‘The Value of an Indigenous Life’
Yurok Tribe’s MMIP symposium focuses on action, solutions
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‘The Value of an Indigenous Life’
If someone new to the conversation walked into the Yurok Tribe’s first Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Symposium on Oct. 4 expecting an arm’s-length policy discussion, they would have quickly realized their mistake. They may have looked past the vendor booths designed to showcase Native makers, or the way the 300 seats were arranged around…
Humboldt County Sees Another COVID Death
Humboldt County Public Health reported today that the county has confirmed one new COVID-19 death, a resident in their 40s, since its last report Oct. 12. No new hospitalizations were reported and, according to a state database, three people are currently hospitalized with the virus locally, with one receiving intensive care. The death reported today…
‘Gives You Hope’: Ferndale High Student Honored for Helping Crash Victim
Recovering from a serious injury suffered in an Aug. 29 head-on car crash on Fernbridge, Monica Wells Anderson had one gnawing question. “The only thing she talked about with me,” recalls Janet Coppini, a friend of Wells Anderson’s who spoke to her by phone from the hospital, “was that there was this person who climbed…
Agency Battling Wage Theft is Too Short-staffed to Do Its Job
For decades California’s lawmakers and regulators have taken aim at employers who rob their workers of pay, overtime premiums, tips and other forms of compensation. Just last year, legislators made certain instances of wage theft a felony. They also fixed their sights on wage theft in the garment industry, eliminating some longstanding pay practices that…
UPDATE: SR 299 Open to One-Way Traffic After Crash-Caused Closure
UPDATE: State Route 299 is now open to one-way controlled traffic. PREVIOUS: Caltrans is reporting that State Route 299 is fully closed east of Lord Ellis Summit due to a collision. Reopening is estimated at 3:45 p.m. In a 1:13 p.m. tweet, the agency said a detour route is available on Chezem Road. No further details…
California to End COVID State of Emergency
California’s COVID-19 state of emergency will end on Feb. 28, 2023, nearly three years after it began, officials in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office announced today. The announcement came as the new variants raise concerns of another deadly winter spike across the country and as test positivity rates stabilize in California after a nearly three-month decline.…
NCJ Preview: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons and a Young Entrepreneur
This week, we’re looking at the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons epidemic and the Yurok Tribe’s symposium bringing Native representatives from all over the state and local politicians to work on systemic issues and solutions. We’ve also got a story on a 15-year-old running his own food truck selling baked goods. Hit subscribe for weekly…
Peggy Loraine Garrison: 1945 to 2022
It is with great sadness that we announce that wife, mother, grandmother, sister and daughter Peggy Loraine Garrison passed away on Sept. 18, 2022, in the early morning hours at St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka, California. She will be greatly missed. Peggy was born on Jan. 9, 1945, in Santa Rosa, California. She was the fourth…
This is How Much Money You’ll Get from the California Gas Rebate
California is sending money directly to millions of residents to help with rising costs and high gas prices. The payments, which started going out Oct. 7, range from $200 to $1,050, depending on income and other factors. About 18 million payments will be distributed over the next few months, benefiting up to 23 million Californians.…
Delbert ‘Charlie’ Franklin Lamb: 1969-2022
Delbert “Charlie” was born July 27, 1969 in Redding, California, and died at age 53 in August of 2022. He was named after his grandfather Delbert and great-grandfather Charlie. However, there were three Delberts in the family already that lived within three blocks so he immediately became Charlie to everyone. Charlie graduated Happy Valley Elementary…
Red Hot Chili Peppers Heat up Warrior Dome
Hoopa Gets the Rock Show of a Lifetime and Everyone has a Front Row Seat They made it. And they rocked it. Driving into Hoopa Valley on a clear and unseasonably warm morning on Wednesday, October 12, things seemed normal. If you stopped at the overlook on Highway 96 and glanced down at the town,…
Dr. Strangelove 2.0
Sunday marks the 60th anniversary of the beginning of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Anybody want to guess why I’ve been thinking about that lately? With no sign of de-escalation in sight on the European front, we’re all back under the umbrella of the dumbest human action imaginable: the specter of nuclear war. Back in 1962,…
Krazy (Young) Baker
At the Oct. 5 Acres of Eats event at Redwood Acres Fairgrounds, the red Krazy Baker truck had a high shine, the cartoon chef with tousled hair painted on its side whisked a little bowl over the business name and small, white letters that read, “It all started with an FFA project.” In the window…
Don’t Market Pot to Kids
Editor: I have no problem with NCJ advertising cannabis products to adult members of our community. However, I do have a problem with the full-page advertisement on the back page of the NCJ dated Sept. 29. The ad for THCC — a cannabis business — advertises a 10-percent off back to school promo with a…
‘Under Attack’
Editor: It doesn’t appear the supervisors read up on fish farms in making their recent decision to approve one (“Supes OK Fish Farm Environmental Review,” Oct. 6). Ninety percent of the large fish have been taken from the oceans and now small fish are under attack. Krill, sardines and other small fish are being caught…
Arts! Arcata
Celebrate the visual and performing arts in Downtown Arcata during Second Friday Arts! Arcata. Enjoy a lively night market of local art displayed in downtown stores. As an additional bonus, this month the center of the plaza will be converted into a beer garden and will feature live Caribbean jazz, local art vendors and a…
The Hills Had Caves
Natives lived in those caves out behind the farmhouse, their artifacts trickle out with each new generation exploring the cool dark, carrying big sticks & fierce imaginations on their bear hunts. Timid beasts, those black bears, bold only for the brief run of salmon berry down along the creek. One winter the snow melted and…
Whose Advantage?
