Hydesville News

A man and woman were arrested Tuesday after investigators linked them to a string of commercial and residential burglaries, mostly occurring in the Carlotta, Hydesville and Fortuna areas.

Four Fortuna homes are decked out for the holidays in anticipation of the 39th annual "Holiday Tea and Home Tour," to be held on Wednesday from 1 to 9 p.m. The tour is sponsored by the Fortuna Garden Club.

Wow! Do I miss you! I need about three pairs of people like you and me to help keep up with all the special arrangements needed to prepare for Christmas Eve this year.

To talk with Frederica Maher at her small, neat home in Hydesville, it might be necessary to follow her around.

Learn about serving on a board at the Healy Senior Center, from 4 to 7 p.m. Call Amy at 442-2993 for fee details.

Call 445-8404. * Rose propagation and grafting, talk by Tracy Sclar of Amity Heritage Roses of Hydesville at the Humboldt Rose Society meeting.

Fortuna Feed and Garden Center held its 3rd annual Pet-Expo last Saturday. Cathy Whitchurch, who manages the business, was very happy with the turnout.

Every year for the past 10 years, the Kiwanis Club of Fortuna has sponsored a Woman of the Year Award and Family of the Year Award.

Hydesville School's annual "Halloween Carnival" will be held Friday from 5 to 7:30 p.m. All are invited to come join in the fun.

Humboldt County logging professionals will travel to southern California in November to participate in a roundtable discussion of what is being done to adapt to changing economic and market conditions.

The ex-wife of a Hydesville man who held police in a standoff in Fortuna last month began her emotional testimony at his preliminary hearing Friday, describing in detail how the situation unfolded.

Caltrans reported last week that they pleased that the Alton Interchange Project on Route 101 is on schedule.

The Hydesville man who kept Fortuna Police on a nine-hour standoff Wednesday with his son as a hostage is now in custody on suspicion of six crimes, including allegedly violating a restraining order to stay away from his son and soon-to-be ex-wife. Vernon Franklin Curteman Jr., 50, began his standoff with the Fortuna Police Department at his wife's ...

A 52-year-old Danville man died when he crashed his motorcycle and was hit by a logging truck in northern Mendocino County near Leggett about 1:34 p.m. Tuesday.

The opening ceremony hadn't yet happened, but that didn't deter determined fairgoers from streaming through the gate on the first and admission-free day of the Humboldt County Fair's 10-day run.

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The original action began more than a decade ago in Carlotta when Caltrans received letters expressing concern about students' safety while walking to Cuddeback School.

Communities are judged, in part, by how they provide public safety for their residents.

There's a new addition at Hydesville Elementary School: A Community Garden. The garden, voluntarily built by JJ Johansen of Johansen Construction was used from July 6 to the 17th during the school's summer session.

Patriotism is a living, breathing entity at a little-known, but much anticipated event held every July 4 by members of the nine-sibling Sarvinski family.