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Summer of Fun 2014
Many of these activities require pre-registration and scholarships may be available – call for details. General & Multi Activities 4-H SUMMER CAMP. Activities include tie-dying, zip lining, archery, swimming pool w/slide, team games, arts and crafts, s’mores, ice cream social and much more. Theme: Splash Zone. Where: Triumphant Life Camp (TLC). When: Sat., June 28…
Summer Festival Guide 2014
It might still officially be spring, but the summer fest season has arrived and it’s time to slather on the sunscreen and get ready for dancing in the streets. We offer you a look at the best music festivals, local and in greater Northern California, starting with one coming up this weekend. The Fourth Humboldt…
Klamath in Congress
UPDATE: In a statement released today, May 22, Congressman Jared Huffman calls the senators’ new Klamath bill “a milestone toward an historic effort to revive California’s ailing salmon stocks, improve water quality and build economic resilience” and says it “provides a framework for ending decades of conflict through the biggest dam removal project in the…
Biologist Gets 10 Months for Yurok Grift
A judge today sentenced a local biologist to serve 10 months in prison for his role in conspiring to embezzle nearly $1 million in federal funds from the Yurok Tribe over a three-year period beginning in 2007, according to Yurok Tribal Chairman Thomas O’Rourke. Mad River Biologists founder Ron LeValley pleaded guilty in February to…
Tonight’s Setlist: Alt-Pop Power and Some Reggae
Flagstaff’s Greco sounds like something from 1980s Britain, delivering a sound somewhere between old new wave and retro Euro pop. Joining Greco at the Jambalaya are A-town’s mega-poppers The Wild Lungs, plus Arcata grinders Gout. Doors at 9 p.m., music at 10 p.m., cover is $5 and this good time is limited to those aged…
‘Does that Mean Trails are Back?’
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously this afternoon to put language in the General Plan Update’s Conservation and Open Space element supporting the creation of a “regional trail system.” Today’s meeting kicked off on an unusual note, as 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg cued up his cell phone’s speakerphone and played a voice…
Tonight’s Setlist: Celebrate Good Times, Come On
First, please note the return of the Humboldt Arts Festival! The fest brings even more art and cool to the Creamery District all weekend long. Oh, yes. Let’s get our party on with Soul Night XXXI: The Vibe Doctor is Out. The purveyors of Humboldt’s most successful dance event characterize graduation weekend as “the time where…
“Turn up” at the Rutabaga Ball
Get ready to trip the light kinetic. Memorial Day weekend is just around the corner and Humboldtians know what that means: The Kinetic Grand Championship! Before the peddling and paddling starts, though, Humboldt needs a new Rutabaga Queen. Someone has to reign over the wacky proceedings and it can’t just be anybody. The Rutabaga Ball is Saturday, May…
Paddle Up
Up a creek lately? Humboldt State University’s Center Activities has got your paddle. Sundays from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Humboldt Bay Aquatic Center, grab a few of your nearest and dearest for Family Fun Day Paddles ($20, free for kids under 18, 50 pound minimum). Choose a kayak and let folks at…
Squee! thing (Or, Leave the Babies Be!)
Look at this little guy all nestled down in the grass like we can’t see him! We were hiking through the hills outside of Ettersburg when we almost stepped on him, he was so still and quiet. He’s not going to move until his mom comes back. The doe pushed him down into the grass…
Open Lighthouse
Head out to Trinidad Head today for a rare public glimpse of the Trinidad Lighthouse — a treat for people who love lighthouses and/or hate crashing into rocks. The lighthouse is changing hands — the Coast Guard is transferring the property to the Bureau of Land Management — with a ceremony today featuring docent-guided tours…
Sit Crisscross Applesauce! It’s Storytime!
