Garberville News

The 5th annual Community Congress at Fireman's Hall in Garberville drew some 60 attendants to its panel discussion on water use and the town hall-style meeting which followed.

The Garberville Rotary Club welcomed members of the 2012-2013 Group Study Exchange team to their meeting last week.

Directors of the Garberville Sanitary District will award the contract for construction of the new drinking water treatment plant to one of three competing bidders at their next regular meeting, scheduled for Tuesday, May 28.

The board of directors the Phillipsville Community Services District gave a cautious go-ahead to a plan to sell district water to bulk water suppliers at their monthly meeting on Friday evening, May 10.

Law enforcement officials arrested Arcata man Bohdi Tree, 28, on Saturday in Sunny Brae on suspicion of double homicide after a man and a woman were gunned down at an Eye Street home early this morning.

Weighing geographically-divided community opinion, the county has extended its consideration of a draft outdoor medical marijuana ordinance and will narrow its initial focus to impacts that affect neighborhoods.

Shelter Cove's Black Sand Beach is at the base of the precipitous, dramatic, wild and geologically fickle King Range.

There will be over 150 juried vendor booths at the Summer Arts & Music Festival, on June 1-2 at the Benbow Lake State Recreation Area in Southern Humboldt.

A West Coast man was ordered to prison Friday in La Salle County Circuit Court. Shawn M. Sanford, 35, of Garberville, Calif., pleaded guilty to possession of marijuana with intent to deliver.

Over the last couple of weeks, Humboldt County has been virtually crawling with federal law enforcement agents on the prowl for big-time weed dealers.

Several apple, plum and pear trees were added to the memorial orchard in Fortuna last weekend by local law enforcement representatives, Humboldt County 2nd District Supervisor Estelle Fennell and community volunteers.

Food for People, the Food Bank for Humboldt County, will kick off its 2013 season of free farmers market-style produce distributions this month.

Shouldn't everyone have access to healthy and affordable food, especially during farmers market season? This year, participants in CalFresh, Women Infants Children or the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program will receive bonus farmers market dollars from the "Market Match" program, making food access even easier.

Three children injured in a car accident on Sherwood Road in Garberville are expected to make a full recovery, California Highway Patrol Officer Michael Phillips said on Tuesday.

We are very excited to start working with Chamber Nation to become a completely integrated and modern chamber.

Supporters of the Jim Demulling Veterans Memorial Grove in downtown Garberville are saying the county is trying to shut the park down in the wake of a recent move from the Board of Supervisors to vacate the property.

Garberville Sanitary District board vice chair Rio Anderson presided in the absence of board chairman Dennis Bourassa at the regular district board meeting on April 29.

Summer's right around the corner! Garberville's first farmer's market of the season opened last Friday with 12 vendors selling plant starts of all kinds, spring greens, early vegetables, grass-fed beef, grains both whole and milled, home-baked breads and pastries, homemade preserves, goats-milk soap, tanned goat hides, tie-dyed clothing, braided ... (more)

Six Rivers Planned Parenthood presents "The Power of Choice ," 30 minutes of footage from Dorothy Fadiman's trilogy on abortion rights "From the Back-Alleys to the Supreme Court & Beyond," 5 to 7 p.m., Garberville Civic Club, 477 Maple Lane, Garberville, refreshments, free admission, donations accepted.

The sheriff's bomb squad, backed up by local deputies, CalFire, and the Garberville Fire Department, safely removed and detonated a cache of old dynamite found in a abandoned barn in Benbow last Thursday, April 25.