Food for People’s efforts to offset a huge, DOGE-induced funding loss got a boost recently, when the North Coast Co-op pledged to add $3,500 to the Farmers Fund challenge, encouraging community members who are able to also contribute to the effort to help both local farmers and food-insecure households. “The North Coast Co-op is excited […]
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Turkey Lurkey, Baby
The Thanksgiving leftover sandwich is a creation of our collective imagination executed in wildly different ways according to our individual aesthetics. We all think we mean the same sandwich, layered with the remnants of the holiday meal, but we don’t. Turkey, of course, but only carved breast meat? How thick should it be? Are you […]
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How to Help: The Humboldt Holiday Food Drive
The Humboldt Holiday Food Drive is happening this week to benefit Food for People, which is seeing an increased need this year amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Non-perishable food items can be dropped off at: • Eureka Co-op, Fourth and B streets in Eureka: Monday, Dec. 7, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. or 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. […]
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Nerds and Curds
If you’ve already burned through your standing queue of true-crime podcasts, you might consider one that’s both lighter and heavier: Cheese the Day. In its most recent episode “Cheese Crimes,” the sixth produced by the North Coast Co-op, hosts Thomas Wehland and Veronica Rudolph, the respective heads of the Eureka and Arcata stores’ cheese departments, […]
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North Coast Co-op: Employee Tested Positive for COVID
The North Coast Co-op posted on Facebook that it learned today that one of its store employees has tested positive for COVID-19. According to the post, the co-op has notified the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services and staff of the positive result. The employee last worked in the Eureka location on Sept. […]
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Humboldt’s Food Business Meltdown
Shortly after 2 a.m. on Oct. 10, employees at both branches of the North Coast Co-op were doing what nobody wants to do: throwing out food. Some worked 12-hour shifts through the evening, pouring out milk, throwing out cheese and tofu, hauling legs of lamb, ox tails and cartons of eggs to the Dumpsters out […]
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Perfect Fall Trips
You can enjoy a steaming cup of coffee with plenty of local attractions here in Humboldt County. Whether you’re into creatures or creature comforts, there are a number of adventures that will satisfy your interest in both. For example, after howling along with spider monkeys and gibbons, you can quench your thirst at the Eureka […]
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A Merry Co-op Solstice Story
After half a year of dickering and angst, North Coast Co-op management and its United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 5 employees have ratified the new contract they tentatively agreed upon in November — 81 percent of the union members voted for it. According to the Co-op, the contract includes 5 percent annual raises […]
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Co-op and Union Reach Tentative Agreement
Labor negotiations have been tense between the North Coast Co-op and the Local 5 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union, but a union rep just released the following press release: After 7 difficult months of contract negotiations, UFCW Local 5 is pleased to announce they have reached a tentative agreement with the North […]