Inside Bayview Heights
A unique project houses 25 local veterans with 25 recently homeless people with mental illness. It’s proving complicated. By Thadeus Greenson
Barbara Stratton Peters: 1949-2023
Barbara was born on a beautiful spring day (April 18, 1949) in Pocatello, Idaho. She was the third of four children born to Margaret Harris Stratton and R. Wendell Stratton. As a child, she was very shy but had the best time growing up with her wonderful family. They lived in Pocatello until Barbara was…
Mimi Gouldberg: 1943-2022
A year has passed and not a day goes by that our beloved mom, sister, grandma, and auntie, is not thought of. Forever in our hearts, we will cherish the memories of her. Mimi Gouldberg, 78 years old, peacefully passed away in her home surrounded by her closest loved ones on November 16.2022. Mimi, was…
Gifting Local, Trans Remembrance and Acorns
The annual Gift Guide cometh! We’re also talking with photographer Kait Angus about the recent Trans Day of Remembrance and how the Yurok Tribe is rebuilding food sovereignty with acorn gathering. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
Photos: ‘TRANScending the Veil’
On Monday, Nov. 20, the Eureka chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held a TRANScending the Veil ceremony on the Arcata Plaza as part of the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Attendees lit candles, sang, heard speakers and listened to the names read off of members of the trans community who died over the…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, Nov. 21
Not to beat the theme into the dust, but since we are nearing Thanksgiving, I’m going to continue this “jam roll” we are on and suggest one more free open jam night. This one is at the Siren’s Song Tavern and runs for about an hour, starting at 8 p.m. It’s usually a Grateful Dead…
Housing Complications and Restaurants for Sale
This week we’re looking into the complicated business of housing veterans and people with severe mental illness in Eureka. We’re also talking about why so many restaurants are up for sale across our county. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
Music Tonight: Monday, Nov. 20
Speaking of jams, Seabury Gould is hosting his popular Irish Jam at the Logger Bar at 7 p.m. Although the man comes prepared with material and heartfelt instrumental and vocal pieces, there’s always room for someone to pick up their tool of choice and join the fray. Entrance costs nothing, so be sure to bring…
Music Tonight: Sunday, Nov. 19
Another interesting pairing, this time doable as a double bill, as the first performance is a matinee. I am talking about the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts-staged production of the musical The Music Man Jr. The diminutive suffix refers to the youthful cast involved in this iteration of the beloved Broadway hit show. The…
Music Tonight: Saturday, Nov. 18
Two very different doings tonight, both in Arcata at 9 p.m. One of them subdued and subterranean, one a dancehall treat. Starting with the former, Young & Lovely, the torch and jazz song vehicle manned by the talented Penner siblings and co., is playing some tunes at the Basement with horn player Don Hammerstedt joining…
Holiday Bazaar and Boutique in Willow Creek
This week, the eastern part of our county offers its holiday gift shopping treasures at the Willow Creek China-Flat Museum’s Holiday Bazaar, happening Saturday, Nov. 18, and Sunday, Nov. 19 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. (free admission). There, you’ll discover beautiful quilted items, jewelry, candy, ceramics, crochet and knitted items, wreaths and other delights.…
Syrian Boy
In the midst of tragedy and suffering there is the earth’s insistent beauty. A Syrian boy sits Alone on a plastic chair Covered in soot His child hand wiping his brow His eyes recognize It is his blood He solemnly transfers Across his shirt. Having been pulled For an hour from the rubble Too traumatized…
The View from the Van
On Wednesday, Oct. 25, I along with at least one other student living in their vehicle in Cal Poly Humboldt parking lots, was visited at my RV by Associate Vice President for Student Success Steve St. Onge and Director of Risk Management and Safety Services Cris Koczera. The administrators told us the university would soon…
‘A Basic Change of Attitude’
Editor: Regarding the current and ongoing situation in Israel and Palestine, I realize that the following is not a blueprint for peace, and, what’s more, I realize the odds of it happening are next to nothing since decades of mutual grievances have resulted in a pit of hatred so deep that none of the participants…
Inside Bayview Heights
It’s a brisk, bright morning in early fall on Eureka’s Fifth Street, where a small group of veterans have gathered in one of the common rooms at Bayview Heights, a new three-story apartment complex painted in a geometric pattern of army and olive green. Five of them sit around a small dining table in a…
Beasts of Burden
Much ink has been spilled on the colonial mythology of the upcoming holiday and the horrors in Palestine. When confronted with the unrolling and competing narratives of a real-time conflict, I turn to relevant historians and critics of the past, and I can think of no one more qualified to speak on colonial narrative than…
‘Heartening’
Editor: Thank you for two heartening and beautifully-wrought pieces on sentient beings, avian and human, breaking out of their shells and flying free: “Reclaiming their Ancestral Lands” by Kimberly Wear and Linda Stansberry’s “Lobster Girl Finds the Beat” (Nov. 9). Matina Kilkenny, Arcata Related Stories
Anybody Want to Buy a Restaurant?
Local real estate listings are offering a broad menu these days with a bevy of restaurants and food businesses up for sale. After its sudden closure early this year, Fernbridge’s Angelina Inn is available for $1.9 million and the up-and-running Gill’s by the Bay has a price tag of $2.5 million for the property and…
About Camping on Campus
Editor: I must “borrow” Ellen Taylor’s phrase “embarrassing itself” as she replied in last week’s NCJ Mailbox (Nov. 9). Referring to Thadeus Greenson’s report in this week’s issue (“‘Upside Down,'” Nov. 9): The same can certainly be said of Cal Poly Humboldt, evicting their homeless students who reside on the campus eight weeks shy one of…
Et Tu, Huffman?
Editor: Jared Huffman wrote a views piece Nov. 2 in the NCJ describing how much he despises the new majority leader of the House of Representatives, Rep. Mike Johnson. He starts with he knows Speaker Johnson to be “smart and affable” and better than Speaker McCarthy. Then he launches into true Huffman hatred. He repeatedly…
Look! Up in the Sky!
While we’re caught up in the daily grind here on the ground, there’s a lot of great birding happening above our heads. That’s where the big birds fly: the eagles, hawks and vultures that quicken the pulse of birders and nonbirders alike because of their sheer bulk and massive wingspans. However, conditions are seldom ideal…
Six Stories Everywhere?
Editor: Six-story apartment buildings allowed in every single neighborhood in Arcata. No limit on how dense these apartments might be. Existing houses permitted for coffee shops, convenience stores and restaurants. Zero parking required for apartments of any size. For offices, stores and restaurants — one or two spaces is the most parking they’d be allowed…
The Killer and Dicks Go Big
THE KILLER. Given what we know — or think we know — about David Fincher, it is almost too tempting to see his latest as a smirking work of self-reflective satire. This contravenes the most basic tenet of what I was taught to call New Criticism, which is, clears throat, reads aloud: never conflate the…
Barnacle Envy
Hello. I’m the mayor of Schlong Beach. Despite my town’s name, you won’t find any “phallic symbols” here. We are fully phallic. For example, the monuments to our heroes aren’t ambiguous columns. They are massive marble boners. However, our town’s women rejected this sensibility, calling it “puerile” (whatever that means). So, they built a wall…
