Three years ago, when I wrote about cycling from the Crannell Road exit of U.S. Highway 101 to the end of the Humboldt Bay Trail (“Cycling Along the Water,” March 10, 2022), I was not optimistic about being able to ride past the “End of Trail” sign in the foreseeable future. It wasn’t because I […]
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So Now What
Editor’s note: This is the third of a three-part series exploring ableism and the rhetoric that sustains it. This may sound stupid, but there used to be these bushes on a railing where I work at Cal Poly Humboldt that made me mad nearly every day for two years. The railing is there to keep […]
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Milky Way Over Benbow Inn
The historic Benbow Inn keeps quiet watch along the South Fork Eel River, a century-old host lit in gold while the stars swing silently across the sky each night. In summer, the Milky Way takes its turn, marking time as it sweeps by like a clock hand through the night. I traveled down there the […]
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Global Solidarity at the Mouth of the Klamath
In her home country of Chile, 15-year-old Ianka Purran has a front-row seat to the deterioration of her home river, the Biobío, which is suffering from the impacts of dams. When Purran, Mapuche Pewenche, heard about a historic descent being planned for the newly free-flowing Klamath River in the United States, she jumped at the […]
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Blue Lake Recall: Election on Scafani to Move Forward
The city of Blue Lake is preparing for the first recall election to take place in the county in 20 years. Before the end of the year, voters in the bucolic hamlet of about 1,200 residents will be asked whether Mayor Pro-Tem Elise Scafani should be removed from office, the culmination of months of deepening […]
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Birds of the Sea(sick)
A few weeks ago, I learned two very import things. First, the vast Pacific Ocean is home to numerous unusual and wonderful bird species. Second, they belong out there. I almost certainly do not. But when you’re on a quest to see at least 300 bird species in Humboldt County in a single year, at […]
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California Police Misconduct Records Now Available in Public Database
The public can now search internal affairs documents and other police-misconduct records from nearly 700 California law enforcement agencies through a database created by UC Berkeley and Stanford University. The Police Records Access Project database, which contains roughly 1.5 million pages of records from 12,000 officer-misconduct and use-of-force cases, was jointly published Monday by CalMatters, The Los […]
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Long May You Roll
I’m going to make an unhappy announcement about current events and follow with a couple suggestions. On July 31, Derek Russell, the owner of AMPT skate shop died suddenly and unexpectedly. Please bear in mind I am writing this on Monday, and this paper will be in your hands no sooner than Thursday, which is […]
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Bittersweet Championships and Players of the Year
It was an amazing run to end the summer for the Crabs. The Crabs hosted game one of the Pacific Empire League Championship Series, and the crowd of 1,400 fans was electric. “In all my years here, I don’t think I’ve ever seen this park like that. It was amazing,” said Crabs coach and three-time […]
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Best in Show
All dogs are good boys and girls, so it’s tough choosing the best. It ain’t easy sussing out the Best of Humboldt, either. But every year, our readers put in the work voting for their favorites, from artists to dentists, pizza joints to nonprofits, selfie spots to body shops. This year’s pageant has a few […]
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‘I am an Artist’
As the film opens, men trickle into Pelican Bay State Prison’s B-facility gym to take their places in a wide circle of folding chairs, and Samuel Nault’s even voice plays over the footage: “We are all creators, every single one of us. It is the chaos and pain that we created which ultimately brought us […]
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Congress Moves in on Barred Owl Management Plan
A Texas congressman recently introduced legislation with bipartisan support to halt a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan to kill thousands of invasive owls in select areas, including parts of the North Coast, in an effort to forestall the Northern Spotted Owl’s precarious slide toward extinction and protect a threatened cousin from a similar fate. […]