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MONDAYS WITH MICHAELE: Going the Social Distance!
…Local nonprofit CASA is having an online fundraiser this week to make up for the event they had to cancel due to coronavirus. We live in weird times! Let's make 'em…
PASTOR BETHANY: A Different Kind of Lent
…We decided to strip away all the details, the candles and sound system, the band and stage, the media and screens. Throughout the 40 days of Lent we gathered together around the…
GROWING OLD UNGRACEFULLY: Vaccine? Don’t Hold Your Breath
POTUS (March 3): “So you’re talking over the next few months, you think you could have a vaccine?”Alex Azar*: “You won’t have a vaccine…You’ll have a vaccine…
(VIDEO) Creative Fortuna Woman Cures Shut-In Boredom by Recording These Funny ‘Shelter in Place Tunes’
# # #Amid all the horrifying medical stories and the terrifying global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, most local residents (the responsible ones, anyway) are coming to terms with the mundane reality of…
HUMBOLDT COVID-19 REPORT: March 21, 2020
Thirty-eight more tests have been concluded since yesterday's report — all negative — and the Public Health Lab has received new supplies, and has the capacity to run about 400 tests.Daily…
The City of Arcata Formally Recognizes COVID-19 as A Local Emergency
File photoPress release from the City of Arcata:In support of Humboldt County and the State of California’s orders for residents to stay at home and take all necessary precautions to…
(CORRECTION) Open Door Clinic is Suspending Non-Emergency Dental Work and Adopting New Policies Due to COVID-19
…This is false.###The Open Door clinic in Arcata is suspending all non-emergency dental services due to the COVID-19 pandemic, adopting new policies to help stop the spread of the…
Local Drag King Tucker Noir Talks Club Triangle’s New ‘Online Festival,’ How COVID-19 Lockdown Affects the Queer Community
…The front house is actually the founder of Club Triangle and her wife and they are foster moms. So they've got their little family in the front house and it's…
Local Agencies Are Teaming Up to Provide Relief to Small Businesses
A press release from the Redwood Region Economic Development Commission:Local economic development and business support organizations have formed the COVID Economic Resilience Committee (CERC). CERC is focused on supporting North Coast…
As Local Businesses Lay Off Employees and Close Up Shop, Owners Worry About Long-Term Financial Impacts
Employees of Eel River Brewing Company in happier times. | Facebook.# # #With all but "essential businesses" ordered to shut their doors, and virtually everyone ordered to shelter in place, the Humboldt County economy…
HUMBOLDT COVID-19 REPORT: March 20, 2020
…One positive, nine negative.Daily Humboldt County COVID-19 testing stats from the Joint Information Center: Numbers below do not reflect testing by commercial laboratories.People tested before the Public Health Laboratory…
Second Humboldt Case of COVID-19 Confirmed Today; Patient is Said to Have Recently Traveled to a ‘High-Risk Area’
From the Humboldt County Joint Information Center: Local Health Officials confirmed a second positive test of a Humboldt County resident with novel coronavirus (COVID-19) one month to the day after the…
(UPDATED) Sheriff’s Office Not Currently Enforcing Evictions Due to Pandemic; Arcata Will Consider Moratorium
File photo.In the wake of Gov. Gavin Newsom's decision to allow local jurisdictions to temporarily stop evicting people from their home due to non-payment, county government and local cities…
Humboldt County Animal Shelter to Stay Closed During Shelter-in-Place Order
Humboldt County Animal Shelter in McKinleyville. | Image courtesy HCSO. # # #Press release from the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office: With the recent shelter in place directive from Humboldt County Public Health and Governor…
District Attorney Warns Consumers, Businesses About Price Gouging During COVID-19 Outbreak
Press release from the County: Fleming. | File photo.Humboldt County District Attorney Maggie Fleming issued a consumer alert today regarding price gouging following Gov. Gavin Newsom’s state of emergency proclamation.Pursuant…
Schools Have Distributed Almost 20,000 Meals to Kids This Week; Here’s How You Can Get Your Children Fed
…Through creativity, resourcefulness, and collaboration our districts are pulling together to deliver meals and supplies to students from one end of the county to the other.In an effort to stop the…
Sheriff: County’s Shelter-in-Place Order is ‘The Law of the Land’
…on April 9 unless it is extended or rescinded by the Health Officer.Hours after the county made its announcement, California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued a similar announcement encompassing the entire state…
(PHOTOS) Humboldt in the Time of Corona
The Outpost was out-and-about in the hours leading up to Humboldt County's issuance of COVID-19-combating shelter-in-place orders. Here's some of what we saw. Humboldt…
County: Yes, Local and State Shelter-in-Place Orders Differ Slightly, But Message is the Same: STAY HOME
…We hit but don't exceed the number of available ventilators. The nightmarish death tolls from the rest of the study disappear.— Jeremy C. Young (@jeremycyoung) March 17, 2020But here's the…
COUNTY SAYS: Please Stop Calling 911 With Coronavirus Questions. Do These Things Instead
Press release from the Humboldt County Joint Information Center:Humboldt County Emergency communications centers are experiencing an extraordinary call volume related to non-emergency inquiries about the novel Coronavirus (COVID-19). As…
The Arcata Farmers’ Market Will be Open Tomorrow, With New COVID-19 Protocols and Protections in Place
Press release from the North Coast Growers Association: California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and California Department of Public Health (CDPH) have published guidelines this week for the operation of Certified…
City Governments Remind You: Don’t Flush Your Cleaning Wipes Down the Toilet!
Things that don't go down the toilet | From the City of Arcata's Facebook pageThere are many things the Center for Disease Control and Prevention recommends you do to help stop…
PG&E SEZ: Don’t Fall For Scams — PG&E is Not Going to Threaten to Turn Off Your Power During the Pandemic
…Earlier in the year, PG&E started seeing a new scam trend with the request becoming more detailed. Scammers include specific names of customers, and in some cases, guessing general dollar amounts…
Beachgoers, Beware: National Weather Service Warns of High Potential for Sneaker Waves This Weekend
Graphic via National Weather Service, Eureka office.Going to the beach is one of the few things to do outside the home under the shelter-in-place order. But take care this…
OBITUARY: Arthur Marlan Stover, 1920-2019
Arthur Marlan Stover was born on the Hooker Sheep Ranch, now Stover Ranch, in Redwood Valley on April 21, 1920. Delivered by his grandmother and weighing only three pounds, he was kept…
Gov. Gavin Newsom Issues Statewide Stay-At-Home Order
###Earlier this evening, Governor Gavin Newsom issued a statewide stay-at-home order akin to the one that Humboldt County issued earlier this afternoon.Newsom announced the move in a televised address…
HUMBOLDT COVID-19 REPORT: March 19, 2020
…The results were all negative.Daily COVID-19 testing stats from the Humboldt County Department of Health and Human Services: People whose tests were run by the Public Health Laboratory:6 tested…
Still Confused About Humboldt County’s Shelter-in-Place Order? Here’s an Overview, in Broad Strokes
…So will people who maintain roads, sewage systems, garbage collection, the supply of water and electricity and the Internet. These all fall under the heading of “critical infrastructure.”But the basic rules…
Here’s a List of Places in Humboldt Offering Services or Special Shopping Hours to Seniors
…But, depending on the availability of staff pending the shelter- in-place order, the agency is hoping to offer services to other seniors in the community soon. A1AA is not able to…
LIVE: Shelter-in-Place Order Press Conference With the County Health Department
…Teresa Frankovich issued an Order of the Health Officer today, March 19, directing Humboldt County residents to shelter at their place of residence in an effort to slow the spread of COVID…