You’ve undoubtedly heard that the famous director M. Night Shyamalan was in Humboldt recently making a movie called After Earth with the famous actor Will Smith and his son Jaden. You may have read, in passing, about the director’s visit with a group of young, local filmmakers. Here’s the inside story on that close encounter, written […]
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Report Highlights Local Need for Child Care
Have we mentioned before how badass is the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP)? No? Well, it is. The research center, located on the campus of Humboldt State University, aims to improve the health and well-being of rural people (like us) through the power of data. The center’s previous reports have addressed rural Internet connectivity, […]
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“This Is the Future”
It’s finally complete. After years of operating a state-of-the-art alternative energy lab in a collection of dilapidated buildings in the back of Humboldt State’s now-empty University Annex, the Schatz Energy Research Center moved into its new digs on Friday, celebrating with the grand opening with the requisite speeches and an open house. The brand new […]
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Eureka High Mural Unveiled — Finally
“Our history defines who we are. It shapes us into this moment, the present…” So begins the inscription on a mural by former Eureka High School student Hannah Larkin, set to be unveiled at the school cafeteria Wednesday morning. One thing you can say about Eureka High: It has history. Founded at the end of […]
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CR Prez Disses the Journal in Job Interview
In a community forum down in Stockton Tuesday, College of the Redwoods President Jeff Marsee (right) sought to convince the public that he should be hired as the next president of San Joaquin Delta College, and his pitch included a dig at the North Coast Journal. Marsee suggested that last year’s cover story on the turmoil […]
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CR Not Involved in New Negotiations for Jefferson School Site
Mike Newman — the “new man” on the Eureka City Council (one of four new members, actually) — stirred up some shit at his first council meeting, on Dec. 7, when he announced that he wasn’t comfortable with the scheduled purchase of the abandoned Jefferson Elementary School site. The campus has been in escrow since September, […]
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Pedaling Pedagogues
(photo courtesy of Bike49’s Web site ) On May 16 , four stalwarts will roll out of Arcata on their bicycles, and they won’t be back until 14 months and 49 states have passed beneath their wheels. One is a bird nut; another does frogs and toads; another, buildings; and another, farms. And they all […]
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HSU Nursing Program Resuscitated
Humboldt State University’s Nursing program will not be eliminated as had been recommended by the Academic Senate in the face of dramatic budget cuts. Instead, HSU President Rollin Richmond announced this morning that he will enact recommendations from Provost Robert Snyder to restructure Nursing — in part by reducing admissions from 60 to 40 students per semester […]
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Marsee: ‘We Must Reverse the Painful Course’ at CR
UPDATED, with link to survey results. Though he’s currently touring colleges in western Siberia, College of the Redwoods President/Superintendent Jeff Marsee appears to be taking the CR revolt seriously. Last week, at a heated Board of Trustees meeting, union employees delivered a vote of no confidence in the Board, citing the removal from the CR […]
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CR Officially Withdraws Jefferson Offer
After the press release of a couple weeks ago, you may have assumed this was a done deal already. It wasn’t. Not until last night when CR’s Board of Trustees took President Jeff Marsee’s advice to abandon controversial plans to acquire Jefferson Elementary School on Eureka’s West Side (see “Schoolyard Scrap,” Feb. 18, 2010). And […]
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A-town Anti-Prom
Fun flash! (Emphasis ours): The Arcata Costume Prom is a high school age dance put on by local Arcata teenagers who found the proms instituted by their schools to be lacking in style and not serving the whole student population. The Costume Prom was created to fulfill many dance styles and musical taste from Jazz […]
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Advice For Drug Dealers
Here’s a tip for you drugmongers out there: Let’s say you and your man-friend, who happens to be a convicted felon (sexy!), are hotboxing it in a casino parking lot, enjoying some well-earned r & r after a grueling day of meth-peddling. We’ve all been there. And we all know that, on days like this, […]