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OBITUARY: Tim Jarrells, 1971-2022

LoCO Staff / June 16, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits



OBITUARY: Mary Louise Smith, 1948-2022

LoCO Staff / June 16, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits



OBITUARY: James Walter Koch, 1941-2022

LoCO Staff / June 16, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits

… with her husband Zach Shafer of Rio Dell, and their children, Berretta (8) and Remington (1.5) who called Jim ‘Grandpa’; and Mika Coursan with his partner Amy Terrones of Redway.Also mourning his loss is his …



OBITUARY: Leon Leroy Hamilton, 1936-2022

LoCO Staff / June 16, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits

… . A memorial gathering will be held at Water Pump Park 1 on West End Road on June 26 at 2 p.m. There will be music and a hors d’oeuvre potluck. All who knew and loved Leon are welcome.###The obituary above …



State’s Juvenile Prison Workers Score $50,000 Bonuses

Byrhonda Lyons / June 16, 2022, 5:50 a.m. / Sacramento

… of Finance. The contracts represent one of the largest retention bonuses the state has ever offered to employees. A finance department spokesperson said the agreements estimate that 1,019 direct care …



Children’s Day Camps: Attend at Your Own Risk

Elizabeth Aguilera / June 16, 2022, 5:50 a.m. / Sacramento

… Association, a camp membership organization, estimates there are more than 700 day camps in California that enroll more than 1.2 million kids each summer. Day camps run for weeks or months during the summer …



… of the California Center for Rural Policy (CCRP), told the board that the latest round of HHAP funding represents a $1 billion initiative to support regional coordination and a unified response …





… license (VC 14601.1(a)) and violation of promise to appear (VC 40508(a)).Martin was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on warrant charges of burglary (PC 459/461(b)) and grand theft (PC …





… . It was not included in the governor’s original budget nor in his May revised budget. A multi-billion dollar fund The housing proposal – which would call for issuing revenue bonds of $1 billion a year for 10 years …



OBITUARY: Robert Walter Cowell, 1962-2022

LoCO Staff / June 15, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits



OBITUARY: Cletis Gier, 1936-2022

LoCO Staff / June 15, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits



… campuses with historically less funding in the upcoming state budget that’ll begin July 1. Leading the effort is Medina, a Democrat from Riverside, who’s in his final term in office and has marked additional …











California Budget: Big Surplus, Big Differences

Alexei Koseff / June 14, 2022, 7 a.m. / Sacramento

… will be sent this week to Newsom, who then has 12 days to sign or veto it — another critical deadline that should propel the two sides toward a deal. The start of the next fiscal year looms on July 1, less …



OBITUARY: Lotus Hubbard, 1933-2022

LoCO Staff / June 14, 2022, 6:56 a.m. / Obits

… great grandma, friend, and neighbor. Lotus will live on in our hearts! There will be a celebration of her life on August 21, 2022 at the Eureka Elks Club from 1-4 p.m. Lotus leaves us with a these words …





… at least $1.8 million from the Labor sector since she was elected to the legislature. That represents …



Calls Overwhelm Disability Benefits Call Centers

Grace Gedye / June 14, 2022, 6:10 a.m. / Sacramento

… wrote in an email. To sift through the influx of claims, verify medical provider and claimants’ identities, and answer an uptick in calls, the roughly 1,000 staff in the disability branch worked 22 …





… and he was taken into custody without incident. Earhart-Stokes was booked into the Humboldt County Correctional Facility on charges of criminal threats (PC 422), brandishing a deadly weapon (PC417(A)(1







… five years alone, from $1.3 billion in 2017‑18 to $2.1 billion in 2021‑22. The total budget, which includes resource management and fire prevention, has also increased about 45% in the same period, to $3 …