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Kitchen defense will call expert witnesses

Paul Mann Mad River Union EUREKA – Marci Kitchen’s defense team will summon expert witnesses to testify at her jury trial on multiple charges of hit-and-run vehicular manslaughter. Although Eureka attorney Patrik Griego did not disclose the nature of the expertise at Kitchen’s arraignment May 25, his line of questioning at his client’s preliminary hearing suggests the approach he will... READ MORE >

Mega fishing fee hikes ripped

Paul Mann Mad River Union NORTH COAST – With North Coast fishing gutted by a doomsday falloff of salmon and crab stocks, state legislators are savaging a Department of Fish and Wildlife proposal to lash fishermen with staggering landing fee hikes of 1,300-13,000 percent. At the “low” end, the 1,300 percent levy would apply to almost every fishery in the... READ MORE >

North Coast salmon income tumbles

Paul Mann Mad River Union NORTH COAST – The salmon collapse threatens to blitz Eureka fishermen with a 70 percent income loss. Crescent City expects a 50 percent plunge, Ft. Bragg the same. The estimates are from the Golden Gate Fishermen’s Association, presented last week in Sacramento at a state legislative hearing where Association President Roger Thomas delivered the dire... READ MORE >

S.O.S. report: Salmon, steelhead, trout face extinction

All things by nature are ready to get worse, lapse backward. – Virgil, The Georgics Paul Mann Mad River Union CALIFORNIA – Nearly 75 percent of California’s 31 salmon, steelhead and trout species could be wiped out within 100 years by climate change, drought and human factors if current ecological trends are not reversed, according to new scientific research. Urgent... READ MORE >

Trinidad Tidings: Tour a garden, raise a roof

The Wells family garden at 1724 Stagecoach Rd. will be open for touring on Sunday, June 4 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. as a fundraiser for the Trinidad Museum Native Plant Garden. The artfully designed and beautifully nurtured garden is on eight acres of land on the ocean bluff behind Larrupin’ Cafe. It is filled with plants from all... READ MORE >

Scientists recommend ‘reconciliation ecology’ for wild fish

Paul Mann Mad River Union CALIFORNIA – A new California science study endorses a management technique for wild fish called “reconciliation ecology.” The study cites as an example a Central Valley initiative, the Yolo Bypass experiment, which manages rice fields to mimic natural floodplains. The approach “creates substantial growth benefits for juvenile salmon,” according to a new analysis by UC... READ MORE >

More challenges for Baywood’s Timber Harvest Plan

Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Baywood Golf & Country Club’s plan to harvest timber on and about its golf course in the hills above Bayside is proceeding through the approval process, but not without challenges. Unveiled April 2 at a quasi-public meeting at the venerable club, the Timber Harvest Plan (THP) was filed May 1, then returned... READ MORE >

Humboldt County legally recognizes nonbinary gender

UPDATE: SB-179 was approved by the Senate May 31 and is now headed to the State Assembly. Lauraine Leblanc Mad River Union HUMBOLDT – Andi Rostad defies categorization. On May 15, the 36-year-old said, they became the first resident of Humboldt County to be legally declared gender nonbinary. And if California Senate Bill 179, the Gender Recognition Act, passes, they... READ MORE >

Lauraine Leblanc: On the singular ‘they’

Some may find it enough to drive anyone out of their senses, but the use of the singular they has a long history in the English language, dating back to the 16th century. Oxford Dictionaries offers the following, from Wayes to Perfect Religion by Cardinal Bishop of Rochester Saint John Fisher (who was executed by Henry VIII in 1535): “He... READ MORE >

Alliance Road 76 robbed yet again

City of Arcata PRESS RELEASE On Tuesday, May 30 at about 5:58 p.m., the Arcata Police Department responded to a reported robbery at the 76 Gas Station located at 2205 Alliance Rd. in Arcata. Officers contacted the employee, who said a male subject entered the business, displayed what appeared to be a handgun wrapped in a bandana and demanded money.  The suspect left... READ MORE >