It’s crisp, it’s clean and it smells like fresh lilies in here — and there they are, two big bunches of loveliness sitting on tables inside the spacious main room of the new Betty Kwan Chinn Day Center on the corner of Seventh and C streets in Eureka. A bank of computers lines a back […]
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Eureka City Council to Issue Weird Non-Apology
In a special meeting Tuesday night, the Eureka City Council will promise to never again do something that it won’t admit to having done in the first place. As it’s phrased in the agenda, the council is scheduled to adopt a resolution “of unconditional commitment to cease, desist, and not repeat past action that is […]
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Tyson’s Back: Eureka Re-Hires Former City Manager as Temp
Former Eureka City Manager David Tyson, who retired last December after 12 years in the position, has been temporarily rehired to help Interim City Manager Mike Knight. With the abrupt exit of Tyson’s successor, Bill Panos, who resigned on Oct. 4 after less than a year on the job, Knight said Tyson has been brought out of […]
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Ruins
Pictures of decay — abandoned structures slumping to ground, engulfed in flora or proudly, rustily erect — are a trope now, but that’s OK. They’re fascinating. They combine history, our reverence of engineering feats, our fears of death and erasure. We get to rubberneck at a slow moving train wreck — nature and time joining […]
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Eureka Councilman Lance Madsen Stepping Down
Fifth Ward Councilman Lance Madsen confirmed this morning he plans to step down from the council after years of health problems. Answering his phone from Stanford, where he was awaiting a medical procedure, Madsen said, “I have to keep coming down here — it’s getting to the point where I’m missing committee meetings and council […]
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Update: Solved! Eureka’s City Manager Mystery
UPDATE: Eureka Mayor Frank Jager says Panos has indeed left the building, and the items on next week’s agenda are strictly procedural. Jager says he put the items on the agenda per Councilmember Mike Newman’s request. The first item sounds like it stemmed from concerns Newman had over city council members going directly to the […]
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How Much Did EPD’s Free Truck Cost?
Humboldt County’s beefiest new truck was given to the Eureka Police Department gratis by the Defense Department last week. The catch? EPD had to pay to haul the 25-ton truck down here from Fort Lewis in Washington. How much does that cost, you might wonder? $5,500, total said EPD Chief Murl Harpham. The department paid […]
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Dead and Disconnected
William Cody Waldron’s birthday came and went two Mondays ago, on Sept. 23. If he is alive, he is now 71 years old and, quite likely, drunk. But chances are he is not alive. Chances are, he is mystery corpse “John Cooper-Gulch-Swamp Doe,” found burned beyond recognition on March 14 in a swampy homeless camp […]
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Video: Fire Claims Eureka Home
A Eureka house went up in flames this afternoon. Humboldt Bay Fire responded to the home — on the 2600 block of G Street — as area residents looked on.
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A Eureka Vision
Tempered disappointment and optimism. That’s the feeling du jour of some of Eureka’s elected officials, following Bill Panos’ short stint as city manager. And while it’s back to the drawing board for Eureka’s top position, at least this time the City Council goes into its manager hunt with a new top cop and a nearly […]
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UPDATE: Canceled! Eureka Looks to Ban Medical Marijuana Dispensaries
UPDATE: Scratch all that. Eureka City Councilmember Linda Atkins just called to let us know that the meeting is indeed canceled, as had been rumored and (we were told) debunked earlier today. What the heck is going on? “Hiccups and miscommunications and things,” Atkins said. Criminy. Who’s running this city? Original post: With less than two […]
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Times-Standard Announces New Publisher
Eureka’s “paper of record” has a new publisher. On Oct. 1, Paula Patton will make the jump from Marysville, where she published the daily newspaper The Appeal-Democrat and three weekly newspapers serving the Central Valley north of Sacramento. Read the full announcement here.