Caroline Titus is one of two reporters being honored by the First Amendment Coalition this evening during the California Press Foundation’s annual meeting in San Francisco. Titus will receive the Coalition’s Free Speech and Open Government Award as an acknowledgement of her 18-month battle with the Humboldt County Fair Association over disclosure of its financial […]
Jack Mays
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Goodbye, Jack Mays
Artist Jack Mays, colorful chronicler of Ferndale, has died, The Ferndale Enterprise reports. Mays had battled cancer since 2004 — living nearly a decade longer than the doctors had predicted he would, and doing all sorts of inspiring and lively things in that time. He captured every inch of Ferndale and many of its people in elaborately […]
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Jack Mays
The ghouls, scalpels clutched in their gnarl-boned fists, hover over the operating table upon which Jack Mays, chest rent open, twists in torture. “After this procedure,” the ghouls gloat, “you’ll live another day and a half!” That’s one imaginary scene for a cartoon that Mays, the revered and feared longtime Ferndale artist and editorial cartoonist, […]