Woman, 72, Dies After Being Hit in Eureka
A 72-year-old woman has died after being hit by a car around 3:30 p.m. Tuesday while she was attempting to cross West Henderson Street at Central Street in Eureka. According to a news release, a preliminary investigation indicates the woman was not in the crosswalk when she was struck. The driver said she did not…
Humboldt Hits Highest Single-Day COVID Case Count
Humboldt’s COVID case count hit yet another grim milestone today, with 30 new positive tests confirmed by Public Health, the largest single day total to date. So far this week, that makes 99 cases, on target to shoot past last week’s record 122 cases. All of October saw 59 cases confirmed compared to last month’s…
UPDATE: Sneaker Wave Warning Issued (with Video)
The Eureka office of the National Weather Service is warning about a danger of sneaker waves today into Thursday morning, according to an updated beach hazard statement. A long-period, west-northwesterly swell is ushering in the threat of the waves, which can suddenly rush up the shore after an interlude of calm, catching beachgoers by surprise,…
Frankovich’s Last Remarks as HumCo Public Health Officer
Humboldt County Health Officer Teresa Frankovich finished her last day as the county’s top health official with nothing but gratitude for the community. When Frankovich was announced as Humboldt County’s part-time public health officer Jan. 30, she had just moved to the county from Michigan. It was her 41st day on the job when she…
Humboldt Passes Over 900 COVID Case Mark
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 21 new COVID-19 cases today, putting the total at 919. That’s 69 so far this week, more than half of last week’s record 122 cases, which overshadowed the previous week’s record setting 71. All of October saw 59 cases confirmed compared to last month’s 328. The county’s steady escalation of…
Driver Needed Extrication After Rollover Crash on Broadway in Eureka
A two-vehicle collision on Fairfield at West Del Norte in Eureka, which occurred at approximately 3:15 p.m., left one driver trapped in a mini van. Smoke was coming from the driver’s vehicle when the first officer arrived. An extrication was needed. The patient was taken to the hospital. Fairfield is blocked at Broadway. West Del…
Bushnell Takes Second District Supes Race in Final Tally
There’s a new supervisor-elect in the Second District. The Humboldt County Elections Office released final results today for the Nov. 3 election and they have challenger Michelle Bushnell besting two-term incumbent and current Board of Supervisors Chair Estelle Fennell, having taken 52 percent of the vote to Fennell’s 48 percent and winning the race by…
Two More Test Positive for COVID-19 on the Yurok Reservation
The Yurok Office of Emergency Services announced today that two more Yurok Reservation residents have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total case count to five. According to a press release, the new cases involve residents who live on the east side of the reservation. The release states the Yurok Office of Emergency Services staff, in collaboration…
Mother and Child Still Missing After Crash North of Leggett
A mother and child are still missing after a crash north of Leggett 24 hours ago. The woman, Trinity Bray, was driving a vehicle that struck a tree south of Confusion Hill just before noon at mile marker 98.3. An adult male passenger received major injuries. The 34-year-old McKinleyville woman and her 3-year-old child, Anthony,…
Cal State Application Deadline Extended to Dec. 15
Students looking to apply to a California State University for fall 2021 have been granted an extension, having now until Dec. 15 to meet the priority application deadline. Interested students can apply to any CSU campus at the university’s application portal, Cal State Apply. For more information on the extension, application process and financial aid options,…
Two Feathers Hosts ‘Dangers of Technology’ Forums
Two Feathers Native American Health Services will be hosting seven free virtual forums (open to the public with registration) on the subject: Is Technology Damaging our Native Youth? The forums will feature national and international experts and are expected to last approximately one to two hours each. In a press release, Dr. Virgil Moorehead Jr., Executive Director with…
Humboldt County Correctional Facility’s Inmate Holiday Art Contest
This year is the third year for the Humboldt County Correctional Facility’s (HCCF) Inmate Holiday Art Contest. Inmates in HCCF dorms are given art materials and are asked to work together to paint a holiday scene. Inmates that create the winning painting receive a special Christmas movie and popcorn. Voting is open from Dec. 1…
Humboldt on Cusp of 900 COVID Cases
Humboldt County Public Health reports 48 new COVID-19 cases have been confirmed since Friday. Five more hospitalizations were also reported. The, yet another, record-setting number comes on the heels of a record 122 cases last week, which overshadowed the previous week’s record setting 71. All of October saw 59 cases. This month recorded 328 positive…
UPDATE: State AG Closes Probe into Public Administrator’s Office
The California Attorney General’s Office has indicated it will not pursue criminal charges following an investigation into the handling of estates overseen by the county’s Public Administrator’s Office that began in August of 2017. The Public Administrator’s Office, which came under the umbrella of the Humboldt Sheriff’s Office following a merger with the coroner’s office…
Light Up a Life Goes Virtual This Year
Hospice of Humboldt’s annual observance celebrating loved ones, the Light Up a Life Remembrance Ceremony, will not be held in person this year due to Covid-19 restrictions. Instead, the warm community tradition will be televised on Access Humboldt’s Channel 11 on Wednesday, Dec. 2 at 5 p.m. (as well as available for viewing through Hospice…
Salt, Campground to Re-open; COVID-19 Positive Closes Stars Arcata
Salt Fish House posted to its Facebook page that it will resume outdoor, takeout and delivery service on Dec. 1. The restaurant, along with its sibling Campground, closed Nov. 18 after an employee tested positive for COVID-19. Campground has yet to announce its reopening, but informed the Journal it will reopen Dec. 2, allowing an extra…
Dell’Arte’s Holiday Show Comes to Your Living Room
As you scan the growing list of holiday traditions we’ll be skipping this year due to COVID-19 and Humboldt County’s move into the purple “widespread” risk tier, cross off the annual Dell’Arte holiday show. The Blue Lake-based theater folks are taking the always innovative performances, which normally tour the county with free shows for the…
