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Friday marked a deadline to submit paperwork to run for some positions in the March primary election. Voters will decide on three Humboldt County Board of Supervisor positions and a contested Humboldt County Superior Court Judge seat. The deadlines for the second assembly district is set to close Wednesday evening.
The Humboldt County Planning Commission denied the permit in a contentious 4-3 vote against the 22,000-square-foot grow near Briceland, but the applicant successfully appealed the denial to the Board of Supervisors alongside county staff, who found the criminal allegations against the owner were completely unsupported by evidence and issues regarding well water use and nearby northern spotted owl populations had been mitigated.
It’s official: Humboldt County will have a trio of contested supervisorial races on the March primary ballot, as well as a rare contested judgeship seat....
Humboldt County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Kyle Holt said that “we have a pretty good idea of where these threats are coming from,” but was reluctant to say more in order to preserve the investigation’s integrity. Beginning last Monday, the phone calls – on Nov. 28, 29 and Wednesday and Thursday of this week – ranged from invoking the presence of armed men near campus, bomb threats and reports of an imminent school shooting.