During a tense May 21 Eureka City Council meeting, council members lamented that what they deemed a flawed process used to select finalists for a $370,000 annual marketing contract had broken the public’s trust. Things have since gone from bad to worse amid new revelations, including that staff has repeatedly and materially misrepresented key facts […]
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Paint the Utility Box You Want to See in the World
Before you tag that utility box for free, consider getting paid $500 by the city of Eureka to do a mini-mural. A new program called Eureka Box Art! (somebody loves those exclamation points) will pay individual artists or groups to paint boxes of varying sizes around town to both beautify the mundane blocks of metal […]
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Clarke Museum May Make Room for Welcome Center
UPDATE: The Eureka City Council approved the proposal. Previously: The Eureka City Council is set to vote tomorrow night on whether to authorize City Manager Greg Sparks to negotiate with local nonprofit Humboldt Made to operate a visitor center that will take up the main room of the Clarke Museum, at Third and E streets. […]
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More on that Humboldt Made Re-organization
Humboldt Made’s new leadership recently weighed in on the recent shakeup — the firing of Executive Director T. Aaron Carter and board president Clint Victorine’s decision to step down — and announced a new for-profit affiliation intended to help local businesses find out-of-county distribution. Alanna Powell, Humboldt Made’s newly named interim executive director, said “it […]