Cover Story
Swept
Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series looking back at the May 2, 2016, clearing of homeless encampments from the PalCo Marsh. Part one is “Prelude to a Sweep.” For a brief guide to the key players involved in this story and the thousands of documents that made it possible, click here. The problem…
EPD Chief Mills Accepts Post in Santa Cruz
Eureka Police Chief Andrew Mills has accepted a job offer from the city of Santa Cruz and, pending a background investigation, will be leaving after three and a half years on the job here. Reached this evening, Mills said the change is bittersweet and comes for a mixture of personal and professional reasons. Personally, he…
Up and Down Old Town with Officer Crnich
Eureka Police officer Cory Crnich’s beat stretches from Eureka’s Fourth Street north to the bay, from East Commercial Street to the library. Being the Old Town officer is a specialty position, one Crnich applied and reapplied for. He took the job in May of 2016, one week after the PalCo Marsh eviction. There’s no pay…
Music Tonight – Tuesday, June 6
Local bass shredder Dan “Wookie” Davis will be tearing it up with his roots metal band War Möth this evening at The Siren’s Song Tavern at 7 p.m. They’re hard at work on their debut album, and even though this is a free show, feel free to drop a few quid into the tip jar…
Martinis By The Bay
Martinis By The Bay, Rotary Club of Southwest Eureka’s annual fundraiser, features the best mixologists on the North Coast shaking or stirring their finest concoctions for your sipping pleasure Thursday, June 8 from 5-7 p.m. at the Wharfinger Building ($35 for a quintet of tastes). How do you like them apple Martinis?
Eureka Council Slated to Talk Wards, Budget, Recreational Pot
The Eureka City Council will take a first look at the 2017-2018 budget on Tuesday and examine possible customized approaches to the recent legalization of recreational marijuana rather than having the state’s default regulations apply inside city limits. But before tacking those weighty items, the council will discuss ward redistricting during a 4:30 p.m. special…
Music Tonight – Sunday, June 4
The 41st annual Summer Arts & Music Festival continues along its merry way, as does the International Katarzyna Mycka Marimba Academy Concert Series (let’s just call it IKMMA from now on all right?) which has its performance at HSU’s Van Duzer Theater at 7 p.m. with some solo and chamber works for $15 and I…
Mussel Bound
Put away your clam diggers — domoic acid has put the local clam digging party on hold and mid-calf pants are hard to pull off anyway. But this is not to say shellfish is off the table. In fact, let’s take a moment to appreciate the other mollusks that are so often overshadowed by our…
Music Tonight – Saturday, June 3
It’s the 41st annual Summer Arts and Music Festival happening at Redway’s Mateel Community Center hosting more than 70 “of the best local and regional bands, dance troupes and children’s entertainers.” I don’t have the word count — or mental capacity — to list all the artists on the bill, but scroll the list, which…
A Band of Neighbors Successfully Sues the Squireses
Residents along a stretch of G Street say they had one main goal in mind when they grouped together to take Eureka’s most notorious landlords to court: They wanted their neighborhood back. Conditions at two buildings on the street owned by Floyd and Betty Squires had continued to deteriorate, becoming magnets for drug activity and…
EPD Pitches Homeless Day Center
A recent entry by Eureka Police Department Chief Andrew Mills on the EPD blog addresses the issue of people loitering around the St. Vincent de Paul dining facilty at Third and Commercial streets. Local business owners have complained about an increase in vandalism, drug use and camping in the area. EPD data obtained by the…
Music Tonight – Friday, June 2
The funky and fiery jazz improv of Ultra Secret is on tap at 6 p.m. at the Mad River Brewery Tap Room. Sip on some John Barleycorn while the band weaves in and out of its jams. It’s a free show — as all MRB shows are — but feel free to show the band…
Good Vibrations
Marimba One, the Arcata-based producer of world-class marimbas, vibraphones and mallets, is joining Humboldt State University in sponsoring the International Katarzyna Mycka Marimba Festival, happening June 2-11. Hosted by artistic director and Polish marimba virtuoso Katarzyna Mycka, it’s the first time the IKMMA is being held outside of Europe. And lucky for us! Humboldt is…
Key Players and Their Emails (A Companion to This Week’s Cover Story)
This week’s cover story, “Swept,” takes a deep dive into the Eureka city government’s collective thought process as it planned to clear the PalCo Marsh of homeless encampments over the course of more than a year, culminating in the May 2, 2016 sweep that resulted in the relocation of more than 100 homeless people. To…
Music Tonight – Thursday, June 1
You’ve got some folky options to get your weekend started off early. The Mad River Brewery Tap room has Fingal returning with its fiddle-based tunes starting off around 6 p.m. for this free gig. Feel free to bring the kids out to this one and maybe leave your dog at home, unless it drinks beer.…
North Coast Open Studios
Art lovers, you’ve got two weekends to see what goes on behind closed studio doors during North Coast Open Studios happening countywide June 3-4 and June 10-11 from 10 a.m.to 5 p.m. (free). Meet artists and tour studios. Preview the work on Art Night Friday, June 2 from 6 to 9 p.m. Check out the…
Hay, Neigh-bor
Has it been a year since we kicked the mud off our boots and polished our belt buckles for the parade down Central? Reckon so. McKinleyville, the town “where horses have the right of way,” is rearing up to deliver five days of fun during Pony Express Days, happening May 31-June 4. The small-town celebration…
Open Season
When you visit a studio or a shared exhibition space, you’re often able to interact directly with the artist. The resultant possibilities abound. You might meet an established artist you’ve admired or meet an emerging talent. You could get dibs on new pieces before they appear in local galleries or see the workspace where the…
