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Every dispatch Lady Humboldt has seen fit to send, newest first.
Issue No. 5 · March 17–23, 2026
The Bay Warms and the Oysters Oblige
The sun has arrived with the quiet confidence of someone who knows exactly how long they've been missed. Sixty-eight degrees by Thursday — a number that would barely register in Sacramento but here on the North Coast constitutes a formal invitation…
Issue No. 4 · March 17–23, 2026
Spring Arrives at the Headwaters
The week opens on Saint Patrick's Day, which Humboldt Brews has marked with a progressive bluegrass party — a genre combination that, in Arcata, requires no further explanation. Temperatures climb past sixty-five degrees by midweek, reaching…
Issue No. 3 · March 17–23, 2026
Wildflower Season Opens on the Mattole
The week begins on Saint Patrick's Day, which the county has marked in its customary fashion: a bluegrass party at Humboldt Brews and a general unwillingness to discuss the weather. The weather, for its part, has produced something approaching…
Issue No. 2 · March 17–23, 2026
The County Has Overcommitted
The week opens on Saint Patrick's Day, which Humboldt Brews has marked with a progressive bluegrass party — a genre combination that, in Arcata, requires no further explanation. Temperatures climb past sixty-five degrees by midweek, reaching…
Issue No. 1 · March 10–16, 2026
The North Coast Stirs Awake
The week begins with rain — a light, equivocal sort of rain, the kind that cannot quite commit to being weather. By Sunday the skies will clear to sixty-three degrees, which in Humboldt County constitutes a heat wave and will prompt at least one…
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