City Attorney Nancy Diamond said the ordinance is modeled after what’s been done in elsewhere in the state and country, and what’s been tested in court. “We are not the first community to look at panhandling ordinances,” she said. “This is very widespread and there is a fair amount of judicial law we were... »

8:31 p.m. A man lying on the ground near a K Street stairwell slowly basted in an odious marinade of urine and vomit. An officer found him responsive but uncooperative, and took the poor basted to the hospital. »

The woman's son had allegedly written more than 43 checks, forging his mother's name and stealing nearly $10,000 from her. The 83-year-old woman, who lives on a fixed income, was dependent on her son's assistance in preparing checks for paying bills. »

On Wednesday, Feb. 16, officers from the Arcata Police Department's Special Services Unit, assisted by the Humboldt County Drug Task Force, served two search warrants in residential neighborhoods in Arcata. Both search warrants were served on residences where illegal marijuana cultivation operations were suspected to be taking place. »

• Friday, January 7 6:47 a.m. A man with missing teeth regaled the east Plaza area with his religious beliefs, then lumbered under the load of his backpack down to the Ball Park. There, he was advised to keep the spirituality to sub-seismic levels. »

To the HWMA boardmembers, including Arcata Councilmember Michael Winkler, the decision was clear-cut – ACRC responded to a request for five-year contract proposals with an offer to process recyclables at a cost of $65 a ton. Renewable Waste Systems is offering to pay the HWMA $8 a ton. »

The reward of $21,000 is offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person responsible for these fires. Anyone with information regarding the fires is asked to contact the Arcata Fire District at (707) 825-2000 or the Arcata Police Department at (707) 822-2428. »

Martinez pointed out that the burned buildings’ exteriors now bristle with twigs and pine needles, driven into the walls by high-pressure streams of water which had passed through trees from firehoses arrayed along 11th Street. »

1:51 p.m. A man in a blue overcoat lurched southbound down H Street carrying a garbage bag, top-volume profanities issuing from a moist opening in the fuzzy miasma of facial hair. »

• Sunday, December 19 2:02 a.m. Another day, another double-dullard implosion in front of the donuteria. Two booze-boggled gladiator-galoots helped populate the Pink House. »