Bringing Prey-go-neesh Home
After a century, the condor may soon return to Yurok land
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Bringing Prey-go-neesh Home
In Yurok tradition, the condor is sacred. Considered to be among Earth’s first creatures and the one that carries their prayers to the Creator, the tribe’s connection with the bird they call prey-go-neesh goes back to the beginning of time. The condor also plays an integral role in the Yurok World Renewal dances — the…
County Counsel Suit Alleges Conspiracy in Legal Billings; Supes Approve $1.4M in Retro Payments, New Contract with Law Firm
The county’s head attorney has filed a civil lawsuit against two fellow top administrators, an outside attorney and her Bay Area-based law firm alleging they conspired against him when he tried to expose excessive billing practices. According to Jefferey Blanck’s lawsuit, bills from Liebert Cassidy Whitmore “increased three-fold” from 2016 to 2018 — from $137,000 to…
North Coast Night Lights: Humboldt Moonset
When friends or family visit from afar my first wish is to share the natural beauty of our area with them, especially if they come from city lives insulated from nature. From the legendary forests of our towering redwoods to the beautiful beaches and rugged coastlines, the natural beauty of our area is its greatest…
Police Trying to Locate Missing Girl Believed to Be With Her Mother
The Fortuna Police Department is asking for the public’s help in locating a 3-year-old girl believed to be with her mother and grandmother. According to a press release, the father of Aurora Rose Logan last saw his daughter on April 26 and the girl’s mother, Kristen Rose, and grandmother, Maria Rose, cleared out the Fortuna…
NCJ Snags a Dozen Awards at Statewide Journalism Contest
The California Newspaper Publishers Association held its annual awards gala over the weekend and we are pleased to announce the Journal took home 12 awards, including top honors in four categories. The association, which was founded in 1888 and has more than 500 member papers throughout the state, holds the annual California Journalism Awards contest…
‘In the Face of Evil:’ EPD Honors Sharral McDonald with Service Award
On the first anniversary of her death, the Eureka Police Department honored Sharral “Sherry” McDonald this morning for putting herself between a friend and the armed felon trying to kidnap her. “Detectives assigned to the investigation noted that Sharral could have easily fled to safety at any time but, instead, became a shield to protect…
Remains in Blue Lake Were Missing Man Wanted in Child Assault Case
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office confirmed today that the coroner’s office has identified the skeletal remains discovered March 29 of this year in Blue Lake as belonging to 70-year-old Roy Allen Gibbs. Gibbs, a veteran who was awarded the Purple Heart, went missing on Memorial Day in 2016. Later, the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office reported…
HumBug: Beetles in the Spring
While beetles were my first love when I started studying insects and are believed to have the greatest number of species of any of the insect orders, I find I seldom write about them. There are plenty to write about. The following are just a few I’ve seen in the last week. Two years ago…
Dunaway Paroled 25 Years After Amber Slaughter Murder
Thomas Jerome Dunaway is a free man, released from prison some 25 years after participating in the execution-style murder of a 14-year-old Eureka girl. According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, Dunaway was paroled last month to the San Francisco area. While Dunaway had faced life in prison for the 1994 murder of…
McGuire Hosts Offshore Wind Discussion
North Coast Sen. Mike McGuire (D-Healdsburg) hosted four panel discussions this afternoon at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center in Eureka about the prospect of offshore wind farms — a concept that isn’t new but still holds some mystery. Exactly when the turbines are set to be constructed depends on the multiple environmental assessments by various…
Judge Denies Placement of Sex Offender in Eureka
Judge John Feeney today decided against approving plans to have a man deemed by the courts to be a sexually violent predator placed under supervised release in Eureka, according to media reports and a Facebook post by Eureka Police Chief Steve Watson. The proposed placement would have had Joshua Cooley staying in a rotating set…
THIRD UPDATE: Counseling Available in Wake of McKinleyville High Student’s Death
3rd UPDATE: McKinleyville High School Principal Nic Collart posted a letter on the school’s website this morning saying he wanted to reassure parents and students that “our school is safe” in the aftermath of an apparent student suicide on campus this morning and to let them know counseling services will be available this afternoon at…
Hum Plate Roundup
Chinese comfort food The “Secret Menu” at Szechuan Garden (753 18th St., Arcata) might be more accurately titled the Student Menu. Owner Nina Zhao, a native of Shenyang in Northern China who took over the place five years ago, added the page and a half list because so many Chinese and Chinese American students from…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “How prompt we are to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our bodies,” wrote Henry David Thoreau. “How slow to satisfy the hunger and thirst of our souls!” Your first assignment in the coming days, Aries, is to devote yourself to quenching the hunger and thirst of your soul with the…
