Sea Grill owner Holly Blackwood has come to love the wooden structure in the adjacent parking lot — “the pavilion,” as she calls it — that has allowed the Eureka restaurant to operate fully and partially outdoors during the pandemic. She says guests have enjoyed it, too. “It’s a lot to put up and a […]
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Eureka Names Six City Manager Finalists
The city of Eureka announced this morning that it has narrowed its city manager search down to six finalists, including two of its current department heads. According to a press release, the city met in closed session Sept. 24 and reviewed 10 applications for the position being vacated by current City Manager Greg Sparks’ upcoming […]
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Eureka City Council Approves Key Waterfront Projects
The Eureka City Council voted in favor of several waterfront projects Tuesday night, including the commitment of city funds to complete Waterfront Drive between G and J streets and authorizing staff to negotiate a lease-to-buy option for 11 acres east of Halvorsen Park with a developer who would like to build an upscale RV park […]
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Eureka City Council to Cast Crucial Waterfront Votes
The Eureka City Council is slated to meet Tuesday evening with a very long list of resolutions, ordinances and reports to discuss, many of which will immediately impact Eureka’s waterfront. On the consent calendar, the council is expected to approve without discussion an item that would bridge the last remaining gap in Waterfront Drive, between […]
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NoHum Trustee Faces Censure Over Conduct
He’s a popular Arcata High basketball coach lauded for setting high standards on and off the court. She’s a social worker and mother of four who volunteered to serve on a Northern Humboldt Union High School District athletic committee. Both became the target of a single trustee who questioned whether they were qualified for those […]
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Squireses’ Properties? Going, Going, Gone?
The city of Eureka originally selected Santa Monica-based attorney Mark Adams to help bring more than two dozen properties owned by Floyd and Betty Squires up to code. Now he’s hoping to see them auctioned off — and he intends to buy them himself. If that were to happen on the scheduled Nov. 27 sale […]
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Restraining Order Blocks Budget Motel Evictions
The city of Eureka’s efforts to shutter the Budget Motel on Fourth Street have been put on hold. This afternoon Bradford Floyd, a local attorney representing the Budget Motel’s owner, David Kushwaha, received a temporary restraining order to halt the city’s plans to clear the property tomorrow. On the heels of a recent code inspection […]
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Mayor Jager Hears Realtors’ Concerns, Vetoes Ordinance
For the first time in 20 years, Eureka’s mayor has vetoed an ordinance passed by the city council. Eureka Mayor Frank Jager sent the council a memorandum on Thursday advising that he is vetoing its April 5 vote to pass an ordinance requiring residents to have their lateral sewer lines — those connecting their houses […]
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State Water Restrictions May Dry Eureka’s Budget
Eureka’s tough budget year may go from bad to worse. News broke this past week that — despite voters’ approving a sales tax extension in November that’s supposed to keep more $4 million coming into city coffers annually — the city is looking to erase a $2.3 million deficit, which equates to about 10 percent […]
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Squires Tenants File $25K Claims Against City
Seven former tenants of Floyd and Betty Squire’s Blue Heron Lodge have filed nearly identical claims for damages against the city of Eureka, arguing the city unlawfully evicted them, violated their civil rights and intentionally inflicted emotional distress upon them when the city moved to condemn the lodge earlier this month. Each of the claims […]
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Eureka Closes Blue Heron; Squireses File Claim for Damages
Eureka officials shuttered the Blue Heron Lodge this morning, boarding up the dilapidated blue building after working to help tenants find temporary housing assistance. The city contends that the property’s owners, Floyd and Betty Squires, have failed to secure a lodging permit for the 15-room on Broadway for this year, after operating without one for […]
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City to Shutter Squires’ Blue Heron
Following a standoff with defiant property owners Floyd and Betty Squires, the city of Eureka is condemning the couple’s Blue Heron Lodge, a 15-room motel on the south side of town. Eureka Chief Building Official Brian Gerving said the couple — who for years have faced allegations of providing substandard housing in their more than […]