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, 6-9 p.m.. For more information, phone Eureka Main Street at 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront Drive Barbara Saul, paintings. Paul Rickard, artwork. Danielle Carson, paintings. ARKLEY CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS 412…
Trinidad Art Nights
Upper Trinidad: SIMMON’S GALLERY 380 Janis Court (Trinidad Coastal Land Trust) “Camel Rock According To” Marvin Trump, paintings. Music by The Pilot Rock Ramblers. TRINIDAD MUSEUM 400 Janis Court (next to library) Selvert Theodore Johnson (1873-1933), photography. TRINIDAD TRADING COMPANY 460 Main St. David Struthers, photography. Music by John Nelson. WIND N SEA 410 Main…
Bay Trail Update
It’s been a long time coming but, just recently, there is great momentum building for the completion of the Humboldt Bay Trail. When complete, this 13-mile section of the California Coastal Trail will run from south Eureka to Arcata along the bay, connecting our two largest population centers with a paved, multimodal path. It will…
Follow the Money
While hitting the bong might make it harder for you to remember where you put your keys, it may make it easier for grandma to find hers, according to a new study. The study, published in the journal Nature Medicine, found that the psychoactive compound in marijuana, THC, may reverse brain aging and restore learning…
Measuring our Lives
Hodgepodge. Mishmash. Dog’s breakfast. How else to describe the many and various systems we blithely use to measure everything from time to gasoline to dress sizes to Starbuck’s coffee? We divide our pounds into sixteenths, pizzas into eighths, dollars into hundredths, hours into sixtieths, weeks into sevenths, whiskey into fifths, days into twenty-fourths (but clocks…
Swim at Your Own Risk
Reviews BAYWATCH. Who, really, is to blame when something terrible like this happens? And I say “to blame” rather than “responsible” because there are a great number of responsible parties, from grips to craft services, who share in the responsibility of bringing a movie to the screen. And despite their pivotal role in the collaborative…
Winning Your Attention
Have we ever looked more critically at the news? You can’t throw a crumpled up newspaper without hitting a think piece on journalism as an instrument of propaganda or the last defense of the republic. Or both. Everybody and their cousin has an opinion on the impact of fake news, bias and click bait —…
Miscounted
Editor: The recent article about the Point in Time count of homeless in Humboldt County appears to show it has very inaccurate numbers (“No Homeless People in Southern Humboldt?” posted May 19). I appreciate Linda Stansberry delving into the count and the issues surrounding. There were fewer volunteers doing the count, the count was delayed a month, it was bad…
Southern Humboldt Visitor Guide 2017
In Southern Humboldt County, the tips of the tallest trees on earth reach for the sky and often find the sunshine. From the Avenue of the Giants to the Southern Humboldt border, ancient redwoods define the landscape and create a magical environment all their own. This is your guide to Southern Humboldt. The Rivers and…
Costs Over People
Editor: The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has reviewed the latest version of the AHCA (Trumpcare) and forecasts the number of newly uninsured in 2026 will now be 23 million people as opposed to the 24 million forecast for the previous version (“Huffman, Humboldt Residents Decry House Passage of ‘TrumpCare,'” posted May 4). The administration’s budget…
Let it Burn
The challenge for the fifth Klamath Fire Ecology Symposium in Orleans was to leverage changes in national and state fire policy to allow for more prescribed fire and managed wildfires at opportune times in an era that sees wildfires grow harder to control every season. It is a big claim that a little conference in…
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Editor: I have myriad photos in reply to the “natives only” landscaping argument (“The Butterfly Effect,” April 20). Though we enjoy native plants (generally they require less work) I think we do a disservice to think that our animal neighbors cannot thrive in our non-native introductions and structures, as long as the plants are not…
Blossoms
Orchard buzzing As Spring arrives: Lust driven, Groin hurling, Wanton desire, Flying nowhere In particular. Love is in the air!
Duped Supes
Editor: Patrik Griego has sued Humboldt County over the hiring of David Marcus as Chief Public Defender. A visiting judge is scheduled to hear the county’s motion to dismiss the suit on June 30 (“An Artificial Legal Controversy,” May 25). The county claims that the suit is “frivolous and baseless” and that the dispute is “purely…
Rock Rock
Where did “Southern Rock” come from? The easiest answer is “The South” but you already knew that. Things get a bit more complicated after that. With a measure of the blues (from the South), early rock ‘n’ roll (built off the simplicity of the blues) and country music, Southern Rock has mutated and changed over…
Holed Up
I’ve got a lot of feelings about bagels. They came home in paper bags on my mother’s commute home from New York City: glossy pumpernickel, onion, poppy. When she moved to the city, we got them hot at Tal Bagels, the shop around the corner. In college she sent them to me FedEx in California…
HumBug: Still in the Dark
Going out late at night allows me to see things many people might prefer not to. Lately, I’ve discovered several dwellers in the dark of which I was unaware. What appeared to be several good sized caterpillars munching on wild honeysuckle turned out to not be future moths at all, but sawfly larvae. Closely allied with…
The Summer Arts and Music Festival
The Summer Arts and Music Festival at Benbow Lake State Recreation Area on Saturday, June 3 and Sunday, June 4 packs an entire summer of festivals into two glorious days. Enjoy the four stages of global and local music and dance, crafts, food and info booths, and activities for all ages from 9:30 a.m. to…
