Every day, while we’re all stuck at home, politicians and health officials and news anchors point to graphics showing the latest statistics on the coronavirus pandemic to indicate what might happen next, in your region and around the world. Underlying those visuals are disease forecasting models — complex mathematical algorithms that predict disease spread and […]
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Front Window: Janessa Johnsrude’s Sheltering in Places portraits
In one of Janessa Johnsrude’s photos, a mother and daughter sit perched in an open window, smiling at one another, a big, milky-eyed dog between them. Their tableau, framed by the window of the house, is overlaid with the branches of an apple tree bright with pink blossoms and a set of copper wind chimes […]
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Expiring Driver’s Licenses Extended
Wondering if you have to renew your license and get stuck with a photo of your lockdown bangs? Good news: The Department of Motor Vehicles has announced it’s extending expiring licenses at least until the end of May in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. In a press release, the DMV put a May 31 deadline […]
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Costco Sends Healthcare Workers and First Responders to the Front of the Line
If you’ve made an essential trip to Costco lately (hopefully not to hoard toilet paper — seriously), it’s been a very different experience. Shoppers, who are asked to follow social distancing protocols, are limited to two people per membership card, hours have been cut back and shopping is restricted to those 60 and older only […]
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Taking (Some of) the Contact out of Take-out
In the Friday afternoon lull between lunch and dinner, Eduardo Lopez still has to put the phone down to help customers at Toni’s 24-hour Restaurant. “It’s enough to keep us busy,” he says. Despite the suspension of table service under the COVID-19 shelter-in-place order, he says, “we’ll get our rushes around regular times.” Restaurants offering […]
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Sara Bareilles and Guy Fieri are Taking COVID-19 Seriously and So Should You
Yesterday People reported that Eureka’s singer-songwriter and person who’s made me cry with songs about pie Sara Bareilles announced on an Instagram story that she contracted but fully recovered from COVID-19. “I had it, just so you know. I’m fully recovered, just so you know,” she says in the video as she takes what appears […]
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NCJ Preview with Access Humboldt
This week we’re sharing updates about Humboldt’s COVID-19 cases and community transmission, and looking back at how the county managed during the 1918-1919 flu epidemic. And why wearing a DIY mask is a way to put your community first. Click subscribe for weekly YouTube video updates.
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HCOE Recommends Schools Remain Closed for the Term
According to a press release, the Humboldt County Office of Education plans to follow the advice of Public Health Officer Teresa Frankovich and the recommendation of Gov. Newsom and advise local school facilities to remain closed through the end of the school year. Distance learning implemented to slow the spread of COVID-19 will continue. The […]
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The 200th Victim
In 1918 my dad, part of the U. S. Army’s First Division, was on a troop ship bound for France. The soldiers on board slept in bunk beds. My dad had a lower bunk, and each morning he would kick the bunk above him to wake up the soldier sleeping there. One morning he kicked […]
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Upward Trajectory
In a flurry of activity over the late afternoon and evening hours of March 30, Humboldt County officials announced that the local spread of COVID-19 was growing more serious, with two community transmission cases, and took more drastic actions to contain the virus. Humboldt County Sheriff William Honsal declared a local emergency, putting his Office […]
Posted inLife + Outdoors
Fires and Masks
I used to love to visit the Fire Museum in Tokyo. There you could see the traditional irezumi tattoos of firefighters along with models of the tight rows of wooden houses that made up towns in Edo Japan. Woodblock prints and dioramas showed how the firefighters, roving bands of tough guys, would, instead of throwing […]
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Redwood National and State Parks Close Parking Lots, Recommend Virtual Tours
If you’ve been scanning the list of Redwood State and National Parks to see which ones still have open parking lots, you can stop now. They’re all closed, effective immediately. Hikers, walkers and cyclists are still welcome, just not their cars. Also, campgrounds, visitors centers and bathrooms remain closed. According to a press release, the […]