Whitethorn News

The debate about affordable health care was front and center at the November 12 meeting of the Southern Humboldt Unified School District board of trustees.

* Phil Berkowitz and the Dirty Cats play the blues at the Riverwood Inn in Phillipsville starting at 9:30 p.m. * Acoustic guitarists Peppin * D'Agostin * and Alex De Grassi at the Mateel Community Center in Redway.

Permits for collecting mushrooms on North Coast public lands managed by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management will be available in limited numbers through the fall and winter.

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

Redway Elementary students participated in Walk to School Day on October 7. This international event was founded in 1998 with just a few schools.

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.

Humboldt County public schools received their preliminary Academic Progress Reports from the California Department of Education last week.

Residents of Ettersburg and Wilder Ridge who have been experiencing severe problems with their phone service spoke their minds to four representatives of Verizon at the Vets' Hall in Garberville on Thursday evening, Sept.

Sanctuary Forest invites you on a hike to tour Mattole stream flow projects on Saturday, September 26 from 10 a.m. - 2 p.m. Hikers will visit water storage ponds used for agriculture and groundwater recharge, and storage tanks which enable residents to end summer pumping of water.

The River Celebration in Whitethorn was a great success again this year. Thanks to all the people who made it happen: Bob McKee for hosting it at Whitethorn Construction.

The Leggett Valley School District is small and compact, with both the elementary and the high school located on the same grounds in the town of Leggett.

Sanctuary Forest invites you to join BLM Interpretive Specialist Rachel Sowards Thompson on a hike to King Peak , to watch the sun set and the full moon rise, on Friday, September 4. Rachel is an enthusiastic hike leader and will guide us up the steep trail, through Douglas fir forests burned by the 2003 Honeydew fire.

Class continues on Saturday and Sunday. Cost: $175. To register call Margriet at 923-2930. Saturday * 15th * Retrospective exhibition of Bob Benson's artwork at First Fig Gallery in Whitethorn, 10:30 a.m. - 2 p.m. * South Fork HS Class of 1979 reunion at Miranda Gardens Resort.

14. Students and youth aged 14-24 are invited to participate in an intensive training covering an introduction to a variety of video production topics.

14. Students and youth aged 14-24 are invited to participate in an intensive training covering an introduction to a variety of video production topics.

Sanctuary Forest invites you to join Pete and Judy Haggard, authors of Insects of the Pacific Northwest, for an insect hike on Saturday, August 8. Come learn about beetles, bugs and other insects on this moderately paced interpretive hike.

Sanctuary Forest invites you to join Pete and Judy Haggard, authors of Insects of the Pacific Northwest, for an insect hike on Saturday, August 8. Come learn about beetles, bugs and other insects on this moderately paced interpretive hike.

On May 17, in ceremonies at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., Noah Stern, son of Peter Stern and Janet Fitzgerald, received his Juris Doctor degree magna cum laude from the Georgetown University Law School.

Sanctuary Forest invites you to join our Forestry Practices Perspectives Hike on Saturday, July 18.

"Welcome to the first board meeting of our new era," Dennis O'Sullivan said as he convened the first meeting of the Board of the Trustees of the Southern Humboldt Unified School District with their new superintendent, Michael McAllister.