A medical marijuana growing collective that organizers hoped would be housed in a downtown McKinleyville building was quashed in its early stages after planners failed to contact the owners of the property.

FORTUNA — Skies grayer than a goose’s underside didn’t prevent a respectable number of early holiday shoppers from turning out Saturday for the first Downtown Fortuna Autumn Fete on Main Street.

EUREKA — Sounds of honking horns and jubilant cheers filled the downtown air Saturday as hundreds of gay rights advocates joined in a nationwide day of protest against California’s Proposition 8 and other bans on same-sex marriages.

A high-speed pursuit through downtown Fortuna early Tuesday morning ended with a stolen vehicle wrecked and a 28-year-old auto theft suspect arrested, the Fortuna Police Department reported.

When my kids got home from their first round of trick-or-treating, I think I was more excited then they were. My older two monsters had visited an old folks home and then the downtown merchants for some daytime trick-or-treating.

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Public pressure moved the Eureka City Council to take a stand on cell phone towers and parking meters in the Old Town and Downtown area Tuesday.

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Eureka Main Street announced plans for its 10th annual Trick or Treat event through Eureka’s Downtown and Old Town areas. The Trick or Treat is scheduled for Saturday from 2-4 p.m.

A Toyota Tundra pick-up truck hit a 30-year-old man at around 1 p.m. Friday as the pedestrian was crossing Fifth Street near H Street in downtown Eureka.

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College of the Redwoods President Jeff Marsee invited members of the community to meet with him Wednesday at the Eureka Downtown Instructional Site.

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Topics: Briefs

College of the Redwoods announced that its new president, Jeff Marsee, will meet with students and community residents Oct. 8 from 4-6 p.m. at the Eureka Downtown instructional site, located at 605 K St.

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Topics: Briefs

The city of Eureka announced that new electronic parking meters will be installed in the Downtown and Old Town areas beginning Tuesday. The new meters will replace existing meters in city lots.

When we first got the call that there was a fire in downtown Ferndale, Thad Greenson and I were prepared for the worst. It’s hard to think of any part of any city that would burn as easily as the 100-year-old Main Street blocks whose redwood

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Firefighters prevented a fire that started in the Candystick Fountain and Grill, in Ferndale, from spreading to other buildings in the downtown area of the city Thursday.

I began my career in radio and electronics. I started out repairing radios, mostly early AM radios, shortwave and ham transcievers. I obtained my amateur radio license (KB6VWL) in 1988, and have since talked to thousands of people all over the world.

In the early 90’s I turned my interest to computers and data communications. I ran a local computer bulletin board in the days before the Internet was in wide use and was a moderator on General Electric’s online service GEnie. I began building and repairing computers around that time and got into designing and building interactive voicemail (IVR) systems, which bridged an information service gap for those who didn’t own computers at the time.

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The Eureka City Council unanimously voted to start a pilot residential parking permit program for areas in Old Town and Downtown, Tuesday.

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It’s only a short walk from downtown Eureka.