Spanish translation by Larry and Ana Maria Mease Alejandro couldn’t have been all that surprised when on the afternoon of Monday, June 9, his employer, Sun Valley Floral Farms, told him not to come to work the next day. The flower growers had received a letter from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) a week earlier […]
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Tow Happy
One Friday morning in mid-May, Bill Hartin was sitting inside his house in central Eureka when he saw a woman get out of a little white car with a City of Eureka logo and walk over to the polished blue ’85 T-bird he and his wife, Arlene, own. “It was 9:58 in the morning,” says […]
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The Big Bust
FBI agents remove and inventory contraband from a growhouse in Sunnybrae. The agents were participating in ‘Operation Southern Sweep,’ a coordinated series of raids on commercial marijuana growing operations throughout Humboldt County. See Town Dandy for further details.
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Alien Plants
Pampas grass (Cortaderia selloana).Photo by Don Garlick. Which are the worst invasive plants in our region? My ranking is presented below: #1: The Himalayan Blackberry (Rubus armeniacus) is so familiar that no photo is required. This bramble is so aggressive that we have all encountered its tenacious thorns. Don’t defend it by invoking its sweet […]
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Viaje a la Noche
Edición bilingüe! Traducido por Larry y Ana Maria Mease. Alejandro no podría haber estado muy sorprendido cuando Sun Valley Floral Farmsle informó que no regresara a trabajar al día siguiente. La compañía había recibido una carta de la oficina de “Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)” (Inmigración y Aduanas) la semana anterior identificando en su nómina […]
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Can’t Swim
Monday, 6:30 a.m.: Swimming instructor Jan Carroll sits on a table at one end of the 25-yard, six-lane Eureka High School pool going over paperwork. She’s been here half an hour already, shepherding swimmers in her Eureka Adult School class as they do their laps. Light filters through the swampy bank of windows on one […]
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Pool Stories
Everybody’s got a swimming story — where they learned, the crazy way they could’ve been buried alive under a pile of wet kids, how it makes them feel to swim: "I grew up in San Francisco. I learned to swim at Fleishacker Pool. It was the biggest outdoor pool, and it was salt water. It […]
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Oyster Heaven
Where do good oysters go when it’s their time? If they’re lucky, they meet their end on the Arcata Plaza on Oyster Festival weekend, which, in case you were not paying attention, was last Saturday. There they are sacrificed on the altar of oystermania and consumed in mass quantities by a huge happy crowd lubricated […]
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Crude Figures
Last Wednesday Shelly O’Brien climbed up a rickety old ladder in front of her one-pump, two-nozzle gas station on Myrtle Avenue in Eureka and raised the price of regular unleaded 14 cents to $4.52 per gallon. "Maybe one of these days I’ll be rich enough I can buy myself a new ladder," O’Brien joked on […]
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Second Friday Arts! Arcata
Arts! Arcata is Arcata Main Street’s monthly celebration of visual and performing arts, held at more than 30 participating locations in Arcata. Visit www.artsarcata.com for even more information about the event or call 822-4500. 1: East Side Deli and Market 420 California St. Russell Bashaw, natural patterns using blends of organic materials, watercolors and wood. […]
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Ends Meet
"Animals are my passion. Animals are my life … Animals are my reason for being," Jennifer Raymond told me as we stood in the shade of an outbuilding at the Mad River Stables in Arcata at the tail end of the recent heat wave. Raymond founded the Humboldt Spay/Neuter Network and her enthusiasm for animals […]
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Salmon River Race
For many paddlers, running stout whitewater sometimes just isn’t enough. To make it really interesting, they need to party all night, dress up like pirates and superheroes, then race each other down the stout whitewater. A few weeks ago I competed in a superheros versus pirates themed race down the Salmon River, which flows into […]