River Runs The Free
While the sun has nearly set on the largest dam removal project in U.S. history, it’s just rising on a restoration effort to return the Klamath River to its natural state By Thadeus Greenson
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The River Runs Free
For the first time in more than a century, the Klamath River began flowing unobstructed on Aug. 28 from the river’s mouth to Keno Dam, just below Upper Klamath Lake, opening hundreds of miles of salmon habitat and bringing a generational effort to the brink of completion. The moment an excavator broke open the last…
‘For When You Get Lost’ in Humboldt
Surrounded by friends, family and beer lovers at the Arcata Theatre Lounge on the evening of Sept. 5, Meredith Maeir sat in suspense with the rest of the crowd to see her onscreen debut in the motion picture For When You Get Lost. “I didn’t even know if my scene was going to make it…
Cal Poly Humboldt Releases Body Camera Footage from April Protest
In the hours, days and weeks after a group of student demonstrators entered Siemens Hall at about 4:25 p.m. on April 22 intent on bringing awareness to the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, Cal Poly Humboldt has consistently maintained they almost immediately began vandalizing the building and barricading its entrances, which is why police were summoned…
Dam Removal, a Food Hub and Nuclear Energy
This week we’ve got an update on Klamath Dam removal and restoration, as well as the story of how a kitchen and a lot aim to boost small food businesses. Finally, we’re looking at an upcoming discussion of bringing power a from far-flung nuclear plant to Humboldt. Hit subscribe for weekly updates on Humboldt stories.
Music Tonight: Friday, Sept. 13
This should be interesting, if for no other reason than it’s a new variation in the history of local vinyl-spun lore. Arcata Soul Party is going to be a DJ-curated dance party, but not at Humbrews. Tonight’s grooves are going down at Septentrio at 9 p.m., where a $10 sliding door fee will allow you…
Music Tonight: Thursday, Sept. 12
Innovation is an interesting trick in music, especially within the confines of an established genre. One of the ironies of jam band music, for instance, is how much of it sounds the same, a sort of wash of noodling to the casual listening. However, there are still surprises out there for those looking and one…
Redwood Poetry Festival Takes the Stage
Wil Gibson fell in love with poetry at the age of 8 when he saw the poet laureate of Chicago belting out verse. But as a young adult living on the streets, he felt a divide between his social standing and his literary dreams. “I never thought poetry was something I could have,” Gibson says.…
Rebel Ridge Lands a Punch
REBEL RIDGE. It may seem silly or outmoded to continue to subscribe to the auteur theory. It is, after all, a 70-ish-year-old French construct whereby a bunch of critics who wanted to make movies could attribute the success or failure of a project to a person’s singular vision; seems almost quaintly mid-century, almost without the…
Another Domino Falls
The closure of Mad River Community Hospital’s (MRCH) obstetrics services this fall makes me very sad (“‘Loss,'” Aug. 29). MRCH is an important part of Humboldt County and many of my friends, family and neighbors gave birth there over the past 40 years. As someone who works in healthcare, it also makes me angry. Everyone…
‘Access Must be Improved’
Editor: “‘A Segregated Campus'” was a great article on CPHSU accessibility (Sept. 5). The campus topography is challenging but building access must be improved. When the campus entrance at Laurel Drive and B Street was reconfigured I assumed it would be to install ramps. I was stunned that the finished project included steps. Last year,…
‘Choose Harris’
Editor: This fall we have two major candidates running for president. Donald Trump declared he intends to start his presidency being a dictator, but only for one day. The other candidate, Kamala Harris, intends to be our president every day. Given Trump’s nature and the nature of the office, is there really any choice here?…
‘Yes on Measure F’
Editor: Jennifer, you were kinda harsh on Measure F (“VTY, Not Rob Arkley,” Aug. 15.)! Please be more even-handed, as everyone endorsing Measure F has good reasons. Personally, I want to see a city that takes its long-term planning seriously. Many of us are tired of a city leadership that is willing to trip over its family,…
The Not-So Incredible Shrinking Brain
“The brain is a 3-pound mass you can hold in your hand that can conceive of a universe 100 billion light-years across.” Marian Diamond, neuroscientist In 2021, a peer-reviewed scientific study made headlines in the popular press: Human brains shrunk by about 5 percent between 5,000 and 3,000 years ago. Taken at face value, this…
Klamath River Blessing
Let the waters of the Klamath be released. Let the walls of the four hydroelectric dams be blasted apart, ripped down to bedrock, concrete and rebar pulverized so only the scars will testify to what once spoiled the river. Let the rains come and wash away the remains— the silt, the pesticides, the cyanobacteria —all…
Anywhere Out of the World
I lost a lot of weight this year from health problems but rather than bemoan my altered state, I prefer to lean into imagining contorting my body into the nude, inscrutable angles of the bronze-age etchings of human (and other) figures from the Altai region of Russia. It’s been a dream of mine in the…
RCEA Ponders Nuclear Power
The Redwood Coast Energy Authority Board will soon decide whether to accept an allotment of nuclear power to electrify the North Coast. Either way, local customers will be paying for it. The local conversation — which will see the RCEA board debate straying from a long-standing policy not to add nuclear power to its energy…
Tasty Hub Makes Room for Newcomers
On Monday afternoon, Gaby Long, owner of A Taste of Bim (613 Third St., Eureka) and its auxiliary food truck, is still recovering from a long day and night of selling chicken curry and jerk wings at Cannifest. “I can’t feel my feet,” she says with a laugh. But even with a leg brace for…
