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The Foilies 2023
It seems like these days, everyone is finding classified documents in places they shouldn’t be: their homes, their offices, their storage lockers, their garages, their guitar cases, between the cracks of their couches, under some withered celery in the vegetable drawer … OK, we’re exaggerating — but it is getting ridiculous. While the pundits continue…
‘Super Disappointed’: Lawmakers Want UC, CSU Systems to Enroll More Californians Sooner
“Frustrating.” One word, uttered under breath by a California lawmaker, captured a sentiment, at times boiling over into anger, among legislators struggling to get more California students into the University of California. What Assemblymember Kevin McCarty, a Democrat from Sacramento, found frustrating last week was the UC’s seeming refusal to adopt the same systemwide guaranteed…
Music Tonight: Thursday, March 30
It’s the penultimate night of March and, given the wet and windy spectacle of this month, a good night for dark music. If you share that sentiment, head over to North of Fourth at 8 p.m., where for $10 you can enjoy a show curated by DJs DastBunny and Zero One, and starring Sacramento’s darkwave…
Fire Consumes Arcata Ranch House
An Arcata home was a total loss after being consumed by flames Tuesday night in a blaze that took firefighters from six agencies an hour and a half to bring under control. There were no injuries. According to a release from the Arcata Fire Protection District, the two-story ranch house on the 4400 block of…
Tsunami Warning Test Day Tomorrow
The Tsunami Warning Communications Test takes place tomorrow (Wednesday) between 11 a.m. and noon, an annual opportunity for local emergency officials to tryout local alert systems that would be activated in the case of a distance-source tsunami heading toward Humboldt’s shores, like events in 1964 and 2011. “The test will trigger the Emergency Alert System…
Protestors Call on Local Banks to Cut Fossil Fuel Industry Support
Last week’s national day of protest by Third Act members urging banks, including local branches of Wells Fargo and CHASE Bank, to stop lending to and underwriting the fossil fuel industry, included a demonstration attended by around 60 persons in Arcata. Many attendees brought their bank cards to cut up in protest March 21, as…
UPDATE: 101 in Mendo Reopens
Caltrans reports U.S. Highway 101 has reopened. PREVIOUS: Another winter storm has dumped enough snow to close down U.S. Highway 101 at Rattlesnake Summit in Mendocino County north of Laytonville, according to a Caltrans District 1 social media post. There is currently no estimated time for reopening. 🔴ROAD CLOSURE: U.S. 101 (pm 70-77) is fully…
Music Tonight: Tuesday, March 28
Savage Henry Comedy Club is hosting Open Mark, a unique open mic hosted by comedian Mark Sanders, in which anyone is welcome to take advantage of the two microphones, keyboard and guitar available to express themselves. This free (but donation-welcoming) show is the first of its kind at the club and will roll out at…
Freed McKinleyville Man Reunited with Family
McKinleyville’s Jeffrey Woodke has been reunited with his family and is expected to return home soon after being held hostage in Western Africa for more than six years before he was freed March 20. According to a family from the press release, Woodke remains in San Francisco with his wife, Els, and two sons, Robert…
Music Today: Sunday, March 26
It’s the second and final performance of the Humboldt Steel Pan and Percussion Festival over at the Sapphire Palace in Blue Lake Casino, and this one’s a matinee. This free show kicks off at noon, and has oodles of talent, including Humboldt Taiko, Humboldt Calypso Band and Caribbean Jazz Odyssey.
Music Tonight: Saturday, March 25
Here are three gigs all happening at 9 p.m., any of which you can use to celebrate your first weekend of this new spring season. Over at the Logger Bar, Wild Abandon plays its first gig since its fine sold-out album release show at the Arcata Playhouse in the beginning of this year. Expect the…
Arrest Made in 2018 Dinsmore Homicide
The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office has made an arrest in a 2018 shooting case that left a 47-year-old Trinity County man dead on State Route 36. According to a press release, Matthew Gabriel Susmilch, 38, was arrested Wednesday in the Mendocino County jail, where he is being held on unrelated charges, on suspicion of the…
Family Fun Series Begins Saturday at Arcata Playhouse
The 17th annual Family Fun Series at the Arcata Playhouse begins with the Honolulu Theatre for Youth performing In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson on Saturday, March 25, at 2 and 7 p.m. ($40 families, $15 general, $10 kids). The play, adapted from an award-winning novel by Bette Bao Lord, tells the…
Music Tonight: Friday, March 24
RampArt is generally known for putting on punk and metal gigs, but tonight at 8:30 p.m., the marsh-adjacent skate warehouse in Arcata offers another kind of gig. DJ and impresario Henry Fong and Arcane Artists presents the Circtus, which, as far as I can tell is a night of house and dubstep music with a…
NCJ Preview: Transparency, a Hostage Released, Indigenous Boats and More
Celebrate Sunshine Week with us (despite the rain) by reading this year’s Foilies, highlighting the worst in government transparency across the nation. Also worth celebrating is the release of McKinley man Jeff Woodke, who’d been held hostage in West Africa for six years. We’ll also touch on some turnover at the Humboldt County Fair Association,…
Kathy Thompson: 1945-2022
Kathy Cauble Thompson, a 53-year resident of Humboldt County, passed peacefully on Nov. 27 from an illness that was terminal but of slow progression until suddenly it wasn’t. The morning before her death her buddy cattle dog, Sara, galloped in and jumped on the bed to Kathy’s joy and amusement. Hugging, tail wagging and laughter…
Storm
When I see the river again It will be a new river. Not just the never ending youth of Flowing water, But a path carved anew A canyon deepened, Newly sculpted By the bold hand Of the raging torrent Dottie Simmons
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): If we were to choose one person to illustrate the symbolic power of astrology, it might be Aries financier and investment banker J. P. Morgan (1837–1913). His astrological chart strongly suggested he would be one of the richest people of his era. The sun, Mercury, Pluto, and Venus were in Aries…
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‘Gaming the System?’
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