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Work in progress at V&N Burger Bar location, will re-open as something, sometime

Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – While you can’t order a hamburger at the defunct V&N Burger Bar right now, it looks like you’ll be able to sometime later this year. The iconic restaurant, which closed two years ago after 52 years in operation, will re-open under a different name, and its cuisine…

Letters to the Editor, July 3, 2019

A bungling of fools The Castration of Independence Day. I had to do some shopping at Walmart yesterday and in the process came across some racks which had been set up to contain Walmart’s offerings of “fireworks.” The display was, for me, a horror show. First of all, everything seemed to be midget sized. “Surely…

The HUM: What the folk?

As summer rolls along, pulling July with it, it’s once again time for the Humboldt Folklife Society Folklife Festival, the 41st annual celebration of all local things folkish, whatever folk means. In Humboldt it’s fairly loosely interpreted, as you can see by the musical range in the eight-days-a-week ahead (Saturday, July 13, through Saturday, July…

Welcome to the Crabs diamond anniversary season

Mad River Union ARCATA – The Humboldt Crabs 2019 season, which kicks off this weekend, will be the team’s diamond anniversary season. The Crabs play the Corvallis Knights on Friday, May 31 and Saturday, June 1 at 7 p.m. at the Arcata Ball Park. On Sunday, June 2, the Crabs again face the Knights starting…

Lights, camera… Legend

Mad River Union ARCATA – On a sleepy Sunday morning, the Minor Theatre sizzled with excitement last weekend as scenes from a new indie film titled Legend, by TK Film Studios, were shot. A couple dozen extras were used in street scenes, and in theatre lobby and audience settings. See the photo cutline above for…

DBA, Fictitious Business Name Statements, Humboldt County

In planning your placement of future legal notices in Humboldt County publications, please consider doing so in the Mad River Union (adjudicated as a Newspaper of General Circulation on Nov. 1, 2013 by Humboldt County Superior Court Judge W. Bruce Watson, Decree No. CV130613). Of the publications vying for your public notice dollar, you won’t…

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