Burned by the Wait
Legal experts say Eureka police could have preserved evidence without delaying firefighters
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Burned by the Wait
Five minutes from the judge’s house, Eureka police detective Todd Wilcox got a phone call. Hurry it up, the caller told him — the fire had restarted. The firefighters needed to get back inside while there was still a building to save. Hours earlier, firefighters had all but extinguished the fire in Apartment Three of…
HCSO Bust Locates 3,881 Plants, $387,000, Triscuits
From the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 2-29-2012 at approximately 8:00 a.m., the California Department of Justice, assisted by the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, Humboldt County Sheriff Drug Enforcement Unit and Humboldt County Sheriffs Office Community Response Unit served two search warrants in the Greenwood Heights area of Eureka. The search warrants were…
Couple Arrested for Attempted Burglary
From the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 02-29-2012, approximately 8:45.m. a Humboldt County Sheriffs Deputies were dispatched to an attempted residential burglary interrupted by the homeowner which just occurred. The 70 year old husband and wife reported a male had just broken into their home located in the 2000 block…
Commercial Indoor Grow Bust in Northwestern Humboldt
From the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 02-28-2012, approximately 9:00 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriffs Community Response Unit and Humboldt County Drug Task Force acted on a citizen’s information of possible large commercial indoor marijuana grow approximately 12 miles down Johnson Road, off Bald Hills Road, Northwestern Humboldt County. The deputies and agents drove…
Design Undone
Plaza Design co-owner Jane Labes was at the former site of her store in Old Town Eureka this morning, supervising as the last couch and shelves were gathered up and store equipment was loaded into U-Haul vans parked outside. Some of the merchandise is being transferred to her flagship store on Arcata’s Plaza, which is…
Hey! That Alcohol Belongs to Luzmila’s Restaurant!
Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 02-25-2012, approximately 11:30 a.m. a Humboldt County Sheriffs deputy was dispatched to investigate a Commercial Burglary that occurred at Luzmila’s Restaurant, McKinleyville. When the deputy arrived he met with the owner of the restaurant who told him the suspect(s) had turned off the circuit breakers…
HCSO: Bike/Foot Chase in McKinleyville
From the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office: On 02-25-2012, approximately 9:00 p.m. a Humboldt County Sheriffs deputy was patrolling in the McKinleyville are when he saw a male whom he recognized as Brian Lee Balke, 33 years, of McKinleyville, enter a video store at the corner of Central Avenue and Sutter Road, McKinleyville. The deputy…
Track Stars
A bunch of us concerned (and frustrated) citizens–35 by one count–did some serious blackberry and undergrowth clearing along the North Coast Railroad track between South G Street, Arcata and the Eureka Slough yesterday morning. The track is now walkable. Most of it. And we had a ball. Coordinator Rees Hughes (Rees.Hughes@humboldt.edu) is planning an inaugural…
Bumper Sticker Meanings
Bumper Sticker Meanings
Play It Once, Sam
Happened again last week. “As Time Goes By” came on the car radio, and in my mind, up pops Ingrid Bergman asking Dooley Wilson to “Play it again, Sam.” Except she didn’t. In the 1942 movie Casablanca (“in glorious black and white,” says the sleeve) she says, “Play it once, Sam, for old times’ sake,…
The Slideshow Effect
Initially emerging five years ago from an art project collaboration between classically-trained composer/multi-instrumentalist Evan Abeele and photographer/vocalist Denise Nouvion, Memoryhouse has slowly coalesced into a band. The Canadian duo grew over a number of years of touring from a “slow-gaze” ambient version of Damon & Naomi into an unashamed indie pop entity, adopting ‘80s and…
The Empire
I heard one day while watching tv that…
Indra’s Net and the Midas Touch: Living Sustainably in a Connected World
Why do we glorify the “Midas Touch” and forget the rest of the story? That everything King Midas touched turned to lifeless gold, including his daughter? Leslie Paul Thiele points out that this is a cautionary tale about unintended consequences, which pretty much characterize what we’ve done to our society and our planet. With many…
What Humboldt Does
Another meme successfully exploited
Bounce as Bridge
UPDATE: AS Presents has announced the cancellation of tonight’s Big Freedia show. From their Facebook: “We are sorry to say that we are forced to postpone our Big Freedia show. Her Doctor has restricted Freedia from performing for longer than originally thought. Refunds are available at the University Ticket Office. 707-826-3928. We are doing everything…
Living Language
In The Language Archive by Julia Cho, now on stage at Redwood Curtain in Eureka, George (played by Craig Benson) is a linguist studying dying languages, while the language of his marriage dies unnoticed. He does catch on that his wife Mary (Terry Desch) is crying constantly: (“She cries making the salad. She cries in…
A Running Cure
Editor: It made me laugh to read “The Runner’s Lament” (Feb. 16) by Amy Cirincione, with many of my own thoughts as a runner. She also was able to create a decent list for “Running for Haters.” If you are dragging yourself out of bed to run or finding excuses to not run after work,…
Edge of Oblivion
“We are here to stay.” That was the firm assurance given last week by College of the Redwoods Interim President Dr. Utpal Goswami. A composed Indian expat with salt-and-pepper hair, a trim moustache and a clipped, lilting accent, Goswami was speaking to an audience of about 50 in the wood-shingled Forum Theater on CR’s…
Go On Sing It
The scene at the Arcata Playhouse was electric. The Bucky Walters had just finished a rollicking set and their friends from Portland, The Shook Twins, were ready to close the show. Not that The Buckys had all left the stage — they hung out to play along — and more friends from PDX and elsewhere…
Beyond the Banjo
Put together a banjo, guitar and mandolin and you have the makings of a bluegrass band, or in the case of Greensky Bluegrass, a jammy, rockin’ stringband with distortion pedals (with “bluegrass” in its name). When we caught up with Greensky Bluegrass guitarist Dave Bruzza, the band was in Jackson Hole, “on the ski portion…
It’s the Little Things
NEW: Humboldt Movie Times and Openings THE SECRET WORLD OF ARRIETTY. This adaptation of Mary Norton’s 1952 book The Borrowers comes from Hiromasa Yonebayashi, a protégé of Japanese animation master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Ponyo). It tells the tale of young Arrietty (voiced by Bridgit Mendler) and her parents, Lilliputian scavengers who live under a…
Top Heavy at CR
Editor: Recent news stories (“CR Accreditation in Peril,” Blog Jammin, Feb. 9) about the accreditation and budget problems at College of the Redwoods don’t tell the whole story. Since the 2008-2009 school year, the number of administrators employed by the college has grown from 14 to 22. The college’s spending on its administrators’ salaries has…
Correction
“Concrete Activists” in last week’s Journal incorrectly identified the agency whose employee struck a protester with his baton. The episode involved a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy.
