Wow. June? We might bust outta the one-airline airlock as early as June? That’s the word from Jacqueline Debets, Humboldt County economic development director, who says yesterday’s special Headwaters Fund board meeting was held in a rush to speed up negotiations for a fiscal guarantee. “American Airlines is saying, ‘Can you do this now?’ They […]
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Plaza Design Lockout
UPDATE March 5: Woodworkers, artists and others who left consignment goods at Plaza Design will get their unsold pieces back, Ross Welch, executive director of the Arcata Economic Development Corp., said Monday. What about people with gift certificates, or those who made deposits on furniture they ordered? “I don’t know yet,” Welch said. ORIGINAL POST: […]
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Design Undone
Plaza Design co-owner Jane Labes was at the former site of her store in Old Town Eureka this morning, supervising as the last couch and shelves were gathered up and store equipment was loaded into U-Haul vans parked outside. Some of the merchandise is being transferred to her flagship store on Arcata’s Plaza, which is […]
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Gone Fish
Go Fish and Chips Cafe, that long-dead restaurant on Waterfront Drive, has finally bleached into oblivion. That is, it’s been painted all over in white. Which means the feverishly bright mural on its face, of fishes and birds and other creatures, painted by Eureka artist Augustus Clark about five years ago, is gone. Gone, also, […]
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Mainstay Unraveled
One morning in April, nine employees of Mainstay Business Solutions arrived at the company’s corporate headquarters, a modern, glassy building not far from Kikkoman Foods Inc.’s soy sauce factory in Folsom, Calif. The doors were locked, and their keys no longer worked. There was no sign on the door. They waited outside for a couple […]
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Mega-bank Run Saturday
This Saturday, Nov. 5, has been designated “Bank Transfer Day,” a consumer activism event designed to stick it to the greedy mega-banks that nearly decimated the world economy, only to be bailed out by taxpayers. The idea — which has been claimed by L.A. art gallery owner Kristen Christian, though it was suggested elsewhere much […]
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McK’ville Gets Their Goats
Oh, yes, the town “where horses have the right of way” has a fond and willing eye for the goats, as well. That is, there do not yet appear to be any of those n-o-o-o-o-o-ot-t-t-t-t—h-e-r-e!!! bleatings issuing from the grassy flats of McKinleyville’s Dow’s Prairie, where local-cheese-company-gone-global Cypress Grove Chevre has announced it will put […]
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Depends on How You Define ‘Scam’
The Journal was recently alerted to a website with the domain name “betterbusiness.net,” which claims to offer a “215 Friendly Rentals List” for $20. Touting itself as “Humboldt’s #1 rental source,” the site says, “We are Local Advocates who know how hard it is to find a home in Humboldt, especially if you are a Medical […]
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It’s a Walmart…Or Is It? [Updated]
Update, 1 p.m.: Common mistake, as Mark notes below: Not Eureka, Yreka. Despite doing two other jobs in the Humboldt County seat, the Millcon Group still got Eureka mixed up with our country cousin over in Siskiyou County. So, for now, the mystery continues. Original post: Resourceful blog commenter “James” has tracked down the evidence. The above […]
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It’s Not Best Buy! [Corrected]
[Corrected at 3:12 p.m., Friday, Aug. 5. Note: An earlier version of this post, which was also printed in last week’s paper, overstated the degree of knowledge that Eureka City Manager David Tyson had regarding the identity of the new tenant at the Bayshore Mall.] If you were hoping for a Best Buy in the old […]
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The Alibi in Eureka is Closed
And we were just getting to know each other. Justin Ladd, owner of both the Arcata and Eureka locations of the bar/restaurant/music venue, posted this morning on The Alibi’s Facebook page that the Eureka venue, at 535 Fifth St., has been summarily shuttered due to family medical issues. The watering hole has had a troubled […]
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California Redwood Co. Adapts to International Market
More of Humboldt County’s trees are bound for Asia — or parts of them anyway. Unlike recent whole log shipments out of Humboldt Bay, the wood this time around will be milled locally, then trucked south and loaded onto container ships at the Port of Oakland. The California Redwood Company has entered into an agreement […]