Tonight, the Eureka City Council is set to discuss an update to the city’s animal ordinance which includes some major changes to the number and type of animals — big and small — people can keep in city limits. The council will also consider requiring certain grocery stores to pay workers a premium wage, something […]
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Photos from the Hoopa Rodeo
As it does every year, the Hoopa Rodeo bucked, galloped and kicked up dirt Aug. 3-5. Native riders from California, Oregon, Nevada, Washington state and beyond came to compete. Both adults and young ones only a few hands high rode broncs (or mini broncs), zigged and zagged through the pole bending competition and sped through the […]
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Making Time: More Moments from the Hoopa Rodeo
We hope you enjoyed this week’s cover story “Holding On: A Day at the Hoopa Rodeo.” Below you’ll find a chunk of missing time from our hour-by-hour account of Saturday, Aug. 5, an interview that was cut for length from the cover, and a slideshow of photos taken during the day. 12:30 p.m. Jerry Parrish, […]
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On the XP: Local Families Take A Historic Ride Across the West
The Pony Express occupies a relatively small window in American history, but an outsized place in Wild West mythology. The mail service, in which riders carried messages via horseback for 1,800 miles from St. Jackson, Missouri to Sacramento was only in existence for 19 months — from April 3, 1860 to October 1861 — before being […]
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To the Buzzer
The 94th annual Fortuna Rodeo rode into the sunset on Sunday, July 19. Horses, firetrucks, bands and floats made their way down Main Street for the parade, and kids of all ages chanced the games and clanging rides at the carnival, while riders and ropers took on bulls and broncos in the rodeo arena in […]
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Think Hitting a Deer is Bad …
Please, watch out for the highway horses! These fuzzy pets were hurrying across Highway 96 in Hoopa today.
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Get yer hide to the races!
A fancy, feisty lot of mules and horses tore up the loamy dark track yesterday in Ferndale, to the delight of the hootin’, wagerin’, drinkin’, beef-chewin’, funnel-cake-inhalin’, corndog-swillin’ crowd that packed the grounds and stadium. If you were the person who forgot to be there, check out what you missed (but don’t despair, there’s more […]
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Old Town Carriage Co. Sold
These are the final days of a familiar pair — or pair of pairs — in Eureka. Marty L’Herault, he of the dapper hats and Old Town tales, has finally sold the Old Town Carriage Co. On March 25, he turns over the company, the horses, the rig and all the rest to the mysterious […]
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Neighhhhhh, they say
About 80 equestrian trail advocates “flash mobbed at Clam Beach today,” reports Uri Driscoll. They parked about 35 horse trailers alongside the frontage road between U.S. 101 and Clam Beach/Little River State Beach, and then assembled on foot in front of them with sign boards and a petition. They demanded that Redwood State Park listen […]