Editor: Humboldt County is now a target of United Health that is promoting six upcoming “informational” meetings in Eureka, Fortuna and McKinleyville to recruit seniors from traditional Medicare into a for-profit, “Medicare Advantage” plan. The plans offer low or no premiums and help with dental, hearing and vision bills, even gym membership may be included. But…
The Wait for Rain Begins
While we wait for rain that will fill our rivers with much-needed water and late fall Chinook salmon, the North Coast is not without angling options. Offshore, the boat-based rockfish and lingcod season will run through the end of the year. Beginning Nov. 1, both may be taken at any depth. Angling from the shore…
Vote!
Editor: What comes first: a healthy watershed and water supply, or profits for developers? The current Humboldt Community Services District board consists primarily of contractors, realtors and others who stand to profit from development. We need members who’ll speak for rate payers and healthy watersheds, not developers. Julie Ryan is one of those speakers. Julie…
Amsterdam‘s Mystery without Surprise
AMSTERDAM. When David O. Russell entered popular consciousness — with Spanking the Monkey (1994), an Oedipal rom-com that almost immediately went into heavy rotation on the Independent Film Channel — he was not accompanied by the fanfare that greeted some of his anointed indie-cinema contemporaries. Granted, he was one among many, but he was also…
It All Adds Up
Humboldt County Planning Commissioner Alan Bongio got one thing right during brief remarks to his fellow commissioners Oct. 6, as they prepared to send a letter to three local tribes apologizing for his “insensitive,” “racist” and “biased” comments. “There’s some things that didn’t add up that night,” Bongio said defiantly of the commission’s Aug. 18…
A Shorebird Primer
Here in Humboldt we’re pretty famous for our shorebirds. Among birders, anyway. A whole lot of shorebirds, in fact: Humboldt Bay is estimated to host to around 850,000 of them annually. There’s even an international birding festival here, Godwit Days, named for one of our most celebrated sandpipers. With much of the county located on…
No Nuclear Power
Editor: The original published version of your article on sea level rise and the former nuclear plant on Humboldt Bay (“44 Feet,” Sept. 15), in referring to PG&E’s still-operating Diablo Canyon nuclear plant on the Central Coast, stated that “local electricity provider Redwood Coast Energy Authority issued requests to contract for replacement energy from the…
‘Burger-lary Week’
Editor: Wasn’t your Burger Week contest supposed to be a selfie contest (“Selfie Contest Winners,” Oct. 6)? And yet, in one of the winning photos (St. Joseph’s Emergency Department), not one of the individuals featured in the image is holding the camera. Therefore, that is not a selfie. I also do not believe that it…
Free Will Astrology
ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Magic Realism Bot” is a Twitter account that generates ideas for new fairy tales. Since you will benefit from imagining your life as a fairy tale in the coming weeks, I’ll offer you a few possibilities. 1. You marry a rainbow. The two of you have children: a daughter who can…
New Revelations Raise New Questions of Bongio’s Bias
Alan Bongio officially and somewhat defiantly stepped down as Humboldt County Planning Commission chair before the commission’s Oct. 6 meeting at which the board voted unanimously to send a letter of apology to three Wiyot area tribes stemming from Bongio’s conduct at a meeting last month. The meeting came amid new revelations — first reported…
