Power and Control
Long before he donned a police uniform, Kevin Harralson had a history of domestic violence allegations. Why did Rio Dell give him a badge and a gun?
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Power and Control
Rio Dell police officer Kevin Harralson had a history of domestic violence allegations years before he allegedly punched his girlfriend twice and ordered her out of his home at gunpoint with his service weapon in late March. In fact, when district attorney investigators summoned him to the Rio Dell police department on June 5 with…
To the Buzzer
The 94th annual Fortuna Rodeo rode into the sunset on Sunday, July 19. Horses, firetrucks, bands and floats made their way down Main Street for the parade, and kids of all ages chanced the games and clanging rides at the carnival, while riders and ropers took on bulls and broncos in the rodeo arena in…
That’s All, Folklife
The Humboldt Folklife Festival picked, strummed, hooted and harmonized all the live-long day at the free concert finale at Dell’Arte International on Saturday, July 18. This was the 37th annual event, featuring everything from highland pipes to washboards and banjos. Photographer Mark McKenna caught the shows, the crowds and the music spilling into the streets.
Humbug: Two Different Strategies for Prosperity
I can be sure it’s summer now that I’ve seen two of my favorite butterflies. Considered as a pair, they show two very different survival strategies. One is gaudy, covered by nature with large clown eyes, the other is a very “plain Jane” butterfly. You can see them both on any sunny Summer or Fall day.…
Chile vs. Chile: The Arcata Standoff
As discussed last week, chile relleno appears to come in a spectrum. We’ve been treated to both the traditional Poblano pepper wrapped in batter and the equally sabroso omelet-style yumminess. Our readers, however, took exception this week to our inclusion of the eggy offering from Arcata’s Fiesta Grill and Cantina (3525 Janes Rd). So, first, in…
Controversial Place Names in Humboldt County
Last week we ran a story which dipped briefly into the history of Larabee Creek — named for a participant in the Indian Island massacre. Local historian, author and Journal contributor Jerry Rohde was inspired to send us a list of other places in Humboldt County with ignominious eponymy. Below are the results of his search.…
Sewing the Seeds of Love
There are only a few things that embody the heart, comfort and beauty of a home more than a quilt. Those soft, fabric sandwiches of love stitched together with patience and pride, and employed to wrap babies, cover beds or hang on walls. They are treasured heirlooms passed down through generations, or given to someone…
Play on Players
If opera al fresco on a temperate north coast night sounds like a slice of heaven to you, plan to be at Redwood Park this weekend for the next production of SkyClad Theater’s Plays in the Park, where all of nature’s the stage and the walls are merely transcendental. The 2015 season started July 11…
Wisdom of the Weeds
“Weeds are weeds only from our human egotistical point of view, because they grow where we do not want them. In nature, however, they play an important and interesting role. They resist conditions that cultivated plants cannot resist, such as drought, acid soil, lack of humus, mineral deficiencies, as well as a one-sidedness of minerals,…
Nursing a Crisis
Editor: “The Shut Out” (July 9) is well done, accurate as far as I can tell, and long overdue. To be clear, there have been essentially no admissions to the nursing homes for months. Not from the hospitals, not from the community, not for Hospice patients, not for PACE patients. Not for patients with Medi-Cal,…
Singing another Tune
Editor: Thank you for printing Robert “Woods” Sutherland’s excellent analysis of the current cannabis propaganda campaign (“Growing Greed,” July 9). As a resident of Southern Humboldt for 20 years, I have continually admired and respected Woods for his fearless advocacy for all life forms and his willingness to speak truth to power, even when the…
The Numbers are Out and the Jury is In
The average homeless person in Humboldt County is male. He is white, between 35 and 45 years of age. He lives in Eureka and sleeps unsheltered, probably in a tent or car. It is likely he has a disabling condition such as a physical injury. The odds are great that he has been homeless for…
On The Way
dancing with an old partner swooning in the turns dotted lines on black asphalt swoop into valleys pound up the sky taking me places places I want to go places I don’t rock tumbles to the dance floor deer make their sacrifice maps are a promise and a lie historical markers still life dead as…
Bucolic and Bacchanal
The Rubberneckers have never needed an invite, official or otherwise, to bring a night home. So it’s completely logical that not only would the raucous formerly-of-Blue-Lake cowpunks time a visit to coincide with the annual Humboldt Folklife Festival, but that they’d play shows around the fest’s finale — at the Logger Bar, of course. For…
Tour de Beer
As gently as if she were easing a sleeping baby into a crib, a waitress settles 12 small glasses of beer, cupped in a wooden tray, onto our table in the beer garden outside Eel River Brewing Co.’s taproom in Fortuna. The breeze is soft, the day is warm, and the beers move with barely…
Left With Nothing
Let us have a viable Humboldt County economy. The average 2,300 square foot cannabis garden, suggested by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, is only viable now because prices have not yet bottomed out and no one is paying half their income in administrative and tax expenses. The following facts, figures and estimates faced…
Evergreen State Oversupply
Bust season is in full swing, with the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office serving warrants on parcels suspected of harboring marijuana grows in the northeastern corner of the county, near Weitchpec. Sheriff’s Lt. Wayne Hanson says it’s all part of the yearly, decades-old eradication measures the county takes, and says there are about 20 law enforcement…
Downhill All the Way?
“The U.S. is going the way of Rome!” has become practically a catchphrase among so-called “declinists” of all stripes. The parallels are so legionary (so to speak) and the general feeling of malaise so prevalent, you’d think our version of 476 AD — the year the last Roman emperor abdicated — is just around the…
Self/Less Loses Itself
Reviews Ever since The Cell (2000), I’ve been among the crowd waiting and hoping for director Tarsem Singh (sometimes credited as Tarsem, sometimes as Tarsem Singh Dhandwar) to bring us something revelatory, to follow through on the promise of that early work. Granted, my opinion of that movie is by now mostly held together with…
