When the phone rang at California Highway Patrol Officer Tim Gray’s Willow Creek residence at 1:41 a.m. on Dec. 18, 2014, a dispatcher asked him to respond to a single car accident nearby, but he wasn’t told the car involved had been reported stolen almost six hours earlier. When he arrived at the scene to […]
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UPDATED Former Blue Lake Resident, Musician Kyle Scott Killed in Car Crash: ‘My Heart is Broken’
UPDATE: A memorial for Kyle Scott will take place Monday, Feb. 9 at 5 p.m. at the Logger Bar. Details here. It’s strange hearing about someone’s death on Facebook, although that seems to be the new norm. It’s even stranger clicking over to the person’s timeline and reading through the displays of anguish until you […]
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NPR on Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
In case you missed it, yesterday’s Morning Edition on NPR included a report from Michael Montgomery of KQED and the Center for Investigative Reporting, who sat down and spoke with a few inmates who’d recently been released from Pelican Bay’s Security Housing Unit back into a general prison population. A hunger strike protesting the terms and […]
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Hodgson Issues Call for Supervisor Challengers in KHUM Interview
Elaborating on her op-ed piece in this week’s issue, Journal Publisher Judy Hodgson took to the airwaves this afternoon, telling KHUM’s Mike Dronkers that the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors’ recent vote to replace the guiding principles in the general plan update was “one of the more blatant power grabs that I’ve seen in all […]
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Kimmel vs. HSU Now Actually a Thing [UPDATED]
UPDATE: National Public Radio, too? Yup. Click [audio-1] here to listen. Humboldt State University’s recent invitation/call out of late night host Jimmy Kimmel has been picked up by the Associated Press — the media equivalent of “shit just got real.” We blogged on Monday about the letter sent out by HSU President Rollin Richmond and […]
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The Eureka Wal-Mart Has Been Blessed
UPDATE 6/13: For Wal-Mart’s grander Grand Opening ceremonies, go HERE. “Psalm 33:12 says, ‘Blessed is the nation that has God as the Lord,’” said Hydesville Community Church associate pastor Jeff Beltz from a temporary podium this past Sunday. “Basically what He’s saying is the nation that is faithful and places God first in decisions, honor, […]
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Solutions: John Matthews and Jen Savage Solve Your Problems!
Romantic entanglements? Financial woes? Weird fungus behind your knees? Roommate from hell? Children making you crazy? Bloodstains on the couch? Friends treating you badly? Or maybe you have no friends? Well, now you do! No matter what your problem, big or small, your new best friends John Matthews and Jen Savage (you know us from […]
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Share It Fairly: How YOU Could Win House of Floyd Tickets!
So, you want to go see the Pink Floyd tribute band House of Floyd at the Arkley Center on Saturday night, but “the economy” just isn’t letting your brain part with the $38 it costs to get in. At the North Coast Journal, our readers are more important than just another brick in the wall! […]
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Two Crows Electrocuted
The power outage in part of Arcata this morning (including the Journal office) was caused by a pair of crows shorting out a transformer according to PG&E spokesperson Jana Morris, who called KHUM in response to an inquiry from DJ Mike Dronkers. Since there were two crows, Dronkers surmised that the electrocution was perhaps related […]
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Tsunami Advisory
A tsunami from the massive Samoa earthquake earlier today is expected to hit Humboldt County sometime shortly after 9 p.m. tonight. We’ll have an update right here in just a moment. UPDATE: The National Weather Service’s Troy Nicolini tells KHUM’s Larry Trask that this will be a very small wave that should not affect anyone […]
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Don’t Get Comfortable
surfer. Hello, friends! This is going to be the temporary home of the North Coast Journal blog. We’re going to get this party started here on Wordpress before that glorious day when we make the jump to our own homepage. How long will we be here? Maybe a couple of weeks. Probably a month or […]