This week we’ve got Nora Mounce (and her son Leroy) on to talk about the history and resurgence of spicy, boozy election cakes. We’ll also get into how climate change, COVID and wildfires combine to impact the local real estate market, as people facing the prospect of rising temps, smoke and remote work look to […]
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Modified Shelter-in-Place Order Allows Bicycle Shops, Some Social Services to Resume
Humboldt County’s Joint Information Center sent out a press release this afternoon clarifying how Gov. Gavin Newsom’s modified stay-at-home order changes things here in Humboldt. (Spoiler alert: not much.) The modified order allows some real estate work to resume, bicycle shops to re-open and faith based social services to resume, all as “essential” activities. It […]
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Outer Space is Losing Its Space
The Outer Space Collective announced today via Instagram that it will have to find a new home in a month’s time. The 1110 M St. building where the organization has held performances, workshops and community meetings and events since 2017 has been sold, and members are in the process of hunting down a new location, […]
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Flower Service Comes Tableside
A recent audit by the California Department of Finance on the state’s nascent cannabis regulatory framework found the newest arm of the Golden State’s bureaucracy is suffering some growing pains. The audit found the state Bureau of Cannabis Control is currently unable to “provide effective and comprehensive oversight of cannabis activities” within the state and […]
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More on Galleries, Art and Money
Yes, local art sales have slumped and local galleries are closing. From the perspective of a working artist though, I have been amazed that this area has hung on so well so long. The national scene has been in a slow but continual 20-year decline. Of the 12 most substantial galleries I once exhibited in […]
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Squireses Put H Street Building Up for Sale
Interested in buying a fixer upper as an income property? This new listing for an apartment building in Eureka might just fit the bill: “Fourteen units that are mostly in poor condition currently, but owner will refurbish with new electrical, plumbing, and paint.” The asking price is $875,000. But there’s just one catch, well, actually, […]
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40 Acres and a Permit
Kris Sundeen, who has worked in local real estate for more than a decade, clearly remembers the day he realized the market was about to explode. It was early last summer and he’d just gotten a call from someone with 40 acres in rural Humboldt who was looking to sell and asked what Sundeen thought […]
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Mayor Jager Hears Realtors’ Concerns, Vetoes Ordinance
For the first time in 20 years, Eureka’s mayor has vetoed an ordinance passed by the city council. Eureka Mayor Frank Jager sent the council a memorandum on Thursday advising that he is vetoing its April 5 vote to pass an ordinance requiring residents to have their lateral sewer lines — those connecting their houses […]
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TL;DR Five Things You Need to Know About This Week’s Cover Story
Busy week? We get it. Here are some highlights from the cover to get you caught up. (And a few things that didn’t make it into the issue.) The tiny town of Bridgeville (85 acres, population about 25, located on State Route 36 about an hour east of Fortuna) first rolled across international headlines when […]
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Pulp Mill Cleanup Continues
Trucks have hauled about half of the pulping liquors besieging the grounds of the Samoa Pulp Mill away, and the crawl of tankers continues steadily up to Longview, Washington, where the liquors are being refined and reused by a mill. Humboldt Bay Harbor, Recreation and Conservation District CEOJack Crider said the process has been smooth […]