Inside your brain is a very tiny story (but it’s BIG, baby, real big). We want to read it. Our judges want to judge it. Fame, publication, a prize — these could be yours. So get the thing out of your head, make it 99 words or fewer, and send it to the North Coast […]
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Two Young People Die in Collisions
Officials have released the names of two young Humboldt County residents who lost their lives yesterday, Sept. 22, in two separate vehicle collisions. Rio Dell resident Rynn Smith, 24, died when the 1991 Toyota pickup he was riding in crashed on Van Duzen Road. According to the Weaverville office of the California Highway Patrol, in […]
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Reggae Daze (Photos Part 3)
Saturday evening at Reggae on the River continued with one of reggae’s oldest performing groups, Third World. After its one-of-a-kind performance, sunshine-reggae group Iration further livened up the crowd and got guests ready for the living legend and reggae icon Jimmy Cliff. Cliff’s performance was elaborate, beautiful and electrifying to say the least. After returning […]
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The Fairest of Them All
Indeed, there was never any doubt, but this is just to say Humboldt County took the gold medal again (won last year, too) at the California State Fair 2014 for its booth promoting Humboldt goodness. The booth, a creation of the Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau and Humboldt Made, featured products made in Humboldt set in […]
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Photo Contest Countdown
Hey Humboldt, you have just seven days left to snap a portrait for the Journal’s Faces of Humboldt photo contest! From May 29 through June 20, use your camera, tablet, phone or any other snazzy device you may to capture the faces of Humboldt County. Photos should be submitted as high-resolution JPEGs via email to […]
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Internet Dreamin’
Clad in a busy floral tie, white shirt and slacks, Larry Goldberg sits on the handrail of a single lane wooden bridge, with a bulky computer on his lap and a cellular phone the size of a dictionary beside him. The dirt road behind him curves in front of a barn and a logger’s hard […]
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How Green is Humboldt?
As the world readies to celebrate Earth Day on April 22, it seems a fitting time to take a good, hard look in the mirror. Yes, Humboldt County, home to towering redwood trees, flowing rivers and a magnificent coastline, was green before it was cool. It’s a place where folks outfitted their homes with solar […]
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Connections to a Conspiracy
It’s not often that Humboldt County ends up in the pages of ESPN the Magazine. But, there we are in this week’s edition. It turns out it was the discovery of $100,000 in cash and a map of Eureka found in the trunk of a marijuana-perfumed Toyota Camry that spawned the massive FBI case a […]
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Trouble Brewing
The folks at Humboldt Made are hoping a labeling controversy might land a once-local beer’s brewing operations back on the North Coast. The Humboldt Brewing Co.’s current incarnation has little to do with its county of origin. Sure, there are the colorful labels complete with images of towering redwoods and lush ferns. There’s the word […]
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We Flunk, Mostly
The American Lung Association has released its State of Tobacco Control 2014, a report that “tracks progress on key tobacco control policies at the state and federal levels” according to the executive summary. The intent is to see how well jurisdictions are doing in protecting people from tobacco smoke. Counties and cities are graded, too, in […]
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This is What Legalization Looks Like
A quarter-mile down a gravel driveway from the cluster of mailboxes on Washington state’s Vashon Island, past second-growth conifers and bare alders, James Clark’s homestead could just as easily be in Fieldbrook as on this Manhattan-sized moraine lumped in the middle of Puget Sound. Clark is at work on a project that, for the moment […]
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Fires in January
We’re not even 10 days into the New Year and, already, in Humboldt and Del Norte counties, at least 10 wildfires have sprouted in our tinder-dry January hills. January. Wildfires. “Yeah, crazy,” says Paul Duncan, battalion chief with CalFire’s Humboldt-Del Norte Unit emergency command center in Fortuna. This means, after an already smoke-filled summer and […]