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“News is something someone wants to suppress. Everything else is advertising.” — Lord Northcliffe Our county is home to countless subcultures. They range the full spectrum, from straight to strange, and rare is the person who doesn’t belong to at least three or four of them. Each has its own particular set of rules and […]

In the middle of the storybook lumber town of Scotia, right at the elbow of Main Street between the stately Scotia Inn and a row of quaint bunkhouses, there’s a building that looks like a Lincoln Log replica of the Lincoln Memorial. The Scotia Museum, with its robust columns, gable roof and decorative pediment, is […]

The announcement just over a month ago from Humboldt State University President Rollin Richmond was confusing and alarming: An unidentified faculty member had resigned in fear after finding a note expressing racial hatred. Beyond that, the contents of the note were not released, nor was the identity of the faculty member, who had requested discretion. […]

The blue heron, legs spraddled for balance, tipped its long body forward into a horizontal crouch and stretched its neck and head out. Statue-still as the Mad River twirled past. The water moved gently, at autumn speed, and pooled in an eddied quiet around the twig-addled nub of rock where the heron waited. The pool […]

Humboldt Bay is having an identity crisis. Poor thing’s feeling insecure and, frankly, a bit depressed. (Peek into her wallet and you can understand why.) The grand sense of purpose she possessed back when trees and fish seemed inexhaustible and the mighty railroad kept her company has grown murky and diluted (though the water itself […]

When it comes to community planning and growth, we here on the North Coast are a wary lot. Go to any planning commission meeting and you’re almost guaranteed to hear someone fret about preserving our county’s unique character and quality of life. In fact, that very phrase appears as a guiding principle in the current […]