Rolling Stone reports that he died today due to complications from multiple sclerosis. Entertainment Weekly adds that he passed away “in a northern California hospital.” We’ll see what we can get. UPDATE: Assistant Coroner Charlie Van Buskirk that Beefheart died at Mad River Hospital early this morning. He knows this only because hospital staff called him with […]
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Did Not Shirk Work
Harvey G. Harper in his office at Harper Motors earlier this year. He died Tuesday night.
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Arcata Exchange Co-owner, Young Son Die in Plane Crash
Longtime Arcata resident Keith Newcomer, the original owner of plaza furniture store Arcata Exchange, was apparently the victim of a plane crash Saturday evening in northern Georgia, where he was visiting his son Christopher. The boy, who is believed to be around seven years old, has also been tentatively identified as a victim of the […]
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R.I.P. Rick Springer: Anti-Nuke Activist, Reagan Assaulter, Former Humboldter
Rick Springer protests at an anti-nuclear demonstration near the Nevada Test Site in 1992. Photo from Flickr user Mark Bult. Rick Springer, a former Humboldt County anti-nuclear activist who briefly became famous when he stormed a Ronald Reagan award speech in 1992, died Sunday earlier this week at his ranch in Gerlach, Nevada. He was […]
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Eric Heimstadt, In Loving Memory
Photograph (c) Arcata Eye. All rights reserved. Use of the photograph graciously permitted by Terrence McNally. www.arcataphoto.com It was a month ago when we posted news here of the death of medical marijuana advocate Eric Heimstadt. The short note has been among our “most read” since. An official obit came today with word of a […]
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Albin Gruhn, Rest in Peace
Albin Gruhn, Rest in Peace: The Chron eulogizes the former head of the California Labor Federation. He got his start in the movement as a young employee of the Hammond Lumber Co. in Samoa, at the tail end of the Humboldt County labor movement’s heyday. Gruhn was