Kevin L. Hoover

• Friday, February 23 8:46 a.m. Boxing isn’t a feature at a Community Park health club, but two feisty gents in the upper parking lot somehow came to blows. 9:47 a.m. An unwell-looking fox staggered around a Janes Road elementary school playground as children played nearby. 10:26 a.m. An officer was called to H Street to eject a man from […]

ARCATA – A new survey commissioned by the City of Arcata offers insight into current public attitudes toward city policies and practices, and of how a new sales tax hike on November’s ballot might be received by voters. In both cases, results are generally positive for the city. On Feb. 7, the City Council approved a $38,700 contract with Fairbank, […]

ARCATA – O say, does that Earth-spangled banner yet wave o’er the Plaza? It does, though its time atop city flagpoles may be short, now that placing the Earth flag above the U.S. flag has been ruled illegal in court. A majority (52.31 percent) of Arcata voters approved Measure M, which requires that the City of Arcata fly the Earth […]

ARCATA – What started in an Old Creamery supply closet as a modest Internet streaming operation has blossomed into a vital new community resource and institution. And soon, with the FCC’s recent approval, Humboldt Hot Air will be on the air as KHHA-LP FM 94.7. Where the station attracted a number of disenfranchised KHSU talent after that station dismissed its […]

ARCATA – The air was thick with dismay and anger at last week’s NHUHSD Board meeting, three weeks after the board chose to reassign popular two-year Principal Ron Perry to a teaching position next year. Compounding the frustration for students, staff and parents who were taken by surprise by the move was the mystery at its core: why would such […]

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ARCATA – In a land which prides itself on liberal values of multicultural diversity, tolerance and equity, many local Jews feel as though they aren’t included. Worse, some describe mounting anti-semitic harassment and fear for their personal safety – just for being Jewish. While varying in age, background and politics, they share a sense of dread about current trends that […]

Note: Some readers may find this story disturbing. – Ed. ARCATA – Something violent took place in Sunny Brae’s placid Beverly Court overnight on Aug. 5/6, with a blood trail left to tell the tale the next morning. But only partially, with the exact nature of the gory encounter, the victim’s species and its fate still not known. What is […]

ARCATA MARSH – A romp of perhaps five river otters gamboled in the waters of Klopp Lake Saturday, not far from the remains of a California Sea Lion who chose the Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary to spend its final days. At spots around the graywater lake, Environmental Services Director Emily Sinkhorn was busy replacing flyers she’d just posted the […]

ARCATA – The macabre, spiky black-and-gray metal fence encircling the EdgeConnex Arcata Data Center at 1296 11th St. is about to be replaced with a less gulag-appropriate enclosure. The end of the fearsome fence is part of a host of Phase II improvements taking place at the former lumberyard/retail-center-turned-server-farm three years after it opened. A new, 6,300-square-foot building for channeling […]