Arcata News

The noon whistle's blast and cheers of thousands of spectators still echoed when the first machines -- a flaming ant and a metallic cockroach -- scurried down Eighth Street in Arcata for the first leg of the Kinetic Grand Championship.

"Wonders of Nature," right, is a painting by Westhaven artist Jeff Stanley that features Jesus Christ standing with the artist's friend Shane Cavey on Old Home Beach in Trinidad.

Estelle Fennell said Humboldt County's 2nd District is in need of a strong advocate, and she believes her leadership and communication skills make her the woman for the job.

Greenway Partners, Inc., an Arcata-based design, engineering and planning firm, received a California Northern Section's 2012 Grassroots Initiative Award of Merit from the American Planning Association.

The Fickle Hill Old Rose Nursery in Arcata will open its gardens to the public on Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. A view of the garden is shown at right.

Mosgo's Caf has returned to the Westwood Center in Arcata. Also back are the previous managers and award-winning Equator Coffees.

From Jamaica to the Jambalaya, dub-rock reggae star Protoje will take his internationally enjoyed live show to Humboldt County on Friday night.

In a meeting that topped three hours Monday night, May 21, Arcata's citizen-led Energy Committee formulated its final recommendation to the City CouncilA on a proposed tax on excessive residential electricity consumption.

Arcata detectives detained an unidentified woman Monday after she allegedly confessed to setting a fire inside the post office lobby on H Street and attempting to set fire to a vehicle on 10th Street.

In celebration of a growing and dynamic local metal scene, the Retro Humboldt show at the Eureka Veterans Memorial Building on Friday night will be one to remember.

China and Belize featured prominently in discussion of Arcata's forests at last Thursday morning's Forest Management Committee meeting.

Nicole Nada, a 41 year old mother of two, as she finishes the last 4 mile leg of a 300 mile bicycle trek from Arcata, Calif.

The heart of the Humboldt Bay domestic drinking water system, the Ranney Collectors, just received an overhaul, and work on one of its major pipelines on the Samoa Peninsula is about to begin.

High and low clouds may obscure the Humboldt Bay region's view of Sunday's annular solar eclipse, according to the National Weather Service.

The League of American Bicyclists has named Arcata a "Silver Award Bicycle Friendly Community" last week, one of 214 communities to be named as such in 47 states.

Not that note-for-note copies of the Beatles, Sublime and the Grateful Dead aren't perfectly enjoyable, if you're into that kind of thing.

Arcata Fire Chief John McFarland has announced his retirement. He will step down in December after 46 years in fire service.

Editor: I believe I am qualified to set the record straight regarding an accusation made by Karen Brooks against Mark Lovelace in Zach St.

Summer's just around the corner, which makes it time for another round of music festivals, big, small and in between.

Elsewhere in this week's Journal , voters can delve into the thoughtful nuances of our publisher's positions on the upcoming California June primary election.