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Humboldt At Work
Work,” some of us grumble. “I gotta go to work.” Sigh. Sob. Why?! The more content among us might answer, “Maybe you should find something to do that you love.” Good advice. But perhaps Maya Angelou’s take is better: “Nothing will work unless you do.” Hence we sew, saw, chop, deliver, grow, husband, heal, teach,…
Longer Walk to Some Redwood Park Trails
Redwood National Park is closing two unpaved roads, starting on Monday, June 3, saying it doesn’t have the money to maintain them properly. Hikers and cyclists will still be able to use the roads to reach their favorite trails, but driving to those trailheads is out.San Francisco Chronicle outdoors writer Tom Stienstra has a note…
The New Airport Name is a Real Mouthful
I suppose this is what you end up with when you rename an airport by committee — an unwieldy 13-syllable Franken-name that no one will ever use in conversation. Ever. Today the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted five-zip to change the name of the Arcata-Eureka Airport to (deep breath) “California Redwood Coast — Humboldt…
Go, Heidi!
The Journal’s own Heidi Walters has been named a national finalist for beat reporting by the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. We entered just a few of her wonderful and diverse pieces of environmental reporting: Bright Bird, about research into bird intelligence; The World is Yours, Oyster Farmer, about aquaculture in Humboldt Bay, and A Place…
For the Glory
Glorious weather for the Kinetic kickoff!
Coast Guard Rescues Two Men From Water Near Humboldt Bay
Two men are safe after their boat capsized just off the South Jetty on May 23. The crew of a rescue boat from the Humboldt Bay Coast Guard rushed to pull the two fishermen out of the water, according to a Coast Guard press release. A bystander saw the 16-foot boat flip over and contacted…
Bob Dylan’s Birthday Bash
Blue Lake lived up to its rep with a beautiful sunset as Josephine Johnson snapped some pix at the annual Bob Dylan Birthday Bash at Mad River Brewery.
So Long, Furlong: Director Leaves North Coast Dance
Danny Furlong will be leaving North Coast Dance after 11 years as artistic director, the dance company announced today. During his years at the dance company, Furlong worked to make dance classes more accessible to the community, teaching dance with College of the Redwoods and helping get scholarships for dance students. In addition to staging…
Bodhi Tree Now a ‘Person of Interest’ in Last Week’s Eureka Shooting
The Eureka Police Department today issued a press release saying that Bodhi Tree, the 28-year-old suspect in last weekend’s double murder in Arcata, is now considered a “person of interest” in a May 15 shooting in Eureka. Read the press release below. As reported earlier, on 5/15/13 the Eureka Police Department responded to the 1900…
Sausage Flap
Editor: Boy, the news circuit can be a real meat-grinder! All puns intended and all tongues in cheeks. The saucy plug (“Women and Song,” May 16) for the last Women’s Music Night left me sizzlin’! I hate to be thin-skinned, but my name, as though I were being quoted, appeared three times and I wasn’t…
Putting the Shoe on the Other Foot
Editor: Reading Jennifer Savage’s column (“Five Things,” May 16) on naming last week (which listed for example children’s names such as the poorly imaged “Huckleberry” or grossly misspelled “Leasaugh”), reminded me of a simple rule I always thought might help limit such practices. When a child turns 12, he or she gets to switch names…
Public Prayer? Read Russell
Editor: I am writing in support of Mrs. Carole Beaton’s and attorney Peter Martin’s lawsuit (“Tough on Prayer?”, Jan. 31) against Eureka city and Humboldt County officials who are attempting to utilize their authorities to unconstitutionally sponsor public prayer meetings and open governmental sessions with religious benedictions and invocations. City and county officials cannot use…
Muffet a Killer?
Editor: We don’t get over to our little house in Cutten as often as we’d like, so NCJ news gets to us slowly — through the mail. I suspect, however, that dogs are running loose up there even as we speak (“Unleashed,” March 7), so maybe this little story is still relevant. This is a…
Early Deadline This Week!
Monday is Memorial Day — which means letters are due early this week. Send in your thoughts, gripes and opinions by Friday, May 24, at noon for publication in the May 30 issue of the Journal. And enjoy your three-day weekend.
Plainsong
Words that chant from the dust of the past tickle today’s heart like trout whispering to the water with veined and subtle fins. A single person, a single voice, gives a plaintive curl of smoke. Many voices run like fire through the soul. Words are clear and solitary in plainsong. There is no melody to…
The Joy of Handmade Pasta
In the beginning there is flour and water. Make the flour be semolina flour (ground durum wheat) and make the water warm. The pale yellow semolina flour may look as if it just stepped out of an impressionist painting, bathed in early morning sunlight. In the first act of the performance, you make the dough.…
Finally, a Facelift?
The stucco is cracked and stained, with mustard yellow streaks dribbling over tan walls. One of three corner turrets is missing, pulled down years ago to make space for a neon sign. The roof leaks. For decades, Terry Coltra has hoped and dreamed about restoring the Carson Block building in Old Town Eureka, as visions…
More Workers
For a variety of reasons, a few photos didn’t make the cut for our photo contest. We liked them anyway and wanted to share them with our readers.
Missing Bob
Many of you have heard that Bob Doran, the Journal’s arts and culture editor, suffered a stroke over the weekend and is being treated in Santa Rosa. His family is by his side there. We at the Journal, along with Bob’s many, many friends and fans, are all sending him our best wishes for a…
Spock versus Spock
Reviews STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS. My personal investment in all this Star Trek business is pretty minimal. Years ago, I burned through the first four or five movies over the course of a languorous, lost afternoon. I enjoyed the experience, but I chose those movies because they were the only ones in the house where…
Hum – CPRA
Everything seems topsy turvy. I find myself cheering Humboldt County Supervisor Mark Lovelace and siding with the government over a public records act battle. I haven’t felt this trippy since string theorist Brian Greene convinced me that existence is filled with infinite universes. Lovelace was the one supervisor who held out against a settlement between…
What Ain’t So
James Bond’s favorite drink was champagne (neither shaken nor stirred). He imbibed 65 glasses in the books and movies, compared with 40 vodka martinis. Unless you combine bourbon and scotch whiskies (my father-in-law is having a fit) for 95 total. If you like fine legal distinctions, you can claim there are 46 states in the…
Off the Rails
Editor: Hostage crisis afoot (“The Disappearing Railroad Blues,” May 16). The victims? Public-trust resources including a degraded river, a “ye-old” transportation corridor helping degrade said river, and the public. All victims are borderline comatose with multiple internal injuries leading to massive bleeding of soil, money and lost opportunity. Local agency and organization staffers work hard,…
Hate? Or Un-PC?
Editor: What gives HSU professor Stephens the right to decide what’s “hate speech” and what isn’t? (“Mapping #Hate,” Blog Jammin’, May 16.) I can well imagine what to her is hate speech is what others would call being politically incorrect. And how did she decide which parts of the country are more hateful than others?…
Giant Bugs! Bicycles! It’s Race Time
It’s not often you see grown men pedaling giant insects through the middle of Old Town, but this is one of them. The Kinetic Grand Championship (the Sculpture Race, to most people) has been rolling along, in one form or another, for over 40 years now (probably due to a lack of friction, yes, physics!).…
