Councilmember Alex Stillman favored the project. She noted mentions of displacement of available housing due to conversion into commercial cannabis grow houses, but said highly profitable arrangements between growers and out-of-town landlords made those homes all but impossible to reclaim for residential use. New, above-moderate income housing should be developed, Stillman said.
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3rd annual "Youth Disc Golf Event," Saturday, June 13, sign-in time 11 a.m. at
pump station 4, on the Mad River. This is a free event for kids 15 and under,
to learn the rules and play of disc golf. Free disc, raffle and lunch will be provided.
Limited to 50 kids. All participants must be accompanied by an adult. For more
information, contact: Dutch Sullivan (707)825-0882


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MRCH’s on-site farm is largely the brainchild of Todd Huestis, food and nutrition service manager, though the hospital’s Green Committee first mentioned the idea several years ago as part of a range of energy-saving and recycling suggestions.

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According to a City press release, Hackett’s departure is “in the best interest of all parties” and “will enable the City to take the necessary steps to move forward in obtaining the required permanent leadership, administrative oversight and organizational management it needs from a full-time city manager.”
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HSU – KHSU 90.5 FM’s Community Advisory Group (CAG) held an upbeat meeting last week. After a year of financial strain, flaming controversy, personnel turnover and  daunting technical difficulties, things are looking up for the station on several fronts.
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Compounding the problem are widely circulated rumors that the City of Arcata now limits Plaza use to a single major event per month. It simply isn’t true.
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A “tremendous number” of people who support medical use and total legalization of marijuana are “directly impacted by the illegal cultivation of it and by the unregulated aspects of this quasi-legal cultivation, this gray area that we’re in right now,” Lovelace continued. “So even people who strongly support legalization recognize that we have serious law enforcement needs under the current situation and we can’t just ignore those, or else we’re denying people their ability to address these problems.”

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ARCATA – One man was injured and another killed minutes apart in unrelated solo bicycle accidents last Friday afternoon. Neither was wearing a helmet.
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ARCATA – Decades of dithering over a direct route from Alliance Road to Northtown ended last Wednesday night as a majority of City Councilmembers passed the primary plan for an extension to Foster Avenue. But overturning Arcata’s long-ingrained habits and traditions for waste disposal and recycling proved more difficult, with the council kicking that can down the road a ways.
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Cars found on the Plaza Saturday mornings will be cited, probably towed and owners fined $200.
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BLUE LAKE – The Blue Lake Rancheria has applied for a permit to extract up to 20,000 cubic yards of sand and gravel annually from trust lands it owns along the Mad River. The Rancheria is exempt from state regulation, but the project must be approved by the National Marine Fisheries Service and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, with public comment accepted until Wednesday, April 29.
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Using information from the state's Employment Development Department, Hackett did a number of “sorts,” combing through the data with different filters, pivoting and viewing it from different angles and drawing out the nuggets of gold.
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After soaking the pool cue shards embedded in the victim’s cranium with a homeopathic tincture to reverse the Reike vortices’ polarity, the two embarked on an aggressive course of anthroposophical aromatherapy-based triage, waving lit herbal smudges and basting his toes in a poultice of Tahitian Noni root.

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Finnish Country Sauna and Tubs has formed a partnership with Japhy’s Soup Kitchen to offer new “Soup Tubs” out behind Café Mokka at Fifth and J streets. There, three of the Finnish-style hot tubs have been reassigned to tureen duty, offering patrons a relaxing, nutritious and newly flavorful tubbing experience.
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Gillette’s probation and warrant stemmed from a conviction for a drug manufacturing related fire that occurred in 2005. That incident involved Gillette destroying part of an Arcata apartment building when a concentrated cannabis manufacturing process he was using blew up and started a fire which damaged eight apartments. He sustained third degree burns to 20 percent of his body in the butane-fueled explosion, mostly on his hands and arms.
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