Articles by LoCO Staff

August 2020

With New State Reopening Framework, Changes Will be Coming to Humboldt County’s COVID Regulations Early Next Week

70-Year-Old Crescent City Man Killed in Industrial Logging Accident, Says Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office

Humboldt County DHHS Issues Statement in Support of Latino Community, Reiterates That it Will Not Ask About Immigration Status When Doing COVID Contact Tracing

OBITUARY: Wade Daniel Harris, 1982-2020

OBITUARY: Norma Jean Pfrunder, 1942-2020

OBITUARY: Karen Rose Thomas, 1951-2020

OBITUARY: Claudette Lynn Denney Ringler, 1931-2020

Deputy Health Officer Josh Ennis Talks About Infection Rates and Illness, the Current State of Testing and Much More in Today’s Media Availability

Local Companies Help Sheriff’s Office Remove Stolen Trucks Abandoned on Samoa Beach

Humboldt Public Health Lab Processes Record Number of COVID-19 Tests

OBITUARY: Milton ‘Skip’ Alvin Warren Jr., 1958-2020

Hoopa Homicide Suspect Surrenders Peacefully, Sheriff’s Office Says

The County is Ready to Review Plans for Restarting Youth Sports, and Here are Some Guidelines

28,399 Plants, 6,415 Pounds of Processed Cannabis Destroyed by Law Enforcement in Northeast Humboldt County

Dog Found Shot Several Times at Samoa Dunes; Sheriff’s Office Seeking Owner After Euthanizing Animal

Woman Arrested for Allegedly Stabbing Man Saturday Afternoon, Following an Argument

Sheriff’s Office Seeking Homicide Suspect After Identifying Remains Found Last Week Off Highway 96 As Belonging to Missing Person

Sheriff’s Office Opens ‘Suspicious’ Death Investigation After Human Remains Found Off Highway 96

Sheriff’s Office Investigating Early Morning SoHum Stabbing

OBITUARY: Grant Morgan Gilkison, 1963-2020

OBITUARY: Judith Anne Santsche, 1942-2020

OBITUARY: Donna Ilene Meng, 1935-2020

Humboldt State: No New Cases Among Dorm Residents Today; Five Positive Cases Isolated in Special Living Quarters

(VIDEO) Arcata Barn Fire Fueled By 187 Tons of Hay Causes ‘Massive Fireball’; Inextinguishable Blaze to Continue Burning for at Least a Week, Arcata Fire District Says

OBITUARY: Dennis Arlen Brandt, 1935-2020

MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: Trinidad Bods

(AUDIO) HUMBOLDT HOLDING UP: Fudge Pops and Barn Tunes with Dick Taylor Chocolate/Huck Flint’s Adam Dick

MOUTH OF BROTMAN: Unfortunately Your Salad Needs Something Leafy and Green. We’ll Get Through This.

Another HSU Student Tests Positive for COVID-19, University Says

Red Salmon Fire Complex Now Over 18,500 Acres, 39 Percent Contained

Joint Information Center Says There are Zero Known COVID Cases Among Kids Attending Fortuna Schools in Person, Despite What You May Have Inferred From T-S Article

Another HSU Student Tests Positive for COVID-19; All Four Thus Far Were Asymptomatic, HSU Says

Student in CR Dorms Diagnosed With COVID

Kids and People In Their 20s Have Highest Percentage of New COVID-19 Cases in Humboldt, JIC Reports

OBITUARY: Gerald James Beacom, 1967-2020

Wrong-Way Driver Stopped and Ticketed, Then Arrested for Immediately Driving Back Onto the Wrong Side of Rohnerville Road and Evading Officers, Fortuna Police Say

Unidentified Human Remains Recovered in Northeast Humboldt

Humboldt High Schoolers Remove Thousands of Nails Left Behind by Pallet Fires on Local Beaches

Got COVID? Been Exposed to Someone With COVID? Now Humboldt Has Precise Instructions Laid Down for What You Should Do Next

MANY MORE PHONE SCAMS! The Sheriff’s Office Runs Down the Most Common Phone Scams Circulating at the Moment, and Gives You Tips on How to Spot New Ones Yourself

Frankovich Addresses HSU President’s ‘Insinuations of Racism,’ and ‘Allegations of Incompetence,’ Calling Them ‘Unfortunate’

OBITUARY: Douglas Scott Coleman, 1930-2020

OBITUARY: Nancy Smith, 1958-2020

Two More HSU Students Who Recently Moved Into the Dorms Test Positive for COVID, University Says

Red Salmon Complex Nearly 15,500 Acres, 38 Percent Contained

OBITUARY: Joel Chase, 1979-2020

OBITUARY: Diane L. Davy (Bechaver), 1952-2020

OBITUARY: Christine Henson, 1923-2020

OBITUARY: Bertha Ruth Van Norman Tedsen, 1927-2020

OBITUARY: Eric Andrew Olson, 1946-2020