Loleta News

The Humboldt Chapter of the California Grand Jurors' Association has selected officers for 2010.

If you're given to taking short drives out in the country to escape for a few minutes, one trip close to Eureka and Eel River valley residents promises a leisurely drive through the rolling hills of Loleta just off Highway 101.

As the year winds down, I'm thinking of the help we've received in putting the Humboldt Beacon together week after week.

I'll probably always think of him as young Bernie Steinberg, leader of RBS Syndrome, Fortuna High's hottest punk pop band, but these days he's calling himself Berel Alexander .

With the consumption of turkey and pumpkin pie over, it's time to get serious about the true meaning of the holidays -- that being the continuation of eating and holiday shopping.

Annual bird festival shifts focus, month Top: The crested caracara is a rare species of raptor that draws bird-watchers to Del Norte County during spring.

Students at several local elementary schools recently took a pledge to "Live Like a Champion" by eating more fruits and vegetables and getting regular exercise.

Learn about serving on a board at the Healy Senior Center, from 4 to 7 p.m. Call Amy at 442-2993 for fee details.

Shipments of the vaccine for H1N1 have come in more slowly than expected but Humboldt County should have enough to vaccinate everyone in the immunization target groups within the next month, according to Dr.

A sign at McKinleyville Middle School clearly states no dogs allowed, but on Saturday, Nov.14, the school's playground thronged with the four legged tail waggers.

Gerhard Drumm's run for a seat on the Loleta Community Services District can only be described as a lonely candidacy.

If you're an adult who loves children and loves to read, the Humboldt County Office of Education hopes you'll volunteer for a program now in its second year, designed to help kindergartners become successful readers.

The late Christine Sadiqah Birch, a former Loleta resident, donated more than $73,000 to the Central Asia Institute , an organization which builds schools in Pakistan.

Toast * To 16-year-old Kassi Brownlow for taking the initiative in setting up and operating an Alex's Lemonade Stand fundraiser in Humboldt County.

A little over a month from now, across America, people will belly up to plates heaped with festive eats -- turkey and tofurky, potatoes and pie.

Food lovers are invited to feast at the Community Alliance with Family Farmers and North Coast Big Brothers Big Sisters' Wine, Cheese, and Chocolate: A Taste for Kids' Sake on Friday, Oct.

Investigators have accomplished the difficult task of identifying the skeleton found in Loleta as the missing Stephanie Fowler, but now another complicated task confronts them -- reconstructing what happened in the final hours of her life.

Two years after her disappearance, the human remains recently found near Loleta have been identified as those of Stephanie Lee Fowler.

Humboldt County authorities have identified human skeletal remains found last week as those of a woman who was reported missing two years ago.

The Humboldt Arts Council in the Morris Graves Museum of Art has announced the winners of the "Celebration of the Arts 2009 Juried Competition and Exhibition" awards.