Humboldt County News

National Geographic Visits Scotia for Special Website Launch

KIEM-TV – The National Geographic spent the day today in the North Coast … and they were here to launch a unique new website. Full Text

Salmon fishermen skeptical about 2010 season

Local commercial fishermen say they’re not optimistic about this year’s salmon prospects, even after a federal panel recommended reopening the fishing season along the California coast, with restrictions. Full Text

Eureka City schools Predicts Substantial Layoffs Due to Budget Cuts

Crippled by the State cuts to education, Eureka City Schools says they may have to issue lay-off notices to over 30 employees by next week. Full Text

Woolsey’s Turnabout On Health Bill

In a change of position, Rep. Lynn Woolsey said Tuesday she would vote for a Senate-based health care bill without a government insurance alternative – or public option. Full Text

Eureka Woman Dies in Highway 101 Crash

A Eureka woman died Tuesday night, hours after her van collided with a truck as she tried to drive across Highway 101 in southern Petaluma, the CHP reported Wednesday. Lonetta Sayers, 62, and her husband Russell Sayers, 62, Tuesday afternoon had pulled off of the highway at a gas station near Kastania Road, CHP Sgt. Allan Full Text

Blackout Backtrack: PG&E Fine-Tunes Outage Plans

Arcata Eye – Responding to concerns about economic and public safety impacts expressed by Arcata business and government, PG&E has modified its plans for this weekend’s planned power outage. Tuesday morning, City officials and PG&E personnel gathered at City Hall to exchange details on areas affected, the outage’s expected duration and to coordinate response. Full Text

Arcata Panhandling Ordinance OK’d (Updated, With Correction)

Arcata Eye – In the four-to-one vote on Wednesday the City Council approved the ordinance, which prohibits any form of panhandling in specific areas, with a distance of 20 feet considered a buffer that would create a sort of comfort zone for citizens. Full Text

• Man Convicted of DUI 13 Times Off To Prison
• Trinidad City Council Seeks Grant To Fix Dangerous Road
• Smoking That Cigarette Could Burn Your Wallet
• Jefferson School Property Battle Heats Up
• Ink People Center for The Arts Keeps Programs Going
• Earthquake “Never Happened” According To USGS
• UFO’S INVADE EUREKA!
• Latest Humboldt County Earthquake Measures… 4.6
• Arcata High School Coach Arrested on Molestation Charges (Updated)
• Salami Nuggets’ Siren Song Seduces Bravo
• Local Schools Echo Statewide Budget Cut Protest
• March Forth for Education
• HCCPOA Endorses Downey For Humboldt Sheriff’s Office

Events

• Wolves In The Throne Room Arrives April 15th
• Barbara Davenport Quartet Performs March 13th
• Fortuna Wellness Lectures continue; March 23 program features Katie Coventry
• Community Calendar March 12 -Apr. 17
• Guest speaker to address Muslim agenda
• Pulp Mill Art Show Opens Saturday
• Kick Butts Day, March 27th at Arcata Plaza
• Gallegos To Hold Press Conference Friday
• Highway Clean-Up this Saturday!
• Friends of the Fortuna Library Big Book Sale Coming March 13

The Humboldt Beacon

Fortuna students ‘Stand Up for Schools’

There was a call to public teachers and students throughout California to “stand up” last Thursday, to show opposition to continued state education cuts in Humboldt County – and in Eureka, close to 300 people joined the protest at the Humboldt County Courthouse at H and 4th Street. [Read More]

• Fortuna students ‘Stand Up for Schools’
• Native grass planting successful in Petrolia
• Casterlin School at the Mateel; raising funds to support a teacher position
• O’Neil Dairy of Loleta featured on PBS show; locals bucking a trend in the dairy business
• Bridgeville For Sale… Again
• Great Decisions chapter meetings focus on subjects of public interest

