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In a quiet corner of the College of the Redwoods campus, veterans gather twice weekly to shape and mold clay in a ceramics program customized for them. As rhythmic thuds of hands pressing and slapping clay at workstations fill the room, the warmth radiating from the class transforms a standard ceramics studio into a safe […]

Not a lot of wiggle room in a 99-word story. This year’s crop of flash fiction contest entries kept it short, but not always sweet or simple. Chosen once again by yours truly, poet and novelist David Holper, retired children’s librarian JoAnn Bauer, Booklegger owner Jennifer McFadden and retired Booklegger co-owner Nancy Short, the winning […]

When the fangs sank in through my pistachio-colored Pink Floyd T-shirt and sports bra, piercing my flesh somewhere outside my right peripheral view, I had been petting my elderly cat, seated on the ground in the center of the garden I grew up in amid the Klamath Mountains near the Humboldt-Siskiyou county line. It was […]

When trying to describe what’s happening at the Jefferson Community Center and Park in Eureka, the simplest way might just be to say, well, a lot. Walking around the B Street site, it’s almost hard to imagine this was once an empty, dilapidated building on a weed-covered lot enclosed by a chain-link fence hung with […]

As the chair of the Humboldt County Republican Central Committee, Susan Moxon may not be above partisan rhetoric. A day before voters nationwide headed to the polls for Election Day, she shared to the local chapter’s social media account a prayerful post: “Dear Lord, Please make it TOO BIG TO RIG. Amen.” Forty minutes later, […]

When Deseri Rivas moved from Mendocino County to Humboldt County and began helping seven siblings she was raising navigate Eureka City Schools in 2010, she said she did not encounter an environment she felt was welcoming or supportive of Native families like hers. “There were no resources for us,” she says, adding that her siblings […]

California is an expensive place to call home. It’s such a fundamental part of California life it almost feels silly to say. Along with good weather, sunny beaches, Hollywood and the Golden Gate Bridge, the sky-high cost of housing has become part of the state’s national identity.  The high cost of housing touches virtually every […]

When Humboldt County voters fill out their ballots, after they check a box for their preferred candidates for president, senator, member of Congress and state Assembly, as well as those for local school board and city council seats, they’ll wade through 10 statewide propositions. Then, finally, they’ll get to local measures, and there are a […]

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is moving forward with a plan to kill thousands of invasive owls in targeted areas, including parts of the North Coast, in an effort to stave off extinction of the northern spotted owl. Under the recently released management strategy, the service will partner with “interested tribes, federal and state […]