Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE – Matthew and Tara Brockmeyer love books, writing and just about anything to do with the written word. He’s a published novelist (Kind Nepenthe) and short story writer, and she edits a literary magazine (Deciduous Tales). To those literary bona fides, the two may now add “bookstore owners.” Bayside…
Climate change talk at Bayside’s HUUF as Sunny Brae solarizes
Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship BAYSIDE – “Toward a New Personal Norm for Our Climate” is the presentation on Sunday, March 3 at both 9 a.m. and 11 a.m. by Connie Roser-Renouf, Ph.D. at the Humboldt Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Bayside. As a scientist working through George Mason University in Washington, D.C., Dr. Renouf has studied how people…
Starving Sunny Brae college student starts Neighborhood Watch inside refrigerator
Splang Squizzbiz Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE, APRIL 1 – Fighting both household crime and undernourishment, visibly famished Humboldt State student Alvin Simon has established a Neighborhood Watch unit in his roommate-house refrigerator. “I’m dying,” the enfeebled Simon said, trembling with hunger. “Any food – well, almost any – that I put in the fridge…
Updated: Baywood logging decision delayed again
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union SUNNY BRAESIDE – Final approval of Baywood Golf and Country Club’s logging plans has been further delayed. Approval of THP 1-17-044HUM had been expected within 15 days of the June 29 Second Review, though that was later put off until last Friday, Aug. 4. But when Friday rolled around,…
No Baywood logging decision until at least Aug. 11
Mad River Union SUNNY BRAESIDE – Final approval of Baywood Golf and Country Club’s logging plans has been further delayed. Approval of THP 1-17-044HUM had been expected within 15 days of the June 28 Second Review, but that was later put off until Friday, Aug. 4. Today, Aug. 4, the California Dept. of Forestry and…
Baywood THP headed for approval, logging could start in August
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE/BAYSIDE – Now that Baywood Golf & Country Club’s Timber Harvest Plan (THP) has passed its second review, the logging trucks could start rolling up and down Sunny Brae’s Buttermilk Lane next month. Baywood hopes to log about 73 forested and grassland acres in and around its Bayside…
Tree fall blocks Grotzman Road overnight
Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE – A big old redwood tree fell to earth just after 10 p.m. last night, taking down three power poles and cutting off telephone and cable service to residents of Grotzman Lane in Sunny Brae. After PG&E assessed the situation, Wright Tree Service arrived around 3 a.m. and began clearing the…
Sunny Brae bear’s death a reality check
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union ARCATA – Seven weeks after the July shooting death of a bear in Sunny Brae, the state Dept. of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) has released the investigating warden’s incident report. The document provides little fresh insight into the events of that night, but it does offer an expansive view…
Fighting crime in the sleepy shire
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE – The six residential Neighborhood Watch groups now operating in Sunny Brae may be joined by another, this one centered on the sleepy shire’s “downtown” business district. Though somewhat off-grid in terms of the urban traveler and shoplifting issues that have beset central Arcata and Valley West…
Fighting crime in the sleepy shire
Kevin L. Hoover Mad River Union SUNNY BRAE – The six residential Neighborhood Watch groups now operating in Sunny Brae may be joined by another, this one centered on the sleepy shire’s “downtown” business district. Though somewhat off-grid in terms of the urban traveler and shoplifting issues that have beset central Arcata and Valley West…