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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
Read moreWant to learn how to make stuff? build stuff? grow stuff? The Lost Coast Outpost will occasionally be bringing you guest posts from experts in their fields that will give you a bit of information on living sustainably and cultivating old-fashioned skills in a modern way. Today’s post in our Homesteading Humboldt series is written by Dottie Simmons. She and her husband,
Read moreJayne 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
Read morePress 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
Read moreThough 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,
Read moreThose Humboldt Made Folk have come up with a list (with the help of LoCO’s Facebook friends) of 111 Ways to Enjoy Humboldt. If you’re not smiling a little and remembering some good times when you finish reading it, we’ll be surprised. Here’s selection out of the middle: 77. Investigate the tide pools at Patrick’s Point. 78. Pay a visit
Read moreMarty Messenger of County Roads reported on the SoHum Awareness site, Today Humboldt County Roads is doing additional spot paving on Briceland-Thorne Rd. (1/4 mile west of Seely Creek), then we’ll be on Ettersburg Rd. between Storm Ln. & Dutyville Rd. There will be controlled traffic, expect minor delays.
Read moreHumboldt County’s products shown in gold medal winning display at the State Fair. [Photo provided by the HCCVB.] Humboldt County Convention & Visitors Bureau Press Release: The official Humboldt County display received a gold medal at the 2014 California State Fair, currently underway in Sacramento, the second year in a row it has earned such honors in the popular counties
Read moreBureau Of Land Management Press Release: A free interpretive outing to learn how to “Leave No Trace in the Wilderness” on Saturday, July 19, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., from Black Sands Beach to Horse Mountain Creek in Shelter Cove. The outing is part of a summer hikes series offered by the Bureau of Land Management and the Lost
Read moreAs the months grow longer since Danielle Bertolini went missing, the family of the 23-year-old woman last seen in the Fortuna area loses hope. Yesterday, a newspaper in Bangor, Maine–Bertolini went to school near there–headlined a story on the case with “Mother of former Maine woman missing in California fears she’s dead.” The reporter interviewed Lt. Wayne Hanson with the Humboldt
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