After 50 years of owning Kokatat, Steve O’Meara has sold the Arcata-based paddling sports apparel and gear company to its Director of Operations Mark Loughmiller. “Before joining Kokatat, Mark was a local businessman and I’m pleased to be entrusting the company that means so much to me and our employees into his hands,” said O’Meara in […]
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Please Don’t Cry in the Big Girl’s Store
When I was around 10 years old, my mother decided we should have swimming lessons. It was a good decision; in 1992, the Mattole River was still deep and swift in many places, and that’s where we spent most of our summers, dogpaddling and diving for submerged soda cans with our cousins. I wasn’t scared […]
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Structure Fire on Fifth Street in Eureka Yesterday
The Humboldt Bay Fire responded to a commercial structure fire at a business on Fifth Street in Eureka yesterday. According to the release, fire crews pulled the ceiling and found the the fire had extended into another concealed space in the parapet wall above the roofline, crews then removed the stucco siding from the exterior of the […]