School Daze
The juried student exhibition that just opened at College of the Redwoods Creative Arts Gallery brings together a range of student artworks produced in this year’s classes, from fantasy landscapes to lively nature studies. Juried by Susan J. Bloom from the department of theatre, film and dance at Humboldt State University, the exhibition keeps works…
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 707 BAR (formerly Steve and Dave’s) First and C Streets Barry Evans, photography. Music by Dr. Squid. A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Maggie Draper,…
Trinidad Art Nights
FORBES AND ASSOCIATES 343 Main St. “Modern Amulets by Ay Su Jewelry,” Haylee Corliss, jewelry. HEADIES PIZZA AND POUR 359 Main St. Antoinette “Toni” Magyar, acrylic on canvas. MOONSTONE CROSSING 529 Trinity St. Jeff Stanley, acrylic paintings. NED SIMMONS GALLERY 380 Janis Court (Trinidad Coastal Land Trust) Display of art by “Artists Who Surf.” REDWOOD…
The Strings of Summer
I’m very proud of our local music scene, and pleased for selfish reasons. Apart from enjoying a wide variety of stellar show options, I also get my choice of excellent releases to review, which works out well for me, as I have little interest in writing negative copy. I have plenty of bile and scorn…
Sunshine Vitamin vs. Skin Cancer
It’s a conundrum: Ultraviolet B radiation from the sun is both the best source of vitamin D — the “sunshine vitamin” — and the the major cause of skin cancer. Get enough sun-mediated vitamin D and your’re courting melonoma; too little and the rest of your body will suffer. Vitamin D facilitates absorption of bone-building…
Adrift in the Marvel Universe
Reviews AVENGERS: ENDGAME. Chemically unassisted sleep is, as a rule, challenging for me. It is the healthy, more reliable path by which to arrive at REM sleep (which everyone assures me is very important) but that sleeping state is frequently defined by vivid dreams of depravity and inadequacy. And the long stretches between filled with…
Who Wants to be 15 Again?
Playwright John Patrick Shanley describes 15 as a “special, beautiful room. In hell,” in Prodigal Son, now playing at Redwood Curtain Theatre. The play sets a teenage boy’s search for identity against a background of the complex mores and philosophies in a small private Catholic preparatory school. The result is a multifaceted coming-of-age story in…
A Question of Values
Retired U.S. Army Maj. Tye Reedy did two combat tours in Iraq, then another in Afghanistan, as an officer in infantry units within the 101st Airborne Division. He brought home four bronze stars, including three with valor. As a private contractor, he then worked for disaster relief and recovery efforts after hurricanes Irma and Harvey.…
‘An Incalculable Loss’
Editor: Many in our North Coast communities are justifiably outraged at the loss to the community caused by Humboldt State University’s gutting of local radio station KHSU, not to mention the associated staffing and volunteer purge (NCJ Daily, April 25). The loss is particularly keenly felt among the nonprofit community, which has long had a…
‘A Lot of Borscht’
Editor: One hopes the Post Capitalism Conference: Building the Solidarity at HSU was an unqualified success for the Central Committee (Calendar, April 25). Although students were admitted free, I see that the rest of the proletariat were charged from $20 to $50. Doesn’t post capitalism imply a cessation from the bourgeois monetary system? Fifty bucks…
Respect
Editor: Humboldt County Board of Supervisors Chair Rex Bohn, in an official capacity at a public event, made a statement equating being authentically Mexican with being a criminal (“Sad Days in the First District,” April 11). This self-revelation by Supervisor Bohn of his ingrained disrespect for Mexicans and, by reasonable extension for Latinos in general,…
‘Over the Top’
Editor: Like Joe Biden’s opening salvo, the Rex Bohn cartoon is a tad over the top (Mailbox, April 25). So he made a mild racially sensitive joke. So what! It’s too bad that today we have to be looking over our shoulders every time we indulge in friendly banter. And it’s a pity that anyone…
Maybe It’s Just Because It’s Spring
There’s a day now and then When the world is so glorious, When your children are safe and happy, When the roof has no leaks, And the furnace is working the way it’s supposed to, The bills are paid, The project is completed, And you have new ideas for things you might do. The noise…
Game of Tones
Early on this week is a great time to catch great bands in the fringes of bigger genres. Noise punk, grindcore, psych rock and various other troubadours of the outré are hawking penillions of perverse metrics. If you are a fan of all things weird and glowing, from now until Cinco de Mayo is going…
Remembering Bill Thompson
Bill Thompson was a man of love, compassion and a commitment to peace that never wavered in his later years. Born in San Francisco on May 28, 1929, Thompson died at his Bayside home Dec. 24. He was 89. Thompson graduated from Vista High School in Southern California and went on to earn a BA…
