Hydesville News

Fortuna Feed and Garden Center held its 3rd annual Pet-Expo last Saturday. Cathy Whitchurch, who manages the business, was very happy with the turnout.

Every year for the past 10 years, the Kiwanis Club of Fortuna has sponsored a Woman of the Year Award and Family of the Year Award.

Hydesville School's annual "Halloween Carnival" will be held Friday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. All are invited to come join in the fun.

Humboldt County logging professionals will travel to southern California in November to participate in a roundtable discussion of what is being done to adapt to changing economic and market conditions.

The ex-wife of a Hydesville man who held police in a standoff in Fortuna last month began her emotional testimony at his preliminary hearing Friday, describing in detail how the situation unfolded.

Caltrans reported last week that they pleased that the Alton Interchange Project on Route 101 is on schedule.

The Hydesville man who kept Fortuna Police on a nine-hour standoff Wednesday with his son as a hostage is now in custody on suspicion of six crimes, including allegedly violating a restraining order to stay away from his son and soon-to-be ex-wife. Vernon Franklin Curteman Jr., 50, began his standoff with the Fortuna Police Department at his wife's ...

A 52-year-old Danville man died when he crashed his motorcycle and was hit by a logging truck in northern Mendocino County near Leggett about 1:34 p.m. Tuesday.

The opening ceremony hadn't yet happened, but that didn't deter determined fairgoers from streaming through the gate on the first and admission-free day of the Humboldt County Fair's 10-day run.

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The original action began more than a decade ago in Carlotta when Caltrans received letters expressing concern about students' safety while walking to Cuddeback School.

Communities are judged, in part, by how they provide public safety for their residents.

There's a new addition at Hydesville Elementary School: A Community Garden. The garden, voluntarily built by JJ Johansen of Johansen Construction was used from July 6 to the 17th during the school's summer session.

Patriotism is a living, breathing entity at a little-known, but much anticipated event held every July 4 by members of the nine-sibling Sarvinski family.

The rodeo itself is loaded with new crowd-pleasing events, including a wild horse race to replace the single steer stopping, perhaps of interest to cowboys, but dead as a mackerel to most of the crowds.

Darrell and Sandy Gilmore were married May 16, 2009 at Hydesville Community Church by Pastor Jeff Beltz.

On Sunday, May 24, Joyce Sousa of Hydesville rode Arabian horse LV Integrity and raced to a first place finish at the Owyhee Fandango International Endurance, 100 mile ride held in Oreana, Idaho.

On April 25, Saturday, The Science, Engineering and Technology Expo came to Redwood Acres.

Warner and Marilyn Wright Forsell celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary with their family at a beach house on the Mendocino coast on the weekend of March 22.

Nobody knows the place -- Agony, that enacted there, Motionless as peace. Weeds triumphant ranged, Strangers strolled and spelled At the lone orthography Of the elder dead.