Humboldt Last Week

Mike Patton teams with The Avett Brothers on AVVT/PTTN and I share a quick review, Eureka’s coffee-and-cannabis drive-thru drops weed and reopens coffee-only in January, Ferndale’s Lighted Tractor Parade tightens rules to bar another fetus display while allowing other religious themes, Humboldt’s DA deems officers justified in a 2024 Eureka hostage-and-knife standoff shooting, the FBI leads a Hoopa-area search in a child-pornography case with no arrests yet, animal-shelter volunteers push back on a new liability waiver as the county says it’s standard paperwork, a new green cemetery in the Kneeland hills offers natural burials beneath trees, Eureka explores a city-run grocery to cut costs and boost access, Eureka puts $30,000 into Food for People and St. Vincent de Paul amid SNAP chaos, state leaders reject a new offshore drilling push off our coast, plus positives: $1M for McKinleyville Community Forest, a Klamath River restoration spotlight on Kelly Clarkson’s show, Sara Bareilles and Brandi Carlile’s “Salt