“Now is a great time to buy a house,” a Realtor said every single day since the dawn of Realtors. And until The Great American Housing Bubble, they were usually right. Houses were good investments … until Wall Street started using them as tokens in their rigged casino games. The housing market has been out […]
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W– Now Hiring
Job seekers, an announcement: You may now go apply for a job at Wal-Mart in Eureka. The job announcements have just gone up on all those fun sites the unemployed pore over seeking something, something, to do with their groceries-yearning, bills-owing or parent-harangued selves. One site notes they’re looking for a pharmacy manager (by the […]
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Cannery Dreams in Weitchpec
A Yurok family plans to build a cannery in Weitchpec, near the confluence of the Klamath and Trinity rivers, and has been accepting pledges at Kickstarter to get the venture going. Tom and Morneen Willson, who own Spey-gee Point Resort and Guide Services, co-founded The Source Food Company late last year with Billee Willson, who […]
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The Algae Diet
We get how this works! It’s easy: Just spray summa that magical “Klamath algae” into your maw and nobody will want to ask you out to dinner anymore, or even welcome you at the home table. Presto! Your diet begins. (Alternatively, and just as good a method: If you get the wrong Klamath algae, the […]
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Blackberry-infused Gin?
Humboldt County may have a boutique distillery in its future. The Blue Lake Rancheria Tribal Council is holding a public hearing Sept. 7 to discuss the possibility of establishing a production facility — called the Spirit Water Distillery — to make gin, vodka and rum. “We’re a long ways from being ready to talk,” said […]
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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 […]
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Judge Grants Preliminary Injunction on Richardson Grove Project
Press release from the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC): A federal judge on Wednesday ordered California state transportation officials to stop work on a controversial plan to cut wider highway lanes through ancient redwoods in Northern California’s Richardson Grove State Park. The judge granted the injunction that was being sought by a group of plaintiffs […]
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That’s a Shipload of Logs
Last week we reported on a major shipment of whole logs, mostly fir, bound for China aboard the Bright Life. A spokesperson for supplier Green Diamond said the ship came to our humble harbor by way of Canada in order to top off with a full shipload. (Harbor District President Mike Wilson tells us that […]
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Richardson Grove Protesters Rally at Eureka CalTrans Office
More than 100 protesters gathered this afternoon outside the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) District 1 office in Eureka to voice their opposition to the Richardson Grove Improvement Project. The project, which has already received environmental approvals, would remove several trees along Hwy. 101 through Richardson Grove State Park to facilitate a road realignment. The […]
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Gold Sellers Beware!
A full-page ad in this week’s Journal (page 4) calls one and all down to the Best Western Bayshore Inn, so that the good folks at Ohio Valley Gold and Silver Refinery, in town for one week only, might offer fine prices for your precious metal collectibles. They’ll be there Tuesday through Saturday, the ad […]
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SoCal Public TV Further Boosts HumCo Pot Rep
Southern California public television affiliate KCET recently produced a report on Humboldt County — which they say is known as “the pot capital of the world” (eat it, Amsterdam!) — and our conflicted feelings about Prop 19. The segment was picked up last week by PBS’s prestigious big dog, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. KCET […]