The Times-Standard reported last night on a “Covid-19 Check in” video that Butte County Public Health Officer Andy Miller posted yesterday morning explaining state modeling projections, which include that Humboldt County may see 40 deaths from the disease before June 1. “Even though it’s disturbing to think about and talk about, it’s out there and […]
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News Roundup: Nursing Homes Work to Prevent Infection, Hoopa Confirms First Positive Case
Local nursing homes have taken some big steps — including prohibiting visitors — in an effort to prevent spread of the COVID-19 virus within their walls, the Times-Standard reports. The story, reported by Sonia Waraich, details how homes have implemented new sanitation protocols for employees, canceled residents’ group activities and shuttered their dining halls in […]
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Eureka City Schools Shifts to Distance Learning, T-S Reports
The Times-Standard is reporting that the Eureka City Schools Board of Trustees has voted to shift entirely to distance learning for the remainder of the year following a recommendation from the Humboldt County Office of Education and the public health officer in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report quotes Superintendent Fred Van Vleck […]
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Cliff, the N-word and Missed Opportunities
At the end of a Feb. 17 interview with the Times-Standard editorial board, First District supervisorial candidate Cliff Berkowitz used the N-word. He didn’t direct it at anyone or tell a racist joke. But in discussing incumbent Rex Bohn’s widely reported racist joke last year, he gave an example of unacceptable behavior for a white […]
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Jim Hamm, Survivor of Mountain Lion Attack During Park Hike, Dies
Jim Hamm, the former Fortuna resident who along with his wife Nell made international news in 2007 when she used a pen and a branch to fight off a mountain lion who attacked him during a hike in Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, has died. He was 82. Nell Hamm told the Times-Standard that her […]
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‘Insurmountable’
When Daniel Squier returned to the Times-Standard in January of 2018 to take a reporting job covering local courts, he knew he would be stepping into a newsroom fundamentally changed from the one he left 12 years earlier. When Squier served as the paper’s sports editor in the early 2000s, he was one of four […]
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The Unraveling of the Times-Standard
It’s difficult to watch what’s been happening at the Times-Standard over the last several months, even from my seat on the sidelines. If you’re unaware, the region’s only daily just weathered another round of layoffs, including three members of the newsroom. I’m not sure how they are managing to put out a paper six days […]
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Because Media Literacy Matters
Welcome to our second annual Media Literacy Issue. A lot has changed since last year’s inaugural offering (June 7, 2018), penned as the fake news chorus gripped the nation. The inspiration behind that issue was transparency, wanting to bring you, our valued readers, into the proverbial newsroom to help you understand how this newspaper works […]
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Eureka Releases CM Search Panelists’ Names
After refusing to do so when asked by the Times-Standard last week, the city of Eureka today released the names of private citizens who will serve on a panel interviewing city manager candidates later this week. The citizen’s panel is comprised of Kurt Kramer, Heidi Benzonelli, Dale Maples, J Warren Hockaday, Jack Crider and Lorene […]
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Printing the Journal
If you’re reading the paper version of this week’s North Coast Journal, you’re holding a product that was created last Tuesday night on the Samoa Peninsula. Western Web, which occupies 24,000 square feet in the Fairhaven Business Park (in a space previously used as a machine shop by the Samoa Pulp Mill), has been printing […]
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Times-Standard Announces New Publisher
Eureka’s “paper of record” has a new publisher. On Oct. 1, Paula Patton will make the jump from Marysville, where she published the daily newspaper The Appeal-Democrat and three weekly newspapers serving the Central Valley north of Sacramento. Read the full announcement here.