We see it overtly in online comments sections, the sentiment that “if they don’t like it here, they should leave.” And we see it subtly in things like the recently minted Facebook page pushing for a public vote on the fate of President McKinley’s statue in the Arcata Plaza, which the city council voted to […]
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A Student Project Seeks to Bridge Humboldt’s Campus-Community Divide
At first blush, Erin Youngblood-Smith and Amy Mathieson couldn’t be more different. And that could have been a problem. A white woman born and raised in rural Montana, Mathieson moved with her family to McKinleyville at 16 when her father, a pastor in the Baptist church, got a job there. She never really experienced diversity […]
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TL;DR: Why You Need to Join the Conversation in This Week’s Cover Story
Busy week? We get it. So in the event that you haven’t been able to find the time to sit down and dive into last week’s cover package, here’s a brief primer to get you caught up and, hopefully, convince you to take a look at the full story. When Humboldt State University students left […]
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Contest Countdown!
Hey, Shutterbugs, time is running out! The deadline to enter the Journal’s 2017 reader photo contest is fast approaching. So, between now and midnight on June 19, grab your camera and document your community, whatever that means to you — your people, your neighborhood, your city, your ecosystem, your culture — and send us your […]
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Photo Contest!
I don’t think we’re alone in saying 2017 has been a slog so far. We were all so happy to put 2016 behind us but every day it seems like some new craziness — both from within our county and beyond — has descended to test us. But all that has spurred us to spend […]
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Culture Change
Mark Rowley has spent just about all of his 62 years in Willow Creek and says he’s never been tempted to move. That is, until now. Why — after having raised two kids and trading one successful business for another — would Rowley consider leaving the valley his family has called home for three generations? […]
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4/20’s Back!
“This is lame,” murmured one of Arcata’s few hardcore stoners around 4:23 p.m. this afternoon. A couple of young men had stepped off the concrete slab at Redwood Park, the small piece of public property that the Humboldt Center for Constitutional Rights had wrested from the control of a zealous city staff over the course […]
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The Justice Bus is Coming
The Justice Bus Project (2013) from OneJustice on Vimeo. Free legal support will soon be available for those affected by the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program for undocumented youth who entered the United States before the age of 16. On March 27 and 28 representatives from OneJustice will be holding clinics to […]
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Homey, No!
A grisly scene on Arcata’s West End Road, where everyone’s favorite yellow four-fingered buffoon bobs in the moss and weeds of a nearby ditch. Was it a cartoon mafia hit? A lover’s tryst gone wrong? Or simply a teenager’s dramatic goodbye to childhood? We may never know, but one thing is for sure: Homey deserves […]
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County Mental Health Crisis Reprieve Expected
County officials announced a plan today to address a staffing crisis at the Mental Health Branch that bubbled to the surface in recent weeks. A spate of resignations was poised to leave mental health — which runs Sempervirens, the county psychiatric hospital, and provides other outpatient adult and child psychiatric services — with only one […]
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Don Clausen Dies
Ferndale native and former North Coast Congressman Don Clausen has died. He was 91. Clausen, a World War II veteran and a Republican who served from 1963 to 1982 in the U.S. House of Representatives, was described in a 2013 Santa Rosa Press Democrat story celebrating his 90th birthday as an ambidextrous baseball player (he […]
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EPD Officers May Start Wearing Cameras
As the ripples of last year’s national and local police-involved shootings reverberate through the country, Eureka’s police department is considering outfitting officers with wearable cameras. Chief Andrew Mills supports the idea, but said much needs to be sorted out before it will happen. Mills’ plan is to repurpose $60,000 currently earmarked for police car dashboard […]