The 11 a.m. start time of Saturday’s 59th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess turned out to not to be good timing for the tidal-influenced water crossing of the Little River. With 720 runners, including 200 grade school and high school students sponsored by Coast Central Credit Union, at the starting line, organizers […]
Marching Lumberjacks
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Photos: Perilous Plunge Back in the Swim
In person once again after going virtual due to COVID-19, the Discovery Museum’s annual fundraiser the Perilous Plunge had sponsored supporters in colorful costumes leaping into Humboldt Bay from the pier at the foot of F Street in Eureka. It began with a parade down F Street with musical accompaniment from the Marching Lumberjacks, who […]
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The Plunge is On!
This year, the 21st annual Perilous Plunge, held Saturday, April 16 at noon at the foot of F St. in Eureka, might be more aptly named the Perilous Polar Bear Plunge, considering how motherlovin’ cold it’s gonna be. But the daredevils who leap for Redwood Discovery Museum’s annual fundraiser are fortified against the chill by […]
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Clam Beach Run Splashes Again
More than 600 runners and walkers lined up under warm, sunny skies in Trinidad on Saturday afternoon for the start of the 56th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race, which was canceled last year due to the pandemic, was shortened to 5 ¾ miles this year and followed the usual route […]
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Running Wild: Photos from the Clam Beach Run
The weather gods delivered a calm, dry Saturday morning for around 700 participants in the 55th annual Trinidad to Clam Beach Run Honoring Ford Hess. The race and fun run featured 5 3/4-mile and 8 3/4-mile options starting north of Trinidad — the “fun” for the longer races includes a wet crossing of Little River […]
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Anniversaries
One of the promises I made at the end of December was to spend the coming year with less of a dense layer between myself and you the reader. I have heard from some of you — and I thank you all for the feedback. As I have mentioned here before, I was a resident […]
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UPDATED: One Time at Band Camp
UPDATE: The Humboldt State Lumberjack’s only learned the allegations that led to the band’s suspension through a university press release, according to a statement issued Friday. The Lumberjacks claim university “representatives” have failed to respond to requests from band leadership for details regarding the allegations facing the band, which include boozing it up, graffiti and […]
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Tight Club
Brett Walters is a wrestler, not a fighter. Watching the bespectacled 6-foot-3-inch, 169.5-pound Humboldt State University student and professed pacifist carefully peel a tangerine with his long fingers, it’s a stretch to imagine him calling himself Rocket Boy Brett and launching himself at some snarling tough guy in in the ring. “I get that a […]