Remember that book that always ignited your imagination when you were a child? Remember the fascinating illustrations? You know, that book that made bedtime something to look forward to. Maybe it was the beginning of your love for books, or maybe it sparked the storyteller inside of you. It’s time to celebrate that book and…
Tonight’s Setlist: Friday I’m In Love
Life is glorious. With a little help from friends Let’s start off with “Waiting For A Miracle: A Benefit for Steve Watts,” which takes place at Humboldt Brews starting at 6 p.m. Watts, a local musician and cofounder of the music production company Passion Presents, was badly injured in an MMA fight last month. His…
Nonstop Party
How good are you at multi-tasking? Because a lot is happening at once at the Humboldt Arts Festival over in Arcata’s Creamery District (Eighth and L streets) on Saturday, May 17 and Sunday, May 18. The newly resurrected art, music and dance spectacle is packed to the rafters with stages and performers. Try to keep…
Prosecutors Weighing Death Penalty in Murder Case
The Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office is still in the process of deciding whether to pursue the death penalty against a 22-year-old man accused of brutally stabbing a man to death in a wooded area outside of McKinleyville last year. Police arrested Michael Raymond Youravish June 19, 2013, hours after finding the body of Forrest…
Release Reform
Editor: There may be a tradeoff between the shredding of the constitutional rights of inmates at the county jail and the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens to be protected from potential predatory criminals (“You Can Now Stay In Jail Until Dawn,” May 8). Prisoners released in the middle of the night may commit grand theft…
Vote for this Supervisor…
Editor: The first time I attended a Eureka City Council meeting and chose to make a three-minute public statement, I was very pleasantly surprised. Wow! This Northern California town we had moved to had an amazing mayor. She was polite, respectful, professional and extremely courteous, treating everyone exactly the same. She was very patient with…
And For This DA…
Editor: What management principles apply to being DA? Know and commit to the mission. Corporate managers maximize wealth. The DA serves the people. The justice system is about process and people, not profit. Maggie Fleming understands this. She respects the competing rights of victims, defendants and the public. For 20 years Maggie has proven her…
Some Assembly Required
Editor: John Lowry has the ability to draw support from “both sides of the aisle.” He has many years of experience as chief executive officer of Burbank Housing. This role brought him into contact with city, county and state government officials in efforts to provide rental and owner-occupied housing to lower income seniors and families…
The Road Not (Yet) Taken
In case you hadn’t noticed, there’s a veritable tsunami of public-access improvements sweeping Humboldt County: the Arcata Ridge, Humboldt Bay and Hikshari’ trails; the McKay Tract; the Eel River Estuary Preserve — wait, the what? The delta of the Eel River, extending from Table Bluff to Loleta, Fernbridge and Centerville, is a subtly beautiful agricultural…
Hooters and Computers
Hey McGuinty! My husband recently moved out of the area for work, leaving me and our 1-year-old here for a few months until we find housing. I work full time and when I’m home I’m a full time mom, waking up at night to a crying baby, cooking, changing diapers and so on. I don’t even remember…
Passages
Humboldt State’s graduation weekend manifests itself in many ways. Students exhale as the final assignment is turned in and the world crowns them official adults. Parents rejoice in their children’s accomplishments and start worrying about what’s next. Arcata residents grumble at the weekend’s increased chaos and look forward to summer’s lessened population. Inspiring words pop…
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night
Third Friday McKinleyville Arts Night is presented by members of the McKinleyville business community and is open for all McKinleyville businesses to display the work of local artists. Receptions for artists, exhibits and/or performances are from 6-8 p.m. on the third Friday of each month. Call (707) 834-6460 or visit www.mckinleyvilleartsnight.com for more information. 1)…
Not Fade Away
Reviews FADING GIGOLO. As an actor, John Turturro is possessed with a kind of vibratory, coiled-spring nervousness that makes his most memorable performances indelible and uniquely his. The Coen brothers have a particular talent for drawing out his unease, and some of the characters he has played for them are, as a result, immortal. I’m…
Taken Off the Endangered List
The horse does not go into the forest with us (She remembers the long days of the long hunt) (The spear in flank and bloody meat roasting on sticks) The horses skirt the edges around The pack moving sure-footed on moss floor Ten by ten by ten by three The pack is gathering shrouded by…
Humlandia
Our hearty rhododendrons lack the delicate grace of Portland’s famed roses; Eureka’s bridges are fewer in number — and much less spectacular — than the spans that etch the skies of the Rose City. Portland’s Mount Hood offers killer skiing an hour away from downtown; our nearest source of powder is Mount Shasta, a four-hour…
That Juice Tax
It’s been seven months since Arcata’s excessive electricity tax went into effect, and the threat to residential growers’ bottom lines seems to have sent most of them packing. The results are drastic. In the year or so between city residents’ approval of the tax and implementation, the number of houses using “excessive” energy dropped from…
The Escalation of ‘Wild Bill’
It was about 2:45 p.m. on May 6, when a Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputy and a sergeant arrived at a residence on Shelter Cove’s Kelly Road, where 55-year-old William Lloyd Nelson was living. Several weeks earlier, Nelson’s girlfriend of 15 years, and the mother of his son, filed a request for a domestic violence restraining…
