Rural Land Use Planning Clearinghouse

EDITOR'S NOTE: This is the second in a multi-part series looking at the Marina Center development. The next installment, running Saturday, looks at the urban decay element of the project's draft EIR.

In general, plants are very good to human beings. They work tirelessly to provide raw materials for food, clothes, medicine, and housing. Heck, they even give us clean air to breathe.

Authorities investigating possible arson at South Bay Elementary School in late November have begun examining surveillance videos taken the night of the fire that show images of a possible suspect.

Concerned commuters gathered Wednesday night for a Caltrans open house on the proposed plans for the Eureka-Arcata route 101 safety corridor. The event brought several residents who were concerned with plans to cut down some of the eucalyptus

An Arcata man found at least 20 syringes washed up on a Samoa Beach, and public health officials have decided to comb the area to find out if there are more.

The Humboldt Bay Municipal Water District will hold a special meeting on Monday to discuss how to handle the Evergreen Pulp mill's delinquent water bill.

California Coastal Commission staff have concluded that the appeal of a city-approved housing permit may have merit. Trinidad resident Mike Reinman appealed the Trinidad City Council's Oct.

A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter airlifted a woman from the side of a cliff Wednesday after her car shot off the side of a winding road near Petrolia. The unidentified woman's car went off the Mattole Road at a sharp turn in the stretch known as

Richard Craig Kesser, an inmate who reportedly hanged himself in his cell at the Humboldt County jail early Tuesday morning, has died. According to information from the Humboldt County Coroner's Office, the 47-year-old inmate was pronounced

Andrew Belant, a former teacher's aide and part-time church youth director accused of molesting four young boys, was stabbed in jail Tuesday night, the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office reported.

A pizza delivery worker was robbed at gunpoint in Eureka on Tuesday night before three suspects made off with his food-filled pizza warmer, the Eureka Police Department reported.

Students from Eureka High School's Environmental and Spatial Technologies, or EAST, program have set up a trust fund for an EHS student who lost her home in a fire recently.

Feeling intimidated by the transportation section of the Marina Center EIR? Check it out in Wordle, the “word cloud” tool.

Thanks to Green Wheels for the intro to Wordle, which they wisely used to deconstruct the Redwood Marine Terminal Plan.

      

Feeling intimidated by the transportation section of the Marina Center EIR?  Check it out in Wordle, the “word cloud” tool.

Thanks to Green Wheels for the intro to Wordle, which they wisely used to deconstruct the Redwood Marine Terminal Plan.

      

Trillium Falls Four days of fair weather bliss: a wine-flavored Thanksgiving with neighbors, a day off from radio spent traversing the dunes, a hike on the Trillium Falls trail, a miraculously easy deadline that allowed for a hike through Manila’s beach pine forest and a game of Frisbee with K and Nick. That ended Monday with [...]

(Not sure why the prior attempt glitched. This seems to work. – JS/Eye Scene Ed.)

Why don’t band and orchestra students continue playing their instruments after high school or college?

Recently, I found out a great number of my peers, or people I have come to admire, played a musical instrument throughout school. Like me, a few chose to play the baritone horn which; a.) guarantees an elevated nerd status and b.) places you in that mystery social class within the band. You’re not cool enough to be with the Ray-Ban wearing hipsters who commandeer the trumpet section, too cool to sit with the geeky 4.0 GPA bookworm girls in the woodwind section and not hip enough to socially compete with the budding Charlie Parkers in the saxophone section. Not to mention your lack of Buddy Rich-like swagger displayed among the drummers in the band. Female baritone horn players, on the other hand, possessed more cool than the entire lot. Why is that?

Read the rest here.

      

"Prop 8 - The Musical"

starring Jack Black, John C. Reilly, and many more...