On Monday, Nov. 20, the Eureka chapter of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence held a TRANScending the Veil ceremony on the Arcata Plaza as part of the national Transgender Day of Remembrance. Attendees lit candles, sang, heard speakers and listened to the names read off of members of the trans community who died over the […]
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Photos: Dia de los Muertos in Eureka
With heavy rain in the forecast for Thursday, Nov. 2, most participants in the fifth annual Day of the Dead Festival of Altars/Día de los Muertos Festival de Altares came to Old Town prepared. Some brought pop-up tents to shelter their ofrendas, the offering placed in an altar commemorating their ancestors. A few others created their altars under the […]
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First of Four Klamath Dams Has Been Removed
And then there were three. The nonprofit Klamath River Renewal Corporation recently announced that work to remove the first of four hydroelectric dams clogging the lower Klamath River is complete, bringing the largest dam removal project in the nation’s history one step closer to fruition. “Seeing the Klamath River flow through this canyon after being […]
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Photos: Under the Canopy
Walking “Under the Canopy” and the Redwood Skywalk in Sequoia Park on Saturday led me to a group of Maker’s Apron Creative Reuse artists creating a sidewalk art installation lasting for a very short time and made from compostable plant materials in. Their goal — educate people about the “4 R’s” of waste reduction: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot […]
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Photos: A Flotilla of Witches on the Bay
A large coven of witches appeared under the Samoa Bridge on Saturday for the fourth annual Witches Paddle organized by Jody Himango and Patty Costanzo. The Dancing Magickal Witches of Humboldt County offered their lively performance first, before more than 40 witches entered the water on their stand-up paddleboards, kayaks, canoes and an inflatable raft. […]
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Photos: Following Migrations
On Saturday, Sept. 30, the Arcata Playhouse presented its annual Migrations: Walking Together event, winding from Carlson Park in Valley West to the playhouse, with performances en route and at the final stop. The multicultural event featured contributions and performances from Centro Del Pueblo, the Yurok Wellness Coalition, Northcoast Environmental Center and Humboldt Taiko. Photographer Kait […]
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Photos: North Country Fair Floods the Plaza
On the first day of the North Country Fair, the wild and wooly All Species Parade took a turn for fins and scales with its Creating the Flow theme, celebrating Klamath River dam removal. Once the symbolic dam went “boom,” marchers and drummers with handpainted salmon and fish streamed through for two loops around the […]
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Second Chances
It seems to happen almost every fall, Humboldt Wildlife Care Center co-director Monte Merrick says. Fledging western grebes, small, white-throated sea birds widespread on the Pacific Coast, move from protected marshlands and sloughs to the open ocean just as a storm is moving in, only to find the waters too rough to navigate and wash […]
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Photos: Cannifest Manifests
People from all over the U.S. showed up for the Cannifest Humboldt 2023 held last Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 9-10, and there were lots of legal smiles on the 21-or-older attendees at the fenced-in Cannabis Festival and Trade Gathering at Eureka’s Halvorsen Park. A long line-up of live and DJ music on two stages provided […]
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Remembering Richard Guadagno, Passenger 19A on Flight 93
Editor’s note: Twenty-two years ago today, at 10:03 a.m., Flight 93 crashed into a Pennsylvania field after passengers and crew members fought back against 9/11 hijackers, sacrificing their lives to prevent the plane from reaching its intended target, thought to have been the U.S. Capitol. One of those passengers was Richard Guadagno, the former manager […]
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Photos: Ladies’ Hat Day at the Races
Under a cool marine layer of fog, the 127th annual Humboldt County Fair on Saturday featured the usual horse racing and some amazing displays of creativity, humor and beauty in the 11th annual Ladies Hat Day at the Races. Thanks to the last-minute repairs of earthquake damage, a large crowd safely packed the grandstands to watch the […]
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‘It’s All Gone’
It was almost 6 p.m. on Aug. 8 when Faraz Soltani saw that gusting winds had pushed the fire burning through Lahaina, Maui, to the church across the street from his home and knew he had to flee. “I knew it was a matter of minutes, if not seconds,” Soltani says. “When I saw that, […]