Sixteen-year-old Forrest Ziganti of Garberville has earned a coveted spot at the 45th annual Monster Energy AMA Amateur National Motocross Championship, presented by Amsoil, at the legendary Loretta Lynn Ranch in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. Widely recognized as one of the nation’s premier amateur motocross championships, the event brings together the country’s top amateur riders after […]
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The Curtain Hits the Cast
I woke up on Sunday thinking about writing about the upcoming election, maybe some piece where I ramp up the direness of the results to see if I am actually a modern-day Cassandra or just another crank (probably). Instead, I was greeted by the news that Mimi Parker, one half of my favorite band, had […]
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The Crabs Say Goodbye to Petrushka and Keep Rolling
The Humboldt Crabs were on a tear this week, using a combination of stellar pitching and unrelenting offense to sweep both the midweek and weekend series. Perhaps the best indicator of this is the run differential from the week. The Crabs defense and pitching staff allowed only three runs on the week and connected for […]
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Crabs Fire Up the Bats for Fourth of July
Coming off of a road trip where the team struggled to find wins, the Humboldt Crabs have been blasting their way to wins with strong offense ever since returning to Arcata Ballpark. The Crabs dropped each game on the road, but since coming back have won every game they’ve played in, racking up 67 runs […]
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Crabs Capitalize on Long Week
It was a busy week of action at the ballpark for the Humboldt Crabs as they played six games including a four-game series against the Seattle Studs which started with a rare Thursday game and was wrapped up with packed Father’s Day bleachers. The week started with a two game series against the Yuba-Sutter Gold […]
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A Winning Road Trip and a Bounce Back at Home for the Humboldt Crabs
Another week of Humboldt Crabs baseball came with something the team hasn’t had much of since the last pre-COVID season, a road trip. The Crabs started the week on the road traveling up to Oregon to take on the Medford Rogues for a two-game series on Tuesday and Wednesday that saw the Crabs take both […]
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Humboldt Crabs Win Season Opener Before Washout
Even before the first pitch was thrown or the first batter stepped up to home plate, it was clear Arcata was ready for baseball to be back. The line stretched down F Street outside of the ballpark through the opening innings as over 1,100 fans made their way inside to watch the Humboldt Crabs open […]
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Major League News for Mad River Brewery
A little bit of Humboldt will soon be on tap at Oracle Park in a groundbreaking partnership between San Francisco Giants and Mad River Brewery — one of the first tribally owned breweries in the country. ‘There have been dreams that sometimes seemed unreachable; finding a tribal product for sale in a professional stadium was […]
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HDNL to Allow Four Family Members at Games
The Humboldt-Del Norte League has announced new guidelines for spectators at high school sporting events for the winter season that will allow each student-athlete to have up to four family members attend beginning Jan. 24. The announcement from Commissioner Jack Lakin states that family members will need to enter as a group and follow the […]
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‘Proactive’
Well before Public Health announced the highly contagious Omicron COVID-19 variant had been confirmed to be circulating locally and reported a record 400 new cases of the virus on Jan. 3, local school administrators felt the surge coming. For days, many had been hearing of positive tests among teachers and staff, with McKinleyville Middle School […]
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The Crabs’ Season Wraps Early
The 2021 Humboldt Crabs season has come to an abrupt end, with the final two games of the season canceled due to two positive cases among team personnel. The decision came Saturday afternoon about an hour before the team was set to meet for batting practice and it brought an early end to a memorable […]
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Kokatat Paddling Apparel Under New Ownership
After 50 years of owning Kokatat, Steve O’Meara has sold the Arcata-based paddling sports apparel and gear company to its Director of Operations Mark Loughmiller. “Before joining Kokatat, Mark was a local businessman and I’m pleased to be entrusting the company that means so much to me and our employees into his hands,” said O’Meara in […]