Articles by Hank Sims
August 2022
The Outpost’s John Ross Ferrara Has Logged Off
Big Public Meetings on Nordic Aquafarms and Arcata’s Gateway Area Plan Tonight
The Dolos is Still There, But The Trees Are Gone
July 2022
The Fishing Boat Miss Katie Briefly Threatened to Sink to the Bottom of the Woodley Island Marina, but She Has Risen Again
A Big Week for the Arcata Gateway Area Plan: Planning Commission, Historical Landmarks Committee to Look at the Area’s Past and Future
The Humboldt Chronicles, Your Monthly Roundup of Cannabis News and Features, Talks About the Changing Regulatory Landscape
The NWS’s Local Doppler Radar Station is Back Online and Stronger Than Ever, Just in Time for Fire Season
Buhne and Harrison Fully Blocked Following High-Speed Chase, Reportedly With Shots Fired
ELECTION REDUX: It’s Almost Time to Take Out Those Papers to Run For City Office!
June 2022
ELECTION UPDATE: With a Little More Than 6,000 More Ballots Counted Since Last Week, Natalie Arroyo a Lock for Next Fourth District Supervisor
BROADWAY POP-UPS! Caltrans is Gonna Test Some Stuff to Maybe Improve the Hellscape That is Eureka’s Southern Gateway, and There’ll be a Virtual Meeting About it Next Week if You Want to Check That Out
ELECTION UPDATE! With 9,080 More Votes Counted, Arroyo Scoots Way Up Into No-Runoff-Needed Territory
Grand Jury Calls For Easier Ways to Report Elder Abuse in Humboldt County, Plus a Greater Emphasis on Shelters for Homeless Senior Citizens
A Plane Made an Emergency Landing in the Arcata Bottoms This Afternoon
(VIDEO) Firefighters Scrambling to Put Out Series of Roadside Blazes Along Vance Avenue in Samoa
ELECTION UPDATE! Arroyo’s Lead Ticks Back Up After Elections Office Counts About 3,600 More Votes
Let’s Fix Up Hydesville! Caltrans Will Host a Public Meeting Next Week, and it Would Like Your Ideas on How to Spruce Up Highway 36 Through the Town That I Just Realized Has No Nickname
(VIDEO) An Orca Pod Cruised Humboldt Bay on This Blessed Day
ELECTION NIGHT FINAL! Dillingham, Eads, Madrone, Stillman With Big Leads; Fourth District Supervisor Race Teetering on Runoff for Arroyo; Reports From Campaign Parties and More!
It’s ELECTION DAY! If You Haven’t Voted Yet, You Need to Do That By 8 P.M. Celebrate Democracy!
(LIVE) Karen Paz Dominguez Addresses Critical Grand Jury Report on the Courthouse Steps
COAL TRAIN NOT DEAD: Shadowy Corporation Files its Paperwork After the Deadline Due to ‘Vacation Travel Delays,’ Hopes Federal Surface Transportation Board Will Give it a Pass
May 2022
Thieves Steal Old-Growth Redwood Logs From McKay Community Forest; County Environmental Services Asks For Public’s Help in Getting Them Back
The City of Arcata Will to Have to Live With Brett Watson for a Few More Months, as the Councilmember Refuses to Allow Himself to Feel Shame or Remorse
Brett Watson, You Must Resign: An Open Letter From 50+ Local Women Leaders
Surface Transportation Board Ruling Issues Serious Blow to Annie and Mary Trail Efforts, Opens Door for Coal Train Interests to Make Their Case to Scuttle Great Redwood Rail-to-Trail
We Would Like to Point Out, in the Gentlest Possible Fashion, That This Times-Standard Story is Incorrect
(UPDATE: POLE TO BE MOVED BEHIND THE GAZEBO) Eureka Installs Surveillance Tower at the Gazebo; Four More Permanent ‘Lot Cops’ to be Built Around Town
(UPDATE) Investigation Sustains Sexual Harassment Allegations Against Arcata City Councilmember Brett Watson; Former Mayor Was ‘Obsessed’ With Staff Member, Report Finds
It’s Been a Busy Few Days on LoCO Elections. Here’s a Roundup of Your Questions Recently Answered by Local Candidates for Office
(VIDEO) AHOY! The Seven Seas Mariner Has Rolled Into Humboldt Bay
April 2022
DON’T CALL IT A DEBATE! Here is a List of Upcoming ‘Candidate Forums’ With Candidates for Local Office
LOCKED DOWN in ITALY: NoHum High School Students on a Spring Break Tour of Europe Contract COVID, Wind Up in a Secure Facility in Rome; Their Parents are Very Angry
LoCO ELECTIONS: Candidates for DA, Supervisor, Judge and Arcata City Council Answer Numerous Questions on Their Platforms and Experience
Huge USA Today Investigation Explores Why a Cal Poly Humboldt Professor Continues to Teach, Even After the University Upheld Sexual Harassment Complaints Against Him Years Ago
First Election Limerick Roundup! Wowza, You People are Really Terrible at Writing Limericks
ANNOUNCEMENT: LoCO Will Publish Your Letter in Support of a Local Candidate for Office, But Only if You Write it in the Form of a Limerick
Humboldt County Planning Commission Makes Some Progress on the Question of Which of its Members Should Sit Where
No Longer LEAVING for LAS VEGAS: Avelo Shuts Down Humboldt —> Sin City Direct Flights Effective May 2
Cheryl Dillingham Officially Announces Bid For Auditor-Controller in Front of Romano Gabriel Sculpture Garden
(UPDATE) Arcata’s Mayor Can’t Participate in the City-Defining Gateway Area Plan; These Two Current Candidates for City Council Probably Can’t Either, for the Same Reason
Looking to Get Back on Your Feet After an Arrest? Some Experts are Coming Up From the Bay Area in a Couple of Weeks, and They’re Eager to Help You With That
HUMBOLDT BAYWATCH: Those Gray Whales are Hanging out in Humboldt Right Now, and We Should Talk About Them
March 2022
Now They’re Selling KIEM-TV to An All-Western Cable Channel That Used to Be Jim and Tammy Faye’s ‘PTL Television Network’
VIDEO POSTCARD FROM ISTANBUL: Outside the Russia-Ukraine Peace Talks
HARD TRUTHS: Everyone Please Stop Spreading the Lying Lie That Ferndale’s The Palace Bar is the Westernmost Bar in the Continental United States
LoCO Elections is Back! Get Your Questions Ready, Because Your Chance to Grill the Candidates on the June 2022 Ballot Has Arrived
GULCH THOUGHTS? The City of Eureka Would Like Your Views on the Town’s Gulches and Greenways, in Advance of Developing a New Citywide Policy
In Annual Report, Humboldt County Drug Task Force Says it Took an Estimated $1.4 Billion Million Worth of Illegal Substances Off the Market Last Year
TSUNAMI PREPAREDNESS TEST! The Sirens Will or Should Be Rip-Roaring on the Peninsula Tomorrow, and Manila Residents Are Urged to Practice Getting to Higher Ground
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