— Yesterday’s bomb scare at Humboldt State was triggered by a handwritted note found in the university library, the Times-Standard reports. 

— Shortly after the bomb scare was over yesterday, the university hosted a post-mortem on the March 11 tsunami. The T-S‘s report lingers mostly on the officials’ warnings about what happens when a Japan-style quake hits the Cascadia Subduction Zone off our shores. A tsunami generated by a shift in the zone could hit our shores in 10 minutes, said HSU Geology Chair Lori Dengler, and officials likely wouldn’t have time to activate the local alert system. If the earth shakes for 20 seconds or longer, get thee to high ground immediately.

Meanwhile, both KIEM-TV and the KMUD news report on cleanup and repair efforts at Crescent City Harbor. Last night’s KMUD newscast is below; the Crescent City story, by KHSU reporter Ted Ward, starts at 19:15. 

http://archive.kmud.org/mp3/kmud_110328_180000newspm.mp3

KIEM shows you footage of the giant crane brought in to assist cleanup efforts; KMUD talks about the environmental effects of the harbor’s sunken ships.

— The Humboldt County Board of Supervisors will meet tomorrow to declare a local state of emergency in the wake of the weekend rain storms that washed out local roads, the T-S reports. Elsewhere, Thad Greenson talks to SoHum residents about the progress of repairs to Briceland Road, efforts to organize information trees and websites pertaining to road outages and the experiences of Shelter Cove residents, who were effectively cut off from civilization for much of the weekend.

KMUD news talks to state parks officials about the Briceland washout and repairs at 4:30, above. The parks department is responsible for maintaining the damaged stretch of road. State parks has set up a hotline for Briceland Road information and status updates: 707-946-1817.

— Daniel Mintz reports on last Thursday’s Humboldt County Planning Commission meeting, which focused on agricultural and watershed preservation in the General Plan Update. (Minute marker 12:00, above.) Environmental groups showed out in support of regulating agriculture’s effects on riparian health.

— A member of Arcata’s Design Review Committee is threatening to sue the city after allegedly being denied the right to speak at a meeting of the city’s planning commission. (T-S.)

— State budget cuts to hit local senior services.

— Chris Crawford remembered.