Participants in the second annual Witches Paddle on Saturday afternoon were invited by organizer Jody Himango to “wear your best witchy water outfit to artistically express the power of women while celebrating Halloween.” But those who showed up in the blustery weather under cloudy skies faced the power of Mother Nature and possible cancelation of the event. “This […]
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Photos: Paddle Out for Justice
On Sunday, June 6, some 50 people gathered on the Samoa Peninsula, on un-ceded Wiyot land called Twaya’t, for the second Paddle Out for Justice. Event Organizer Melissa Meiris started off the roster of speakers who addressed the crowd on the beach, discussing social justice issues ranging from families separated at the U.S-Mexico border, racism, […]
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Witches Float: Photos from the Witches Paddle
A coven of witches gathered on Saturday afternoon at the Eureka Boat Basin public boat launch for the inaugural Witches Paddle in kayaks and canoes, and on stand-up paddle boards on Humboldt Bay. The local version of a nationwide event on the last weekend before Halloween headed east on the incoming tide to the the Samoa Bridge […]
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Update: Officials Suspend Search and Rescue Operation of Missing Kayaker
Update: The U.S. Coast Guard has suspended the search and rescue operation for Nicholas Brunner who went missing while kayaking yesterday at Trinidad Harbor. “Suspending a search is not a decision we make lightly,” Capt. Mark Hiigel, Coast Guard Sector Humboldt Bay commander said in the release. “It is only after we have over-saturated every […]
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Keep Paddling
The universe is on Marna Powell’s side. “We were driving along Highway 101 and I looked up and saw this hill and I just pointed at it and said, ‘There, I want to live there.’ The next day that property went up for sale. It had never been for sale before.” The hill was just […]