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River Robbery
Imagine a stream. Cool, clear water dances over rocks smoothed by time. Pond skaters skim the sunlight-flecked surface. Dragonflies flit between clumps of grass. Birds chirp in the trees overhead. And under the water, tiny endangered salmon — coho, Chinook, steelhead — dart among the shadows. Now imagine that same stream dammed, poisoned with chemical…
‘Awesome’ Outside Lands
After a full festival dose of music, our teen correspondents Kaylee and Nick Savage-Wright report back from San Francisco’s massive Outside Lands Festival. Kaylee: Only a few hours after the first day ended, people were already reliving the events of the past 24 hours, already planning for next year, their talk full of words like…
Humboldt County’s Recycling Goes Where?
The North Coast Journal followed some of Humboldt County’s recyclables down to Solid Waste of Willits. The company’s single-stream recycling system sorts and bales the materials to sell to buyers. Scottie Lee Meyers’ story follows your cans, bottles and paper products from the end of your driveway to the edge of the world. Look for…
Assault Rifles, Heroin and $8,700 Discovered by EPD After High Speed Chase
Press release from the Eureka Police Department: On 8/22/12, at about 12:25 AM, a Eureka Police Department Officer on patrol attempted to contact a subject known to him, Robert Ray Wildman (age 31), in the parking lot of Winco Foods. Wildman was on active CDC parole for burglary. He was also a heavily tattooed, documented…
A Fair Day
The young man watched the horses parade around the corral near the race track just before one of last Saturday’s races. His gaze lingering on Western Roses (No. 3), a curious, rolly-eyed steed with tongue perpetually stuck far out and to the right like a manic comic pushing to squeeze every last laugh out of…
One Funny Weekend
As the big kahuna at the local comedy magazine, Savage Henry Independent Times, Chris Durant is supposed to be funny, or at least know funny. He’s also one of the main organizers for this weekend’s standup-apalooza Savage Henry Independent Times and Giggles Comedy Festival, aka SHITS and Giggles. But he readily admits that he’s not…
Sweet 116
What’s the best part of the Humboldt County Fair? Tough call, right? Is it that first, powdery sugar bite of deep-fried funnel cake? The thrill of wagering on the ponies? If you’re young and hardy maybe it’s getting strapped inside a mechanical stomach-scrambler (aka a carnival ride) or winning a blue ribbon for your droop-eared…
Get Your Port On: Part 4
Get Your Port On: Part 4
Bigger Vigils
Editor: We, among others who vigil with Eureka Women in Black wish to correct errors in Mr. Bass’ NCJ article of Aug. 2 (“Women in Black”). We have more than “only two women” who often vigil at the county courthouse Saturdays at noon. We disagree that “in Humboldt … (the WIB movement) is mostly over”…
… And the Livin’ Is Easy
It’s an odd time of year. On the one hand, the sunflowers are blooming and the sunshine seems to be telling us summer is here — finally. Then there are the returning (and new) college students, back for school. (Welcome!) That tells us — sigh — summer is over. Confusing. At any rate, there’s…
Pas de Deux
Reviews HOPE SPRINGS. Scrolling through Meryl Streep’s résumé on IMDb.com, it’s nearly impossible to find a bad film. Try it. I dare you. Sure, there are silly films and sappy films, films you wouldn’t watch without your children or grandparents present; none of them are bad, though. On the surface, Hope Springs appears to…
Limbo Land
It’s been 10½ months since Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Dale Reinholtsen deemed the condition of six rental properties owned by Floyd and Betty Squires so bad they constituted “a substantial endangerment” to residents and the public, requiring immediate takeover by a court-appointed receiver. The receiver, Mark S. Adams, president of California Receivership Group LLP,…
News blackout
One blogger last week accused the Journal of a news blackout on the topic of the Bay Trail. It’s mostly true. When I volunteered to work with trail advocates in March, Journal Editor Carrie Peyton Dahlberg and her staff decided no coverage while the story is unfolding. The original Bay Trail Advocates’ plan was to…
Pelicans Worth Saving
Editor: I am writing to express my extreme disappointment in your article, “Bird by Bird” (Aug. 9), concerning the fish-oiled brown pelicans. As a member of the Humboldt Wildlife Care Center Board and a volunteer with wildlife rehab on and off over the past 30 years, I have seen and heard it all. I was dismayed…
The World is Raining
in unexpected ways — out of season –…
Eat Well, Do Good
Locavores, piscivores, granivores — pretty much all flavors of vores — should find something tempting to nibble at a local food expo this weekend at Mad River Brewery’s tasting room in Blue Lake. The nosh fest benefits the Discovery Museum in Eureka, which will be sending a kid-captivating team to run a “Kid Zone,” complete…
How We Die
We recently visited a friend who lives near Tillamook, Ore., within the local tsunami zone. I was struck by her fear that when (not if) an undersea earthquake off the Oregon coast set off a huge tsunami, she and her family would be swept away. “It’s all they talk about around here,” she said. It’s…
Awaken, Old Town
Andrew discovers Portland’s food cartopia. Will harrumphs.