HumCo Public Health Confirms 31 New Cases, Making a Record 122 for the Week
Humboldt County Public Health reported 31 newly confirmed COVID-19 cases from today and yesterday, making a record 122 for the week, which far out-passed last week’s record setting 71. And the 122 cases confirmed this week more than double’s October’s total of 59. The county also reported two new hospitalizations today. The county’s continued surge…
NCJ Preview: Rules of the Purple Tier and Camping in Eureka, and Yurok Food Sovereignty
Linda Stansberry breaks down the Eureka City Council’s vote on camping and its impact on Eureka’s homeless population. We’ll also review what is and isn’t allowed in the state’s purple “widespread” risk tier for COVID-19, where Humboldt County now finds itself. And we’ll look at how the Yurok Agricultural Corp. is trying to help those…
After the Feast, Congee
Editor’s note: If you you went full turkey yesterday and find yourself still recovering from a run with the tryptophan dragon, longing for a piece of that same feeling but wary of where it will take you, fret not. There’s a balance to be found. In this piece originally published in 2017, Journal arts and…
Major Damage in C Street Fire
One person received minor injuries in a house fire on the 1400 block of C Street in Eureka just before 12:30 p.m. today but everyone inside was able to self-evacuate what is initially believed to be electrical fire, according to Humboldt Bay Fire. Firefighters found heavy smoke coming from the second story of the home…
Three COVID Cases Reported in Hoopa
The Hoopa Valley Tribal Office of Emergency Services COVID-19 Incident Management Team reported three new COVID-19 cases from the K’ima:w Medical Center today, bringing the total to 61, with 58 considered recovered. “Traveling outside of the area, or having close contact with those who are not in our immediate households continue to be our biggest…
‘Sounding the Alarm’
Shortly before the Journal went to press Nov. 23, Humboldt County Public Health reported it had confirmed 56 new COVID-19 cases since Nov. 20 — obliterating the single-day reporting record and continuing a dramatic case surge that saw 214 cases confirmed through the first 23 days of November after 59 in October. Throughout the week…
Apples and Apples
Many of us wait expectantly for Humboldt’s annual abundance of apples with a plan for baking, canning, pressing or distributing them. I have encountered a rather remarkable number of people, however, who would like to do something with the apples growing on their properties but don’t know what. Apples can be used to make so…
The Brothers Iorg
The most famous swing of a baseball bat by anyone Humboldt grown was at a pitch slung by Todd Worrell of the St. Louis Cardinals in the ninth inning of the sixth game of the 1985 World Series against the Kansas City Royals. With the bases loaded and a 1-0 lead, the perfect pitch would…
Kings Tough to Come by on Smith, Chetco
After being open for just over a week, salmon fishing on both the Smith and Chetco has proven to be challenging. By the sound of things, the end is likely near for the run of late-fall kings on the coast. Only a couple small storms hit the coast and dropped enough rain to open the…
On Paper
MANGROVE. In yet another telling instance regarding the state of contemporary cinema, one more of its preeminent voices, Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave, 2013) has transitioned to the small screen. Collaborating with the BBC and Amazon, he has created a five-part anthology series (really five movies varying in length from 60 to 120 minutes)…
A Deadly Finale
If the stakes weren’t so high, it would be amusing — the last weeks in office of a reality show president, the one who made a career of the callous catchphrase “you’re fired,” now wholly unable to accept the fact that he was just resoundingly fired from the most important job of his life, destined…
Editor
Editor: Barry Evans’ “Of Course We Still Love You, Voyager!” (Nov. 19) reminded me that most of us pay little attention to the radio debris shed by our planet. But perhaps we should. I’m thinking specifically of the first radio broadcast that was powerful enough to leave the earth’s atmosphere. Punching through the layers of…
‘Tis the Harvest Season
The girls are all grown up, beautiful young blossoms in their prime. They’ve overcome tremendous obstacles in their young lives and now they are ready to spread their wings and change the world. Where did the time go? Harvest season has arrived in the Emerald Triangle. From seedlings, you nursed and protected them. You watched…
The Time of Hearth and Home
The last of the apples hang from storm-lashed limbs the mints are little more than desiccated sticks while an Anna’s Hummingbird drinks from yonder grevillea A vine maple’s glowing embers are beginning to subside musky scent of mushrooms pervades their forest lair birds flit and flutter in glistening hedgerow Scarlet blueberry leaves remind us of…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “A little too much is just enough for me,” joked poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau. I suspect that when he said that, he was in a phase similar to the one you’re in now. I bet he was experiencing a flood of creative ideas, pleasurable self-expressions, and loving breakthroughs. He was…
Changing Territory
On Nov. 17, the Eureka City Council voted to repeal and replace its existing camping ordinance, approving new language that prohibits camping in the city’s business districts and trails, anywhere in the city during daylight hours and anywhere on public property where said camping would be considered “obstructive conduct.” Discussion stretched nearly two hours, with…
Food Sovereignty in a Food Desert
There has been a lot of talk about Native reservations being food deserts. With no corporate supermarket and little access to the necessary amounts of salmon, a traditional staple, the Yurok Tribe has started the Yurok Agricultural Corporation (YAC) to overcome this imbalance and move ahead with hope for a brighter future planted in the soil…
2020 Holiday Gift Guide
Well, this is different. We won’t be packing into shops or elbowing one another out of the way for bargains. This year, a more thoughtful approach is the way to go. Even when we’re apart, we can still send one another something special, a little cheer at the close of a roller coaster year. And…
