Have you noticed anything different when driving on the U.S. Highway 101 safety corridor? Especially when you pass Harper Motors? Maybe you’ve noticed that a bright red and yellow tent and the contents underneath it are missing? Well, the Harper Motors carousel has found a new home with the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria […]
Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria
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Details Emerge in Triple Homicide; Loleta Community ‘Heartbroken’
The 18-year-old Loleta man accused of fatally shooting three people — including a 16-year-old girl — at a home on the Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria Reservation on Wednesday morning was known to the victims and was a “guest in their house,” Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal told the Journal this morning. Deputies […]
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Evacuation Shelter at Bear River Recreation Center
The Bear River Band of the Rohnerville Rancheria has set up the Bear River Recreation Center to provide shelter for those evacuating the wildfires. Service will begin today and the shelter is located at 265 Keisner Road, Loleta. The release states that the shelter will have four separate areas for larger families, socially distanced singular […]
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Casinos are Open
On May 12, staffers received word from their manager at Bear River Casino Resort saying it would be opening in 10 days and employees were expected to attend a May 18 training at the casino. The plan was to open for high rollers and VIPs on May 22 and to the general public two days […]
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Tolowa Dancers
Shawgeylut “Sis” Coney, of the Tolowa tribe, Alison Osceola and Vivian McCovey, who are both Yurok, dressed in traditional regalia for a demonstration of the Tolowa Feather Dance, or Nay-dosh, at the Bear River Rancheria in September. The dance, traditionally performed near the winter solstice, gives thanks for food sources, ancestors, children and creation. According […]