Newsom’s Climate Budget Would Slash Funds that Protect Coast
Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget would cut funding for coastal resilience projects almost in half, eliminating more than half a billion dollars of state funds this year that would help protect the coast against rising seas and climate change. The cuts are part of Newsom’s proposed $6 billion in reductions to California’s climate change programs…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 9
I don’t know if Canada’s Kootenay Mountains have any blue grass growing on their slopes like Kentucky, but there is certainly at least one notable band playing bluegrass music that hails from those parts. Moontricks plays a modern mix of folk, country and the aforementioned stuff to decent crowds and on the festival circuit. Tonight…
Sheriff Honsal Declares Local Emergency Due to Winter Storms
With recent storms wreaking havoc across the region and more winter weather on the way, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal has declared a local emergency, which allows the county to apply for state and federal funds to address the damage and other impacts. “Consecutive major winter storms have resulted in a large accumulation of snow,…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, March 8
Sometime in the 1980s, cartoonist Alison Bechdel, in her seminal strip Dykes to Watch Out For, developed a process that became known as the Bechdel Test as a means of evaluating female representation in film. The test is simple, with only three rules: The film must have at least two women; they must interact and…
Operation Bales Away
On Saturday, March 4, Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal got an atypical call. It was from Second District Supervisor Michelle Bushnell, who’d been fielding frantic calls from cattle ranchers in her district who had been blocked off from tending their herds by roads covered in heavy snow and downed trees, leaving their cows unfed and…
After a Pandemic Pause, State to Restart Checking Medi-Cal Eligibility
California will soon restart its annual eligibility review for people enrolled in Medi-Cal, a process that has been suspended since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that starting in mid-April, residents enrolled in Medi-Cal, the state’s insurance program for low-income people, will start to receive renewal notices in the mail. The process will…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 7
The term “power trio” is often overused and a bit dated at this stage of the game, as very few bands are out there ripping out riffs and melting amps with three players in the classic bass, guitar/vox and drums configuration (nod to God for Sleep, who are keeping the faith alive). However, a trio…
Sheriff’s Office to Snow Goers: ‘Please Stay Home’
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is urging North Coast residents to refrain from traveling to “play in the snow” that’s coming down in higher elevations throughout the county, saying it spent the weekend helping folks who got stuck or snowed in. “HCSO special services deputies, along with county partners, have been working tirelessly all weekend…
EPD: Suspect Arrested in Hit and Run
The Eureka Police Department has arrested a 53-year-old suspect in a fatal hit-and-run incident that took place Saturday morning, with a pedestrian hit while walking in a crosswalk at Fifth and K streets near Old Town. According to a news release, the department received a call that a vehicle matching the description of the one…
Music Tonight: Sunday, March 5
Fiesta Folklórica is featuring its final matinee gig (for this cycle) at Gist Hall today at 2 p.m. A presentation of Cal Poly Humboldt’s Ballet Folklórica, Danza Azteca and Mariachi de Humboldt, today’s family-friendly performances come with a forecast of vibrant dance, music and clothing from various folk traditions around Mexico ($10, $5 children). On…
EPD Investigating Fatal Hit and Run
The Eureka Police Department is investigating a fatal hit and run crash that occurred shortly before 7 a.m. today at the intersection of Fifth and K streets, between the county jail and city hall. According to an EPD press release, someone called 911 to report someone lying in the roadway there visibly injured with no…
NCJ Preview: Snow and Hot Pierogi
How about this weather? This week we’re looking back at a wild week of snow around the county, how it affected roads and safety, as well as the beautiful photos our readers took to capture the scene. Then we’re warming up with a story about a food stand bringing Polish potato dumplings to Humboldt. Hit…
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 4
Tonight is the second and final night of the residency of the saxophone quartet (plus drums) group The Tiptons over at the Arcata Playhouse. 8 p.m. ($25). This all-female band of brass honkers (plus drums) is, from what I can tell based on its online content, a delight, and certain to be an enjoyable evening…
Another Round of Winter Weather, Snow Heading This Way
The National Weather Service’s Eureka office is cautioning that heavy snowfall of “at or above 1 inch per hour” is forecast to begin coming down on mountain roads and highway passes late tonight into tomorrow in Del Norte and Humboldt counties. Meanwhile, coastal areas might once again get a dusting, with a winter weather advisory…
Eureka to Host Mental Health Town Hall
The city of Eureka and Humboldt County Behavior Health will host the first in what’s aimed to be a quarterly series of town hall meetings focused on community health Saturday from 2 to 4:30 p.m. at Eureka City Hall, 531 K St. Topics for the series will revolve around mental health, substance abuse and homelessness…
Rose Joy Crutchfield Sundberg: 1932-2023
Rose Joy Crutchfield Sundberg peacefully returned to her Creator on Feb. 25, 2023, at the age of 90. She was surrounded by family that loves her deeply. She was born March 25, 1932, at Yah-ter he-wan on the Klamath River, the third of five children, to Lila and Edward Crutchfield. She grew up in Blue…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 3
It’s the opening night of the Eureka Symphony’s “Sounds of Spring” program. Tonight and tomorrow night at 8 p.m. over at the Arkley Center for the Performing Arts, you can catch our county’s finest unfurling a program featuring works by Sibelius, Mendelssohn and the contemporary American composer Michael Kibbe, whose son Peter will be center…
NCJ’s Stansberry Nabs Local Journalism Award
The Journal’s Linda Stansberry has won the Humboldt Journalism Project’s 40th Award for her Nov. 17 cover story “Profit and Pain,” which detailed how the owner of local nursing homes raked in profits while understaffing facilities and providing substandard care. “This was an ambitious project that cast light on a problem that had gone largely…
Habitat for Humanity to Help Quake Victims Rebuild
The county of Humboldt and Habitat for Humanity Yuba/Sutter have formalized an agreement for the organization to help local residents make repairs to homes badly damaged in the Dec. 20 quake and Jan. 1 aftershock. According to a news release, the county, city of Rio Dell and the state Office of Emergency Services have been…
Re: Ferndale and Drag
Editor: It seems unproductive to respond to the same old, tired, hateful rhetoric that was repeated in the letters from a number of people in your Feb. 23 issue. So rather than respond to them specifically, I would like to address this letter to the greater community. As a straight, cis person, I support our…
Samoa Smelter Scam?
