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The Definition of Harm
A coalition of conservation groups, including the Arcata-based Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC), is suing to block the Trump administration’s move to strip longstanding habitat protections for imperiled wildlife from the Endangered Species Act (ESA). For…
20 Years at the Playhouse
On Monday afternoon at the Creamery Building, Jacqueline Dandeneau stands with her thumbs tucked in purple overalls, grinning as David Ferney explains the Flynn Creek Circus’ Russian swing act to Vicki Ozaki of Humboldt Taiko.…
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Crabs on the Brink
Baseball can be fickle, exhilarating and heartbreaking. When we last left our beloved Crabs, they were on a roll and onto top of the conference, with a daunting and trying road trip in front of…
What’s Good: The Brunch Club
Brunch is the most social of meals, built for leisure and stretching out the day. It may be the most challenging to eat alone, though I’ve done it happily. (When you focus on your French…
Trinidad Art Night
This town-wide walk includes a variety of art exhibits, live music, artist receptions, face painting, skate ramps, pop-up sales and oyster, cider or wine tastings. Call (707) 834-2479 or visit trinidadartnight.com. Forbes & Associates presents…
A Wild and Wooly Night at the Rodeo
The Fortuna Rodeo’s Full Throttle Friday, as photographer Mark Larson discovered this week, is a very different vibe from old-fashioned riding and roping. Things start off low to the ground with Mutton Busting, in which…
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The Purloined Letter
“The fish is the last to see the water.” — Anthropologist Ruth Benedict Our lives are filled with obvious phenomena that sit right in front of our noses (sometimes literally), yet we often miss seeing…
Homecoming Surprises
THE INVITE was titillatingly teased (for what felt like years) as a sex comedy of manners, a will-they-or-won’t-they about two couples of a certain age circling each other in an apartment brought uncomfortably close by…
Music Tonight: Friday, July 17
The Wild Hare Tavern is the place to be tonight if you are in the mood for some OG Humboldt weirdness and goodness. Ask Sophie is joining forces with Fred and Wilma, aka Peggy Martinez…
Music Tonight: Thursday, July 16
Yagódy is a Ukrainian folk quartet composed of four women of varied musical tastes who coalesce under a banner of song made up of pure homage and love to their motherland. If you’re interested in…
Humbuggery in Humboldt, Part 2
In the 19th century, Americans’ fascination with the occult made fortune tellers and mediums common entertainment at fairs, lecture halls and private parties. Newspapers across the country carried stories of remarkable psychic predictions and spirit…
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Happy Murder
As the wind begins the crows emergeready to play tag, chortle, caw . . . make that special sound only they can make, take flight over rocky shoals into ocean misttheir numbers increase as day descends upon the…
Lois Anabelle Bruner (Sis)
Lois Anabelle Bruner, lovingly known as “Sis,” passed away peacefully on January 27, 2026, at the age of 77. After metastatic breast cancer returned following a period of remission, Sis spent her final days surrounded…
Noel Hilliard
Noel Hilliard passed away at the age of 77 from complications of Parkinson’s. His life’s work began over half a century ago with the founding of Lamps by Hilliard. After graduating from Humboldt State University…
Arthur John Bettini
“The work of a teacher is never truly finished. Long after the classroom grows quiet, the lessons continue in the lives they have changed.” Arthur John Bettini (“Art”) — teacher, historian, mentor, outdoorsman, academic leader,…
Investing in Community
The Fortuna Theater, built in 1938, maintained its structural integrity after a magnitude 6.4 earthquake struck Humboldt County in December of 2022. However, the extensive damage inside the building — caused by a ruptured sprinkler…
Bye Bye, Badman
I’m going to keep this brief because I am worn out. A little too much fun and sundown by the riverside over the weekend has caught up with me and I am tapped out. All…
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Letters & Opinion
‘Nothing Good to Say’
Thank you for the excellent Views article on Amazon in Humboldt County (“Amazon’s Negative Impact…
Correction
Humboldt Crabs photos taken by Erik Frazer in the July 9 issue (“Tempers Flare, Benches…
‘Prevent Suffering Before it Begins’
Editor: The gruesome revelations of dogs being shot and buried in mass graves at Miranda’s…
‘Shelter of Last Resort’
Editor: What everyone seems to have overlooked, is the fact that Miranda’s Rescue is the…
Amazon’s Negative Impact by the Numbers
The impact Amazon’s proposed distribution center in McKinleyville would have is being debated in person…
Blatant Gaslighting: Miranda’s Rescue
Editor: My name is Jamara Knight, and I am a 30-year resident of Humboldt County.…
Schnabel’s Inferno
IN THE HAND OF DANTE. It can be reflexive — instinctive, even — when confronted with a grand-to-grandiose work, especially one that spans genres as quickly as it does centuries, to dismiss it as muddled,…
Pervasive Invasive
So much suffering pervades the world, bad newsinvades our mindstream. Searching for how to helpwe still need ways to gain some equanimity. My way: pack a water bottle, pen and paperin an old cloth bag…
Clarence “Clare” Ross Bugenig
Clare Bugenig passed away peacefully on July 4, 2026, surrounded by the love of his family after a courageous four-and-a-half-month battle following a spinal cord injury. He was 71 years old. Always a firecracker in…
Joan Sanborn
It was difficult not to be joyful when you were with her. Joan Dempsey Sanborn was born on October 2, 1927, on the Baie de Chaleurs, the north shore of New Brunswick, Canada, to Wilbur…
Music Tonight: Wednesday, July 15
One good way to beat back the summertime blues is to enjoy some hot andsparkly vintage country, courtesy of returning Portland road dogs JennyDon’t & the Spurs. This time through, the group will be kicking…
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