19
Jazz heroes tend to burn bright and fast like John Coltrane, or bloom and curl out, evolving in stages over many decades like Sonny Rollins. Yusef Lateef was in the latter camp, with a music career that saw him shifting from a tenor sax and flute player in the world of established jazz norms to…
Music Tonight: Thursday, July 18
The Humboldt Folklife Festival rolls on toward its conclusion in a couple of days with another evening in the Dell’Arte amphitheater. Tonight’s theme is “Bluegrass and Beyond,” with performances by Ruby Ruth and Mule Ranch, Elderberry Rust Band and Cadillac Ranch. The bands play in that order, with a 6 p.m. start time and $10…
SECOND UPDATE: Victim of Fatal Shooting Identified
SECOND UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has identified the man fatally shot near Bridgeville on July 14 as Rafael Orlando Castillo-Cortes. He was 34. According to the updated release, Castillo-Cortes, a Sacramento resident, knew the man arrested as a suspect in his death. An autopsy is scheduled for later this week. UPDATE: The Humboldt…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 17
The Folklife show goes on Under the Stars in the Dell’Arte amphitheater, where a somewhat bigger, full band affair is happening beginning at 6 p.m. ($15, $12 folklife members, $5 kids). Kray Van Kirk, Rise and Bloom and headliners Huckleberry Flint will be playing their sounds from the fade of day into the purple blush…
Crabs Get the Sweep, Move into Playoff Contention
Baseball is a game ladened with ebbs and flows. When things are good, they are really good, and when things are bad, well … the sky is falling. Sometimes the keys to success can be found in that stability between the ups and the downs, after all, baseball is every day. After starting their conference…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, July 16
As I mentioned earlier, music gigs tend to cluster in the Humboldt midsummer, a situation I have adapted to in the past and will again, God willing I am still helming this column in the unforeseen. I have since childhood been around some version of the Humboldt Folklife Festival and am perfectly happy to endorse…
Music Today: Sunday, July 14
Summer means a great many things around here. Chief among them is a certain clustering of musical events as the weather hits peak shine, and the population reflects stalwart locals anchored in place amid a steady motion of tourists and newcomers, filling in the void left by departed students. One such cluster is Annie and…
Music Tonight: Saturday, July 13
Two free gigs with very promising lineups for a July night of solid entertainment, perhaps rowdy, even. Only problem is both are at 9 p.m. and nowhere near each other, so you’ll have to pick one. Over at the Shanty, The Pine Hill Haints are back in town and ready to slap the gutbucket and…
Music Tonight: Friday, July 12
Fans of unusually structured pop with glowing variances of sonic fidelity, thematic purity and earnestness — another way of saying “DIY,” “indie” or “lo-fi,” along with many other genre descriptions that get tossed around a lot — should check out the Miniplex tonight at 8:30 p.m. because there is a stacked lineup. Samples, bedroom compositions,…
Jackson Stepping Down at Cal Poly Humboldt
After five years on the job, Cal Poly Humboldt President Tom Jackson Jr. announced today that he will be stepping away from his current post and retreating to a faculty position next month. The announcement comes after a tumultuous end to the 2023-2024 school year saw Jackson face calls for his resignation and a no-confidence…
November Ballot Measures, Taxes and Homestyle Japanese Food in Arcata
In this episode of NCJ Preview, we discuss measures on the November ballot, the moves to raise taxes across Humboldt County and Obento’s move into a new, longstanding Arcata location. READ FULL STORIES HERE: 2024 California Ballot Measures: What You Need to Know The Tax Men Cometh What’s Good To read more about us or…
Rise and Fall of the “Sunshine Vitamin,” Part Two
Last week, I outlined the importance of vitamin D for healthy bodies and how recommendations for adequacy published in 2011 were, in retrospect, far too extreme. To understand why vitamin D assumed such a huge role in the health of the nation — vitamin D tests are still the fifth-most-common Medicare-funded lab tests — it’s…
Dear Mr. Biden,
Remember there are lush, green redwood ravines, groves set aside for citizens’ respite and renewal, so ancient that current problems seem a wisp of spider’s web. A league of people preserved this sliver of coastline, wrested woods from those wanting only profits. Because of their persistence, I walk the Hope Trail as the morning fog…
The Tax Men Cometh
If you live in Humboldt County, you’ll likely see a local tax measure on your November ballot. Maybe two. Facing stagnant revenues and steadily rising costs, the cities of Arcata and Fortuna have moved forward with putting sales tax measures on the November ballot, following in the footsteps of the other five cities in the…
Summer Breeze
“July is dressed up and playing her tune,” is the relevant line from this week’s headline song, a dark, soft rock masterpiece from way back when. The question is, are you listening and from where? For my own part, I am temporarily housebound, recovering from a wee medical thing from last week (I’m fine), and…
What’s Good
Il Forno, Fortuna The people of Fortuna have evidently mastered manifestation, perhaps connecting with their namesake goddess. One can only assume this from the imminent opening of a larger branch of the Asia’s Best market there and a second location for the Garberville-based Il Forno Bakery (1006 Main St., Fortuna). What candles are you lighting,…
Lily Haas’ Muse is Nature
“I’ve been making art since as far back as I can remember,” says sculptress Lily Haas. “I still remember my … ceramics class in second grade.” From the beginning, she says she has used art feel grounded. Her relationship with clay offered her a vehicle for self-investigation and expression, and a place where she felt…
Crabs Rally to Win Third Series in a Row
After an exciting week that featured three walk-off wins and their first conference series victory, the Humboldt Crabs had seemingly turned things around after opening conference play 0-7. They’d get one day to enjoy it before embarking on a new week of challenges that included six games in six days. Momentum can be fickle, especially…
Maxxxine‘s Bloody Point
MAXXXINE. Slashers, a storied genre that runs from the comic and campy to the psychologically complex, following the bloody progress of a (mostly) unseen killer as they cut down a cast with brutality and/or sometimes goofy creativity to enact vengeance or work out some issues, aren’t for everyone. Honestly, they mostly aren’t for me. As…
Qualifications
Editor: It’s important to consider a candidate’s qualifications before you vote, so here is a list of qualifications for one presidential candidate. He possesses a broad business background. He’s had six hotel/casino businesses file for bankruptcy and has sold shoes, Bibles and personal trading cards, as well as begged for donations, all on the internet.…
Re: Lincoln and Juneteenth
Editor: According to Kelby Mcintosh’s Juneteenth origin story (“My Juneteenth Revelation of Embracing Culture in Humboldt,” June 27), “a white man signed a piece of paper saying black folks are free.” Would that be Abraham Lincoln, one of the greatest men this country has ever produced? I can see where Kelby is coming from. After all, it…
King Salmon Falafel, Crab Walking, and Free Dentistry at the Adorni Center
On this week’s episode of the NCJ Preview, we talk about the Humboldt Crabs baseball game experience, as well as falafel in King Salmon, the Humboldt County Civil Grand Jury and how Dr. Tom Lewis brought agree-two day medical and dental clinic to the Adorni Center in Eureka. READ FULL STORIES HERE: Falafelove Blooms in…
Local Fire Departs in TROUBLE & From Science Geek to Tarot Artist
Fire departments, grand jury, Ted Hsu
No Safe Parking in Arcata and What’s Good at the Friday Night Market
This week on NCJ Preview, we talk about the food you should be looking for at the Friday Night Market, and how Humboldt’s only safe parking program, run through the Arcata House Partnership, is coming to a close. We also introduce the Journal’s new reporter, Kelby McIntosh! Links down bellow👇🏼 Read the full story 📰…
