Over the weekend, the Times-Standard broke the story that a new business is planning to move into the former Gottschalks location at the Bayshore Mall and that circumstantial evidence suggests it could be a Walmart, the big box mega-retailer that Eureka voters rejected a dozen years back.* Three days later, a South Carolina couple finds the […]
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Kevin Hoover Announces End of the Eye
Hidden beneath the fold of last week’s Arcata Eye, in a small front-page story about digitizing the newspaper’s archives, owner/editor/publisher Kevin Hoover casually slipped in some startling news: The community weekly will cease publication on Feb. 14, 2014. Reached by phone this morning, Hoover said he has both personal and professional reasons for his decision. […]
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Q Street Goat Dairy Plan Shelved
After a heart-to-heart with its neighbors, Arcata’s internationally notable goat cheese producer, Cypress Grove Chevre, has agreed NOT to try to buy land on Q Street near its current operation to construct a goat dairy. A couple of small protests have broken out in front of the cheese maker’s Arcata Bottom outfit in recent weeks, […]
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Goat Fight! (Updated with pic)
(UPDATE: Above, a photo by NCJ’s Bb Doran from the protest today — more an info-swap sesh.) Neighbors of Cypress Grove Chevre, on 1330 Q Street in Arcata, say they’ll be descending upon the world-famous goat-cheese operation this afternoon at 3, pitchforks loaded. OK, they didn’t say anything about pitchforks. But they’re mad. Or confused. […]
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Local Company Teams With Lowe’s to Give Away 1 Million Trees
Great. First we start shipping whole logs to China; now we’re exporting entire trees. Actually, we doubt too many people will object to the massive tree giveaway being organized by Lowe’s Home Improvement Centers across the country, featuring live seedlings that even now are being sorted, packaged and shipped from the relatively tiny Jonsteen Company in […]
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Security National Announces 49 Layoffs [Corrected]
The loan servicing branch of Security National, the flagship firm of Eureka businessman Rob Arkley, announced today that it will be laying off 49 employees, 31 of whom work at the company’s Eureka headquarters. The “reduction in force” is necessary, the company explained in a press release, because a contract with “a large national financial […]
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$2.5 Million For Hansen’s Truck Stop
On Wednesday, a jury awarded Hansen’s Truck Stop $2.5 million in the eminent domain case between the truck stop and Caltrans. (We wrote about the Caltrans-Hansens case in December; you can read that story here.) The Hansens, who’ve long operated a multi-faceted empire just south of Fortuna, have had notorious battles with the state agency […]
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Dean Singleton Out as MediaNews CEO
William Dean Singleton, the chairman and founder of Denver-based MediaNews Group — which publishes the Times-Standard among dozens of other newspapers — is stepping down as that company’s CEO. The company announced the move yesterday in a thicket of corporate-speak that offers hints of the troubles faced by daily newspapers in the shifting media landscape. Singleton will stay […]
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Local Inventor in NYT
We first encountered Eureka inventor Doyle Doss hawking his hummingbird feeder helmets at the Arcata Farmers’ Market this summer (see below). This weekend that invention and more of his work were featured prominantly in “Behind the Many Faces of Innovation 2010,” in the busines section in the Sunday New York Times.
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County Home Prices Drop to Lowest Level Since 2004
The median price of a house sold in Humboldt County has dropped to its lowest level since March of 2004, according to data released today by the Humboldt Association of Realtors (HAR). The October value of $238,000 represents a 32 percent decline from the peak of the housing bubble — in March, 2006 — when […]
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Garbage, From One Humboldt to Another
Recology, the San Francisco-based parent company of Recology Humboldt County (nee City Garbage Company of Eureka), is facing growing resistance to plans for a massive dump in the middle of the Nevada desert. The proposed Jungo Landfill, which would receive as much as 4,000 tons of garbage daily, is slated to be located in the Black […]
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KGO-TV Wraps Richardson Grove
Pretty decent summary of the Richardson Grove controversy from a Bay Area television station, including comments from Kerul Dyer, Rob McBeth, Kim Floyd and Lost Coast Brewery. Somehow I missed the nude-in.