Summer comes in pieces, with many unofficial starting points before the solstice. Around here, one of those points is the beginning of the Crabs’ baseball season, which started Friday. Opening night is always a big deal in Arcata, with people of all ages filling the metal bleachers and picnic tables to root for the home […]
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A Ranking of Snack Shack Eats at the Arcata Ball Park
Trips to the concessions stand are part of the baseball experience — central to it, for some of us. At the Arcata Ball Park, the tab is surprisingly inexpensive, with food items topping out at $9, a pittance compared to big stadiums. This leaves you with a little extra to earn a “Tip, tip, hooray!” […]
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NCJ Best of Humboldt 2025
BEST IN SHOW 2025 🏆 Being the BEST ain’t no game — it’s a title you earn. To claim your spot as Humboldt’s Best in Show, you’ve got to get votes — and not just once. The BEST don’t just sit back — they show up, stand out, and let the whole county know they’re […]
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Glory Over Land and Sea
After the Brake Check lap around the Arcata Plaza on Saturday, May 24, 48 kinetic sculptures and their teams — from canine to bovine, warriors to hippies, spooky to sparkling — set off on the more than 50-mile, three-day quest for glory that is the annual Kinetic Grand Championship. The rollicking ride detoured past Dead […]
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Feds Impact in Humboldt
Another week, more news of the cascading impact of the Trump administration’s actions on Humboldt County. Here’s a rundown on the latest: Cal Poly Under Investigation On the same day the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced its investigation found Columbia University had violated federal law by showing indifference […]
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Cut to Rip Torn
I’ve got a lot on my mind but very little room to write about it, which is fine; I’ve been overlong in the intros lately anyway. So I’ll just give a peek instead of an essay about what I’ve been thinking about recently. Two things mainly, both published in this still-young year, the first I […]
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What’s Good: A Dipped Cone to Save the Day
Dipped soft serve cones saved my marriage. When, at the age of 28, having been a licensed driver for more than a decade, I needed to learn stick shift, it was my husband who put his head in the lion’s mouth. We practiced every day on backroads and in empty parking lots in upstate New […]
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You Say Aluminum, I Say Aluminium
My wife, Louisa, and I recently found ourselves looking up at a statue comprised of 7,400 welded aluminum plates, the Winged Virgin of Panecillo Hill in Quito, Ecuador. It’s the tallest aluminum statue in the world with a total height of 135 feet. Based on a 48-inch-tall wooden sculpture created in 1734, the Virgin was […]
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State Board Denies Humboldt County Fair Race Dates
For one of the only times in its 129-year history, the Humboldt County Fair will be held in August without horse racing, after a divided California Horse Racing Board again voted against allocating dates at its meeting earlier this month. “We have no chance at having racing during our fair,” Humboldt County Fair Association Board […]
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Celebration and Healing at CR
As we celebrate the achievements of all graduates at College of the Redwoods this week, it is worth noting that the class valedictorians three of the past four years have been scholars in recovery from addictions. I write this to those who are still struggling. My hope is that all of you use these three […]
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‘God Looking Back at You’
It’s a typical Friday at the foot of First Road in McKinleyville, where the pothole-pocked street hits the unincorporated town’s easternmost point, cutoff by the swath of former timberland that is now the McKinleyville Community Forest’s southwestern corner. It’s overcast and Christine Flores-Cozza has a jacket over her daisy-patterned, light blue dress, and Bubba, her […]
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Child Porn Allegations, Missed Deadline Delay Sexually Violent Predator Placement Hearing
A hearing to determine whether a residence in Manila is a suitable placement for a sexually violent predator ordered released from a state hospital into a community supervision program has been rescheduled for July. But before deciding on a suitable placement for Richard Stobaugh, who was convicted of a series of brutal attacks in the 1980s before […]