It’s finally complete. After years of operating a state-of-the-art alternative energy lab in a collection of dilapidated buildings in the back of Humboldt State’s now-empty University Annex, the Schatz Energy Research Center moved into its new digs on Friday, celebrating with the grand opening with the requisite speeches and an open house. The brand new […]
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Tokens, Produce and Glorious Facial Hair
North Coast Journal contributor Josephine Johnson attended the Arcata Farmers’ Market Saturday and shot the following video, in which a representative of the North Coast Growers Association explains Blue Tokens and The Bucky Walters pluck, strum and pick to the crowd’s delight. Arcata Farmers Market from Josephine Johnson on Vimeo.
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Teen Beat
Kaylee Savage-Wright is one half of a teenaged sister-brother team covering San Francisco’s Outside Lands fest on behalf of the North Coast Journal — because we believe the youth are our future. Kaylee submitted the following report: Friday highlights: Joy Formidable kicked things off with tons of energy, especially impressive considering they were playing an […]
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Klamath River Gray Whales Photo Dump
This week’s Journal stars the two photogenic whales who recently ventured into the Klamath River. But since cyberspace in unencumbered by space limitations, we thought we’d drop a whale-size load of images we’ve collected over the last couple week’s on ya. As always, right click/view image to biggify. This first batch features mama/baby adorableness and […]
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Walmart, Jesus and Books Without Borders
Over the weekend, the Times-Standard broke the story that a new business is planning to move into the former Gottschalks location at the Bayshore Mall and that circumstantial evidence suggests it could be a Walmart, the big box mega-retailer that Eureka voters rejected a dozen years back.* Three days later, a South Carolina couple finds the […]
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Whale and Her Calf in the Klamath
The Inland Whale from Thomas B. Dunklin on Vimeo. A Gray Whale and her calf, in the lower Klamath River, roughtly 3 miles upstream of the mouth of the river. They have been in the river for over a week, and may stay much longer. In 1989, a mother and calf came in and spent […]
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Eureka Stirs
Nearly 100 Eureka residents filled the basement of the Eureka Veteran’s Hall Monday night for a community forum scheduled to discuss the firing of former Eureka Police Chief Garr Nielsen. While praise for the changes witnessed under Garr’s tenure made up a significant portion of the sentiment, displeasure with the power wielded by City Manager […]
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Gov. Brown vetos budget
from the Governor’s office: SACRAMENTO – In a YouTube video and veto message released today, Governor Edmund G. Brown, Jr. announced that he will not sign Senate Bill 69 and Assembly Bill 98, which together comprise the state budget passed by the Legislature on June 15, 2011. The full text of the veto message is […]
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Photos and Video from Pedreros Child-Murder Case [Updated]
In this week’s issue of the Journal interns Travis Turner and Preston Drake-Hillyard report on the tragic case of Claudia Pedreros, the McKinleyville woman accused of drowning her 2 1/2-year-old daughter Sophia in the Trinity River last weekend. Here we offer supplemental material that we were unable to include in the print edition. In […]
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A Hupa Renaissance
A story in today’s Sacramento Bee (originally published in the Contra-Costa Times) profiles the efforts to rescue the Hupa language from extinction. Native Hoopa resident Kayla Carpenter, 22, is a doctoral student studying linguistics at UC Berkeley. She tells reporter Matt Krupnick that she and her colleagues are “using education as a tool, rather than having […]
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Interactive Census Data
Here’s a fun new playground for data hounds: The U.S. Census Bureau has created an interactive map that allows you to compare demographic data by state, county or city. So, for example, you can look at Humboldt County’s race statistics and see that 81.7 percent of us are white (109,920 of 134,623). The next-largest group, American […]
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Food Safety Inspection Map
This week’s cover story, called “Queasy Eats,” is the result of a months-long investigation by HSU students enrolled in an advanced reporting class taught by Asst. Professor (and the Journal‘s Media Maven) Marcy Burstiner. The issue is on the streets now and will be online tomorrow morning. But this here feature is so cool that we […]