Technology

Fledgling Humboldt Bay Eaglets Taking To The Skies

Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Fledgling Humboldt Bay Eaglets Taking To The Skies

“Eagle society is so much more complicated than we ever imagined,” Hunt von-Arb observed. »

Ridge Trail Workday Saturday – Sweat, Make Friends, Eat Hearty

Friday, May 31, 2013
Ridge Trail Workday Saturday – Sweat, Make Friends, Eat Hearty

Help build the Arcata Ridge Trail’s Beith Creek multi-user loop trail in the Arcata Community Forest’s Sunny Brae Tract on Saturday, June 1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Volunteers will meet near the corner of Margaret and Buttermilk lanes in Sunny Brae. »

Helen Holmes’ Big Film Production Comes To Arcata

Saturday, April 20, 2013
Helen Holmes’ Big Film Production Comes To Arcata

Of the 30-member film entourage lodged at the Hotel Arcata, 22 were paid movie staff. These included actors, camera operators, editors, support staff, producer J. P. McGowan and his “colored valet,” and the “colored maid” for Miss Holmes. »

Plaza Parade Of Arms Explodes Expectations – April 1, 1953

Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Plaza Parade Of Arms Explodes Expectations – April 1, 1953

Mayor Shawn Brunton was unable to attend, pleading that, “I have to be in our nation’s capital on business, or have to wash my hair or polish my gerbil, or something.” »

HSU: (Big) Bird Is The Word – October 5, 2012

Friday, October 5, 2012
HSU: (Big) Bird Is The Word – October 5, 2012

The map is available on Professor Stephens’ blog – floatingsheep.org – along with other all-time tweet-map favorites like “The Great American Pizza Map” and “Church, Bowling, Guns and Strip Clubs.” »

East-West Railway Could Roll Through Arcata – September 8, 2012

Saturday, September 8, 2012

Lovelace noted that land in Arcata and perhaps Blue Lake would be needed for right of ways. He questioned why their governments haven’t been given similar presentations. “Is there a reason why those are last when it seems like they’re the most impacted?” he asked. »

Curiosity, Before She Went to Mars – August 7, 2012

Tuesday, August 7, 2012
Curiosity, Before She Went to Mars – August 7, 2012

We were patient with the half-hour process to clean our photographic gear, don the suits and then go through the whole body vacuum room before entering. No speck of dust from our visit would travel to Mars, but perhaps a sticky carbon dioxide molecule exhaled by one of us would. »

‘Adaptation’ Building Green Communities Conference Begins – July 19, 2012

Thursday, July 19, 2012
‘Adaptation’ Building Green Communities Conference Begins – July 19, 2012

Humboldt Plan It Green is holding its sixth annual Building Green Communities conference from Thursday, July 19 through Saturday, July 21, highlighting the theme, Adaptation: Creating a Resilient Future. »

MPA’s Approved – June 12, 2012

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

An MPA near Arcata and Manila allows some fishing and a smaller one at South Humboldt Bay allows recreational fishing “intended to accommodate tribal uses.” It’s one of several MPAs the commission chose not to expand. »

Appropriate Tech Public Restroom Conceived – April 8, 2012

Sunday, April 8, 2012
Appropriate Tech Public Restroom Conceived – April 8, 2012

The restroom’s design is still tentative, but it doesn’t look anything like the cinder-block affair that Public Works designed last time a public restroom was under serious discussion, nor the glitzy, super-expensive high-tech jobs used in some metropolitan areas. »