With one weekend down, the 25th North Coast Open Studios (annual but for the two years cut off by COVID-19), a free, self-guided tour of local artists’ and artisans’ workspaces, wraps up Saturday, June 14, and Sunday, June 15. A DreamMaker project of the Ink People, this year’s roster boasts 154 participating creators. Coordinator Monica […]
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A History of Humboldt County Baseball
Editor’s Note: A version of this story first appeared in the Humboldt Historical society’s Humboldt Historian in spring of 2014, on the 70th anniversary of the Humboldt Crabs Baseball team. In 2023, after a decade playing as an independent team, the Crabs joined the Pacific Empire League. The oldest continuously operating semi-pro collegiate summer baseball […]
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Glory Over Land and Sea
After the Brake Check lap around the Arcata Plaza on Saturday, May 24, 48 kinetic sculptures and their teams — from canine to bovine, warriors to hippies, spooky to sparkling — set off on the more than 50-mile, three-day quest for glory that is the annual Kinetic Grand Championship. The rollicking ride detoured past Dead […]
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‘God Looking Back at You’
It’s a typical Friday at the foot of First Road in McKinleyville, where the pothole-pocked street hits the unincorporated town’s easternmost point, cutoff by the swath of former timberland that is now the McKinleyville Community Forest’s southwestern corner. It’s overcast and Christine Flores-Cozza has a jacket over her daisy-patterned, light blue dress, and Bubba, her […]
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‘Fire Teaches Us Many Lessons’
Bill Tripp, Karuk, has been a cultural fire practitioner nearly his entire life. He remembers being 4 years old, cracking acorns as he waited for his great-grandmother to wake up so they could talk in the mornings. Eventually he turned his attention toward the woodstove and tried to build a fire. His great-grandmother heard him […]
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Summer of Fun 2025
General & Multi Activities “Weaving The Web” A Textile Youth Camp Experience with Bellamy Devine. Mon., July 7, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Tue., July 8, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Wed., July 9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Thu., July 10, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. and Fri., July 11, 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 24 Fellowship Way, Bayside. These […]
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From Garden to Table in the Hall
From lettuce to berries to garlic and parsley, vegetables color the blacktop at the Humboldt County Juvenile Detention Center as part of a garden project that started with a single chef. Beth Bailey, who has been cooking at the juvenile hall for more than 10 years, started the garden as the capstone project for her […]
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‘If Only We’d Done More to Save Her’
Some years ago, Laurel Uber says she ended up with a small, unused wooden coffin, given to her wife by someone at church who’d made it. “It’s been sitting around the house,” Uber says, adding they’d been unsure what to do with it. That changed in the lead up to the April 19 protest in […]
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Gloria
I went out past the back pasture in the body of this column, so no opening essay this week. In deference to Easter Sunday, when I am writing this, I humbly submit for your consideration the final words of Dante’s Divine Comedy, when the poet has looked upon God in Paradise, but finds himself unable […]
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Portrait of a Prairie
About a decade ago, ecologist Joe Hostler set out to better understand how Yurok lands have changed over time in an effort to protect them into the future. What he learned helped lay the groundwork for the tribe’s first foray into grasslands restoration at a project currently underway on 60-acres of a site known as […]
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How the Klamath Dams Came Down
Part 1: Fish and Paper Editor’s note: This story was produced by Grist and co-published with Underscore Native News. At 17 years old, Jeff Mitchell couldn’t have known that an evening of deer hunting would change his life — and the history of the Klamath River — forever. Over Thanksgiving week in 1974, Mitchell and […]
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Cal Poly Humboldt Presents’ Season of Change
When someone sits back to tell you about the show they saw at Cal Poly Humboldt’s Van Duzer Theatre — whether it was a ballet company, a house-shaking hip hop duo, comedy (Shakespearean or otherwise), an iconic singer/songwriter or a touring string quartet — there is nearly always a moment of wonder that it happened […]