The Yurok Tribe has been selected to serve as the first pilot location of the U.S. Marshals Service’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Initiative, according to a news release from the tribe, which aims to “develop tribally-led collaborative partnerships to proactively examine public safety issues – particularly those involving missing endangered children.” “The Yurok Tribe […]
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How to Help: The Humboldt Holiday Food Drive
The Humboldt Holiday Food Drive is happening this week to benefit Food for People, which is seeing an increased need this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Non-perishable food items can be dropped off at: • Eureka Co-op, Fourth and B streets in Eureka: Monday, Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. […]
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Zombie Apocalypse
Anyone who’s watched traditional zombie movies knows it’s never really the zombies themselves that kill people. Sure, the relentless but slow-moving and brainless corpses are the mechanism of death, but it’s really humans’ selfishness, panic, stupidity and conflict that always causes them to leave positions of relative safety to imperil themselves and their loved ones. […]
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Community Responsibility
A friend of the Journal recently said that opening one part of the country — or one part of the state — amid the COVID-19 pandemic is akin to having a peeing section in a public swimming pool. The analogy is crude but accurate. We were reminded of this July 13 when, faced with soaring […]
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HumCo COVID: Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes Talks About The Rio Dell COVID-19 Volunteer Corp
Watch Rio Dell Mayor Debra Garnes talk about the Rio Dell COVID-19 Volunteer Corp on the HumCo COVID Facebook page. The volunteer group sends out meal packages, hand sanitizer packages to seniors and people in need. Watch the full video below. Related Stories
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A Huge Thank You to Our Supporters
For nearly 30 years, the North Coast Journal has been covering the stories and people you care about in Humboldt County. We’re proud to share our coverage in print and online for free so everyone — with or without internet access or the means to subscribe to a paper — can stay informed, especially during […]
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A Huge Thank you to Our Supporters
For nearly 30 years, the North Coast Journal has been covering the stories and people you care about in Humboldt County. We’re proud to share our coverage in print and online for free so everyone — with or without internet access or the means to subscribe to a paper — can stay informed, especially during […]
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The Cost of COVID
It feels as though loss has come to surround us lately. Our children have lost the opportunity to go to school, tear through playgrounds, have playdates, finish their sports seasons, dance at prom and walk across a graduation stage. We adults have lost the ability to go out to dinner with a friend, have the […]
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Front Window
In one of Janessa Johnsrude’s photos, a mother and daughter sit perched in an open window, smiling at one another, a big, milky-eyed dog between them. Their tableau, framed by the window of the house, is overlaid with the branches of an apple tree bright with pink blossoms and a set of copper wind chimes […]
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Each Other
“Honestly, that’s what we’ve got. We’ve got each other.” David Cobb was talking to the Journal about Cooperation Humboldt, the nonprofit he co-founded, and its response to the COVID-19 pandemic. But it’s true of all of us. In ways that have never been so plain, community resilience is vital. And it will likely be further […]
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A Thank You to Our Members
For nearly 30 years, the North Coast Journal has been covering the stories and people you care about in Humboldt County. We’re proud to share our coverage in print and online for free so everyone — with or without internet access or the means to subscribe to a paper — can stay informed, especially during […]
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The COVID Conjuncture
Do you know what a historic conjuncture is, David Cobb asks. Told no, the already quick cadence of his voice quickens over the phone. The term, the 2004 Green Party presidential nominee excitedly explains, was coined by Antonio Francesco Gramsci while the philosopher was imprisoned by Benito Mussolini’s fascist regime and describes a moment when […]