Fishermen are waiting anxiously to find out what this year’s salmon season will look like, as federal fisheries managers meeting in Portland, Ore., this week weigh potential effects of fishing on depleted Sacramento River salmon stocks.
District Attorney Paul Gallegos will be in Garberville today, April 13, from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Garberville Civic Club, 477 Maple Lane. The community is invited to come to a potluck dinner with fellow supporters and talk directly with their
The Mendocino Inland Water and Power Commission met to talk about some of the more pressing issues facing water in the Ukiah and Potter Valley areas Thursday evening.
Nine bands will be competing for the top spot in Eureka High School’s fifth annual Battle of the Bands on Friday at the Eureka Theater. All the high school-age performers at the event are from Humboldt County, with most from the Eureka area and
Firefighters were able to knock down a potentially major house fire on E Street in Eureka on Wednesday night, sparing the structure from significant damage.
When Mom and Dad grab the kids and call “Road trip!” it usually means a Sunday drive to a sunny picnic spot or maybe a weekend of camping.
The Siskiyou County Sheriff-Coroner’s Office now says the likely cause of death of Mount Shasta climber Thomas Bennett, 26, of Oakland was high altitude cerebral edema due to acute high altitude sickness.
On Tuesday, the coroner’s office had said the cause of death could not be determined. It gave no explanation for the change in its findings.
Again Wednesday, the coroner’s office said it was awaiting toxicology results to rule out any other potential cause of death.
Experts in high-altitude medicine told The Bee last week that Bennett’s reported symptoms did not point to altitude sickness. His climbing partner reported that Bennett had collapsed suddenly and quickly slid into unconsciousness.
Acute altitude sickness has a slow onset process with lots of symptoms first, and death from it is extremely rare, the experts told The Bee.
Bennett’s body was recovered April 1 from Mount Shasta after storms delayed rescue efforts for several days. No evidence of foul play was found during the autopsy, Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Department spokeswoman Susan Gravenkamp said in a release Wednesday.
– Bee staff
Gopher Gulch: How to get rid of those slimy slugs [Daily Triplicate]
I hate it when folks tell me what I should or shouldn’t do, but don’t offer any better alternatives. With that in mind, this column attempts to provide some potential solutions to what’s sliming us. There really ought to be some industrial use for slug slime — perhaps replacing the rivets that hold airplanes together. Until such a market for the stuff is found, we’re condemned to the Sisyphean task of trying to keep it off our food.
LEEDS, England — Britain has plenty of venerable institutions, but none so tasty as fish and chips. It’s a simple dish, usually a hunk of golden brown cod or haddock served with thickly cut strips of potatoes sprinkled with salt and vinegar.
On March 4, Easter Sunday, at about 8 a.m., the Eureka Police Department received a report of a partially submerged vehicle in Humboldt Bay under the Samoa Bridge. EPD responded to the scene along with the Eureka Fire Department.
The County of Mendocino Marijuana Eradication Team seized more than 65 marijuana plants in Willits during an investigation of a Santa Barbara man accused of selling marijuana plants on the website Craigslist.
[Guest post by Kathy Srabian.]
Home Depot was feeling good in 2005. CEO Bob Nardelli was seeing unlimited growth for the nationwide chain.
In 2006 Eureka hears that Home Depot wants to sit in the proposed “Marina Center” development. The dust raises as locals begin to argue. It gets so thick that no one notices Home Depot has probably lost interest.
Times changed and Mr. Nardelli — with his vision of unlimited growth — was replaced by a new CEO in January of 2007. The new chief, Frank Blake, issued the following statement:
“By building fewer stores, in the best locations, and making sure our existing stores are profitable, our company will be in a much stronger competitive position.”
The Associated Press reported that “Home Depot said it will no longer pursue opening the roughly 50 U.S. stores in its new store pipeline, in some cases for more than 10 years.”
The Home Depot that said they were coming to Eureka is not the Home Depot of today.
The “Marina Center” has become synonymous with “Home Depot.” But do you really think Home Depot is coming here? Convince me with something other than a 2006 North Coast Journal or a pastel picture from the Marina Center website.
Cold Creek Compost near Potter Valley is a year round bustle of loaders, 800 horse power grinders and other specialized equipment that makes some serious quantities of the good stuff.
