A letter in the Dec. 19, 2019 edition of the North Coast Journal included an editor’s note that was written in error due to a miscommunication between Journal editors and columnist David Wilson. The note explained that Wilson reported he’d been in touch with the letter writer, Jeni Sue Wilburn, to discuss Wilburn’s belief that Wilson had misidentified a star in his Nov. 28 column “Lost in Space.” We’ve now learned that Wilson had been in touch with a different reader on the same subject but not Wilburn, but he maintains that the astrological identification in the Nov. 28 column is accurate. The Journal regrets the error and any confusion it may have caused.
In the same Dec. 19, 2019, issue, the story headlined “Supes Deny Controversial Wind Project” also included an error. In one instance, the names of Monument Ridge and Bear River Ridge were reversed. It is Bear River Ridge that is known as Tsakiyuwit by the Wiyot Tribe and is revered as a sacred ancestral prayer site. The Journal regrets the error.
This article appears in Top 10 Stories of 2019.
Not sure about the “astrological identification” (which would mostly be concerned with zodiacal constellations), but the astronomical enhanced pinpoint of light up above and to the right of the Big Dipper is indeed Polaris. (Despite Ms. Wilburn’s conjecture that “what is seen in the photo is a planet” you won’t find any planets anywhere near Polaris!)