The Arcata City Council voted unanimously tonight in favor of a proposed “Medical Marijuana Innovation Area” to be zoned on West End Road at the site of the former Humboldt Flakeboard Mill and a nearby city-owned property. The approval starts a public hearing process at the Planning Commission level, where there will be further discussions […]
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UPDATE: Arcata Homicide Suspects Arrested
SECOND UPDATE: Arcata Police Chief Tom Chapman confirmed this afternoon that the two remaining suspects in the Saturday night homicide of Trevor Mark Harrison were arrested recently. Robert Louis Huntzinger, 34, was arrested last night around midnight in Blue Lake, Chapman said, and Billy Joe Giddings, 35, was arrested today around 3:45 p.m. in Loleta. […]
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Arcata Weathering the Budget Storm, For Now
As other local cities — we’re looking at you, Eureka and Fortuna — contemplate deep budget cuts, it looks like Arcata will be able to hold the line on services, and even tuck a bit of money away for a rainy day. City staff is proposing a budget — slated to be discussed at study […]
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4/20’s Back!
“This is lame,” murmured one of Arcata’s few hardcore stoners around 4:23 p.m. this afternoon. A couple of young men had stepped off the concrete slab at Redwood Park, the small piece of public property that the Humboldt Center for Constitutional Rights had wrested from the control of a zealous city staff over the course […]
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Coroner: 30-Year-Old Eureka Man Killed in Crash
The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed in a car crash on Highway 101 in Arcata on Saturday as 30-year-old Mitchell Eldon Ford, of Eureka. According to the California Highway Patrol, Ford was driving south at about 6:30 a.m. when, for unknown reasons, he lost control of his 1989 Chevrolet and crashed […]
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Light up and Move along
Arcata updated its public loitering smoking ordinance last night, but don’t get too attached to the new rules — the now city-wide public ban is likely to evolve again in the coming months. Residents along the border of the current prohibition area (I Street, in particular, at Eighth and Ninth streets) have complained that the […]
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Homey, No!
A grisly scene on Arcata’s West End Road, where everyone’s favorite yellow four-fingered buffoon bobs in the moss and weeds of a nearby ditch. Was it a cartoon mafia hit? A lover’s tryst gone wrong? Or simply a teenager’s dramatic goodbye to childhood? We may never know, but one thing is for sure: Homey deserves […]
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That Time The Foo Fighters Played Arcata
We almost missed making note of an anniversary near and dear to longtime A-towners’ hearts. Thankfully, British weekly music mag NME reminded us about the significance of Feb. 23, 1995: Back To The Foo-ture: 20 Years On, The Story Of Foo Fighters’ First Ever Show. The story starts off slagging on Arcata as a place “where […]
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We Mostly Flunk
We’re a (mostly) sad, bad, hackalung lot up here in Northern California. According to the American Lung Association, “Progress in the fight against tobacco use is at a standstill in California and in most cities and counties in the North Coast …” The association released its annual State of Tobacco Control report today, which shows […]
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A Home With Help
This January, Pacific Builders will begin construction on the 32-unit Arcata Bay Crossing, a residence for people who need special assistance and, in many cases, face homelessness. The $4.5 to $5.7 million “green,” solar-arrayed project — to be funded by grants and loans — is a joint project of Housing Humboldt, Rural Communities Housing Development […]
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5TH UPDATE: The Council Races
5th UPDATE: The final tallies are in… The only nail biter race appears to be in Eureka’s Ward 3, where challenger Kim Bergel trails incumbent Mike Newman by just 104 votes. It’s currently unclear how many provisional and vote by mail ballots remain to be counted in Eureka, so it’s hard to tell if Bergel […]
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‘Unfit for a Free Society’
A week after Bodhi Tree was sentenced to serve 105 years to life in state prison for murdering two people in Arcata last year and shooting a third in Eureka, a pre-sentencing report made public as a part of his case file sheds new light on the 29-year-old and his path through the criminal justice […]