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5 hrs ago | Times-Standard

Community Connections: Orick Community Resource Center and Humboldt 211

Jan Box, community liaison for the Orick Community Resource Center, sat at a small table greeting residents who had come to participate in the annual Orick Community Christmas Dinner.

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Related Topix: Orick, CA

Sun Feb 12, 2012

Times-Standard

North Coast Happenings

Caregiver Support Group meetings are offered this week in several locations by the Alzheimer's Resource Center for caregivers coping with all types of illnesses and caregiving situations.

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Related Topix: Humboldt County, Del Norte County, CA, Gay/Lesbian, Transgendered

Times-Standard

It's Girl Scout Cookie time

Few annual events are more eagerly anticipated, with sweet memories getting one's taste buds tingling, than the annual Girl Scout Cookie sale.

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Related Topix: Del Norte County, CA, Baked Goods, Life, Cookies, Dessert, Food, Recipes, Trinidad, CA, Eureka, CA

Times-Standard

Fascinating Falk

Headwaters Forest Reserve Park Ranger Julie Clark will be the featured speaker at the Humboldt County Historical Society's 52nd annual luncheon on Feb.

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Related Topix: Eureka, CA

Times-Standard

Business Sense: Living with uncertainty and feeling stuck in our puzzling times

Imagine a ball situated on top of a round hill. It can roll off in many ways, and it doesn't take much of a jolt to make that happen.

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Related Topix: Small Business, Personal Finance

Times-Standard

Two Humboldt supervisors visit D.C. officials; Klamath River, post offices and marijuana discussed

It was a jam-packed three days for two Humboldt County supervisors who spent part of last week meeting with government officials in Washington, D.C. Third District Supervisor Mark Lovelace, 5th District Supervisor Ryan Sundberg and former Supervisor Jill Duffy -- who's involved in Klamath dam issues -- traveled back east Jan.

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Related Topix: Klamath-River, CA, Marijuana, Medication, Klamath, CA, Dianne Feinstein, US Politics, US News, US Senate, Democrat, Senator Jeff Merkley

Sat Feb 11, 2012

Arcata Eye

Natural Splendor Bombarded By More Garbage - February 11, 2012

LISCOM SLOUGH/JACKSON RANCH ROAD - As dawn's rosy fingers crept over the Arcata Bottom along Liscom Slough last Friday, Feb 10, they revealed to Ted Halstead the hideous pile of debris above, which included all manner of wretched refuse.

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Related Topix: Eureka, CA

Times-Standard

Governor signs bill to restore bus funding; SoHum official: 'It's fantastic news'

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed into law legislation that would preserve school bus funding, a move widely credited to Southern Humboldt parents, school staff and students whose trip to Sacramento cast a spotlight on the plight of rural school districts, which were hardest hit by the trigger cuts to home-to-school transportation.

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Related Topix: Jerry Brown, US Governors, Education Etc., Del Norte County, CA

Humboldt Beacon

Distinguished Young Women orientation building

The Distinguished Young Women of Humboldt County Program will be holding an orientation meeting for all interested Humboldt County high school junior girls and their parents on Saturday, Feb.

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Fri Feb 10, 2012

Two Rivers Tribune

Mother Pleads Guilty to Voluntary Manslaughter

Maggie Jean Wortmon, 27, of Eureka, pleaded guilty today to voluntary manslaughter, admitting she engaged in conduct that directly caused the death of her infant son, Michael Acosta III.

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Related Topix: Eureka, CA, Drugs

Humboldt Beacon

Friends of the Fortuna Library hold annual membership meeting

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

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Related Topix: Libraries, Fortuna, CA

Times-Standard

No Hazmat situation in Whitethorn

No hazardous materials were found at the scene of a Whitethorn Dumpster fire that burned on and off for nearly 20 hours Wednesday night and through most of Thursday.

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Related Topix: Whitethorn, CA

Times-Standard

Textures, layers give life to artist's experiences

Plaza Design in Arcata is hosting a show of mixed-media new works by Anastasia Zielinski this month.

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Related Topix: Arcata, CA, McKinleyville, CA, Eureka, CA

Times-Standard

Body found in Arcata identified

The Humboldt County Coroner's Office on Thursday identified the body of a young man found near railroad tracks in the Arcata area as 30-year-old David Thomas Armstrong of Washington.

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Related Topix: Arcata, CA

Times-Standard

Election Roundup: Humboldt Republicans urge national party to endorse Dan Roberts

The Humboldt County Republican Central Committee is recommending that the California Republican Party formally endorse Dan Roberts for the 2nd Congressional District seat.

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Related Topix: Tiburon, CA, Marin County, CA

Thu Feb 09, 2012

Arcata Eye

Arcata Library Rocks The Economic Slump - February 9, 2012

With budget dollars drying up, the Friends of the Arcata Library are filling the gap with people power.

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Related Topix: Libraries

Times-Standard

Deputies arrest three in McKinleyville sanitation stakeout

Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies arrested three men during stakeouts of Humboldt Sanitation this week after the suspects were discovered at the facility after business hours.

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Related Topix: McKinleyville, CA

North Coast Journal Weekly Politics

Constructed Paintings

The Ironside Gallery is one of the newest cooperative galleries in Humboldt County.

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Times-Standard

Bead embroidery workshop in April

The Humboldt County chapter of the Embroiderers' Guild of America will host a two-day workshop with Sara Zander on April 21 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. and April 22 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Humboldt Aquatic Bay Center in Eureka.

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Related Topix: Life, Hobbies, Embroidery, Eureka, CA

Times-Standard

Bayside family's treehouse might be saved; county to grant an exception to streamside ordinance

A Bayside family who was told they would have to dismantle their backyard treehouse because it was too close to a stream might be able to keep the structure, thanks to an exemption from Humboldt County staff.

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Related Topix: Bayside, CA

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