A memo from the Environmental Protection Agency dated Aug. 18, 2003, stating that clean-up work at a 3-acre Superfund Site on the Hoopa Reservation was complete, included this curious phrase: “The ore concentrates were trucked off-site for further processing.” It’s curious because, having listed contaminants resulting from two years of work extracting copper and zinc…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): In 1993, I began work on my memoirish novel The Televisionary Oracle. It took me seven years to finish. The early part of the process was tough. I generated a lot of material I didn’t like. Then one day, I discovered an approach that liberated me: I wrote about aspects of…
Snow Dreams, Travel Nightmares
When much of Humboldt awoke Feb. 23 under a blanket of fluffy, white snow the fun was palpable. Snowfriends popped up in yards from Trinidad to Southern Humboldt, while snowballs flew hither and thither. In McKinleyville, a half dozen or so kids dusted off their sleds and headed to Pierson Park, where they spent the…
NorCal Superintendents Go to Washington
At the beginning of February, a small group of school officials from Humboldt, Del Norte and Trinity counties traveled to Washington, D.C., with the aim of educating members of Congress about the unique challenges facing rural districts and the communities they serve. Leading the charge was Jamie Green, who grew up in Humboldt County and…
Stormageddon
In the first act of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, when a violent storm is destroying a ship before leaving its occupants stranded on Prospero’s island, the lowly Boatswain marvels at the power of Mother Nature, noting how humankind’s world of hierarchy and political intrigue is nothing compared to her fury: “What cares these roarers for the…
No Skinny Pierogi
The lineage of the pierogi, a deceptively simple boiled dumpling filled mainly with mashed potato, is murky and contentious, with Poland, Russia, Ukraine and others laying claim. There’s Europe’s Middle Ages introduction to Chinese dumplings along the Silk Road, the arrival of potatoes from the Americas and the first appearance of pierogi in a Polish…
First Saturday Night Arts Alive
Eureka Main Street presents First Saturday Night Arts Alive on March 4 from 6 to 9 p.m. Our galleries, museums, theaters, bars and restaurants are open late for your enjoyment. ART CENTER FRAME SHOP 616 Second St. Lauren Lester, watercolor landscapes and portraits. ART CENTER SPACE 620 Second St. More than 75 local artists. BLACK…
Snow Much Fun
The once-in-a-lifetime snowfall that hit Humboldt County last week did not go undocumented. Journal readers sent us photos of blanketed backyards, snow-heavy redwood boughs and the dusted dunes. High elevations are still winter wonderlands but down at sea level, even the last lumps of former snowmen have melted away. Enjoy a few highlights of the…
Limited Options for Weekend Steelhead Anglers
For those of you who aren’t yet ready to throw in the towel on this year’s steelhead season, you’ll have limited angling options this weekend. If you’re wanting to head north, you’ll likely run into low and clear conditions. Both the Smith and Chetco did see a rise in flows the past couple days, but…
Re: The System
Editor: Thanks to Elaine Weinreb for reminding readers of Elk River’s recent history (“The Whole System is Broken,” Feb. 16). What she describes is the latest stage of a process which years ago the EPA called “analysis paralysis” — while unsustainable logging continues, our watershed has been studied to death. The system isn’t really broken. What…
Re: CPH
Editor: A recent Journal article stated that Cal Poly Humboldt›s plans for student housing «include construction of two brand-new housing complexes … as well as the addition of two multi-story parking garages.” But parking garages are not student housing. In fact, parking takes up extremely valuable space that could be devoted to housing instead. A typical parking…
