On The Waterfront Now
A national symposium provides a fresh view for Humboldt’s oceanfront future
Cover Story
On The Waterfront Now
They came from Portland, Maine, and Portland, Ore., from the Chesapeake Bay and the Florida Keys. They came from all walks of water-dependent life: commercial fishermen from San Diego, nonprofit conservationists from the Puget Sound, urban planners from Maryland and many more. From up and down the eastern and western seaboards came government engineers, policy…
Record Heat Today
It’s 75 degrees at the Arcata-Eureka Airport right now. Seventy-freaking-five! That sets a record for April 24, beating out the 68-degree high set exactly 100 years ago, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. The record high for all of April is 80 degrees, set on April 9, 1989. Meanwhile, Bridgeville hit 85 degrees…
Update: Hatched! Check Out Humboldt’s Bald Eagle Babies
Jean Pichler says the second Humboldt Bay eagle hatched just before dark on Wednesday. “Kyle,” the first to hatch, was named after the property owner’s nephew, who died in December. The Humboldt Bay Eagles Facebook group invites local schoolchildren to suggest names for the second baby. The group is accepting suggestions on its Facebook page…
Marsh Seal
This seal pup was spotted at the end of the pier at the Arcata Marsh on Sunday, and was reported to folks who monitor stranded wildlife. Marsh visitors were being advised to leave the animal alone and not harass it or try to “rescue” it.
Evolution of the Humboldt Brand
Did you read yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle? Yeah, me neither. But Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson did! And she directed us to this write-up on the local marketing campaign known as Humboldt Made. Here’s the key bit: As part of its effort to let the world know that there’s more to Humboldt than weed, the county’s economic development…
HumCo and HumCPR Showdown
Humboldt County and Lee Ulansey — the recently appointed county planning commissioner and former director of the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights — will argue a public records case before a judge this week. With the help of Eureka attorney Allison Jackson, Ulansey has been asking the county for attorney records for more than a…
Railroad(ed)
Editor: I attended the public hearing in Eureka City Council chambers on March 29 (“Political Reality 2013,” From the Publisher, April 4). Linda Atkins raised an important point about the process: Caltrans has these grants available every year. There was not the rush that David Hull insisted on. His mea culpa rang phony with…
Just loving that community organizer
Editor: Thank you for your enlightening cover story on “HumCPR Rising” (March 28) and publisher Judy Hodgson’s subsequent follow up on Lee Ulansey. I never knew Mr. Ulansey was such a successful community organizer who was able to bring so many diverse groups together for a common cause. It almost reminds me of that man…
Admirable Citizens
Admirable Citizens
McKinleyville Arts Night, Friday, April 19, 6-8 p.m.
1. EUREKA-ARCATA AIRPORT 3561 Boeing Ave. Long-term exhibit coordinated by the Redwood Art Association, featuring eight local female artists: Regina Case, Natalie Craig, Joan Gold, Linda Mitchell, Kathy O’Leary, Linda Parkinson, Lien Truong and Roberta Welty. 2. SILVER LINING 3561 Boeing Ave., #D (at the Eureka-Arcata Airport). Joe Garceau plays original music from 7-10 p.m.,…
Humbodt Innovations
Humbodt Innovations
Mountain Poem
Everything is better in the mountains Everything is glowing The clouds are better — more pronounced The lichen POP Top-lit trees shimmer and smile while Stout purple irises wave from the sidelines of Alderpoint Road A lone turkey with a pink-blue head manages traffic, and we stop as directed for our April first…
The Most Expensive Lighthouse (Part 1)
In 1792 Captain George Vancouver, sailing north toward Alaska, gave the name “Dragon Rocks” to a reef six miles west of the nearest land, which he called “Point St. George” and which is now the site of Crescent City’s airport. By the time the steam side-wheeler Brother Jonathan foundered on the rocks on July 30,…
Remodeling Our Wheel Estate
Long ago as a baby-faced innocent, I first read Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road as I hitchhiked my way around Australia. Too naive to fully appreciate the nuance of Kerouac’s message, I embraced the superficial, carefree love of the walkabout. I liked to think that I was one of Kerouac’s people “who are mad…
This is How You Lose Her – Junot Díaz
Junot Díaz’s last work, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, won him a well-deserved Pulitzer. His new collection of short stories, This is How You Lose Her, sidesteps the problem of topping that insurmountable work by abandoning the epic for the episodic. For a Pulitzer Prize winner, Díaz is startlingly self-deprecating. To hear him…
For the Birds
The birders are coming. Godwit Days are upon us, a time when Humboldt welcomes avian aficionados from far and wide, especially those obsessed with adding as many different birds as possible to their life lists. As the organizers note, the festival is held during the spring migration of the marbled godwit, one of many…
Music Matters
Editor: I discovered my love of music in a community college class over 45 years ago (“Re-Imagining CR,” April 11). I was not a music major. Since moving to Humboldt County in the mid 1970s, participating in music and musical theatre, often through courses at CR, has sustained me all of my adult life as…
The Long Wait
It’s soothing inside the new Veterans Affairs’ outpatient clinic in Eureka, with its muted chocolate-and-tan patchwork of wood-toned paneling and floors, soft-blue painted walls, and pamphlet-stuffed racks sprinkled throughout the lobby and hallways. On a recent afternoon, April sun brightened the windows and a few people sat in the lobby waiting area. A clerk was…
Trashy Pot Talks
You’ve heard the horror stories: Water illegally diverted from rivers and streams, harming fisheries. Rodenticide killing Pacific fishers — sleek, handsome forest characters that are federally protected. Torn up land polluted with fertilizers and more, and heaps of filth left by greedy dipshit humans — feces and trash and plastic piping and more. All in…
Black Hero, Whitewashed
Reviews 42. I’ve long felt a weird sense of nostalgia for baseball of bygone eras. It must be something about the grainy newsreel footage or the baggy uniforms or the increasingly ludicrous sideburns and moustaches of those old heroes of the diamond. Whatever the reason, I take far more pleasure in baseball’s past than in…
Our Green Earth
Another weekend and we’re still green with Earth Day and 4/20 upon us — and with them, comes more of Humboldt Green Week. The unstoppable force behind Humboldt Green Week is Juliet Ferri, who works most of the year for Northcoast Horticulture Supply. For three months leading up to Earth Day and 4/20, she…
