In the first trial test of a new law, a Humboldt County jury decided this morning that the three people who lit candles outside the county courthouse after 9:30 p.m. did nothing illegal. The verdict comes despite the county’s attempt to ban most people from being on courthouse grounds between 9:30 p.m. and 6 a.m. […]
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Jury Ponders … And Ponders
A jury is taking plenty of time thinking about a new law — specifically about whether it should convict three people accused of defying county limits on courthouse protests. Jurors went home at midday Tuesday with no verdict, and now have deliberated for longer than it took to try the three, who stood with lighted […]
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From the Publisher
(UPDATE 6/28: The second paragraph in this original post inaccurately implies that members of the Timber Heritage Association “agreed” on the final Bay Trail Plan. By “we” I was referring to the Bay Trail Advocates alone. By the time the plan was finalized, Don Banducci, a long-time member of THA, had joined Bay Trail […]
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Tree-sitters Declare McKay Victory
Remember the McKay Tract tree-sitters? The straggle of folks who began ascending redwoods on Green Diamond Resource Company’s forested property near Cutten four years ago to save them from being harvested? No? Refresh your memory here — don’t worry, it’s not just a logging tale, it’s a development story, a conservation story, a horse story, […]
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At the Courthouse: What’s Wrong/Right with This Picture?
Keep on the grass! About five and a half months after it went up, the fence surrounding the Humboldt County Courthouse lawn is gone. A frequent target of Occupy Eureka signage and disdain, the barrier was removed this morning by county officials and the vendor from whom the fence was rented. As you’d expect, occupiers […]
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Arrests at Courthouse Protest
Humboldt County Sheriff officers arrested a half dozen protestors Saturday night on the steps of the County Courthouse. A crowd of around 120 had assembled in answer to an invitation to a post-Arts Alive! candlelight vigil to protest the “urgency ordinance” passed March 27 by the Board of Supervisors in response to complaints about the […]
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The End of Occupy Eureka? (UPDATED)
Doesn’t appear that way. As expected, Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrived in front of the Humboldt County Courthouse at 4 p.m. Wednesday to begin enforcement of the “urgency ordinance” passed by the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday. Prior to their arrival, Occupy Eureka members moved their information tables over the crack in […]
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Time to Sharpen Your eTrek Sticks
The Guv has proposed closing 70 state parks to ease the budget burden a bit, and several are in our area — including Fort Humboldt and Grizzly Creek Redwoods State Park, through which the Van Duzen River flows. Some of these parks have been saved from closure by private and government entities; most have not. […]
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Track Stars
A bunch of us concerned (and frustrated) citizens–35 by one count–did some serious blackberry and undergrowth clearing along the North Coast Railroad track between South G Street, Arcata and the Eureka Slough yesterday morning. The track is now walkable. Most of it. And we had a ball. Coordinator Rees Hughes (Rees.Hughes@humboldt.edu) is planning an inaugural […]
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Occupy the Courts
Pouring rain did not stop dozens of citizens from gathering at 5th and H streets in Eureka Friday at noon to join a nationwide protest marking the second anniversary of the Supreme Court decision Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that defined corporations as “persons,” and, as local organizers sarcastically put it, thus “entitled by the […]
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Access Humboldt Goes Dark
They had to use the Internet to do so, but Access Humboldt announced last night that it’s joining Wikipedia and others in the SOPA strike by going dark from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. today. Here’s the official announcement: Access Humboldt is participating in action to highlight US legislation that threatens commercial censorship of the […]
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Neighhhhhh, they say
About 80 equestrian trail advocates “flash mobbed at Clam Beach today,” reports Uri Driscoll. They parked about 35 horse trailers alongside the frontage road between U.S. 101 and Clam Beach/Little River State Beach, and then assembled on foot in front of them with sign boards and a petition. They demanded that Redwood State Park listen […]