Featured Articles

Quasi Does Free Performance For HSU Students

Black Cobra Performing In Eureka May 7th

Canada’s Bison B.C. Coming To Eureka In May

Humboldt Blogs, Opinion

• Arkley bank fail
• Hold the Mayo
• Message from the Marijuana Growers Assoc. of America
• Why Ask Why? [The Humboldt Mirror]
• Old 101 Adapts: Loleta’s Eel River Drive Construction [Carol & Greg's Place]
• BRYSON: Women Lawyers Are Bitches [The Humboldt Herald]
• Sheriff candidate reveals #1 question [Humboldt Herald]
• Eel River dying while Russian River drowns
• Legalization of Marijuana: What Could Happen? [Redheaded Blackbelt Blog]
• Humboldt County is Finding Christ [On The Road Blog]
• Watchpaul Will Be Winding Down [Watchpaul Blog]
• Budget cuts threaten Coastal Commission [Humboldt Herald]
• Eureka pot workshop Tuesday [Humboldt Herald]
• PLF Loses Coastal Commission Suit [Humboldt Herald]
• New Bill to Ban Plastic Bags in California [Humboldt Surfrider]

State News

• State quarantines Napa Valley areas against European moth
• Key vote Friday on $10 car registration fee
• Governor Announces Partnership with Microsoft to Provide Free Technology Job Training for Californians
• Governor Honors Military Women at The Women’s Conference’s Day at The Museum
• Governor Schwarzenegger Delivers Remarks at California Charter Schools Conference
• Sausalito’s Bay Model still moving water, visitors
• Sentencing Delayed in Deadly Highway 101 Crash

Times-Standard

• Media Without Margins: Work locally, partner globally
• Tenor to give recital
• Candidates race to file for elected office in Humboldt County; contenders in races without incumbents have until Wednesday
• Local ‘Christ in the Passover’ events offered
• Court sentences convicted rapist to 422 years; Judge Miles says Samoa man exhibited cruelty and callousness over years
• Body found near Headwaters could be missing King Salmon man Kenneth Dotson
• Paul Hagen kicks off campaign for Humboldt County district attorney; challenger aims to ‘protect Humboldt’s future’
• Daylight Savings Time change offers opportunity for improved fire safety
• Another arrested, one more suspect sought in case of missing McKinleyville man Jerry George
• Feds weigh decent sport salmon fishing options; commercial fishing possible, but concerns remain about Sacramento River runs
• ‘To nourish my soul’
• Painter explores light, form on canvas
• Family Arts Day marks ‘Her-story’ Month
• Reflections on life
• One arrested, one still sought in meth investigation after POP raid in Eureka
• Three arrested in Eureka POP raid
• Tellest Antwion Keyes held to answer in Eureka killing; charge added
• Route 96 in Humboldt County still closed from rock slide
• Paul Hagen, candidate for Humboldt County district attorney, to host media event and reception
• Jon Brooks files as candidate for Humboldt County assessor

Del Norte County

Hands off the pups

Hands off the pups Mammal Center warns beachgoers not to interfere Despite the feathery soft fur and dark, come-hither eyes that make harbor seal pups appear both heartbreakingly cute and helpless to certain beachgoers, officials from the Northcoast Marine Mammal Center [Read More]

• Hands off the pups
• New plan eyed for Beachfront Park
• Del Norte’s jobless rate hits 14.1%
• Deadline nears with some races unopposed
• Play time
• Letters to the Editor Mar. 11, 2010
• Pierce released by B.C.
• Season under way for JV softball, baseball
• Spellbound students
• Hwy. 199 reopens after slide
• Schools eye life skills, young parents
• Celebrating one-year pool anniversary

Mendocino-Lake Counties

Army Corps of Engineers studies harbor dredge spoils plan

The Army Corps of Engineers is looking for a 20-year solution to place 400,000 cubic yards of Noyo Harbor dredge spoils in a beneficial use location. [Read More]

• Army Corps of Engineers studies harbor dredge spoils plan
• Other headlines in this week’s Mendocino Beacon include:
• Navy delays plan to increase ocean testing in Northwest
• Old Time Notes
• No-nonsense proposals by Rec District
• Spring forward on Sunday
• Colfax not running for re-election
• No solutions yet for Nuestra Casa
• Parole denied for rapist
• Child molester sentenced
• 2 convicted of murdering transient on railroad tracks
• Being counted: Census forms on their way