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Humboldt Co Sheriff Press Release: On 08-04-2011, approximately 7:20 p.m., Humboldt County Sheriff’s Deputies arrested Kevin Eric Wangler, 33 years of Miranda in connection with the Kidnapping and Robbery of a 44-year-old Willow Creek man, on 08-03-2011. Wangler was identified as the second suspect in this case and was located by deputies at a residence located on Bloody Nose
Read moreOn 08-03-2011, approximately 1000 a.m. Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office received a call from a male 44-year-old Willow Creek Resident that told the dispatchers he had been kidnapped and robbed at gunpoint. Deputies responded to the Gambi Hill Trailer Park, Willow Creek and met with the victim who was upset, but uninjured. The victim told the investigating officer he was walking
Read moreCliff Sparrow Nest Swallows supposedly swoop over San Juan Capistrano on March 19th of every year but, here, in the Humboldt Hills, they magically show up on the first really warm day. Yesterday, they returned. As part of our homeschooling, we’ll be watching them. Ours are a type of cliff swallow with square tails. They are steel blue and pale
Read moreOn an October night many years ago, two boys from the hills got tired of being pent up with the harvest of the not so legal sort. They pooled their money and came up with enough for a burger and a movie. The oldest boy had a battered motorcycle but he wasn’t old enough for a license so while they
Read moreThe Humboldt Standard January 31, 1958 Fifty years Ago Today The rain pouring down outside melting several inches of snow reminds me of the floods we used to have here in Humboldt in the Sixties and Seventies. And the logs that floated down those raging waters. They were huge and there were lots of them. Two of our best sources
Read morePhoto of Pretty Boy Floyd The story of Pretty Boy Floyd and fellow outlaw, George Birdwell captured the country’s imagination in the 1930’s. One can see why when tales like the following circulated. “[Floyd, known as Choc,] was so well liked that when he decided to knock over the bank in his own home town, Sallisaw, he informed his family
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In reading the Beachcomber’s Blog this morning, I realized how little I knew about my Dad’s great uncle, Cy Cole, a local moonshiner. Cyrus was born in Ukiah around 1873 and for a time he lived in Southern California where he went to college to become an engineer. He probably moved to Humboldt County sometime in the twenties. He got
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