The demise of a high-profile proposal to let homeless students sleep overnight in community college parking lots illustrates just how much California has struggled to solve the student housing crisis. When Assemblyman Marc Berman introduced the bill in the Legislature earlier this year, it was met with equal parts applause and ridicule. Homeless students said […]
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The Grove
Seven years ago, Annamarie Whipple moved to Humboldt County but when her partner died unexpectedly a couple of years later, she found herself homeless, living at the Eureka Rescue Mission. Struggling to find a job while living at the mission, Whipple decided to save up some money for a motorhome and, most importantly, to go […]
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The Graduate
As the Northern California sunset sinks beyond razor wire fencing and panopticon-style guard towers, David Nguyen reflects on the past 14 years of his life and contemplates the choices that led him to prison. If it wasn’t for his attire and surroundings — and the subject of the day — you probably wouldn’t suspect he […]
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School Daze
The juried student exhibition that just opened at College of the Redwoods Creative Arts Gallery brings together a range of student artworks produced in this year’s classes, from fantasy landscapes to lively nature studies. Juried by Susan J. Bloom from the department of theatre, film and dance at Humboldt State University, the exhibition keeps works […]
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St. Joseph Hospital Donates $2 Million to Jumpstart HSU’s New Nursing Program
Humboldt State University is bringing back its nursing program and St. Joseph Hospital has a committed a $2 million grant to help implement and sustain the new partnership between the College of the Redwoods and HSU. The program is hoped to help address health care shortages and “keep quality healthcare close to home” by allowing […]
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HSU Hopes to Open New Nursing Program in 2020
Humboldt State University is looking to hire a director for its new nursing program, which the university hopes to have up and running by the fall of 2020. In a press release today, the university announced that efforts to create a new bridge program — which will allow working nurses and those who have recently […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Eel River Delta From Table Bluff
If you have ever driven to the South Jetty of Humboldt Bay, then along the bluffs just before the road descends to the ocean level, you will have passed by Table Bluff County Park. The park is graced with trails, a broad field, trees, benches and, of course, great views over the Pacific Ocean and […]
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Community Icon Muriel Dinsmore Dies at 89
Muriel Dinsmore, a tireless supporter of myriad community causes — from the arts to historic preservation to education — died this week. She was 89. Born in Eureka just before the stock market crash of 1929, Dinsmore grew up in Rio Dell and was well-known for the decade she spent as editor of the Times-Standard’s […]
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North Coast Night LIghts: Fernbridge Beneath the Milky Way
A photograph is not merely an impression of light, it is a combination of light and time. We don’t usually think about that as we snap our shutters in fractions of a second. Not much that we can notice changes in a fraction of a second. But when that element of time is extended a […]
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CR Scholarship to Honor Fortuna High Grad Killed in Umpqua College Shooting
College of the Redwoods is asking the community to donate to a scholarship fund in honor of Fortuna High grad Jason Dale Johnson, who was killed in the Umpqua Community College shooting in Oregon on Oct. 1. Johnson had recently completed a six-month treatment program and, as part of a “new way of life, clean […]
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UPDATED: CR Prez to Retire
After two years leading College of the Redwoods, President Kathryn Smith announced in an email to staff Friday that she’ll be retiring at the conclusion of her contract, which runs through the conclusion of this school year, expiring June 30, 2015. Smith confirmed the news to the Journal via email this morning, and said the […]
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The Great Deer Roundup
The hunger of deer is no greater than the fury of gardeners who seek to thwart the peaceful vegetarians. Just ask the Humboldt Botanical Garden’s deer wranglers, sturdy volunteers who scrambled up steep ravines, picked off bloodsucking ticks and nursed pokes and scratches from blackberry brambles in the great deer round up of 2005. While […]