– Apparently, the BLM and the Humboldt County Drug Task Force believes someone may be growing weed up around Ettersburg. A convoy rolled up that way today to serve a warrant, and in the process a BLM ranger crashed his ATV. He’s gonna be OK.
SoHum news hub Kym Kemp, linked above, talked with KHUM’s Mike Dronkers about the action earlier today.
– Ferndale newshound Caroline Titus, she of the Ferndale Enterprise , brings the scoop on Cream City’s very own catastrophic slide (pictured above). But because we do things differently, it’s not so much your classic, commonplace landslide as what Titus dubs a “debris torrent.”
Though she sometimes deigns to tweet, Titus generally hates the Internet with a red-hot passion. For more, you gotta go pick up the Enterprise .
– Shirley Fuller, assistant to Security National gazillionaire and assertive critic of local government Rob Arkley, has filed a pretty large Public Records Act request apparently aimed at uncovering the Humboldt Herald anonyblogger, and finding out who his/her sources might be in county government. Also, the Fuller request apparently hopes to uncover who in government might have said something about Humboldt Economic Land Plan, an Arkley-funded “group” opposed to the county’s general plan update.
The Herald had the story, but didn’t post an actual copy of the request itself. You can get that here .
– Japan had another couple of huge earthquakes, but this time there was no tsunami threat to local shores.