Humboldt County District Soup
Racing for the top county seat in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd districts.
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District Soup
County Supervisor Jimmy Smith held up a legal pad he uses to remember which phone calls he made on which day. “Today we’ve got …” Smith paused and flipped the pad back around to read it. “Department of Conservation … someone worried about illegal parking on their street … a St. Joseph Hospital official…
Ferry or Bridge?
A couple winters have passed since the federal department of transportation awarded $120,000 to Humboldt County to make improvements to the McCann Ferry — a couple of winters, and numerous high-water boat trips back and forth across the Eel River by the intrepid boatman and handful of residents who live on the cut-off side of…
If you’re going to dump a body in Eureka …
… here’s a jarringly specific go-to location courtesy of the script scribes at the CBS mucho dramatico cop drama Criminal Minds. But first, a little background on this scene from last week’s ‘sode: As part of (we’re guessing) a far-from-standard plea deal, FBI Special Agent David Rossi (Joe Mantegna) must visit an incarcerated serial killer…
Humboldt Parents Rejoice!
The Journal’s annual Summer of Fun issue is creeping onto newsstands countywide today (and online tomorrow). As always, it features an exhaustive list of seasonal camps, classes, outings, adventures and distractions that will get the kiddos out into the world and off your couch (so you can plant yourself there in peace). So, grab a…
Marijuana Grow Op Bust on Pine Hill This Morning
From the Humboldt County Drug Task Force: On 05-15-2012 at about 0845 hours the Humboldt County Drug Task Force served a search warrant at a residence located in the 800 block of Herrick Avenue, Eureka near the Pine Hill Elementary School. Agents located a sophisticated indoor marijuana growing operation in the residence. Agents detained two…
Redway Man Survives 15 Stab Wounds, Assailant Arrested
From the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 05-13-2012, at approximately 4:00 a.m. the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office received a call regarding threats being made from Shawn Hass. Deputies responded to the Brass Rail Motel, 3400 Block of Redway Drive, Redway to meet with Hass. When the deputies arrived they saw two males standing in the…
Finally, They Got One! Alleged Car Burglars Nabbed in Eureka!
Now can you guys get all my CDs back from the last time this happened to me?! Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office: On 05-12-2012, approximately 2:30 p.m. the Humboldt County Sheriffs Office received a call from a citizen advising they just witnessed a vehicle broken into in the area of Ma’Lel Dunes,…
Madaket Rides Again
Humboldt Bay Maritime Museum’s MV Madaket, launched in 1910, took her first cruise of the season today, with the full cruise season starting on May 19. 75-minute narrated cruises will run from the C Street Dock–call 445 1910 for times and details. Cruises over Mother’s Day weekend (May 11, 12 and 13) depart at 1.00…
Dems, Jobs, Limos
Editor: I learned a lot from Ryan Burns’ article about the Humboldt County Democratic Central Committee (“Dem Schism,” April 26). I am also an associate member and as such have no voting rights. I do, however, attend most meetings. I vigorously object to Burns’ saying Richard Marks left “in a huff.” Richard had been the…
Parks and Paychecks
Editor: Half the people who work for the Department of Parks and Recreation don’t serve in the parks; they work in sector and regional offices and in Sacramento (“A Place in the Woods,” May 3). Just for fun? Dial up the North Coast Redwoods district office at 445-6547 and press 9 for list of extensions.…
Speak, Creek Freak
Editor: As a lifelong creek freak, I enjoyed Barry Evans’ latest column re: Six Rivers (“Field Notes,” May 3). Please note, that while the Klamath “originates” in Oregon, the Smith (which originates around Youngs Peak on the Del Norte/Siskiyou County border) has major tributaries originating in Curry County Oregon (i.e. Rowdy Creek, North Fork, Diamond…
Farce Impression
Editor: I’ve learned that some Journal readers didn’t “get” my letter of April 19 (“Mailbox”). They thought that I really was accusing Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg of “badgering, beleaguering and bullying” and other “pernicious conduct.” I didn’t mean any of the unkind things I wrote about Ms. Peyton Dahlberg. My letter was a parody of…
Recognizing “Gateway Races”
Any good evil tobacco seller knows the way to ensure faithful cigarette consumers is to “hook ‘em young.” Kids, adorable and impressionable, are more susceptible to colorful, deceptive marketing and are less likely to resist temptations scrutinizing adults have learned to ignore. That’s why we at the Journal were alarmed when we discovered that the…
The Power
An email from a New York PR firm showed up in my mailbox recently with a download link for a benefit collection titled, Occupy This Album. Amid the 100 tracks donated by musicians well known and unknown, one stood out, perhaps the ultimate Occupy anthem, “People Have the Power,” by Patti Smith. The live recording…
Superpowered
Reviews THE AVENGERS. Judging by its $200 million opening weekend, I’m not the only one who finds The Avengers deeply satisfying. Looks like just about everybody is on the same page (save New York Times critic A.O. Scott, whose lukewarm review brought down the great vengeance and furious anger of star Sam Jackson over the…
Trees, Please
Just before noon last Wednesday, as members of Keep Eureka Beautiful’s landscape and beautification committee were settling around a table in an office building in Old Town, one of them handed a photocopy of a recent New York Times opinion piece called “Why Trees Matter” to another member and said, “Read this.” Julian Berg, a…
Early Animal-rights Artist?
The hills resound with the roaring [of lions], the wild animals tremble. They pull down the cattle, spill human blood. … Corpses of men, cattle and sheep lie in heaps as if the plague has killed them. From the records of Ashurbanipal, British Museum translation By the time king Ashurbanipal began his rule in 645…
Wabash Willie in “In The Zone!”
Wabash Willie in “In The Zone!”
Drinking Oryza Sativa
Next time you’re in Portland, go west along U.S. Route 26 and head over to Forest Grove to check out the Saké One brewery. It’s not the kind of brewery you think of when you think of the Pacific Northwest, but there’s really every reason for saké to be a West Coast thing. Japanese culture…
Romnish
Will scolds Andrew for not running a tight ship.
Free Again: The “1970” Sessions
When a young Alex Chilton snuck into the fledging Ardent Studios in Memphis in 1969, conducting after-hours sessions with the studio’s proprietor Terry Manning, he had no inkling that he would lay down a blueprint for his future solo releases. In a prolific explosion as a songwriter, Chilton recorded an eclectic collection of pop songs…
Nana’s Smile
Rose to the surface From some foreign land,…
Celebrating Creativity
What do you get when you cross 10 gallery/performance spaces, an outdoor sculpture garden, tons of good food and drink, a broad spectrum of activities and more bands than you can shake a drumstick at? If you said a really great time, you’d be right. But where does one have to go to find an…
Your Noise, My Now
In the 1950s a new sound was reshaping American culture. Parents in those days called it loud, repulsive and crude. They assigned racially provocative epithets like “jungle music” to it because of its roots in African-American blues, country, jazz and gospel. This, of course, drove a younger generation straight into its welcoming arms. That generation…
Poverty Prophet
As if rooting out a bad habit, Daniel Suelo has given up money. Just quit having anything to do with it — or with barter or with organized charity. Instead of earning or spending, Suelo forages, dumpster dives and makes his home in a cave in Utah. “I would like to encourage people … to…
