Kevin L. Hoover

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 […]

"The investments in the University’s endowment does not include any direct investment in defense companies or any securities issued by Israeli companies or organizations, or to defense firms."

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 […]

But in most cases, even with questions about prosaic matters such as town-gown relations, all rhetorical roads lead to tyranny.

The latest Serna campaign violation replicates that of two months ago, with the candidate being cordially notified of the problem, but taking no action.

The Arcata Community Center and Murphy’s Westwood Market were both plastered with statements including the word “VOTE” enclosed in a red circle with a bar through it, “NO ELECTION, INSURRECTION,” plus a variety of political flyers, laid on under a thick mantle of glue.

NOHUM – A tense election became even more so on Election Day, when morning light revealed extensive damage to four of Arcata’s Vote Centers – three grocery stores and the Community Center. As workers painted over and scraped away the damage, voters filed past them to make their choices. With vote counts continuing, Arcata’s slate of three City Council incumbents […]