As noted in an earlier thread, 4th District Supervisor hopeful Virginia Bass is employing a dirty tactic of standing aside to keep her hands clean while purportedly unrelated groups sling mud at her opponent.
However, a few specks of grime appear to be lodged under her fingernails.
In a new television ad, Bass resurects her 2006 campaign platform of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs but fails to list any accomplishments in the last four years. So to fill the 30-second commercial she says “we can’t just say ‘no’ without hearing all the facts.”
It’s safe to assume Bass is piggy-backing on the propaganda slung by Rob Arkley’s various front groups accusing Bonnie Neely of somehow single-handedly stopping Arkley’s Home Depot development.
With no substance to offer, Bass appeals to community ignorance regarding what went down at that fateful Coastal Commission meeting in December. Despite the city’s best efforts, the Commission followed well-established protocol by granting a hearing on the appeal of the project. If and when Team Arkley provides additional information requested by the Commission, that hearing will be scheduled, and the city/Arkley presentation on the project will be heard. Neely asked staff to set the hearing ASAP.
But what Neely didn’t do, which is apparently her big evil crime, was ask the Commission to change the rules — just this once! — and allow city officials and Arkley lawyers to present their case right then and there. She didn’t plead with her fellow Commissioners to allow Councilman Jeff Leonard to “ramp it up.” Worst of all, she didn’t cave to political pressure in the form of advertisements, press conferences and hastily crafted last-minute letter to allow a dog-and-pony show ahead of schedule.
Even if Neely fervently believed the appeals had no merit, she alone could not have changed the day. It takes a total of 3 Commissioners to agree to hear from the applicant, which would result in a whopping 3-minutes at the podium — apparently plenty of time to address staff’s 82-page report.
At the basis of this very expensive shenanigan is the hope by Bass, Leonard and the Arkleyites that voters are as ignorant as those fools pretend to be. As pointed out by the Times-Standard, the blogs, and even the city’s own staff, the chances of them making a presentation at that particular meeting were slim to none.
The truth is the Bonnie-haters got what they wanted — a false pretense upon which to claim victimhood and blame Neely in order to boost her opponent in the 4th District supervisor race.
As noted in an earlier thread, 4th District Supervisor hopeful Virginia Bass is employing a dirty tactic of standing aside to keep her hands clean while purportedly unrelated groups sling mud at her opponent.
However, a few specks of grime appear to be lodged under her fingernails.
In a new television ad, Bass resurects her 2006 campaign platform of Jobs, Jobs, Jobs but fails to list any accomplishments in the last four years. So to fill the 30-second commercial she says “we can’t just say ‘no’ without hearing all the facts.”
It’s safe to assume Bass is piggy-backing on the propaganda slung by Rob Arkley’s various front groups accusing Bonnie Neely of somehow single-handedly stopping Arkley’s Home Depot development.
With no substance to offer, Bass appeals to community ignorance regarding what went down at that fateful Coastal Commission meeting in December. Despite the city’s best efforts, the Commission followed well-established protocol by granting a hearing on the appeal of the project. If and when Team Arkley provides additional information requested by the Commission, that hearing will be scheduled, and the city/Arkley presentation on the project will be heard. Neely asked staff to set the hearing ASAP.
But what Neely didn’t do, which is apparently her big evil crime, was ask the Commission to change the rules — just this once! — and allow city officials and Arkley lawyers to present their case right then and there. She didn’t plead with her fellow Commissioners to allow Councilman Jeff Leonard to “ramp it up.” Worst of all, she didn’t cave to political pressure in the form of advertisements, press conferences and hastily crafted last-minute letter to allow a dog-and-pony show ahead of schedule.
Even if Neely fervently believed the appeals had no merit, she alone could not have changed the day. It takes a total of 3 Commissioners to agree to hear from the applicant, which would result in a whopping 3-minutes at the podium — apparently plenty of time to address staff’s 82-page report.
At the basis of this very expensive shenanigan is the hope by Bass, Leonard and the Arkleyites that voters are as ignorant as those fools pretend to be. As pointed out by the Times-Standard, the blogs, and even the city’s own staff, the chances of them making a presentation at that particular meeting were slim to none.
The truth is the Bonnie-haters got what they wanted — a false pretense upon which to claim victimhood and blame Neely in order to boost her opponent in the 4th District supervisor race.
