The Grove
College of the Redwoods’ groundbreaking program to help homeless students takes root
Familiar Face Takes a Seat on Rio Dell City Council
The Rio Dell City Council welcomed a familiar face back to the dais Tuesday, when Gordon Johnson was once again sworn in following the resignation of Bryan Richter for personal reasons. Johnson, a longtime resident and civil engineer, will serve until 2022. He was previously appointed to a council seat in 2013 and elected to…
North Coast Night Lights: Unexpected Magic: Rabbit Stargazer
What makes a photograph special isn’t always what was planned but what happens instead. Of course, sometimes what happens instead can make a mess of things. One has no choice in the matter, but it seems to me that if I’m open to the possibility that something unexpected can make the photo better then delightful…
Ladies and Gentlemen, Your 2019 Crabs
Well, here we are again. Aug. 6. A year ago today I posted my first last Crabs column of the season. It was titled “Crabs Season is Over and Everything is Garbage.” A year on down the road and not much has changed, except my waistline. Much like our summer days, this time of year…
UPDATE: Republican Party, Trump Take on Golden State Over Tax Returns
UPDATE: Following in the footsteps of Judicial Watch, President Donald Trump and his campaign and the Republican state and national parties filed two separate lawsuits today over the tax return law recently signed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom. Each case alleges California’s move to make releasing a candidate’s tax returns a prerequisite to being placed…
UPDATED: Kayakers Reportedly Find Dead Body Near Trinidad
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office issued a press release this evening stating that the deceased person found by kayakers near College Cove this morning appears to have been a white male in his 60s. See the full press release copied below our original post. PREVIOUSLY: A group of kayakers located a dead body near…
HumBug: New Dragon, Bold Patterns and Teeny Bees
A walk along the Van Duzen River on a warm, sunny day can produce some surprises. Today I spotted a dragonfly which is new to my “life list” (a term I’ve adopted from my birding friends). Libellula pulchella, the 12 spotted skimmer. Named for the total number of black spots on their wings, they are…
McKinleyville Man Reported Missing Found at 101 Crash Site
A 65-year-old McKinleyville man who had recently been reported missing was discovered dead after his pickup truck went off U.S. Highway 101 north of Big Lagoon for an unknown reason. Michael Criswell was found around 8:30 a.m. today after CHP responded to a report of a car on the west side of the highway. According…
Big Pictures: Photos from the Eureka Street Art Festival
Don’t forget to look up while you’re roaming the streets of Old Town this week. The Eureka Street Art Festival is in full swing, with artists working at lofty heights on their large-to-massive outdoor images. Some 20 artists, 11 of them county locals and another 9 from around the world, are working on some 19…
Away Games, Burgers and Cider
Eighteen down, one to go. The Humboldt Crabs swept the B52s in their penultimate series and it was one for the books. Tuesday evening, for the first time in history, the Crabs ventured south of the Samoa exit and met the B52s at Bomber Field. And boy, was it bumping. The place was packed to…
Battle of the Badges Nets Record-Breaking Day at the Blood Bank
Yesterday’s Battle of the Badges at the Northern California Community Blood Bank was a competition with one clear winner — patients. The friendly rivalry between 16 local public safety agencies brought the highest number of donors the nonprofit blood bank has seen in a single day since 2001. In total, 188 people gave their time,…
Ape Days A Week
I admit I wanted to like this album from the moment I saw the disgusting cover art by John Vochatzer. A bright anatomical nightmare figure tiptoes across a literally visceral landscape with brains, guts and banners of confetti all a go-go. I will also cop to a lesser but perhaps incriminating charge: Until a couple…
The Grove
Seven years ago, Annamarie Whipple moved to Humboldt County but when her partner died unexpectedly a couple of years later, she found herself homeless, living at the Eureka Rescue Mission. Struggling to find a job while living at the mission, Whipple decided to save up some money for a motorhome and, most importantly, to go…
Questions Swirl Ahead of Trinidad Hotel Hearing
At the 11th hour, with a hearing looming before the California Coastal Commission next week, the Trinidad Rancheria believes it may have found a water source for its proposed hotel development on Scenic Drive. The commission is set to meet Aug. 8 in Eureka, two months after a divided commission voted 6-3 in San Diego…
