Teacher’s Prep
Knuckling down for a hectic nine months as the school year starts
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Teacher’s Prep — Knuckling down for a hectic nine months as the school year starts
Whether welcomed or dreaded, the inevitable return to school arrives next week for thousands of elementary, middle and high school students in Humboldt County. As they approach their first day of class, many kindergarteners and students graduating to middle or high school will surely be anxious about fitting in and finding the bathrooms. For older…
Age of Majority
The comment I heard most frequently regarding last week’s pot cover was regarding the timing: "What if you were a parent dropping your student off to start school at HSU?" Well, I’ve actually had some experience along those lines. My husband and I have successfully navigated the minefield of raising three children to adulthood right…
Karuk Leader Arrested
On Monday evening, the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department arrested Karuk Tribe Vice Chairman Leaf Grant Hillman in Happy Camp. The previous Friday, Aug. 17, the Siskiyou County District Attorney’s office had filed a felony domestic violence charge against Hillman. Siskiyou County D.A. Kirk Andrus said Hillman, who lives in Orleans, is charged with one count…
Toy Test
It’s enough to make you want to rip off all your clothes and just run around nekked. And to tell your kids they can play only with … air — or, safer yet, only make-believe friends. We’re talking about poison clothes and toys. There’s the latest toy recall, this time by Mattel, of millions of…
Hard Rain
We sit at our desk, pushing around the scraps of paper that have accumulated here. We read them like tea leaves. And we have no way of saying for certain, but the strongest theory that arises is that the Houston-based Maxxam Corp., whose local affiliate, the once-proud Pacific Lumber Co., which has been in bankruptcy…
Art at a Lumberyard?
One result of the popularity of Arts Alive!-type events is that every business in town wants to get in on the picture (if you’ll pardon the pun). I’m certainly an advocate for art in the county, but I question the value of this. Not every business is a good venue for art and the people…
The Road to Digging Dog
A couple of weeks ago, I took the long way home from the Bay Area and drove through Mendocino. Before I left, I made an appointment to visit Digging Dog Nursery, source of all good things in the universe. Well, my universe, anyway. I have been a Digging Dog junkie for years. I keep their…
Coronation of Cheadle — Great performances buoy Talk to Me, Becoming Jane
Note: Thanks to Jay Herzog for his literate but totally misguided reviews the past two weeks. (Just kidding, except for the literate part.) Also, apologies to my editor — I really did think about going toSuperbadbut it was fourth in a list of four. I’ll try to improve, honest. Previews Opening Friday, Aug. 24, is…
Know Your Convivium — the Slow Food movement hits Humboldt
“We are enslaved by speed and have all succumbed to the same insidious virus: Fast Life, which disrupts our habits, pervades the privacy of our homes and forces us to eat Fast Foods… A firm defense of quiet material pleasure is the only way to oppose the universal folly of Fast Life. “May suitable doses…
Words of Wisdom, plus a Parisian busker, Dr. John and the Lu’au
The first time I met Tevya "Wisdom" Jones, years ago, he was selling T-shirts along the road into Reggae. I bought one emblazoned with his logo — a red, green, gold and black pyramid/eye inside a flaming circle. The next year, stickers with the logo showed up on outhouses all over the concert grounds. A…
‘A Broken Vessel’ — Who was Martin Cotton, and what happened to him?
Martin Frederick Cotton II was not homeless. The 26-year-old man, who died in the Humboldt County Jail on Aug. 9 shortly after a violent confrontation with the Eureka police, always knew that if he was in trouble, the only thing between him and shelter was a call to his father, Martin Fredrick Cotton, who lives…
