Remembering Richard Guadagno, passenger 19A on Flight 93
Editor’s note: In marking the 18th anniversary of 9/11, we are taking a moment to remember Richard Guadagno, the former manager of the Humboldt Bay National Wildlife Refuge, who died on Flight 93 and is widely believed to be one of the passengers and crew who stormed the cockpit, bringing the plane down on an…
UPDATE: Eureka Gas Leak Causing Evacuations, Closing Streets
UPDATE: According to Humboldt Bay Fire, the leak has been contained but I Street to Waterfront Drive will remain closed while crews remain on scene. PREVIOUS: Humboldt Bay Fire is asking the public to stay clear of Waterfront Drive and I Street due to a gas leak. In a Facebook post around 12:20 p.m., the…
Photos from Mad River Enduro
On Saturday, Sept. 7, mountain bikers came from all over the West Coast for Mad River Enduro. The race is a rare chance for mountain bikers to ride a trail system normally closed to the public as the trails are on Green Diamond land and are maintained by the Redwood Mountain Biking Association. This year’s race…
Parking Lots Stay Off-limits Overnight for Homeless Community College Students
The demise of a high-profile proposal to let homeless students sleep overnight in community college parking lots illustrates just how much California has struggled to solve the student housing crisis. When Assemblyman Marc Berman introduced the bill in the Legislature earlier this year, it was met with equal parts applause and ridicule. Homeless students said…
‘Responsible Resilience’ on Display at Cooperation Humboldt’s Edible Garden Tour
As you walk into Karen Shepherd and Bradley Thompson’s backyard in Arcata, you are met with a beautifully diverse food forest with an array of vegetables, flowers and fruits, from asparagus and pears to onions and cabbage. Shepherd and Thompson began working on their food forest after they moved into their house 19 years ago.…
Eureka Man, Cattle Killed in Crash
A 75-year-old Eureka man and a load of 20 cattle were killed Sunday when he lost control of his truck for unknown reasons while traveling northbound on Alderpoint Road, broke through a railing on the bridge over Burr Creek and went over the side. The man, whose name has not yet been released, died at…
HumBug: Caddisflies and Fishing Flies
When I was a boy, my dad introduced me to the joys and frustrations of trout fishing. In his opinion the best bait were what he called “periwinkles,” little bugs that cover themselves with twigs or stones and crawl around in creeks. Skip forward to 1981 and Gary LaFontaine, a noted writer, published a book…
Coasties Rescue Two Injured Firefighters from the Fireline
U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay rescued two seriously injured firefighters from a ridge in the Trinity Alps Wilderness Area early Friday morning, plucking them from a spot just yards away from the fire line and pulling them to safety. At about 9:15 p.m. Thursday, the U.S Forest Service asked for the Coast Guard’s help…
Pedestrian Walking on SR 96 Killed in Hoopa
The California Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a juvenile pedestrian who was struck while walking in the roadway of State Route 96 at Mill Road in Hoopa early this morning. According to a release, a driver called law enforcement to say she had struck a person just before 12:30 a.m. Emergency personnel responded but…
Rio Dell Police: Stop Sharing Photos of Alleged Shooting Suspect Online
The Rio Dell Police Department is asking the public to refrain from playing home detective and speculating about who the suspect is in a fatal Aug. 29 shooting and sharing his photograph on social media. “The Rio Dell Police Department has become aware of social media posts that include a picture of a man fitting…
Out of the Water and into the Sky
Mayflies on the Van Duzen Getting a late start, I made my way down to the river after the sun had gone from the canyon. I noted many tiny flying insects 6 inches on either side of the water’s edge. A spotted sandpiper (Actitis macularius) strolled up the minute beach pecking here and there as…
Song Village 8/18/2019
On a socked-in foggy day A group of singers gathered Choosing songs, one by one Voices blending, layered. Celtic, pop, traditional Melodic pleas for peace The fourteenth century’s John Ball Chanted for equality. A masterful guitarist An A cappella song or two Lifting our hearts and spirits As circles are wont to do.
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): John Muir (1838–1914) was skilled at creating and using machinery. In his 20s, he diligently expressed those aptitudes. But at age 27, while working in a carriage parts factory, he suffered an accident that blinded him. For several months, he lay in bed, hoping to recuperate. During that time, Muir decided…
Spicy Chicken Sandwich Envy
At Popeyes drive-throughs and glass doors across the country this week, steering wheels were slapped and shoulders sagged as patrons read signs posted by beleaguered employees informing them the Spicy Chicken Sandwich was sold out. For those gentle souls sheltered from the fracas, after the chain introduced its new sandwich — a fried chicken breast…
The Heartland Laid Bare
We cut from mariachi dancers to the softball diamond. Flat limitless fields, nondescript buildings, canals and barges flicker past. A hopper belches out a river of golden corn. High above the threshing blades, sealed inside an air-conditioned cab, a farmer pilots a mammoth harvesting machine across fields that stretch as far as the eye can…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Maggie Draper, artwork. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront Drive. Paul Rickard and Barbara Saul, artwork. AMERICAN INDIAN ART AND GIFT…
‘A Family to Be With’
Tiffany Strango’s philosophy is to love all children who enter her home as if they are her own. In her Eureka house, children are not pieces of paper and beds are not numbers. They are people and sanctuaries, respectively. Tiffany Strango never had the overwhelming urge to birth children but she and her husband George…
Radioactive
Need something to add to your worry list? Something in addition to global warming, sea level rise, wildfires, war, social injustice, the next tsunami and that long-expected mega-earthquake? How about the six casks of nuclear waste stored at the Humboldt Bay Power Plant? Staff members of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission — at least those well-spoken…
Listen Up
The Book of Sirach, one of the Books of Wisdom from the Tanakh, tells me that if I conduct my affairs with humility, I will be loved more than a giver of gifts and that I should avoid seeking the things too sublime for me or beyond my strength. For, I am told, “The mind…
Trinidad Art Night
FORBES AND ASSOCIATES 343 Main St. “Splintered Sunlight,” Michael Gottsegen, photography/digital imagery. HEADIES PIZZA AND POUR 359 Main St. Rick Tolley, landscape art. MOONSTONE CROSSING 529 Trinity St. Rick Tolley, oil paintings. NED SIMMONS GALLERY 380 Janis Court (Trinidad Coastal Land Trust). Plein Air show including work from artists Paul Rickard, Antoinette Magyar, John Crater,…
The Champ
Review PEANUT BUTTER FALCON. What I tend to think of as healthy skepticism is probably more likely pathological or diagnosable on some sort of spectrum — not particularly healthy, if I’m being honest. And even after a delightful summer of traveling and the passing of time (seeing remarkably few movies, actually), I felt compelled to…
Reefer Madness, 2.0
For the first time since 1982, cannabis was issued its very own health advisory by the Surgeon General’s Office last week, which declared the need to raise the “national alarm” about the “dangerous drug.” Raising the nation’s top doctor’s hackles is what Surgeon General Jerome Adams lamented as a “rapid normalization of marijuana use” across…
Spartina and MSM Lies
Editor: Once again, Uri, who is a practical environmentalist, is right on (Mailbox, Aug. 29). If you have any concept of geologic history, you understand what is now considered a native species was geologically, at some time, invasive species. That, folks, is the nature of the beast. As he has said repeatedly, why would you…