‘A Humanitarian Disaster’
A beautiful 2-year-old Honduran girl flashed a huge, radiant smile when we walked up to her July 27. Her name is Natalia and she just wanted to play. We were instantly friends and she demanded that I draw a gato for her on papel. When I playfully drew a whale instead, and then a shark,…
Come See for Yourself
Safety of employees, contractors and trespassing individuals is Humboldt Redwood Co.’s first priority. We are aware of trespassers on our property (“Straight from the PALCO Playbook,” July 18). We have a fully licensed and bonded professional security group looking out for everyone’s safety in the area of operations near Rainbow Ridge. Because someone is moving…
Flower Service Comes Tableside
A recent audit by the California Department of Finance on the state’s nascent cannabis regulatory framework found the newest arm of the Golden State’s bureaucracy is suffering some growing pains. The audit found the state Bureau of Cannabis Control is currently unable to “provide effective and comprehensive oversight of cannabis activities” within the state and…
Reggae? Maybe …
The first big concert that I remember going to without an accompanying adult was Toots and the Maytals at the old Arcata Theater — when it was still mostly just a movie theater — sometime in my early teens. I can’t remember the date or my exact age because more than 20 years of life…
Butter and Belonging at Red Lobster
My immigrant Japanese family came to America and fell in love with cheap steaks, sausage, corned beef and cabbage, lasagna and rye bread. But they drew a deep line at American seafood. In New York State in the ’70s and ’80s, this meant shrimp doused in opaque sauces, dry fillets armored in cracker crumbs, frozen…
‘Amazing Things’
Editor: Congratulations to David Nguyen and reporter T.William Wallin on both of their achievements (“The Graduate,” July 11). The institutions of mass incarceration and higher education have finally crossed paths and we should feel good about that. When Pelican Bay State Prison opened its doors in 1989, it was touted as a place where the…
Epic Scrolls and Journeys
To stand in the middle of the building that houses the Morris Graves Museum of Art and look up is to feel the pull of the former Carnegie library’s Renaissance-derived architectural language. An octagonal array of veneered and polished redwood columns rise two stories to frame the view into the dome. The space is split…
‘Concealing her Bigotry’
Editor: I’m pleased to see that Thadeus Greenson understands the concept of a dog whistle and how the white supremacists and other right wing movements use those tactics as an insidious recruitment tool (“Dog Whistles and Racists Among Us,” July 18). However, when I reached his final paragraph of that article, I was disappointed that…
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. Music by Dr. Squid. ADORNI CENTER 1011 Waterfront St. Paul Rickard and Barbara Saul, artwork. AMERICAN…
‘Time for Action’
Editor: In a just world, the McKay Home property listed for sale at 3150 Harris St. in Eureka for nearly $900,000 would be acquired by the people of Humboldt County for use as a public facility (“Outside the Box,” July 18). Keeping this property in private hands is a failure of imagination on the part…
Trinidad Art Nights
Forbes and Associates 343 Main St. “Paintings by Jeff Stanley,” acrylic and open acrylic on canvas. 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 show including…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Dear Diary: Last night my Aries friend dragged me to the Karaoke Bowling Alley and Sushi Bar. I was deeply skeptical. The place sounded tacky. But after being there for 20 minutes, I had to admit that I was having a fantastic time. And it just got better and more fun…
Lunar Boondoggle?
We are in the middle of another space race, according to Vice President Mike Pence, “just as we were in the 1960s.” No, not with those Sputnik-launching Ruskies this time. Today’s race is with the Chinese. In his speech to the National Space Council earlier this year, Pence cited, as evidence of China’s lunar ambitions,…
A Bloody Time Capsule
Review ONCE UPON A TIME … IN HOLLYWOOD. It’s been nearly four years since the release of Quentin Tarantino’s last movie The Hateful Eight (2015) and for many of us much of that time has played out like a chainsaw horror show set to a broken calliope loop; sort of like a Tarantino sequence, but charmless…
Garden toMedicine Cabinet
Like the song goes, “Summertime, and the living is easy.” Here on the home farm, we’ve been enjoying the pleasant mid-summer days and long evenings, as well as garden fresh salads and veggies. After staying committed to maintaining designated flower and medicinal herb patches for a few seasons, the sections are well established and we…
