Humboldt County Superior Court Judge Christopher Wilson sentenced Joseph “Joey” Saint Orozco to 10 years in state prison on Friday, June 7, and ordered him to register as a sex offender upon his release from prison.

Too little and we freeze, too much and we cook. Indeed the regulation of our internal body heat, our homoeostasis, is no small miracle of life that requires a constant balancing act.

Hoopa and Willow Creek draw their drinking water directly from the Trinity and its tributaries. Both towns are littered with hundreds of individual septic tank systems for homes and businesses.

Of course, this makes the books I really had trouble putting down something special and that includes the book Light on the Devils, Coming of Age on the Klamath. It’s a book about the last years of the timber boom in Happy Camp and a story well told by Louise Wagenknecht, who has written it down from the perspective of her high school years there.

Weed eaters and fuel cans lie left and right before the entrance to the Orleans Graveyard. Ben and Josh Saxon are trying, one by one, to get the weed eaters started. Four out of the seven start purring away, and these are taken into the thorny brambles of berry-vines, wild roses and locust trees.

Perry Lincoln stood in front of his students in the Neighborhood Facilities (NF) gymnasium and demonstrated the slow and graceful movements from the ancient Chinese martial art T’ai chi ch’uan (太極拳).

The Hoopa Community Garden hosted three kindergarten classes and one high school class for a planting day on Wednesday, May 22. All classes grew from seed the vegetable starts that were planted. Ms Arwoods, Mrs. D. Marshall, and Mrs. Folgers, kindergarterers planted pumpkins. Mr. Boeing’s agriculture class planted tomatoes and Jalenpenos. The Warrior Instittue, TCCC/Americorp, [...]

Wilhelm Plitt, a high school English teacher from Germany, said, “We’re teaching about Indians as part of our senior year curriculum, and they’re very excited to get to know about Indian traditions.”