05/23/2013 - At the Races By Penny Elsebusch Humboldt Beacon The grandstands at Redwood Acres Raceway on May 18 were not quite full as there were a lot of school graduations taking place but the fans that attended enjoyed good racing.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - NanSea Russ emerged as thei 2013 Spring Handicap Match Play Champion On May 2nd, after defeating four opponents during the last four weeks. Jo Ann French captured second place in the Championship Flight.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mary Bullwinkel Beacon Correspondent When Humboldt County Fair board members said thank you to sponsors at a dinner last Monday night, they also announced some good news regarding horse racing at the event held every August in Ferndale.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mary Bullwinkel Beacon Correspondent The city recently celebrated the official ribbon cutting for the Stewart Street Reservoir. The event signifies the official completion of the replacement of two extremely old and leaking water tanks with a new 2 million gallon pre-stressed concrete reservoir.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - The Fortuna Downtown Business Association will hold its seventh annual City Wide Yard Sale on June 1 from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Main Street. Fortuna's City Wide Yard Sale is open to the public and allows anyone to set up a yard sale on Fortuna's Main Street for a small fee.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mary Bullwinkel Beacon Correspondent More than $8,000 was raised recently to support activities for seniors in the Eel River Valley. The Golf Ball Drop fundraiser culminated on May 11, when 500 golf balls were dropped from a helicopter at the Redwood Empire Golf & Country Club in Fortuna.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Heather Nyberg-Schlotzhauer/Beacon The Scotia geese have been enjoying the recent sunny days and for them it often means more visitors. More visitors often means more treats and they love their treats.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Heather Nyberg- Schlotzhauer Beacon Correspondent The Fortuna Volunteer Fire Department will be conducting a complex earth quake drill on Wednesday May 29, from 6:45 p.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Heather Nyberg-Schlotzhauer Beacon Correspondent The season for fresh fruits and vegetables is here. Fernbridge Fruit Stand has heard the call and opened for the season.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mary Bullwinkel Beacon Correspondent Celebrate the first official weekend of summer tasting some fine, award-winning Humboldt County wine. This coming Memorial Day weekend, several wineries in southern Humboldt will be open to the public.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Heather Nyberg-Schlotzhauer Beacon Correspondent Fortuna Middle School 8th grade student River Taylor was given a task in his class by teacher Mrs.   [Full Story]

05/16/2013 - Mary Bullwinkel Beacon Correspondent Of the four candidates, all from the Eel River Valley, Ferndale High School junior Andrea Guggenbickler was selected to reign as the 2013 District 1 Dairy Princess.   [Full Story]

05/16/2013 - The Fortuna Garden Club has done many of their own improvement project around Fortuna over the years, but this month they have focused on the dedicated work of one family.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon Correspondent Congratulations to Ferndale High's Terris Becker who finished No. 6 on the Humboldt-Del Norte boys prep golf leader board at the end of the regular season and qualified for the North Coast Section's Division 2 Tournament of Champions.   [Full Story]

05/23/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon Correspondent Fortuna High foreign exchange student Pedro Morandi finished off an excellent prep tennis season by placing 3rd at the recently completed North Coast Section, Division 2 boys singles championships.   [Full Story]

05/16/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon Correspondent Fortuna's Colton Ross won three events and therefore three H-DN White Stars at the All-County Meet this past Friday at Fortuna High School.   [Full Story]

05/16/2013 - Ferndale 2nd baseman Taryn DeMille has good position to field a grounder as advancing Fortuna runner Emily Lourenzo hustles to the next base. Wildcat DeMille got the out at 1st base, Lourenzo safely arrived at 2nd and the Huskieswent on to a 6-2 win over their cross valley rivals last week.   [Full Story]

05/09/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon Correspondent The Fortuna Huskies took advantage of home field surroundings and the boys baseball team swept the Del Norte Warriors on Friday afternoon.   [Full Story]

05/02/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon correspondent The Fortuna Huskies boys baseball and girls softball teams will be looking to regroup and get back to the win column after absorbing double header, home field losses to the Eureka Loggers the end of last week.   [Full Story]

05/02/2013 - The Indians have stacked the deck with three cousins who play on the Coach Pitch team. Pictured (from left) Ivan Moore, Kameron Elam, and Dylan Halvorson.   [Full Story]

04/25/2013 - Event winners and Fortuna/Ferndale top performers at the April 17 Humboldt-Del Norte track and field meet Compiled by Mark Lourenzo Beacon Sports Mens 100 meter dash: 1.   [Full Story]

04/25/2013 - Fortuna High pitcher Daniel Teasley gathers up a comebacker and throws to first base for the out as the Huskies paid a visit to Ferndale High for a single game Tuesday afternoon.   [Full Story]

04/11/2013 - A total of 116 golfers, the most ever, took part recently in Redwood Empire Golf and Country Club's first Men's Gang Breakfast tournament of 2013. According to REG&CC Head Pro Greg Senestraro, there has been a downturn in the number of golfers nationwide over the past five years.   [Full Story]

03/28/2013 - Mark Lourenzo Beacon Correspondent The Ferndale Wildcats girls varsity softball team will put their unblemished 4-0 record on the line this weekend when they participate in the St.   [Full Story]

03/21/2013 - Ferndale pitcher Chris Catana delivers a fastball to the plate as the Wildcats played host to Laytonville for a double header last Saturday. Catana and the Cats recorded their first wins of the season in sweeping the twinbill by scores of 23-13 and 8-4.   [Full Story]

03/21/2013 - Fortuna's No. 4 seed Kyle Franck returns a serve as the Huskies paid visit to the Ferndale Wildcats for some high school tennis on Tuesday. Franck went on to the victory over Ferndale's Kyle Isaacs 6-0, 6-2 and the Huskies as a team went on to blank the Wildcats on the courts by a score of 9-0.   [Full Story]