While on your essential outings, you may start seeing green signs that read, “This facility is compliant,” in the windows of open restaurants around the county. The signs, introduced April 27, list four main practices to slow the spread of COVID-19 — wearing facial coverings, practicing social distancing and hand washing, and offering only takeout/curbside […]
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Time to Mask Up, Humboldt
At one minute past midnight today, facial coverings became the law of land in Humboldt County under an order announced Tuesday by county Health Officer Teresa Frankovich. The ideal is simply: By wearing a mask you help protect others from a possible transmission of COVID-19 and when other people wear facial coverings, they help protect […]
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Expiring Driver’s Licenses Extended
Wondering if you have to renew your license and get stuck with a photo of your lockdown bangs? Good news: The Department of Motor Vehicles has announced it’s extending expiring licenses at least until the end of May in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press release, the DMV put a May 31 deadline […]
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Costco Sends Healthcare Workers and First Responders to the Front of the Line
If you’ve made an essential trip to Costco lately (hopefully not to hoard toilet paper — seriously), it’s been a very different experience. Shoppers, who are asked to follow social distancing protocols, are limited to two people per membership card, hours have been cut back and shopping is restricted to those 60 and older only […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week: We’ve got COVID-19 updates for Humboldt County, how Rio Dell and its mayor are stepping up to help seniors and people with disabilities get supplies, and how restaurants are trying to minimize contact with customers and between staff as they pivot to takeout. Hit subscribe for weekly updates from our YouTube channel.
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Taking (Some of) the Contact out of Take-out
In the Friday afternoon lull between lunch and dinner, Eduardo Lopez still has to put the phone down to help customers at Toni’s 24-hour Restaurant. “It’s enough to keep us busy,” he says. Despite the suspension of table service under the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, he says, “we’ll get our rushes around regular times.” Restaurants offering […]
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L.A. Times: Scientists Concerned over Potential COVID-19 Exposure from Beach Walks and Swimming
The Los Angeles Times is reporting potential COVID-19 infection risk at California beaches, not just from other people out for walks and surfing, but from the ocean and its spray. The piece quotes Kim Prather, an atmospheric chemist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, who “worries SARS-CoV-2 could enter the ocean from sewage spills and outfalls, and […]
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Sara Bareilles and Guy Fieri are Taking COVID-19 Seriously and So Should You
Yesterday People reported that Eureka’s singer-songwriter and person who’s made me cry with songs about pie Sara Bareilles announced on an Instagram story that she contracted but fully recovered from COVID-19. “I had it, just so you know. I’m fully recovered, just so you know,” she says in the video as she takes what appears […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week we’re sharing updates about Humboldt’s COVID-19 cases and community transmission, and looking back at how the county managed during the 1918-1919 flu epidemic. And why wearing a DIY mask is a way to put your community first. Click subscribe for weekly YouTube video updates.
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HCOE Recommends Schools Remain Closed for the Term
According to a press release, the Humboldt County Office of Education plans to follow the advice of Public Health Officer Teresa Frankovich and the recommendation of Gov. Newsom and advise local school facilities to remain closed through the end of the school year. Distance learning implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19 will continue. The […]
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Dear Readers:
At 7:30 a.m. last Tuesday I was waiting my turn behind a strip of tape on the sidewalk outside the North Coast Co-op in Arcata. I hope you are following the rules, like me — in my case, shopping senior-only hours. I spotted store clerk Larry Crabb clicking a plastic hand counter at the door, […]
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Disequilibrium
Breath in, breath out. On the Adirondack bench beneath the kiwi arbor late afternoon sun beneath bluest of sky, stilling my mind, emptying thoughts: focus on the cool air traversing nostrils, filling belly sending calming goodness throughout my body. Just breathe. Just be. Here in this moment. But the words I didn’t know I’d have […]