With our iconic Pumpkin Spice Latte and Peppermint Mocha, Starbucks owns the holiday beverage, but you can’t rest on your laurels in this business. That means our team is constantly brainstorming new specialty beverages and cup designs. Ha! Didn’t see cup design being so controversial during the holidays, but here we are! We’ve strip-mined the […]
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NCJ Preview: Tsunami Sirens and Eureka’s Drive-thru Dilemma
Is it worth it to fix Humboldt’s tsunami sirens? This week’s cover story looks at the cost and the payoff, as well as whether sirens are as effective as cellphone alerts and other warning systems. And as a petition circulates to keep Annie’s Cambodian Cuisine from being converted into a Starbucks, we’ll talk about what […]
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Eureka’s Appetite for Fast-food Chains
The peeling exterior of Annie’s Cambodian belies its bustling interior, decorated with paintings and carved wooden statues, and warm with the smell of dishes cooked with lemon grass, anise and kaffir lime leaves that have won it a steady following. It’s a customer base used to seeing Chin and Annie Chau, as well as their […]
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EPD Seeks Suspect in Possible Hate Crime
The Eureka Police Department is investigating an assault at Starbucks on Tuesday evening as a possible hate crime. According to EPD spokesperson Brittany Powell, officers were dispatched to Starbucks at about 6:40 p.m. for a report of a fight between a man and two women. When they arrived, they found the suspect had fled the […]
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Four Local Starbucks Close in Nationwide Training Effort
Four Humboldt County Starbucks locations are closing at 2:30 p.m. today (May 29) for racial sensitivity training as part of a nationwide effort by the company following the highly-publicized arrest of two black men at a Philadelphia store after the manager called 911. In an open letter to customers, the company’s Executive Chairman Howard Schultz […]