UPDATE: On Tuesday the board voted to support the resolution 3-2, with Supervisors Lovelace and Clendenen opposing. Public comment was almost unanimously in support of the resolution, though Harbor Commissioner Richard Marks said he had “some issues” with it and wished it had been brought to the harbor district first. Lovelace and Clendenen said they […]
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Hoopa Cash
The post office and banks in the Hoopa Valley were inundated today as Hoopa Valley tribal members lined up to get their mail and then deposit their fresh-cut $10,000 checks. Outside the post office, the Hoopa Tribal Police posted a guard to keep things orderly. The checks are part of a $49.2 million settlement reached […]
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Humboldt Goes Airline Courting … Again
Good news for locals who travel in the sky (or whose friends/family/customers do): A group of area businesses, tribes, governments and nonprofits has cobbled together $250,000, which will be added to the $750,000 federal grant we got in September to reach the cool million dollars required to attract a new airline carrier to our foggy, […]
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Eureka Hires New City Manager
The city of Eureka announced today that is has hired William T. Panos, former West Sacramento director of public works, to be its next city manager, replacing David Tyson, who is retiring at the end of the year. According to the Bill Panos page on brandyourself.com, his previous experience includes working as an engineer at […]
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Scare Crow
Freaked-out opposition and stern eyebrow-raising amongst the citizenry has caused the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to drop its plan to poison crows and ravens on Clam Beach as a means to protect the threatened Western snowy plover. The plan — called an experiment by the Fish and Wildlife Service — was to plant avicide-laced […]
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County Appoints Hamblin as New Planning and Building Director
Press release from the county: The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors announced today the appointment of Kevin Hamblin to the position of Director of Planning and Building. For the past three years, Mr. Hamblin served as the Community Development Director for Del Norte County. Prior to that, he was the Director of Community Development with […]
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News from Elsewhere – about us
In case you missed them, a couple of California’s major dailies ran Humboldt-centric stories this week. A travel piece in the Sacramento Bee titled “Arcata both embraces and rises above its cliches” offers a tourist-eye view of Arcata describing it as “a little bit of everything: a college town, a neo-hippie enclave, a haven for environmentalists […]
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That property tax bill? Er … never mind
For the last couple of years, every time auditor-controller Joe Mellett told Humboldt County supes he really needed some more accountants, it was “basically just me whining to the board,” Mellett recalled over the phone on Thursday afternoon. So Mellett sucked it up like lots of people on understaffed job sites. Sometimes work went unchecked. […]
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Bohn Underscores Faith in Cops, Law
This from North Coast Journal intern Scottie Lee Meyers: Newly appointed County Supervisor Rex Bohn said Thursday that his only child’s arrest on kidnapping, assault and other charges shouldn’t interfere with his political duties, and he stressed that he has faith in the system. “I have full faith in the legal system and law enforcement,” […]
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County Staff Comes Up With a Way to Clarify the GPU for Supes
It was standing-room only at yesterday’s special meeting of the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors. “Was it something I said?” joked Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg, who last week expressed confusion and concern over the general plan update process and suggested possible changes to that process. Many, including this reporter and Sundberg’s fellow supervisor, Mark […]
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Supes Majority Offers Grab-bag of Reasons to Torpedo the GPU Process
The video of Monday’s contentious general plan update meeting of the county board of supervisors is now available for viewing (here). If you have the time it’s well worth your while. The original report* on the meeting mentioned a handful of reasons offered by the board’s new conservative majority — Ryan Sundberg, Rex Bohn and […]
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C U, GPU?
The Humboldt Sentinel reports on a stunning ideological coup attempt at Monday’s special meeting of the Humboldt County Supervisors, wherein the conservative majority moved to invalidate the nearly complete General Plan Update and potentially start from scratch. According to the report, Fifth District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg complained that the document, which has moved through a […]