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Last call for ravioli and meat sauce at Marcelli's Italian Restaurant.

Marcelli's Serves its Last Dinner

by Jennifer Fumiko Cahill on January 3, 2020 at 6:02PM

Marcelli's Italian Restaurant, the mom and pop joint run by the family that’s been making ravioli in Eureka for 90 years, will close for good after tonight's dinner service. The ravioli will still be made in the back and shipped to stores for at least a little while, but the Marcelli family has no comment yet on long-term plans for the business and the building, which it owns.

Surf Operations Training off the coast during the storm.

The Biggest Wave and Bomb Cyclone: A Record-Breaking Year of Wild Weather

by Kimberly Wear on January 3, 2020 at 3:57PM

Looking back at 2019 from a weather standpoint, things were a bit on the wild side at times. So, the Journal reached out to climate specialist Matthew Kidwell in the Eureka office of the National Weather Service, who compiled what he saw as the most notable weather incidents to take place last year.

The stars arc across the sky in their nightly parade in this view looking south from Boat Launch Beach, or Indian Beach, beneath the town of Trinidad, California. The star trails you see are the result of the stars’ motion across the sky during this several-minute exposure of the camera. In summer months the sky in this view would contain the core of our galaxy, the visually richest portion of the Milky Way. January, 2019.

North Coast Night Lights: 2019 Night Light in Review

by David Wilson on January 3, 2020 at 11:03AM

In a few of the images through the year I have labeled celestial points in the sky. While the Milky Way and stars always follow the same paths across our skies through the seasons, the planets move independently against the starry backdrop.

Participants in the Kinetic Grand Championship arrived at the finish line on Ferndale's Main Street.

2019: The Year in Photos

by Thadeus Greenson on December 31, 2019 at 11:04AM

High Surf Warning This Week

by Kimberly Wear on December 30, 2019 at 3:08PM

Starting today and building up in height through Thursday, the Eureka office of the National Weather Service is warning that “large, steep” waves will be washing up local beaches and over jetties this week. According to NWS, the waves will begin building 17 to 20 feet today and should reach up to 25 feet by Wednesday, heights which are expected to continue for another day.

Blacktail deer. Photo courtesy of the Oregon Department of Fish and Wilflife.

Buzzkill on Roadkill: New Law Doesn't Allow for Collecting Killed Game, Yet

by Kimberly Wear on December 27, 2019 at 12:50PM

Remember all the buzz about Senate Bill 395 giving folks the chance to take home a side of roadkill and whip up a dinner? Well, that’s not quite how it works, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

From the Journal Archives: When the Waters Rose in 1964

by Thadeus Greenson on December 26, 2019 at 1:48PM

The Old Photo Guy Greg Rumney was a student at Humboldt State University working part-time at PhotoWorld when he crossed paths with Rudy Gillard, who owned Gillard Photography down in Fortuna.

Yurok Chairman Joseph L. James, accompanied by Yurok Tribal Council, Yurok Planning & Community Development Department and Schatz Energy Research Center celebrate the installation of a 28 Kw photovoltaic (solar panel system).

Yurok Tribe Celebrates Solar Power System

by Kimberly Wear on December 26, 2019 at 11:38AM

Marnay and others noted that a microgrid research project kept operating after a magnitude 9.1 earthquake and tsunami devastated Japan in 2011 and knocked out power. The project, at a local university, performed well in the wake of the twin disasters, cementing the idea that independent power system scould maintain service in emergencies.

It certainly looked a lot like Christmas in Old Town, Eureka. I’d gone down to photograph some nighttime holiday lights, and what should happen by but a wooden Santa ornament. It hobbled stiffly out of the store as if nothing were amiss, and I swear I heard it muttering about the Christmas rush. Then he paused to peer into the window display at Many Hands Gallery, cocking his wooden head from side to side on his stocky neck. Suddenly he chuckled, threw me a wink, and scuttled quickly back inside.

North Coast Night Lights: Holiday Magic

by David Wilson on December 24, 2019 at 11:46AM

He clucked and “Ho-ho-ho’d” delightedly, his head swiveling and his stubby little arms working. Made of wood and stiff in every joint, he might have walked right out of one of the old Rankin-Bass animated specials I loved.

The Blue Lake Rancheria gas station, which used microgrid technology, including the solar panels above the pumps, to keep operating through the blackout.

Five Things to Know About Microgrids

by Julie Cart, CalMatters on December 23, 2019 at 10:46AM

How can microgrids be used during emergencies, such as fires? Natural disasters have a way of prying open windows of opportunity.

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