Two-term incumbent Rex Bohn and radio personality Cliff Berkowitz, who cofounded Lost Coast Communications, are vying to represent the First District in this year’s March 3 primary election. Encompassing a sprawling area that stretches from the far reaches of Shelter Cove to the more urban neighborhoods of Cutten, the First District hasn’t seen a contested […]
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SoHum Turns Out to Talk Roads, Abandoned Vehicles at Budget Meeting
By 6 p.m. yesterday, the overflow audience at the southern version of the Humboldt County Budget Roadshow meeting at the historic Benbow Inn just south of Garberville clogged the doorway and lined the walls. By the end of the event, a long swath of paper covered with suggestions spread across the front wall of the […]
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Updated: Last Chance Grade Losing More Ground
Update: Motorists traveling along the Last Chance Grade on U.S. Highway 101 south of Crescent City should expect up to 20 minute delays – day or night – as Caltrans works to stabilize a section of roadway there that slipped out on Wednesday. Caltrans District 1 Facebook post: TRAFFIC ADVISORY / UPDATE: Motorists using U.S. […]
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Board of Supervisors Talks ‘Band Aid’ Funding for Roads
The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to direct $575,000 in leftover Measure Z money to the county public works department rather than rolling it over into the next fiscal year. The decision came after a long discussion among the supervisors and public comment by a resident of the Petrolia area, who shared concerns […]
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Ballot Measures: P and V Cruise in Final Report
2nd UPDATE: With the final election night report posted, measures seeking to bring a true ward voting system to Eureka and put mobile home parks located within unincorporated areas of the county under rent control have won handily. Other items of note: Humboldt voters passed school bonds everywhere but Ferndale; tax measures were successful other […]
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Must, Need & Nice: Measure Z Committee Makes Its Recommendations
The Citizen’s Advisory Committee on Measure Z has finished sorting through the 43 applications it received for funding, breaking the requests up into three categories: “must,” “need” and “nice.” The process, which involved six meetings and a public hearing, short-listed the “musts” for inclusion in the 2016-2017 fiscal year, the budget for which will be up […]
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Roads, Safety About to Get a Big Boost from Measure Z
No pitchforks were actually being waved, but Mattole Valley residents who turned out Wednesday night to talk roads and safety with Supervisor Rex Bohn and other officials weren’t optimistic. That was before they got a whole lot more good news than they’d bargained for. In January 2016 the Measure Z Citizens Committee recommend that $125,000 of […]
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Many of Humboldt’s Worst Roads Are Probably Not Going to Get Fixed
We went through your complaints about bad roads in Humboldt County and got some information about when and if they’re scheduled for repair. One common theme is that people often don’t know which entity is responsible for maintaining roads in their neighborhoods. In Eureka, for example, roads fall into several different jurisdictions, even within city […]
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Death on Newton B. Drury Parkway Brings Humboldt 2015 Road Deaths to 25
The death of a Klamath man at noon yesterday brings the grim total of road deaths in the county up to 25 for 2015. The driver, an 89-year-old man who has yet to be identified, was traveling northbound along the Newton B. Drury Parkway when he left the road and collided with a tree. The […]
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UPDATE: Man Killed on 101 Identified
UPDATE: The Humboldt County Coroner’s Office has identified the man killed on U.S. Highway 101 on Sept. 27 as William Emery Seekins, 29, from Eureka. Previously: A pedestrian was killed on U.S. Highway 101 early Sunday morning, the California Highway reports. According to a press release, the man’s identity is unknown. He died while being airlifted […]
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Rural Road Rage Part II
Harvest season is about to hit full tilt, so I have to ask: what is it about hauling a trailer full of illegal green stuff that makes you inland outlaws want to drive so fast? There are so many switchbacks between here and the highway that your crop is whipping around on the back of […]
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Rural Road Rage Part I
If you’re on your way out to the hills with an ice chest full of groceries and you get stuck behind one of those big ol’ RVs with quippy names (The Voyage, The View, Wanderer) that insists on taking in every falling leaf and majestic redwood at 10 mph under the speed limit without pulling […]