Tacos y Vacunas
Eureka nonprofit works to ensure Latinx residents are comfortable getting vaccinated
Live Classical Music with Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival
Now that you’re vaccinated, is taking in a live classical concert at the top of your Liszt? You’re in luck! Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival returns to the Trinity Alps Performing Arts Center in Weaverville on Saturday, July 31 at 7:30 p.m. (donation) for an evening of musical delights from festival director Ian Scarfe, who…
KMUD Summer Movie Night
An outdoor movie night under the stars awaits you in Redway at the KMUD Summer Movie Night, Friday, July 30 at 6 p.m. Bring a blanket and lawn chair and enjoy family-friendly silent short films by Charlie Chaplin before the feature film, A Spark in Nothing, by local filmmaker Griffin Lock. Lock will host a Q and…
HumCo Confirms 21 New COVID Cases, Tops 5,000
Humboldt County’s COVID-19 case count has topped 5,000 cases as Public Health confirmed 21 new COVID cases today, bringing the countywide total to 5,010. Today’s positive cases come after laboratories processed 342 samples. According to a state database, 15 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including four under intensive care. Days after Humboldt County…
Kokatat Paddling Apparel Under New Ownership
After 50 years of owning Kokatat, Steve O’Meara has sold the Arcata-based paddling sports apparel and gear company to its Director of Operations Mark Loughmiller. “Before joining Kokatat, Mark was a local businessman and I’m pleased to be entrusting the company that means so much to me and our employees into his hands,” said O’Meara in…
CDC Recommends Humboldt County Mask Up Due to High COVID Transmission Rates
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control issued new guidance yesterday recommending that everyone — regardless of vaccination status — resume wearing masks in public, indoor spaces in areas with “high” or “substantial” rates of COVID-19 transmission, which includes Humboldt County. While cases of severe illness, hospitalization and death in fully vaccinated individuals remain very rare,…
Teresa ‘Mo’ Wold: 1962-2021
Teresa ‘Mo’ Wold left a lasting impression with all who knew her. Her big personality lit up a room when she entered, the world will be a darker place without her and she will be forever missed. A Humboldt County Fog Dogs celebration of life will be held Aug. 7, with a memorial group ride…
Public Health Confirms 18 New COVID Cases, One Hospitalization
Humboldt County Public Health has confirmed 18 new COVID-19 cases and one new hospitalization of a person in their 60s, bringing the countywide total to 4,989. Today’s results come after laboratories processed 62 samples. According to a state database, 16 people are currently hospitalized with COVID-19 locally, including four under intensive care. In a press…
Two Correctional Officers Injured, One Seriously, in Jail Assault
Two Humboldt County correctional deputies were injured, one seriously, during an assault inside the jail. According to a press release, the two officers had been escorting 29-year-old Keith Tamas Vroman-Nagy to a secure location when he became combative and allegedly attacked the deputies using a sharpened pencil. One officer sustained minor injuries while the other sustained…
San Jose State Football Team Heading Back to Humboldt
The San Jose State University football team is heading back to Humboldt to prepare for the upcoming season. According to a Humboldt State University news release, all of the athletes, staff and coaches are fully vaccinated and will follow “general safety practices” while living and practicing on campus. The team is slated to arrive tomorrow…
CSU to Require COVID-19 Vax for Fall
The Calfiornia State University system, which includes Humboldt State, will require faculty, staff and students who are accessing campuses to be vaccinated for COVID-19. Back in February, HSU announced the campus and others in the system would implement the requirement once the FDA granted full approval to one or more of the three current options,…
Sheriff’s Office Investigating Eel River Drowning
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a 57-year-old man who drowned in the Eel River near Holmes Flat yesterday afternoon. According to a witness, the man was swept under by the river’s current while swimming and failed to resurface, a sheriff’s office press release states. Sheriff’s deputies and multiple agencies were…
Winning in Walk-off Style
