Friday, July 29th, 2011
In 1990 I spent three months traveling across the USA looking for the best city to move to and call home. Arcata topped my list by a long shot. »
Tags: Arcatans Elsewhere, Berlin, Jason Kirkpatrick
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Then the Far West League Championship Tournament will kick off in Arcata with the Home Run Derby on Wednesday, Aug. 3 at 6 p.m. »
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Thursday, July 28th, 2011
Nearly 800 growing marijuana plants, 80 pounds of dried marijuana in various stages of processing, three firearms and nearly $2,000 in cash were discovered and seized. »
Tags: Arcata Bottom, Cannabis, Iverson Avenue, grow house
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Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
In the fall of 1995, I came home late one evening from a camping trip, turned on the evening news and learned that the Arcata Union was going out of business. Although I didn’t know it at the time, that was a pivotal moment in the birth of the McKinleyville Press. »
Tags: Arcata Union, Ethel Wilkins, McKinleyville Press, journalism
Posted in News, Opinion, Community, Business, Media | 40 Comments »
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
Iverson and Foster Avenue residents have something anyone would want – a vast expanse of quiet open space just over their back fences. The goatroversy was about keeping that, period. »
Tags: Arcata Bottom, Bloomfield, Cheese, Cypress Grove Chevre, Foster Avenue, Goats
Posted in Opinion, Community, Animals, Business, Environment | 20 Comments »
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
2:26 p.m. Another cannabis-based argument bubbled like a bong amplified a hundred times at 17th and G streets. »
Tags: Police Log
Posted in Police Log | 10 Comments »
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Following a series of bureaucratic struggles, the county’s effort to regulate medical marijuana will retain an initial focus on residential grows and dispensaries, and will look to Mendocino County as a model for a second phase on outdoor grows. »
Tags: Cannabis
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Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
Some observers of the situation view that as a move toward local control of recycling while others think it’s an attempted bail-out of a fiscally weakened ACRC. »
Tags: ACRC, HWMA, HWMA may buy out crippled ACRC, Recycling
Posted in News, Environment | No Comments »
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011
The industrial water comprises most of the district’s capacity and if it remains unused by 2029, when the district’s state permit expires, a so-called “use it or lose it” clause kicks in and the rights to the surplus could be transferred elsewhere. »
Tags: HBMWD, MadRiver, Water
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Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
Brown said the core problem is that the county doesn’t distinguish between different types of agriculture. »
Tags: Cypress Grove Chevre, Gilardoni, Goats
Posted in News, Community, Animals, Environment | 5 Comments »