Garberville News

Salsa dancing is a fun and energizing way to loosen up, release stress, connect with people, and get an invigorating workout.

This month marks the 17th anniversary of the founding of WISH . Director Mary Balletta knows the history of the organization well.

Danny and Donna Lovatto came to Whitethorn with a dream to grow flowers and own their own business.

The Garberville-Redway Area Chamber of Commerce is once again sponsoring a community Halloween Festival, on Saturday, October 31.

One of two Humboldt County residents who pleaded guilty to allegations of overseeing a massive marijuana cultivation and money laundering operation was sentenced this week to serve six years in federal prison.

Gerhard Drumm's run for a seat on the Loleta Community Services District can only be described as a lonely candidacy.

Meg Walkley, First 5 consultant, "Ask Omi," will come to the Garberville Play Center on Monday, November 2, for parents to ask her questions about health, nutrition, social and emotional development and discipline.

Humboldt Transit Authority's plan to increase local service in the Garberville-Redway area and to offer commuter service from Garberville to Eureka, which will require replacement of the current Quail bus service for seniors and disabled residents, has sparked controversy and outright opposition from local senior advocates.

Investigators are now trying to identify human skeletal remains that were found in Trinity County on Saturday near a missing Garberville man's truck.

The county Sheriff's Department has 43 unsolved homicide cases, including the March murder of Templeton resident Jerry Greer, from 1967 to today.

Like the cavalry coming over the hill in an old Western movie, a last-minute call from a contractor saved the directors of Garberville Sanitary District from making a problematic decision at the GSD board's October 13 special meeting.

Fun and Games is a series of activity classes for children ages 2-5 years old. During the classes everyone will learn circle songs and games, rhythm instrument play and obstacle course and parachute games.

Garberville Sanitary District General Manager Mark Bryant is playing with the big boys.

Estelle Fennell, Executive Director of the Humboldt Coalition for Property Rights , was the guest speaker at last week's Garberville Rotary Club.

From right to left, Hal Lepoff, AnnaKate Sweet-Landes and Brent Brodersen provided entertainment on their violins during the chartering ceremony program for the Garberville Lions Club.

Jen Rice and Noelle Melchizedek invited the members of Southern Humboldt Working Together to come up with some ideas for improving mobility that will be presented to Humboldt County Public Works for its consideration.

The lake known as Mackerricher Lake, near Cleone, has been leased by the Glen Blair Gun Club and anyone shooting game or injuring property, signs, cabins etc., belonging to the undersigned will be vigorously prosecuted for trespass or malicious mischief.

Tragedy struck a PG&E crew October 7 when Harold Lynn Lowery, 58 of Willits, was killed falling from a power pole near Garberville and landing head first on the ground.

The California Special Districts Association is pleased to report that Mark Bryant of the Garberville Sanitary District was elected president of the CSDA Board of Directors at the 2009 CSDA 40th Annual Conference and Exhibitor Showcase held September 22-24 in Indian Wells, California.

On Tuesday, October 6 at about 4 p.m. a Sheriff's Deputy working the Garberville area was dispatched to the Garberville Motel to handle a reported man walking with a shotgun.