The Administrator
Before Tom Jackson Jr. officially took the reins at HSU, he sat down with the Journal
Pizza by the Sea
When eating in Trinidad, it’s a totally understandable knee-jerk impulse to veer toward fish and chips, clam chowder or crab anything. It’s the seaside atmosphere. But are you overlooking the pizza? In the shadow of its older sibling the Lighthouse Grill and on the former site of the Bergeron Winery tasting room, Headies Pizza and…
North Coast Night Lights: Eel River Overlook
The magic of the night was all around, so very quiet with only the sound of the redwood forest around us sighing in a light breeze and merging with the soft susurrus of the Eel River far below. From a protected hollow high above the river my companions and I looked out over a world…
EPD Investigating White Supremacist Group’s Local Recruiting Efforts
UPDATE: The Eureka Police Department has issued a press release, which you can read here. PREVIOUSLY: The Eureka Police Department is investigating an apparent militaristic white supremacist group that is recruiting locally, both through social media and fliers posted around the county. A flier with an image of an assault rifle was found posted in…
KHSU Hit by Cyber Attack
The dead air you’ve been hearing on KHSU is the result of a ransomeware attack that disabled most of the station’s programming systems and storage servers, according to Humboldt State University. A university spokesperson tells the Journal the university does not yet know whether the cyber attack on the station was the result of a…
Meatless at the Barbecue Place
Most of the vegetarians at Shamus T Bones (1911 Truesdale St., Eureka) are on the walls — the taxidermied heads of deer, elk and buffalo looming in all directions. And yet the much-discussed Beyond Beef burger ($13.99 with a side) has landed here with its “bleeding” patty of coconut oil, proteins from soy, potato and…
UPDATE: National Guard Assisting Sheriff’s Office ‘Throughout the Summer’ (VIDEO)
UPDATE: Sheriff William Honsal released a video today to address what he says are some of the questions that have come up in the last 24 hours since the National Guard began surveying areas of Humboldt County for “illicit cannabis” grows. In the Facebook video, Honsal says the ultimate goal is to bring those growers…
Never Leave Before the Fireworks
Guys, I’m buzzin’. Saturday was the greatest Crabs game I’ve ever attended. It’s two days later and I’m still riding the high. If you missed it, I would highly recommend fronting the production of, or creating your own time machine and going back to Saturday afternoon. Same goes for those of you who left, as…
Eureka Police ID 19-Year-old Homicide Victim
The Eureka Police Department has identified the homicide victim found lying in a parking lot at the foot of Hilfiker in the early morning of July 4 as Eureka resident Hannah Elizabeth Hayhurst. She was 19. According to a release, Hayhurst died of multiple stab wounds. A suspect in the case, Eureka resident Daniella Moore,…
Oh, Deer!
A fawn whose mother was killed by a car on State Route 36 was cared for at the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office today after a passerby brought the young deer in. According to a post on the HCSO Facebook page, the young deer spent the morning hanging out in the sergeant’s office before being taken…
HumBug: Dragonflies Remembered
Sometimes it takes a little excursion to get back home. A fond memory from childhood was watching eight spotted skimmer dragonflies (Libellula forensis) over the little creek at my great aunt’s and imagining them as World War I fighter planes in dogfights high overhead. I didn’t know their names or what their aerobatics were about,…
Bubbling Over: Photos from the Fourth in Arcata
The only things exploding on the Arcata plaza for the 4th of July Jubilee were thousands of soap bubbles, as the Bubbles Promenade kicked off the event with a crowd of children and adults blowing bubbles. The soapy parade that also included a few rhutabaga Queens for Life and a mix of Kinetic Race vehicles,…
Benbow Eaglet Faces Close Call With Fire
Southern Humboldt County nature lovers were very concerned today as a wildfire burning in the Benbow area closed in on a nest holding a 12-week-old eaglet that has not yet taken to flight. “It was really close, and the helicopter was buzzing right past the nest,” said nature photographer Talia Rose, who runs the popular…
Lady’s Choice
The grill at The Patron Kitchen (70 B Wildwood Ave., Rio Dell) can’t be more than 3 by 4 feet but the output, most of which winds up on a bolillo roll, is impressive. Two women with their hair in matching glossy black topknots, lay out meats, tortillas and chopped peppers in separate quadrants on…
A Series Told in Two Parts: Fourth of July
Part I – Through the Eyes of a Neophyte My younger brother came up this past week. Called me from the highway Monday afternoon and asked if I “got any plans this week?” I did not, so I vacuumed my couch, coiled my spare cables and did what every good Humboldtian does when they find…
Coasties Rescue Stranded Hiker
The U.S. Coast Guard rescued a 22-year-old man who fell off a cliff while hiking in Patrick’s Point State Park yesterday evening. According to a press release, U.S. Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay got a call reporting a hiker stranded at the base of a sea cliff around 6:45 p.m. and launched its Dolphin helicopter…
Photos of the Fairy Frolic
It was another “Frolick of Fairies” at the magical second annual Fairy Festival on the Arcata Plaza on Saturday. The large turnout of mystical fairies and other life forms for the costume contests, live music, belly dancing, a parade with a dragon, and other activities probably exceeded even the most optimistic expectations of everyone except…
UPDATE: One Arrested in Homicide Investigation
UPDATE: A Eureka woman is being held on $1 million bail in connection with the death of another woman who was found dead in a parking lot, according to a release from the Eureka Police Department. Daniella Moore, 40, was arrested on suspicion of homicide, the release states. Few other details were immediately available. Read…
New Shades of Summer – A Retrospective on the Life of June
How we were drawn into this light, Released from bedtime curfews, And freed from morning’s grasp: Those signatories of winter With their dark ink now all blurred and faded. In this light, We might hear the rhythm of seasons, Or trace the day’s soft edge. Maybe rediscover the contours of our soul, Or we might…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): When the universe began 13.8 billion years ago, there were only four elements: mostly hydrogen and helium, plus tiny amounts of lithium and beryllium. Now there are 118 elements, including five that are key components of your body: oxygen, carbon, nitrogen, calcium and phosphorus. All of those were created by nuclear…
Seven Puzzles for the Seventh Month
The Old Bridge Four people with one flashlight between them have to cross a rickety two-person capacity bridge in the next 17 minutes before a hurricane destroys it: Alice (who takes one minute to cross), Bill (two minutes), Cassie (five minutes) and Dave (10 minutes). It’s pitch black, so anyone crossing needs the flashlight. How…
Summer Stories and Floating Worlds
Summer is the season for group exhibitions. The 61st annual open-call summer exhibition at Redwood Arts Association, held in honor of longtime member Julia Bednar, opens this month with an un-themed show of mostly painting and photography on both floors. A couple blocks away at the Ink People’s Brenda Tuxford Gallery, a themed group exhibition…
Transitional Housing Project Moves Forward, Grand Jury Report Underscores Need
Local philanthropist Betty Chinn plans to erect a small transitional housing village out of modular trailers donated by PG&E that have been lying dormant for months on the city-owned Crowley property on the south end of town. PG&E donated the 11 trailers — which it had been using as administrative offices at the Humboldt Bay…
Arts Alive!
