Category: Humboldt

Longtime tireless community volunteer, Jackie Pantaleo, has been diagnosed with breast and liver cancer. She’s fighting back but needs help with finances. The community is rallying round her. On Saturday, January 24, everyone is invited to a festive night at the Mateel Community Center to have fun and raise some money to help her. A GoFundMe site has also been

A lighted holiday parade wound from Redway to Garberville yesterday evening. Come along with us and enjoy the sights and sounds of the event. You might try imaging the following poem sung to Do You Hear What I Hear as you read along. In fact, for a little holiday silliness, sing along yourself. Imagine you been browsing in small shops. You

In his 30 years as a member of the Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office, Lt. Steve Knight has collected quite a few stories and seen the world of law enforcement change drastically. He’s gone from a student in wildlife biology at Humboldt State to a lieutenant in charge of criminal investigations and, as the public information officer, he has been the

Craigslist is notorious for ads with an attitude or a bizarre twist. (See here for one that went viral. See here for a group of local ads with a Emerald Triangle twist.) Yesterday’s ad from Eureka has the potential to go viral. (The language gets a bit salty so beware scrolling below the photo to read it.) We’d sure like

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xEBDEcN-m6k] With a click of the arrow above. much of the beauty of Humboldt–compressed and collapsed into less than five minutes–flows across the screen. (The starry skies in the last half of the video are particularly vivid.) Photographer/videographer Ryan Johnson  began working on this project about six months ago. He believes he took over 10,000 photos in his effort

Heart pounding, fingers clenched, tears welling in eyes, almost every day in Humboldt and Trinity County parents watch as children are loaded into ambulances. Or wives and husbands clasp the hand of their spouse one more time before the EMT closes the door and speeds off in an emergency vehicle with lights flashing. When you need help for a loved

Jayne Peters  Fortuna resident, Jayne Johnson Peters was 9 years old when she began to get sick. She was eleven when her kidneys failed. “She is one of the youngest children to have double kidney failure without any family history of the problem,” explained her sister Jessica Peters. At 12, Jayne had surgery to implant a kidney from her mother. Now, at

Press Release: Come on out the the Garberville Theater this weekend and enjoy four comedic scripts that deal with Bigfoot seekers, Count Dracula in Alderpoint, an Old Growers Home, and a “Meditation Smackdown”.  The scripts were written by Owl Ceraulo and Jacob Shafer and you are guaranteed a true so Hum. theater experience full of laughter and poking fun.  Plus–live

Though most schools in Humboldt will be starting classes on Monday, August 25, many schools will be starting on other dates. LoCO has put together a list sorted by date then arranged within the date by alphabetical order. [Also, see back-to-school safety tips below.] Click here for each Humboldt County school district’s calendar this year. Aug. 25: Big Lagoon Union Elementary School District,