The Crabs have kept their win streak going with extra inning antics and big time at-bats from up and down the lineup. The team started off the week hosting the Redding Tigers once again at Arcata Ballpark for a two-game set. After sweeping the Tigers during their first trip to Humboldt, the Crabs looked set…
Public Health Confirms 74 New COVID-19 Cases Since Friday, Three New Hospitalizations
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that it has confirmed 74 new COVID-19 cases and three new hospitalizations since Friday. Today’s cases — which follow 169 confirmed last week and 84 confirmed the week before — come after laboratories processed 764 samples with a test-positivity rate of 9.7 percent. According to a state database, 15…
Arcata Woman Drowns in Trinity River
A 22-year-old Arcata woman drowned July 23, reportedly after being swept into the current of the Trinity River near Kimtu Beach. Humboldt County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the area at 6:18 p.m. for a report of a possible drowning. The woman was recovered and CPR administered but efforts to revive her were unsuccessful. “Residents…
NCJ Preview: Vax Efforts as COVID-19 Spreads and Restaurant Transformations
Humboldt’s COVID-19 numbers are climbing. We’re talking about how vaccination, the Delta variant are impacting people in our county. On a hopeful note, we’ve got a cover story on vaccination fairs and True North’s efforts to reach out to the local Latinx community, sometimes one person at a time. And we’ve got the story of…
County Recommends Masking in All Indoor Public Spaces
Humboldt County Public Health is recommending that everyone once again mask in public, indoor spaces amid a rise in spread of the Delta variant. Humboldt now joins 25 other California counties in making the recommendation, while Los Angeles County has gone a step further and re-imposed its mask mandate as it faces renewed concerns about…
Public Health Confirms 44 New COVID-19 Cases, Capping County’s Worst Week Since January
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 44 new COVID-19 cases today — making 169 for the week, the highest weekly tally since late January and a more than doubling of last week’s total of 84. It’s the highest single-day total since mid-May. One new hospitalization was also reported today and, according to a state database, 13…
Public Health Warns of Toxic Blue-Green Algae in Local Rivers
Humboldt County Public Health officials are reminding local residents to be on the lookout for harmful algal blooms after a person fell ill after spending time in the South Fork Eel River north of Weott and a dog reportedly died after algae exposure on the Trinity River east of Willow Creek. The state is currently…
Matthew Evan Yadley: 1967-2021
Experimental chef and co-owner of Hurricane Kate’s restaurant in Old Town Eureka (he once created a satiric menu for an imaginary restaurant called Pilfer’s); X-ray technician in Eugene, Oregon; self-proclaimed gonzo philosopher — in the tradition of Hunter S. Thompson — and social critic; artist; fire juggler and knife thrower; practitioner of yoga. All these…
Drive-in Movie Fun at Redwood Acres
Big Picture Movies presents The Majestic (2001) on Saturday, July 24 at 9 p.m. (gates at 7:45 p.m.) in the big lot across from Redwood Acres Fairgrounds. Filmed in Ferndale and other local spots, the Jim Carey/Martin Landau historical drama/romance is a sweet story about mistaken identity in a small town in 1951. There are…
Get Your Motor Runnin’
It’s summer and Fortuna does not know how to slow its roll. On the heels of a wild week of rodeo comes the 30th annual Fortuna Redwood AutoXpo, getting its shine on this weekend, July 23-25. The massive motor event is three days of vintage and classic cars, trucks and tractors, plus a burnout contest, show…
HumCo Confirms 29 New COVID-19 Cases as Test-Positivity Rate Continues Upward Trend
Humboldt County Public Health confirmed 29 new COVID-19 cases today — making 125 so far this week. Today’s cases — which come after the county confirmed 84 new cases last week amid a recent surge in virus activity — were confirmed after laboratories processed 186 samples with a test positivity rate of 15.6 percent. Statewide,…
Hoffman Warns Delta Variant is Infecting the Fully Vaccinated
Humboldt County Health Officer Ian Hoffman said during a press conference yesterday the highly contagious COVID-19 Delta variant is circulating in Humboldt County, warning there’s growing evidence it can spread among fully vaccinated individuals. Indications that the variant can be transmitted by fully vaccinated people is reason for pause, Hoffman said, as data indicated previous…
