About a year ago, I attended a convention in Las Vegas. This involved getting up really early to set up the coffee booth. Not... »
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Supervisors Limiting Cannabis Ordinance To Residential Grows
“What’s caused a lot of the furor in this county and in general is the industrial level of marijuana growing that’s happening in our county and is destroying our environment – that’s the problem,” she continued. »
Oyster Festival Admission Plan Stirs Mixed Reaction
Within hours of the Thursday announcement, Arcata Main Street Director Jennifer Koopman and her board had been reviled as greedy, incompetent, dishonest, self-interested and even anatomically mutated. “I don’t know where your head is, but it’s not on your shoulders,” one caller to Main Street said in a voice mail message. Some online commenters... »
Jennifer Koopman: FAQ On The New Oyster Festival Policies
The money will also be reinvested into the FREE Picnics & Concerts on the Plaza series I have slated beginning in mid-July. The money will pay the bands and artists, sound, equipment and marketing collateral. I’ve been lucky, the artists and bands have all been so generous to Main Street over the years.... »
Oyster Festival Will Charge $10 Admission This Year
The Oyster Festival will operate a little differently this year. Due to organizational budgets, festival management and attendance, safety concerns and increasing costs, Arcata Main Street will charge a $10 entrance fee to enter the festival grounds surrounding the Arcata Plaza. There will be no charge for beer wristbands. »
Alan Sanborn: A Meditation On The Farmers’ Market
Given my pathetic attempts at growing food, I look at good farming as magic. I look at the small organic farmers of our watershed as artists who understand better than most of us the magic of living on Earth. I see at them as healers of the wounds and toxins left by decades of... »
Alas, ‘A Lass Of The Lumberlands’ Lost
Some 27 spots from Garberville to Del Norte will be highlighted. Just two feature films are known to have been shot in Arcata, the first because of an unknown twist of fate. »
Valley West Promised City Support By Mid-May
A woman asked if police could “get rid” of the homeless. “No,” Chapman replied flatly. “We support and follow the Constitution regardless of socioeconomic status.” »
Earth Day Forum Probes Marijuana’s Environmental Impact
The symposium will bring together leading policymakers, grassroots environmental organizations, activists, scientists, students and community members. »
Development-Crazed Loveless Plots U.N. Agenda 20 Takeover – April 1, 1953
Were it implemented in the U.S.A., Agenda 20 could lead to all manner of useless and impractical transportation projects, relaxed development standards and political initiatives funded by anonymous donors, some wealthy. President Dwight Eisenhower has warned of such consequences. »
Renaissance Man Dazzles Townsfolk – April 1, 1953
Mr. Chauncey Berry-picker, whose storied past includes degrees from multiple universities, authorship of several scholarly books, heroic service as an ace in the U.S. Air Corps and acclaim by the crowned heads of Europe, past, present and future, has been engaged by the city fathers to take charge of Arcata’s treasury and manage its... »
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