Presented by Eureka Main Street. Opening receptions for artists, exhibits and performances are held the first Saturday of each month. For more information, call 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org 707 BAR (formerly Steve and Dave’s) First and C streets. Barry Evans photography. Music by Dr. Squid. A TASTE OF BIM 613 Third St. Maggie Draper,…
The Administrator: Five Questions for HSU’s New President
When Tom Jackson Jr. strode into the Corbett Conference Room in Humboldt State University’s Siemens Hall one morning in June, he hadn’t even officially taken over as the eighth president in the university’s more than 100-year history. That day came last week, when Jackson was given a university identification card and control over what is…
Trinidad Art Nights
FORBES AND ASSOCIATES 343 Main St. “Rhythm’s In Time,” Chris Knopp, watercolors. HEADIES PIZZA AND POUR 359 Main St. Susan Mayclin Stephenson, oil on canvas, prints and notecards. MOONSTONE CROSSING 529 Trinity St. Rick Tolley, oil paintings. NED SIMMONS GALLERY 380 Janis Court (Trinidad Coastal Land Trust). Plein Air Artists Show, multiple artists including but…
An Eye to the Sky
It’s the Fourth of July on Thursday and I’ll be skipping that day here this week. After all, what could I really suggest for you that would outshine this evening’s celebration of bellicosity and fireworks? Nothing. Which is exactly how I feel about this holiday in the age of Mitch McConnell. No push toward a…
Yesterday is Sweet and Corny
Reviews YESTERDAY. I wouldn’t call Danny Boyle one of my favorite directors. He can tend toward narrative overreach, treacly sentimentality and visual excess. Still, he’s been showing up and doing the work for oh, 25 years now — at least in the world of features, since he was directing television for a while before the…
Ten Items or Fewer
Maybe you’re already swinging by Little Japan (2848 F St., Eureka) for the sushi-grade fish in the freezer (where else are you going to get a single curled octopus tentacle?), mochi sweets or pillow-sized bags of short-grain fancy rice. But the little Henderson Center shop is packed with Japanese goodies and cult faves. Here’s a…
A Sack Full of Sacrament
A Southern California lawyer and church leader has filed a lawsuit against the county of Humboldt and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, alleging they violated his client’s rights to religious freedom when they raided a cannabis grow and eradicated five greenhouse’s worth of weed last month. In the lawsuit filed June 27, Matthew…
‘Hook, Line and Turbine’
How dispiriting to read that officials at Redwood Coast Energy Authority (RCEA) have fallen hook, line and turbine for a deeply flawed energy proposal. Like many outside colonizers since 1850, a Manhattan energy company, Terra-Gen, is relying on local officials to support its plan to place up to 60 wind turbines, each standing 600 feet…
The Case for and Against Huffman
Editor: In response to Denver Nelson’s letter (Mailbox, June 27), I heartily support and approve of Congressman Huffman’s efforts on holding the travesty of the Trump administration accountable for its obviously illegal and heinous actions, on so many fronts (“The Case for Impeachment,” June 13). I dare say most of Mr. Huffman’s constituents agree with…
Everything Matters
Editor: I believe the North Coast Journal of the past few years has had the best journalism in Humboldt. That’s why I was stunned to see Clay Jones’ cartoon in the last issue (Cartoons, June 27), trying to find humor in the Trump administration’s detention of children without providing such basics as soap and toothpaste…
‘Speak Up Now’
Editor: I am appalled to find myself writing letters to my legislators and to the president of our country to remind them that it is inhumane to separate children from family members and cage them in windowless warehouses without beds, blankets, soap, bathing facilities or toothbrushes (“How We Let This Happen,” June 27). It is…
‘Protect our Natural Treasures’
Editor: In a world that rushes to develop everything, we have spectacular natural beauty, a place people come to restore their connection to nature. We are a travel destination for those seeking solace. If we care about the world that our grandchildren will have, we must choose to protect our natural treasures. Terra-Gen created this…
