Fortuna News

For many citizens of Fortuna, the popping of gunshots on most Sundays goes unnoticed.

As the New Year got into full swing so did the Friends of the Fortuna Library board.

Fresh Choice is the latest restaurant to bite the dust in Novato.A It closed over the weekend after its lease expired, according to an email from Vintage Oaks Shopping Center A leasing manager Kathy DeOchoa of Crosspoint Realty.

Arcata Theatre Lounge Science Fiction Pint and Pizza Night presents director Edward Wood's "Night of the Ghouls" and "Glen or Glenda" , 6 to 10 p.m., free with a $5 minimum food/beverage purchase, all ages.

Fortuna police arrested a 52-year-old woman on suspicion of drunken driving during a special enforcement period on Super Bowl Sunday.

The Fortuna City Council Monday unanimously appointed Mayor Doug Strehl and Mayor Pro Tem Ken Zanzi to research what it would cost to hire a firm to recruit a new city manager.

Led by two Humboldt State University graduates, the Native Sons of the Golden West will dedicate Jacoby's Storehouse at 11 a.m. next Saturday.

Recently filed campaign finance forms show 1st District supervisor candidate Rex Bohn surpassing the candidates of every district by tens of thousands of dollars.

A Fortuna man alleged he was assaulted and robbed Thursday night in Fernbridge by a man and two females, according to the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office.

Ethan & Teyler Totes is working with Starbucks to help promote their organization, Ethan & Teyler Totes, which puts emergency bags together for families who have been thrown into the trenches at UCSF and Lucile Packard Children's Hospitals unexpectedly.

Grant funding has been secured to address flooding problems with Rohner Creek in Fortuna, and other improvements are in store for the community, the crowd gathered for the 2012 Fortuna State of the City breakfast was told last Thursday.

Tina Gleave's "Silk Art Collection" will be displayed in the Truchas Gallery at Los Bagels in Old Town Eureka through the end of March.

The Fortuna City Council approved a payment schedule Monday that will fulfill the city's redevelopment agency's obligations as the city prepares to dissolve it.

Marvin Eugene Stone, better known to most folks as "Skip," has been appointed publisher of the new Redwood Times, bringing a broad business background to the position, coupled with experience in newspaper business management.

The Fortuna City Council, as successor agency to the city's redevelopment agency, is poised to adopt a payment schedule Monday that will fulfill the redevelopment agency's obligations as the city prepares to dissolve it.

Kenneth Newell was the type of person who kept tabs on others and always asked people how they were doing, even if he'd just met them.

The Fortuna Planning Commission will look today at areas within city limits that could be zoned for emergency homeless shelters, transitional housing programs and supportive housing without a conditional use permit.

The Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 2207, The American Legion Post 205 and the Rotary Club of Fortuna announced the dedication of a new memorial on the grounds of the Veterans' Memorial Hall in Fortuna on Jan.

Grant funding has been secured to address flooding problems with Rohner Creek in Fortuna, and other improvements are in store for the community, the crowd gathered for the 2012 Fortuna State of the City breakfast was told Thursday.

Humboldt County's superintendent of schools will give Fortuna residents and business owners an idea of what to expect when the city's two elementary school districts merge in June during the annual State of the City breakfast on Thursday.