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When the Waters Rose
It had been dubbed the flood of the century, when the rain came down in sheets in 1955 and Humboldt County’s rivers rose to gobble homes and towns. Nine years later, it happened again, but worse. By the start of December 1964, Humboldt was already wet. A series of storms in November had left the…
UPDATE: CNN Gets Our Goat, or Not
UPDATE: Aaand we’re back. Cypress Grove has announced that the episode of Mike Rowe’s Somebody’s Gotta Do It will indeed air on CNN on Monday, Dec. 22 at 9 p.m. barring any outbreak of more pressing international news. UPDATE: President Obama’s televised address regarding U.S. relations with Cuba is not only drawing controversy among Cuban-Americans,…
UPDATE: A Resolve for End of Life Care
Resolution Care sailed past its crowdfunding goal, and stands at more than $105,000. The funds should allow Resolution Care to build the infrastructure and hire necessary staff to begin the initiative. Previously: Dr. Michael Fratkin’s Resolution Care initiative, featured on the coverof the Nov. 6 Journal, recently got a touching radio segment on KQED’s California…
Our Man and the Father of the Nuclear Navy
Tonight — very late tonight — on PBS, you can watch the premiere of a film about Admiral Hyman G. Rickover — you know, the fella who built the first nuclear submarine, first nuclear aircraft carrier and first commercial nuclear power plant. Why? Because you’ll learn about a complex, brilliant, controversial person considered instrumental in ending…
Batten Down the Hatches
The North Coast is about to be battered with bad weather — exciting, we know, and California needs water — but that means dangerous conditions for the outdoors-minded among us. High surf, strong winds and lots of rain are expected to land tonight and continue through late Thursday/early Friday. The National Weather Service issued a…
O, the Pelican
Pelican lovers and meaning seekers, you have just a few more days to see the documentary Pelican Dreams at the Minor Theatre in Arcata. The film, by award-winning filmmaker Judy Irving (The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill) is about pelicans but also much more than pelicans. Says the film’s website: “The film is about wildness:…
Redwoods by Candlelight
The luminarias held flickering LEDs, not wax candles, but the effect was nonetheless enchanting as hundreds of people traipsed into the dark forest at Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park for the 25th Annual Candlelight Walk on Dec. 6. There was food and cider and warm fires. And it was a fundraiser for the park organization,…
Not Exactly Curtains for Richardson Grove Widening
The curtain lowered this week on Caltrans’ plan to widen U.S. Highway 101 through Richardson Grove — a plan so controversial it’s inspired numerous lawsuits and even mass naked supplications down among the lush giants. But it could rise again. In a news release, the Environmental Protection Information Center announced that “Conservation groups and local residents this…
Jack’s to the Waterfront
It’s a common tourist question Eurekans struggle to answer: Where’s a good place to dine on the waterfront? There’s no place, you answer, at first, before remembering the few anchors of hope in this bay-abutting town: the humble restaurant with a deck over on Woodley Island. Glass-encased, fancyish Bayfront, in Eureka proper. Shamus T Bones…
Korbel Sawmill Is Closing
The California Redwood Co. announced today it’s closing the Korbel sawmill in February. The company, a subsidiary of Green Diamond Resources Co., has been trying to sell the mill since mid-October. Local blogger and Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation & Conservation District Commissioner Richard Marks posted yesterday on his site that he’d heard from an inside source…
C’mon, Commish
Editor: I agree with Judy Hodgson’s assessment of Aaron Newman continuing as a harbor commissioner (“Politics, Hunting — Both Sports,” Nov. 27). It should be obvious that the fox is in the hen house and has been there many, many times, and knows how to avoid the appearance of illegal activities. His guilty plea to…
Fortuna’s First Friday
The Fortuna Downtown Business Association invites you to a fun-filled night of art, music, refreshments and merchant specials on the first Friday of every month. Enter to win $50 in Fortuna Bucks by picking up a “Passport to Downtown” at a participating business and getting it stamped at 10 more shops. BARKY DOGZ BATHHOUSE 1041…
First Saturday Night 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, phone Eureka Main Street at 442-9054 or go to www.eurekamainstreet.org. Vote for your favorite window display and enter to win gift certificates by picking up a printed ballot at participating merchants or…
To Sleep, Perchance to be Brainwashed
All animals with brains sleep. Why? In humans, at first blush it seems like a perfect waste of time for us to spend a third of our lives in somnolent inactivity. If I could have harvested all those apparently useless hours, I’d be the equivalent of 108 instead of my youthful 72! And anyway, sleep…
Lame Duck Dynasty
“Councilman…?” The final vote tally sure was a nail-biter, but leading news outlets are now confirming that the failed re-election bids of Mike Newman and Chet Albin will usher in the first all-female city council in Eureka’s 160-year history. With mustache-free governance set to convene shortly in a seaport near you, it appears some of…
Fish Tail
Art is elusive, says local painter Micki Dyson-Flatmo. “It may entirely swim away from you.” It’s not that Dyson-Flatmo is unfamiliar with painting or art — she’s a fifth-generation woman artist. As a child, she hung out in her grandma’s studio surrounded by oil paints. In her 20s, Dyson-Flatmo would sit for hours at a…
Pucker Up
The peals of freedom will continue to reverberate in Uruguyan stoners’ ears: Last week’s presidential election in the South American pot paradise all but ensures that the country will create “the world’s first state-run marijuana marketplace,” according to NBC News. Uruguay legalized marijuana in 2012 under the direction of President Jose Mujica. Designed to undermine…
Hum Plate Roundup
Pining for Pie How did your Thanksgiving go? Maybe a wedge of Costco’s satellite-dish sized pumpkin pie satisfied your cravings, maybe it didn’t. Even if all your favorites showed up on the table, you are not done with pie. North Coast Co-op’s (25 Fourth St., Eureka; 811 I St., Arcata) pumpkin cream pie is worth…
Cheer up!*
Hello, dear readers! How are you feeling? Perhaps you, too, are struggling to adjust to the early darkness, thinking it must be about time to crawl into bed and then realizing it’s only 7 o’clock. Maybe the lethargy is compounded by the fact that we’re reaching the end of the semester and that people who…
Finding my way
I’ll pick up my crappy ole guitar That I don’t know how to play I’ll learn it on the road Hoppin’ from train to train I got my rucksack, With pen and paper So I can write down all this stuff That I’ve got running freely in my head While I’m finding my way You…
A Minor Celebration
The Minor Theatre — the oldest surviving multi-reel feature film theater in the United States — turns 100 this month. There likely will be no little girls with golden harps, no perfume christening and no flapping pigeons, as in the inaugural dedication. But there might be speeches. Possibly, the local smoky perfume will trickle in…
Flip the Switch
You survived cynical Black Friday and now it’s time for the fun part of the Christmas season: hot cocoa, carolers, Santa and tree lightings. Tour the tinsel around the county starting at the McKinleyville Shopping Center on Thursday, Dec. 4 at 4 p.m. with crafts, treats, a tree lighting and a visit from someone whose…
Good Talk
You don’t need a lecture. Wait, maybe you do. The independently organized TEDxHumbodtBay talks aren’t the chalk-dry prattling that’s trained you to wince when you see a PowerPoint slide. You’ll see why at noon on Sunday, Dec. 7 in the College of the Redwoods Performing Arts Theatre, when two dozen local speakers take on the…
