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A white powder substance has been found at the Ferndale post office. Hazmat has quarantined the workers inside. Follow FrndEnterprise on Twitter for updates. Here’s her tweet: #Ferndale Post Office closed down. Suspicious white powder found on letter. Eureka hazmat on its way. Workers quarantined inside. UPDATE 10:25: New Tweets. FrndEnterpriseFerndale Enterprise Eureka Fire Department hazmat team member on the
Read moreThe Gazette Times of Corvalis, Oregon is reporting that the toxicology report on Tomas “Mas” Gouverneur came back free of drugs or alcohol. According to Mendocino County Sgt. Scott Poma, “He was not under the influence of anything.” On March 13th, in the hills east of Humboldt in Southwestern Trinity, Kristine Constantino and her partner, Christopher Sky Richardson were murdered
Read moreThis is the largest Canyon Live Oak I’ve ever seen which probably means it’s the oldest. I don’t know how to measure it. My husband says about 6 feet in diameter but that is only if you don’t measure those branches which come out of the base. The largest Canyon Live Oak is in Southern California. Go here to see
Read moreThe dentist’s drill doesn’t make most of us smile but a subcontractor crew on the huge slide just north of Garberville marked the spots for drilling water drains in the Hill That Ate the Road with Happy Faces. (Click on the photo to enlarge.) These horizontal drains will hopefully help keep the hillside from ponding and sliding into the roadway
Read moreMendocino grows some tough old folk. A seventy-seven year old man in Willits, William Green, felt that a young fellow (age 20) owed him some money “from the sale of marijuana growing equipment.” According to him, the young guy later called him asking to buy some pot. Green said sure, come on over but he set a trap. When the
Read moreToday’s medical emergency near Miranda brought an ambulance with sirens blaring into a quiet rural neighborhood. In what could have been a tragedy, the ambulance headed past the turn off to Thomas Rd. and ended up out towards the end of lower Salmon Creek. However neighbors throughout the area banded together making calls and redirecting the ambulance so that it
Read moreAn Anise swallowtail (I believe), isn’t really rare but the sight of one sitting long enough to be photographed is. What a beautiful battle scarred veteran of our wet spring this one is.
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Local Jed Sherman died yesterday. He was loved by many here. His friend Kim Sallaway said about him, “Jed was a true gentleman, a lucky dealer, and a proud papa.” ————————– Photos by Kim Sallaway
Read morePress Release from Bill Ryder Saturday, May 21 from 4:30 – 5:15PM at the Arcata Community Center Members of the Redwood MoveOn Council of Humboldt County will greet Representative Mike Thompson and his supporters at his pasta dinner event on Saturday, May 21, from 4:30 – 5:15 PM at the Arcata Community Center. The Council will demonstrate
Read moreI took this in 2008. I’m betting that this car didn’t see its owners through to today’s rapture.
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