Safe Harbor
The Harbor District has entered new waters in recent years, but some say it’s drifted off course
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Safe Harbor
There’s no question Humboldt Bay is one of our most crucial resources. But depending on whom you ask, you’ll get a different reason as to why. Maybe it’s those kayak trips on calm days around the bay’s islands. Maybe it’s the deep water port that offers so much shipping potential. Maybe it’s the crab harvest…
How to Eat Somewhere New
When a new place opens, the common wisdom is that you should try it in a couple of months when it’s worked out the kinks. Are you made of stone? There’s a whole unexplored menu to peruse and sample. What if there’s something you’ve never eaten before? Once you finally break down and pull up a…
Mark Larson’s Medieval Slideshow of Courage
It took courage to hang out at the Medieval Festival of Courage in Blue Lake — at least until the water truck showed up to settle the dust — on a windy Saturday, Oct. 3. The fundraiser for the Coastal Grove Charter School Parent Organization Foundation attracted a large crowd to Christie’s Pumpkin Patch farm,…
The Cove by Copter
Hiking is hard and your drone is starting to make you look creepy. But how else to see nature’s glory? As part of the Plein Air at the Lost Coast festivities on Oct. 3 and 4, Air Shasta took locals and visiting art enthusiasts up, up and away in its slick little Robinson R44 helicopter.…
UPDATE: Gov. Brown Approves Right-to-Die Bill
Local doctor Michael Fratkin, who began the palliative care program ResolutionCare featured in the Journal here, emailed the following response to the news that Gov. Brown had signed the bill. Gov. Brown has signed in to law the ‘End of Life Options’ bill. That’s quite something and reflects an electrified social conversation that is transforming…
Coming Soon: All the Crime, All the Time, All of Humboldt
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office will soon be posting crime reports for all of Humboldt County. Lt. Kevin Miller of the McKinleyville substation spearheaded the idea of adopting the county-wide use of the website crimereports.com, which the Eureka Police Department has been using since 2009. “I looked at their site and said ‘Wow, this is…
Conflict of Interest Lawsuit Filed Against Harbor District; Commissioner Dismisses Suit as ‘Political Ploy’
Long-time local taxpayers’ advocate Leo Sears filed a conflict of interest lawsuit today, alleging that the Humboldt County Harbor, Conservation and Recreation District violated state law when it accepted a loan from Coast Seafoods and then gave the company a lease extension to cultivate oysters on hundreds of acres of tidelands in Humboldt Bay. Specifically,…
Sheriff Launches Scotia Death Investigation
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is in the midst of a death investigation after deputies responded to a report of a foul smell in Scotia to find the decomposing remains of Justin Joseph Nevis, 32, of Sacramento. An autopsy is currently pending to determine a cause of death, but the the case is possibly linked…
Chalk it Up
Pastel artists filled the Arcata Plaza with creative energy and multi-colored chalk dust on Saturday, Oct. 3 and covered the surrounding sidewalk with a wild mix of imagery — all in support of the 28th annual Pastels on the Plaza benefit for Northcoast Children’s Services, which provides free or low-cost preschool and family services throughout…
Got Tickets? Get Amnesty.
If you have outstanding infraction tickets standing between you and your driving privileges, you might be in luck. Thanks to Senate Bill 85, drivers with outstanding traffic tickets originally due on or before Jan. 1, 2013 may qualify for a Department of Motor Vehicles amnesty program. Between Oct. 1 and March 31, 2017, drivers may…
Surely You Joust
For those of us who wished we had lived in the land of Ladyhawke, made magic with Merlin and shared ale with Arthur ’round the table, there is a Festivus for the rest of us and its name is the Medieval Festival of Courage. Taking place Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4 from 10…
Hero Dog Given (Imitation) Purple Heart
The Eureka Police Department reports that plucky pooch K-9 Vex was presented with a chew toy and a dog-sized purple-heart medal today for his bravery on July 31, when he helped clear a local residence after a burglary. Vex cut his paw on broken glass in the course of duty and left several bloody paw…
Fortuna High Grad Reportedly Among Oregon Shooting Victims
One of the victims in Thursday’s mass shooting at Umpqua Community College in Oregon was Jason Johnson, a 33-year-old graduate of Fortuna High School, NBC News is reporting. Officials have yet to publicly identify any of the nine people killed in the shooting spree, which began at about 10:30 a.m. Thursday, but Johnson’s mother, Tonja…