‘A Pandemic of the Unvaccinated’
Mirroring a statewide trend, Humboldt County’s COVID-19 case counts are lurching upward, fueled almost entirely by the new Delta variant’s circulation in unvaccinated populations a month after the state lifted almost all of the restrictions aimed at curbing the virus’ spread. Statewide, California recorded a daily average of six new confirmed COVID-19 cases per 100,000…
Living on a Thin Line
I’m a little confused lately and I’m not the only one. Now that things have opened up again, and I did my civic duty and got the jab, what’s the plan? I find myself oscillating between going maskless and fancy-free until I read something about the Delta variant and go back to covering up for…
Relocation and Reinvention
Gallagher’s makes a move Kelly Erben is about to start a seating, serving and dishwashing shift at Gallagher’s Irish Pub and Restaurant, as she has for 16 years, “the last original staffer,” as she says, and owner since 2017. But she’s not heading through the corner-facing glass double doors of the Historic Eagle House, built…
Parsing the Witch Hunt
Humboldt author Doug Ingold’s new novel There Came a Contagion lays out a dystopic vision of a countryside gripped by drought and famine, where frightened people seek scapegoats. Religious and civic leaders rise to prominence by mastering the articulation and gradual augmenting of that fear, assigning blame to outsiders in ways that dovetail with extant…
Of Basketball and Role Models
The first time I met Jain Tuey, she was starting her freshman year at Fortuna High School, where I was teaching. After work, I ran into her dad Skip at Safeway and we chatted. The whole time, Jain was holding a basketball against her hip, impatient and glaring at me in her T-shirt and sweatpants.…
Ocean Salmon Season Showing Signs of Life
Well, it looks like the salmon season on the North Coast has a pulse after all. After the first three weeks of the season produced very little, especially out of Eureka, salmon are finally starting to show up. The hot spot has been right out front of Trinidad. “It’s been like this off and on…
Hybrid Hits
REVIEWS WEREWOLVES WITHIN. Surprise or not, I don’t know a whole helluva lot about video games. I’ve dabbled but that particular swath of popular culture is, by and large, foreign to me. So it brought on some trepidation when, before the title card was even revealed, Werewolves Within opened with a Ubisoft logo. (I know…
Summer Fun for Kids
Summer’s finally here, school’s out and kids are at home … again. The days are now as long as they’re going to get and all that evening light is exciting, especially with restaurants and events opening up. But maybe after more than a year of staying in, summer vacation isn’t quite the novelty it might…
‘A Moral Choice’
Editor: I’m grateful to the Journal for running the various stories about why people chose to get the COVID-19 vaccine (“Vaccine Stories,” July 15), and especially for the two essays by Journal staffers (“Across Miles and Borders”). I am far less able to see the “fine people on both sides” (“Across Dueling Realities”). Exactly as…
In the Middle of Somewhere
For millennia, a formidable rock outcrop has stood tall in the middle of somewhere out in the forests of Humboldt County. The lonely boulder has outlived the comings and goings of busy humans for countless generations. How many names has this massive butte been given by ephemeral humanity in its lifetime? I suspect more than…
Tacos y Vacunas
More than most, Loleta resident Yohana Castillo, 36, has experienced unexpected and tremendous loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past eight months, she has lost four people. First her cousin, Esteban Gonzalez, of Esteban’s Mexican restaurant in Arcata, died of complications from the disease. Then another cousin, followed by a distant family member…
Give Us This Day
Youch! The milk cried, You are scalding me! It’s OK, the teaspoon said Stirring the milk gently The yeast was nervous There in the curve of the bowl The salt remained salty The flour simply inert Oh! What you don’t know, dough! You are about to come alive! Then it all came together Liquid, flour,…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Author Valerie Andrews reminds us that as children, we all had the “magical capacity to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of…
