Rio Dell’s boil advisory was lifted this morning, according to City Manager Kyle Knopp, who said in a news release that residents may start safely drinking the city’s water. The advisory had been in effect since the Dec. 20 earthquake, which struck the Eel River Valley especially hard. “If your water pressure is low, please […]
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The Heroes We Need
There’s no escaping the fact that 2021 has been a trying year. The pandemic has marched relentlessly forward, sending waves of grief, isolation and general hardship in all directions. And with so much of the suffering now largely preventable through vaccination, the fear that hovered over the virus has been largely replaced by a dull, […]
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Westhaven’s Blackberry Pie Fire Sale
If you’re missing the annual Westhaven Wild Blackberry Festival, which is canceled due to COVID-19 this year, help is on the way: The Westhaven Ladies Club will be selling its stockpile of 450 frozen blackberry pies for $20 a pop on Sunday, July 26 starting at 10 a.m. It’s help for the Westhaven Volunteer Fire Department, […]
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Arcata House to Provide Hot Meals, Needs Some Help to Do So
The Arcata House Partnership will be hosting meal events during Christmas week to help folks in need of a hot meal during the holiday season. Meals will be available from noon to 3 p.m. at the nonprofit’s Ninth Street annex Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. In addition to lending a helping hand, the partnership is […]
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As Blackout Looms, Arcata Nonprofit Preps Free Meal Services, Seeks Volunteers and Donations
With PG&E’s public safety blackout looming, Arcata House Partnership is again planning to provide a free meal services during the shutoff and is asking for volunteers and donations to aid the effort. While estimates as to when the shutoff will start continue to fluctuate — PG&E has offered differing estimates throughout the day with the […]
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HSU Announces Staff Eliminations, Major Changes at KHSU
Humboldt State University today announced major changes and the elimination of seven positions at its public radio station KHSU, including General Manager Peter Fretwell, whose tenure was fraught with controversy after the sudden firing of longtime program and operations director Katie Whiteside in May. Along with the staff reductions, which the university release states will […]
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Leia and Caroline’s Rescue (with Slideshow) and How to Help the Helpers
It was a moment celebrated across the world on Sunday: The “absolute miracle” of finding two young sisters, just 8 and 5, huddled under a huckleberry bush in the woods near Richardson Grove two days after they were last seen in front of their home. Nowhere was the moment expressed more vividly than the faces […]
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Volunteers Needed for Homeless Count
The Humboldt Housing and Homeless Coalition is seeking volunteers to participate in its biennial count of people experiencing homelessness locally. The count is dependent on volunteer participation and tries to quantify the number of people living without shelter on a single night. The results of the count serve as the single best quantification of the […]
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‘This is a Human Being’: A Volunteer Rescue Team Dropped Everything to Recover a Body Found in the Eel River
The recent rains had pushed the waters of the Eel River higher and the sound the cold current rushing over rocks was loud when Southern Humboldt County Technical Rescue team member Thomas Norris met up with Talia Rose yesterday near the Humboldt-Mendocino county line. “She had messaged us on Facebook about 12:45,” explained Norris, a […]
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Stolen Succulents Replanted at Stone Lagoon
More than 1,000 succulents pilfered for sale overseas in by what the California Department of Fish and Wildlife described as an “international conspiracy” were returned to nature on Tuesday by a team of volunteers who planted them along the bluffs at Stone Lagoon. Those plants were among some 2.300 taken from near Trinidad by a […]
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Homeless Count Postponed
This year’s biennial Point-in-Time count will be postponed one month in order to recruit more volunteers to assist the homeless count. The count, scheduled to take place at the end of January, will be pushed back to the early morning hours of Feb. 28. Every year the Department of Housing and Urban Development requires communities […]
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Family of Missing Swimmer Seeks Closure
Almost two weeks after he was swept away in the Trinity River, 22-year-old Paul Michael Martin’s family continues to search for answers. Martin and two others jumped into the Trinity River near Tish Tang Campground at about 4:30 p.m. on April 6, and all three were quickly swept downriver in the strong current. One man […]