Flavors of the Fall
Fortuna’s annual Apple Harvest Festival, Oct. 2 to 4 (free admission) is always a barrel of fun for the whole family. The celebration kicks off Friday, 6:30 to 10:30 p.m. at the Fortuna Rodeo Grounds, with cider sipping and music at Taste of the Harvest (21-and-over, $25, $10 sober drivers), benefiting Wild Souls Ranch. Saturday’s…
DA: No Charges in CHP Shooting of Hoopa Boy Last Year
District Attorney Maggie Fleming has decided that the California Highway Patrol officer who shot 17-year-old Richard Frederick Tis’Mil Estrada in December acted in self defense and announced today that she will not file charges against him. CHP officer Timothy Gray responded to 911 calls reporting an accident on State Route 299 near Willow Creek early…
Weird Science
“For what we are about to see next, we must enter quietly into the realm of genius.” Tru dat, Dr. Frankenstein. From the collaborative genius of Mel Brooks and Gene Wilder comes Young Frankenstein, the story of Dr. Frederick Frankenstein, grandson of the infamous Victor (Mary Shelley’s scientist with the God complex), who struggles to…
New Wave
Bob Benson is showing paintings, painted and carved wall panels, and freestanding sculpture this month at Piante Gallery. Benson, a member of the Tsnungwe Tribe who sits on its Elders Council, served as a professor of art at College of the Redwoods for several decades and is now emeritus. He has exhibited extensively, both nationally…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, phone Eureka Main Street at 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. Stephen Miller, Howdy Emerson, Sohelia Amin, Paul Ricard and Barbara Saul. 229 F St. Susan Strope, floral…
Trinidad Arts Night
Shuttle Service available with several pick-up and drop-off locations throughout town. Lighthouse View start of Trinity Street. CIVIC CLUB ROOM 409 Trinity St. “Moonstone in Bloom,” locally grown flower presentation by Devon VanDam. Big Lagoon School silent auction and raffle. MOONSTONE CROSSING 529 Trinity St. “Photography of Trinidad and Beyond,” Dana Utman, digital archival framed…
Dizzying Heights
Reviews EVEREST. Writer Jon Krakauer has no patience for this adaptation of his work: He’s called it “total bull.” He has, of course, also seized this as an opportunity to steer potential readers back to his Into Thin Air, the book upon which Baltasar Kormákur’s (Contraband, 2 Guns) intermittently compelling, occasionally breathtaking, consistently harrowing movie…
Damsels and Empty Shells
Neglected Damsels Whenever I give a talk on dragonflies, I point out that there are two subgroups to the order Odonata, which I am told differentiates between the sizes and shapes of the front and hind wings: the dragonflies (anisoptera, which means “same wing”) and the damselflies (zygoptera, meaning “different wing”). I guess because they’re bigger and…
Timber and Terror
Editor: It took Greg King’s remarks (“Mailbox,” Sept. 24) on your synopsis of the Timber Wars (“Humboldt Then & Now,” Sept. 17) to waken my lazy mind to the perniciousness of that style of reporting. The way you lay it down, smooth, balanced, a tidy trade, “timberland preserved, jobs lost,” is the way people, especially…
Reclamation
This is the story of a tribe, a man, a garage sale and a collection of artifacts. It’s the story of a reunion that almost wasn’t. It begins and ends not in Humboldt County, but in the Columbia River Plateau. In October, Allen Maret will travel 600 miles from his Arcata home to a tiny…
Aromatherapy
Here’s October at the door again, a sweet ex-lover who keeps coming back. Come in, come in. We’ll share soup and bread and memories, doze by the fire, wake hungover with yearning, wondering which fall will be the last.
Paste, Posters, & Telephone Poles
Similar to many of the changes that have come along with an evolving music industry, show promotion has morphed and permutated throughout the years. At a local level, the days of wheat pasting yielded to staple guns and telephone poles, to hoofing it around town throwing up 11-by-17-inch posters in supportive local businesses, to emailing…
Humboldt on Tap
Nobody ever told bourbon makers about zero waste. They’re a peculiar lot, holed up in Kentucky, stacking charred bourbon barrels by the millions into drafty, seven-story warehouses — and then getting rid of every single barrel. It’s a bourbon thing, and I’ll get back to what it means for Humboldt beers in a moment. First,…
Ooh, That Smell
The Pinoleville Pomo Nation, based out of Mendocino County, was raided by the sheriff’s office last week and hundreds of marijuana plants were seized. The Journal reported in January that the tribe said it would build a 110,000-square-foot marijuana growing facility on its 99-acre Rancheria near Ukiah, anticipating legalization. This came after the U.S. Department…
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