Watching frybread go from a fist of pale dough pulled from a bucket to its final form, cumulus in shape and caramel in color, is like watching up-close magic. In a straw hat with a kitchen towel hanging from her shoulder, Lisa Sundberg pats, then pulls the dough with practiced hands, turning it to stretch […]
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Seascape Restaurant Closed Due to Possible COVID-19 Exposures
The Trinidad Rancheria has closed Seascape Restaurant until all employees can be tested for COVID-19 and is warning customers who visited the restaurant last week to get tested after it was “affected” by a “super-spreader event in Humboldt County the week of April 18.” In a press release, Trinidad Rancheria doesn’t identify the source of […]
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Casino Closes Bingo After Employee Tests Positive for COVID-19
Cher-Ae Heights Casino is closing down Bingo game after one of its employees tested positive for COVID-19. The casino posted a statement on its Facebook page saying, “An employee in Bingo has tested positive for COVID-19. Although the employee has followed all of our safety standards in the casino, we have chosen to close Bingo […]
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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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Cher-Ae Heights Casino to Reopen Friday May 22
Cher-Ae Heights casino announced today that it will reopen on Friday, May 22. According to a press release, the casino will close from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. to clean and sanitize common surface areas and has installed plexiglass throughout the casino to act as safe health barriers. Bear River Casino was the first local […]
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COVID-19 Roundup: Organizations Announce Closures, Senior Shopping Hours
There’s a lot going on and it can be tough to keep up with, so here’s a quick list of COVID-19 announcements you may have missed yesterday. The Trinidad Rancheria announced it will close Cher-Ae Heights Casino, Sunset Restaurant, Sunrise Grill and the Firewater Lounge, with all closures in full effect by 2 a.m. Thursday. […]
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Questions Swirl Ahead of Trinidad Hotel Hearing
At the 11th hour, with a hearing looming before the California Coastal Commission next week, the Trinidad Rancheria believes it may have found a water source for its proposed hotel development on Scenic Drive. The commission is set to meet Aug. 8 in Eureka, two months after a divided commission voted 6-3 in San Diego […]
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Trinidad Rancheria Believes it May Have Found Water Source for Hotel Project; Sundberg May Have Violated State Lobbying Law
At the 11th hour, with a hearing looming before the California Coastal Commission next week, the Trinidad Rancheria believes it may have found a water source for its proposed hotel development on Scenic Drive. The commission is set to meet Aug. 8 in Eureka, two months after a divided commission voted 6-3 in San Diego […]
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Lack of Water Threatens Trinidad Rancheria Hotel Project
The planned 100-room Trinidad Rancheria hotel at Cher-Ae Heights Casino appears stalled at the state level because of an inability to come up with a definite source of drinking water for the facility. Located on the bluffs of Scenic Drive, a mile south of city limits, the planned hotel is outside of Trinidad’s water service […]
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Staff Recommends Coastal Commission Object to Trinidad Hotel Project
California Coastal Commission staff issued a highly critical report on the Trinidad Rancheria’s plans for a new hotel on the bluffs of Scenic Drive near Cher-Ae Heights Casino and is recommending the commission object to the project’s tentative approval by the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). The 28-page document criticized the Rancheria for failing to […]
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Stop and Hear the Roses
It’s not often that I’m impressed with the trajectory of humankind. I wonder if we’ve hit a plateau and just can’t biologically evolve in any significant relation anymore to the technology we’ve created. The quantity of experience, and the quantity of stimuli that surround us in the 21st century is really mind-boggling, if we take […]
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Hot Streak
Feeling lucky? Home to four casinos, each with unique style, our neck of the North Coast has all your gaming fronts covered. Why not hit ’em all in one day? We did. That’s right, grab your lucky socks, steel your poker face and get ready for an 80-mile marathon day of card-turning, dice-throwing, primo food-eating, […]